Frances Gerard

Curator additional notes -- There is often confusion about the parentage of Frances. There were two Baronets Molyneux created at the same time. Both had the first name Richard. One was simply Baronet Molyneux; the other was Baronet Molyneux of Sefton. According to Burke's Peerage, Frances was the daughter of the first one, Sir Richard Molyneux, 1st Baronet Molyneux ( Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.). To further complicate matters there are many spellings of Molyneux. -- Molineux, Molineaux, Molyneaux were also members of the peerage. Note added by Maria Edmonds-Zediker, curator, on 1/1/11.

Notes: The 1664 Visitation of Lancashire lists 7 sons of Thomas and Frances Gerard of Brynne (William, Thomas d/y, Richard, Gilbert d/y, Peter, Thomas, John) and 3 daughters (Frances and Cecile, d/y and Frances, a nun). No daughter Anne. Archive.Org

Thomas Gerard [Parents] was born in 1585. He died on 15 May 1630 in England. He married Frances Molyneux.

Frances Molyneux was born in 1580. She married Thomas Gerard.

They had the following children:

     		M 	i 	Thomas Gerard Dr.

M ii William Gerard was born in 1610.
M iii Gilbert Gerard was born in 1612.
M iv Peter Gerard was born in 1614.
M v John Gerard was born in 1616.
F vi Frances Gerard was born in 1618.
M vii Richard Gerard was born in 1620.
Submitted by jamesscott4@juno.com :

Name: Thomas Gerard , . Sex: M Birth: 1586 in England Death: 15 MAR 1629/30 in England Reference Number: 6243 Note:

Note:

Sir Thomas Gerard, 2nd baronet, born 1586, was 36 years old when his father died. He married Frances Molyneux, daughter of Sir Richard Molyneux (Mullins), Lord of Sefton and had six sons and a daughter Frances who took the veil at Gravesends in Flanders. In 1629 he joined a pilgrimage to the Catholic shrine, St. Winifred's Well at Holywell, Flintshire which is still a holy place 200 years later. He died 15 March 1630.

William, Richard, Gilbert, Peter, Thomas and John were named as his sons in the estate settlement signed by William Gerard, the eldest son. It also named his second wife Dorothy (More) Peter, widow of John Peter, a descendant of Lord Peter and that she had no issue. (The St. Omer school records list her as their mother.) The four younger sons all died unmarried.

His second son Richard was born in 1612 and became a distinquished soldier who went to America in 1634 with the Calverts, returned to England two years later and purchased the Manor of Ince from his cousin Thomas Gerard. There he died in 1686.

His great grandson, William, who had inherited the property from his cousin, Richard, also had no surviving male heirs and the manor of Ince passed to his sister Mary Gerard who married John Walmisley, a descendant of Richard Walmisley who was married to Ellen, daughter of William Gerard of Radbourne when he was only eleven years old and she was eight to secure the Gerard and Walmisley estates. This was the end of the Gerard name at Richard's manor at Ince. Later records show the property continued in the Walmisley name.

His third son Gilbert attended St. Omer's 1629-34 and became a Catholic priest. He died in 1645. Ships passenger lists show that Gilbert Gerard, no age given, went to Virginia in 1643 and Peter Gerard, no age given, went to America in 1653. Both of these men may have been Richard's two younger brothers as the school records distinctly show that his brother Gilbert went to America, but the possibility exists that Peter also could have been one of his many cousins of the same name in the Ince lineage.

Thomas of Newhall received 200 pounds sterling from a relative to move his family to America. Since he was mentioned in Richard's grandfathers will, it indicates that Sir Thomas was the relative financing his ventures. However, Sir Thomas Moulson, of London, who died without heirs, also endowed his wife's nieces and nephews with the same names as those of this generation in Bryn.

Those named in the will were grandsons of Gilbert (41C) and sons of Francis Gerard of Harrow Hill, in Middlesex. Another of Sir Gilbert's grandsons, Charles, son or grandson of Radcliff, who married Elizabeth Stoner, daughter of Sir Charles Stoner was listed as a passenger transported to America in 1666 by Thomas Riddings who received 1000 acres in Accomack Co. Virginia for transporting 20 persons. Evidence all though history show these two elderly gentlemen, Sir Thomas Gerard and Sir Thomas Moulson, financing the ventures of their young relatives.

Father: Sir Thomas Gerard of Bryn b: 1560

Marriage 1 Frances Molyneux , . b: BEF. 1586 in Sefton, Lancashire, England

Children

Fr. Gilbert Gerrard 

John Gerrard
Peter Gerrard
Thomas Gerrard (Immigrant) , . b: 10 DEC 1608 in Ashton Manor, Makerfield, Lancashire, England
Sir William Gerrard b: 1611 in Garswood, Bryn, England
Richard Gerrard b: 1612
Marriage 2 Dorothy More Peter