George Raleigh

Wikitree Biography

• George was born about 1500 in Thornborough, (Farnborough), Warwick, England, the son of Edward Raleigh and Anne Chamberlain[1][2][3]
• George married 1st Ann Ernley and they had one known son:
  • 1. John
• He married 2nd the widow of Fitzgerald and they had one known daughter
  • 2. Bridget
• He married 3rd Jane, dau. of Sir Humphrey Coningsby[2] and they had the following known children:
  • 3. George
  • 4. Humphrey
  • 5. Joan
  • 6. John
  • 7. Sybil
  • 8. Simon
  • 9. Frances
  • 10. Edward
  • 11. Thomas
• He died in 1546 at Ogbourne St George, Wiltshire, England.

Will of George Raleigh 10 February 1547 PROB 11/31,

• In the name of God Amen The secunde day of Aprill In the yere of our Lord God a thousand fyve hundreth fourtie and sixe and the xxxviith yere of the raigne of our soveraigne lord King Henry the eight.
• I George Raleigh esquier being hole of mynde and pfite remembrance thanks be to God make and ordeyn this my last will and testament aswell concernyng the disposion of my lands and ten(amen)ts as of my goodes and catalls in maner and fourme folowing,
• First I bequeath my soule to almightie God my saviour and redeemer and to our blessed lady saint Mary and to all the holly company in hevyn. I will my body be buried in the chancell of the church of Ogbourne george yf it be my fortune there to dye.
• Item I bequeath to the mother church of Say xxs.
• Item I will that Symon Raleigh my sonne and heire apparannt shall immediatly after my decesse have my manour of Farnburgh in the countie of Warwicke and all my other lands in the said countie, and also in the countie of Oxford wherof I am nowe seased which said manor and other my lands I estime to be the full thirde parte or more of all the lands that I have.
• Item I geve and bequeath to the said Symon all my goods and cattalls moveable and unmoveable whatsoever they be that shalbe in or upon the ferme of Ogbourne being myne owne and now p(ar)cell of the stocke of the ferme of the same wherwith I stande charged according to an inventory therof made remaynyng in thands and custodye of John Erule thelder esquier.
• Item as to the other two p(ar)tes of all my landes I will that my executours or the survivor of them shall have receyve and take the issues and profites therof for and by the space of eight yeres next after my deceas to the p(e)rfourmannce of this my last wille and testament except suche of the same lands as by this my p(rese)nt will I do appoynt and geve to my bretheryn Leonard and Thomas Raleigh my seconde sonne and to John Raleigh my youngest sonne all those my lands which I am seased of in the Isle of Wight equally to be divided bitwene them for terme of their lyves and that every of them may make his wife a joynter therof for his parte and moytie for terme of her lyfe or lyves.
• Provided alwayes that myn executours or the survivor of them shall take and receyve the yssues and profits therof to the p(er)fourmannce of this my last will untill the same John and Thomas and every of them shall accomplishe their full age of xxi yeres or if myn executours and surp(er)visours can before his said age of xxi yeres provide for him with the said money any profitable yerely encrease of lyving which by their discrecons they shall thinke to be noche? for his welthe Then my mynde is that they shall leye owt this same some at any tyme before his said full age of xxi yeres and deliver to him at his said age that that they have bought and provided with the same money.
• Item I geve and bequeath to my said sonne John Raleigh towarde the further advancement of his lyving one hundreth marks in money to be paid him by myn executours at his full age of xxi yeres or yf myn executours and sup(er)visour can before his said age of xxi yeres provide for him with the said money any profitable and yerely encrease of lyving which by their discrecions they shall think to be noche? for his welthe Then my mynde is that they shall bestowe the same for him at any tyme before his said age of xxi yeres So that they deliver to him at his said age that that they have so bought with the said hundreth marks.
• Provided alwayes that if any of my said sonnes Thomas and John dye before the said age of xxi yeres having at the tyme of their deth nother wife nor childern that they his parte that so dieth before the said age unmaried then my mynde is that both their partes that is to sey the said hundreth pounds and the hundreth marks shall hoolly remayne to Symon my eldest sonne.
• Item I geve and bequeath to John Raleigh my yongest sonne my hoole leasse and terme of yeres of an in the parsonage of Alborne to have the same in his owne use when he shalbe of thage of xviii yeres and that myn executours or the survivor of them shall receyve and take the profits in the meane tyme for his fynding and toward the p(er)formannce of this my last will and testament.
• Item I will that my executors shall fynde and bringe upp my said two sonnes Thomas and John at their learnyng untill they shalbe of thage of xxi yeres.
• Item I will that Joan my daughter shalhave towards the advancement and in full recompence of her grannfather Sir Humfrey Connyngesby knight his legacy two hundreth pounds So that she be ordered by myn executoyrs and overserr in her mariage the same money to be delivered to her either at the day of her mariage or within halfe a yere then next folowing.
• Item I will and bequeath to my youngest daughter Brygett towards the advancement of her mariage fyve hundreth marks sterling so that she in like wise be ordered and ruled by myn executours and overseer or by the survivour of them in her mariage. The same money to be delivered her at the day of her mariage or within halfe a yere then next folowing.
• Item provided always and my very mynde and will is that if my said daughters Joane and Briget or any of them bestowe them selfes in mariage without the consent and agreement of my said executours and overseer or of the survivour of them or yf they or any of them fortune to dye unmaried then I will that their p(ar)te or parts that so marieth or dieth shall hoolly remayne to my said eldest sonne forever.

Item my very mynde and will is that my said two daughters Joane and Bryget shalbe brought upp with my said eldest sonne at Farnburgh and that he shall fynde them meate and drynke untill they shall fortune to marry and that my executours shall paye yerely towards all that charges of their fynding owt of the revenues of my lands to eche of them fyve marks untill they be maryed or ells yf my executours and sup(er)visour or survivor of them doth thinke it mete to putt them in any other place where they may be vertuously brought upp then my mynde and will is that they shall at their discrecions bestowe them at their pleasures.

• Item I will that immediatly after my deceas my brother Leonard Raleigh shalhave for terme of his lyfe and to make his wife a joynter all that my manor of the nether Lecy in the p(ar)ishe of Westbury in the countie of Gloucester and all my lands and tenements in Okerydge in the said countie and also my tenement and lands in Preston nowe in tenure of Robert Hayes.
• Item I will that my brother Thomas Raleigh shalhave during his lyfe an annuytie of fyve marks yerely owt of my lands in .................

Item I will and geve to Vyncent Godderd in recompence for that that I have occupied the ferme of Ogborne upon curtesye of him and his frends one hundreth marks to be paid to him by myn executours within one yere next after my deceas.

• Item I will and geve to Sibill Butler my daughter tenne pounds sterl. or a cupp of that value to be paid or delivered within one quarter of yere next after my deceas.
• Item I will that myn executours or the survivor of them shall find Mary Hall meate and drynke and all other necessaries for her untill the day of mariage and I will that myn executours shall geve towards her advancement tenne pounds to be paid to her at her mariage and not before.
• item I geve and bequeath to Margery Baleaser my servint towards the advancement of her mariage fyve marks so that she bestowe her selve in mariage by the consent of myn executors and overseer or the survivor of them. The same money to be paid to her at the day of her said mariage and not before.
• Item I bequeath to my servint Peter Belfelde fourtie shillings yerely during his lyfe to be paid owt of my lands in Molington within the countie of Oxford doing service therfore to my said sonne.
• Item I will that Robert Fulsherst my servint thirtie shillings yerely during his lyfe owt of the house that he now dwelleth in in Farnburgh doing service therfore to my said sonne.
• Item I will that Richard Grenewod my servint shalhave thirtie shillings yerely during his lyfe owt of the manor of Claydon in the countie of Oxford doing his service therfor to my said sonne.
• Item I will that Walter Dolwod my servint shalhave thirtie shillings yerely during his lyfe owt of Avendorset in the countie of Warwick doing service therfor to my said sonne.
• Item I wille that all the residue of my servints being serving men both men and women shalhave by the discrecion of myn executours every of them one halfe yeres wages clerely over and beside that they can cleyme of duetie to be paid within one quarter of a yere after my deceas.
• And also I will that all my said servints suche as will tarry shalhave meate and drynke connement? in my house unto the next quarter day after my deceas yf my executors and sup(er)visour shall so thinke it mete and connement?.

Item I will that all mu woll of this yeres growing both at farnburgh and at Ogborne shall go towards the p(er)fourmannce of this my last will and testament to be solde by myn executours notwithstanding two articles before written wherin I have given all my goods and catall moviable and unmoviable whatsoever they be both at Farnburgh and at Ogborne to Simon my eldest sonne.

• The residue of all my goods not bequeathed I will shall goo to the accomplishement of this my last will for the p(er)fourmannce wherof.I ordeyn and make John Erule thonger and Leonard Raleigh my brother my hoole executours and the said John to have for his labour and payn twentie pounds and all their costs and charges aboute the same to be born owt of my said lands and also I ordeyn and make my loving brother John Conyngsbye esquier overseer to se this my last wille and testament p(er)formed and to have for his paynes fyve marks.
• In witnesse wherof to this my last will I have subscribed my name the day and yere abovewritten.

Notes

• "Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, vo. 10, p. 122, which contains a letter (dated 19 Feb. 1535/6) from George RALEGH to Thomas CROMWELL, regarding some income from lands he had in Ireland through this 2nd wife whom he describes as lately dead, naming her first husband as Sir Thomas FITZGARETHE, viz.:
• "19 Feb. R. O.323. 323. George Ralegh to Cromwell.
• I have lately lost my wife, by whom I had 60l. land in cos. Warw. and Glouc., besides 40l. yearly, payable to her out of Ireland of the gift of her first husband, Sir Thos. Fitzgarethe. These have now descended to Sir Jas. Fitzgarethe, brother and heir to Sir Thos. Geffrey. Please write to Sir Jas. that I may have the farm, during his life and mine, of these his lands in Gloucester and Warwick, of the yearly value of 60l. 4s. 3d.
• Farnborough, 19 Feb. Signed.
• P. 1. Add.: Secretary. Endd."
  • Note this appears to indicate that daughter Bridget may not be the daughter of Jane Connesby? but the daughter of his last wife widow Fitzgarethe

Resided at Thornborugh & Farnborough, Warwickshire, England. According to his 1546 Will, his 2nd wife, the mother of Bridget, was the widow of Sir Thomas Fitzgarethe? (not the version I read!)

Reference: CR0457/10/4 Feoffment by George Ralegh to Ralph Verney, Penley, and John Suffolk regarding the manor of Farnborough Creation dates: 8 April 1529 Extent and Form: 2pp Physical characteristics: Previously Box 1, Section i, Bundle 6, Document 11 Scope and Content With pendant seal. Includes fine of 10 Elizabeth, portions missing.

Reference: CR0457/10/5 Indenture between George Ralegh, Thomas Monke, Edmund Spacott, Anthony Gyford, William Cary, Edmund Wood, John Dubye, Gemica Langeford, Robert Nycke, Francis Mawys, Thomas Colyford and John Chollacombe regarding property in Farnborough Creation dates: 2 April 1539 Extent and Form: 1p Physical characteristics: Previously Box 31, Bundle 1, Document 1 Scope and Content Details the will of George Ralegh leaving to his son Symon Ralegh his manor house and related lands in Farnborough. Appoints John Comeley and his brother Leonard Ralegh as executors.

Peter Helion's share of the knight's fee recorded in 1303 (fn. 68) was evidently represented by 30s. rent in Westbury manor held by Walter Helion at his death c. 1342. Walter also held from the lords of the various divisions of Westbury manor an estate which was later known as the manor of LEY, and from the 16th century as the manor of NETHERLEY; Walter's heirs were Rose, the wife of John Raleigh, her sister Eva, and John, son of a third sister, Maud Helion. (fn. 69) John was perhaps the John Coof who held the estate in 1358 when it was taken by the Crown because of his lunacy; (fn. 70) he died c. 1362 and the estate was assigned soon afterwards to his cousin and heir Thomas Raleigh. (fn. 71) William son of Thomas Raleigh held the estate at his death in 1419 when his heir was his sister

Joan, the wife of Gerard Braybrook. (fn. 72)

George Raleigh held the estate at his death in 1546, having devised it for life to his brother Leonard; Simon Raleigh, George's son, (fn. 73) held it in 1579.

From: 'Westbury-on-Severn: Manors and other estates', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 10: Westbury and Whitstone Hundreds (1972), pp. 85-93. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=15766. Date accessed: 11 September 2006.

Visitation of Warwickshire 1619 shows that George Raleigh married three times.
1. Jane Coningsby dau of Wm of Aldenham knt. (Frances ux Rich Verney, Edward ob s.p, George ob s.p, Humphrey ob s.p, Thomas 2 sons, Sibilla 2 daus Albon Butler, Johanna, Symon marr Anne dau Martin Docwra
2. Widow of Fitz Gerrard. (Briget marr Wm Kingsmill)
3. Anne dau of .... Ernley (Johannes supstes 1565)

This seems to indicate that mother of Bridget Raleigh must be widow of Sir Thomas Fitzgarethe.

Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, vo. 10, p. 122, which contains a letter (dated 19 Feb. 1535/6) from George RALEGH to Thomas CROMWELL, regarding some income from lands he had in Ireland through this 2nd wife whom he describes as lately dead, naming her first husband as Sir Thomas FITZGARETHE, viz.: "19 Feb. R. O.323. 323. George Ralegh to Cromwell.

Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, vo. 10, p. 122, which contains a letter (dated 19 Feb. 1535/6) from George RALEGH to Thomas CROMWELL, regarding some income from lands he had in Ireland through this 2nd wife whom he describes as lately dead, naming her first husband as Sir Thomas FITZGARETHE, viz.:

"19 Feb. R. O.323. 323. George Ralegh to Cromwell. I have lately lost my wife, by whom I had 60l. land in cos. Warw. and Glouc., besides 40l. yearly, payable to her out of Ireland of the gift of her first husband, Sir Thos. Fitzgarethe. These have now descended to Sir Jas. Fitzgarethe, brother and heir to Sir Thos. Geffrey. Please write to Sir Jas. that I may have the farm, during his life and mine, of these his lands in Gloucester and Warwick, of the yearly value of 60l. 4s. 3½d. Farnborough, 19 Feb. Signed.

P. 1. Add.: Secretary. Endd."

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