Joan Bamfield

Joan Gilbert of 'Compton Castle, Marldon, Devon' was sister of William Gilbert, who was an ancestor of the Elizabethan colonial explorers to North America, Sir Humphrey and Raleigh Gilbert.

Family

Shown in the 1564 Visitation of the County of Devon in the Bamfield/Baunfield Pedigree as the 1st wife John Baunfield with sons John and Thomas Baunfield, and as the the daughter of Galfride Gilbert.[1] Not shown in the Gilbert Pedigree.

Alternate birth c.1343 and c.1358.

References

• The Visitation of the County of Devon, 1564. Page 11. link
• ”The baronetage of England, or, The history of the English baronets, and such ... “ By William Betham (rev.) Pg.395 GoogleBooks
• ”Ancestral roots of certain American colonists who came to America before ... “ By Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, Kaleen E. Pg.230 GoogleBooks
• See "My Lines" ( http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cousin/html/p214.htm#i24197 ) from Compiler: R. B. Stewart, Evans, GA (http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cousin/html/index.htm )