Elizabeth Branch

Gary Boyd Roberts. The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies Or the United States: Who Were Themselves Notable Or Left Descendants Notable in American History. Genealogical Publishing Company; 1 January 2008. International Standard Book Number [ISBN] [Special: BookSources/978-0-8063-1786-1|978-0-8063-1786-1]. p. 507.

Beginning with the 2008 edition of his book, Gary Boyd Roberts has Richard Branch being married to Elizabeth Bostock instead of Beauforest. According to more recent research, Elizabeth Bostock and not Elizabeth Beauforest was the wife of Richard Branch and mother of William Branch.

Sources for Elizabeth Bostock:

1. Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 507.

2. Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 822.

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Elizabeth Bostock was born 1497/1521. She was buried 20 Jun 1556 in St Helen's Church, Abingdon, Berkshire beside her husband. She was the daughter of William or Richard Bostock and Margery Higginson of Wem.

Family

From https://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d...

She married Richard Branch of Abingdon in Sarum, co Berk; woollen draper, son of John Braunche and Margaret Edwards. He was born 1506/1517, and died 11 Sep 1544 in Abingdon, Berkshire; Will dated 27 Aug 1544. He was buried in St Helen's Church, Abingdon, Berkshire.

Children of Elizabeth Bostock and Richard Branch of Abingdon in Sarum, co Berk; woollen draper include:

• i. Thomas Branch of London; draper was born 1514/1535 in eldest son, and died 1565 in D.s.p..
• ii. William Branch of Abingdon; M.P. 1593 was born 1524/1536 in second son of his father, and died in testate. William Braunch (1524 - 1601) married 1) Elizabeth Walthan 2) Katherine Jennings; 11 children by 2nd wife

Notes

Richard Branch’s will is dated August 27, 1544:

To the high altar of St. Elen's church 21s. to be prayed for.

To Thomas Branche my eldest son a feather bed, a covering with a mitre upon it, and 10s. To my son William Branche my gown that I had of Mr. Wodword and 10s. To Thoms Branch Branche my youngest son 20s.

To my son John Branche a black gown lined with St. Thomas wolsted and 10s. To Margery my daughter a girdle with a dymycent of silver and gilt, a silver spoon, all her grandfather's bequests unto her, a saucer of the new fashio and 20s. To Marion my daughter a pair of jet beads with silver gawds, a silver spoon, beside the one that Mr. Wodword gave her, and 20s. If any of my forenamed children die before they come to years of discretion, their parts shall be distributed amongst those that shall then be on liveing.

Residuary legatee and executrix, my wife, Elizabeth.

Overseers: Humfrey Bostock, of Abingdon and Thomas

Witnesses: Sir William Druett, brotherhoodpriest, Richard Maiot, Humbostoke, Thomas Erle. No Probate (Archdeaconry of Berks: Register C; 164)

Richard's widow, Elizabeth, survived him by twleve years, being burine near her husband on June 20, 1556, in St. Helen's church. In October 1554, a detailed survey of all houses and land in Abingdon was made which shows that he left his estate to his widow. Richard bequeathed to Elizabeth three houses lying side by side on the west side of East St. Helen's Street. She lived in a house in the street called The Bury, the modern High Street, which she fented from James Braybrooke, and in which she probably died.

Disputed Origins

Seen as daughter of Thomas Beauforest, II and Margaret Beauforest without supporting evidence.

From https://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d...

http://books.google.com/books?id=c-gwBUy5fgQC&pg=PA16&dq=Elizabeth+...“Branch Family History” (Lulu.com) which states (without citation) that she was Elizabeth Beauforest, daughter of Thomas Beauforest and Margaret Bassett but also stating that in her will Elizabeth names as overseer Humphrey Bostock her "broder", and they then gloss that to say that he must be her brother-in-law.

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From https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/soc.genealogy.medieval/Ut2B... Posting 24 August 2014

”Apparently John Anderson Brayton (about him) did find a different acceptable link from Bostock to Branch, as a slightly different version of the descent appears in recent editions of Gary Boyd Roberts' books, citing "a forthcoming Branch-Bostock article by John Anderson Brayton...based in part on the wills of Richard and Elizabeth [Bostock] Branch".
The new version of the descent appears in the 2008 edition of RD600 and in the 2009 edition of AAP and, interestingly, goes via William Branch instead of Catherine Jennings. The part of the line substituting for the above segment is as follows:

• Hugh Bostock m. Joan Del Heath
• William [or Richard?] Bostock m. Margery Higginson
• Elizabeth Bostock m. Richard Branch
• William Branch m. Catherine Jennings

References

• The four visitations of Berkshire made and taken by Thomas Benolte, Clarnceuc, anno 1532; by William Harvey, Clarnceux, anno 1566; by Henry Chiting, Chester herald, and John Philipott, Rouge dragon, for William Camden, Clarenceux, anno 1623; and by Elias Ashmole, Windsor herald, for Sir Edward Bysshe, Clarenceux, anno 1665-66. Page 77. Archive.Org (not listed)
• Gary Boyd Roberts. The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies Or the United States: Who Were Themselves Notable Or Left Descendants Notable in American History. Genealogical Publishing Company; 1 January 2008. [International Standard Book Number ISBN] [Special:BookSources/978-0-8063-1786-1 978-0-8063-1786-1]. p. 507. link
• http://books.google.com/books?id=c-gwBUy5fgQC&pg=PA16&dq=Elizabeth+...
• http://books.google.com/books?id=c-gwBUy5fgQC&pg=PA15 His Will
• http://books.google.com/books?id=bzASAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA60
• William and Mary College quarterly historical papers, Volume 25 (1917) "Thomas and William Branch of Henrico and Some of their Descendants", by William Clayton Torrence
• https://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d...
• Walne, Peter. “Branch of Abingdon: A Revision.” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 67, no. 1, 1959, pp. 82–105. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4246512.
• 'The borough of Abingdon', in A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 4, ed. William Page and P H Ditchfield (London, 1924), pp. 430-451. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol4/pp430-451 [accessed 19 June 2019].
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124302468/elizabeth-braunche lists her as “Elizabeth Beauforest Braunche”