Margaret Ward

Margaret Capell

• Born: about 1500
• Father: Sir Giles Capell, of Raynes Hall
• Mother: Isabel Newton Name also seen as Alice

Married: 

1. Robert Ward, of Kirby Bedon, Norfolk

Children:

1.  Geoffrey Ward
2.  Henry WARD, MP, born by 1519

notes

From Archaeologia Cambrensis

"Robert Ward and Margaret Capell his wife had issue, Henry Ward of Postwick, M.P. for Norwich in 1553, who by his wife Margaret, daughter of William Uggesof Pokelthorpe, near Norwich, had issue,Edward Ward, who built Bixley Hall, the future seat of the family, and died in 1583, having married Anne,daughter of John Havers of Winfarthing."

comments

"Notes: The most detailed published account of the Capell family would be in the genealogical volume which accompanies the Victoria County History of Hertford, pp. 83-106. Clutterbuck's History of Hertford."

Sources

1. Archaeologia Cambrensis (Google eBook) Cambrian Archaeological Association, 1880 - Wales. "Notes on Joyce Cherleton etc."   Page 173. "Morant, in his History of Essex, says Sir Giles of Rayne Hall married, firstly, Margaret, daughter of Sir Richard Roos, younger son of William, Lord Roos of Belvoir, by whom he had issue Henry Capel, and secondly, Isabel,1 daughter of Sir John Newton of Wake, co. Somerset, by whom he had Margaret, wife of William Ward of Brooks, Esq. Bloomfield, in his History of Norfolk, etc., calls him Robert Ward, as above. The arms of Capel are gules a lion rampant argt. between three crosslets fitche- or. The Visitation of Essex of 1612, under the head of Capel, says Sir Giles Capell of Hadham, co. Hertford, Knt., son and heir lyeth buried by his father (i.e., in St. Bartholomew's Church, by the Exchange). He married daughter and co-heir of Sir John Newton alias Craddock, Knt., and had issue Sir Edward, ancestor of Lord Essex, and Margaret, married to Robert Warde of Brooke, alias Kirkby, in co. Norfolk, gent. (argent, on a chevron azure three garbs or)."
2. WARD, Henry (by 1519-56), of Gray's Inn, London and Kirby Bedon and Postwick, Norf. "Henry Ward, b. by 1519, 1st s. of Robert Ward of Kirby Bedon by Alice, da. of Sir Giles Capell of London ... "

Links

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• Ancestors of a 21st century British family