Sir Christopher Rawson

• 'Sir Christopher Rawson1
• 'M, b. circa 1464, d. 1518
• Father Richard Rawson, Sheriff of London d. 1483
• Mother Isabella Craford d. 1497
• ' Sir Christopher Rawson was born circa 1464 at of Fryston, Yorkshire, England. He died in 1518.
• Family
• Child
  • ◦Margaret Rawson+ b. c 1490
• Citations
• 1.[S10768] Unknown author, Burke's Dormant and Extinct Peerages, p. 619.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1159.htm#...
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• 'The Goodrich family in America. A genealogy of the descendants of John and William Goodrich of Wethersfield, Conn., Richard Goodrich of Guilford, Conn., and William Goodridge of Watertown, Mass., together with a short historical account of the family in England, the origin of the name, a description of Goodrich castle etc (1889)
• http://archive.org/details/goodrichfamilyin00good
• http://archive.org/stream/goodrichfamilyin00good#page/17/mode/1up
• The following, copied by Com. Casper F. Goodrich, U.S.N., from a genealogical tree extending from 1465 to 1819, in possession of James Pitt Goodrich of Egarth House, Egarth, Denbighshire, England, corroborates the foregoing and gives some additional details:
• "As early as 1465, Edward Goodrich of Kirby, Lincolnshire, baronet, married Jane, dau. and heiress of James Williamson, Esq. John Goodrich, first child of Edward and Jane (Williamson) Goodrich of Kirby, born 1485; married, 1507, Katherine Dymoke; was high-sheriff of Lincolnshire, 1535. 'Henry, second child of Edward and Jane Goodrich, born 1487; married, 1508, Margaret, dau. of Christopher Rawson; bought Ribston Manor, Yorkshire, from Charles Brandon, duke of Suffolk'. Thomas, third child of Edward and Jane Goodrich, born 1489; bishop of Ely, etc. Katherine, fourth child of Edward and Jane, born 1492; married Sir Thomas Mussenden. Mary, fifth child of Edward and Jane, born 1495; unm.
• "Richard, 'son of Henry and Margaret (Rawson) Goodrich', born 1510; married Clara, dau. of Richard Conyers, Esq., of Norton Conyers.
• "Richard of Ribston, son of Richard and Clara (Con-
• http://archive.org/stream/goodrichfamilyin00good#page/18/mode/1up
• yers) Goodrich, was high-sheriff of Yorkshire in 1580, and again in 1592; married Muriel, dau. of Rt.-Hon. Lord Wm. Evans.
• " Sir Henry Goodrich, knight and baronet, son of Richard and Muriel (Evans) Goodrich, married Jane, dau. of Sir John Savile, baronet of the exchequer. John Goodrich, second son of Richard and Muriel (Evans) Goodrich, married ______ and emigrated to Virginia in 1635, and with him came Henry, Richard, John, and William."
• ________ Goodricke Baronets

The Baronetcy of Goodricke of Ribston was created in the Baronetage of England by King Charles I on 14 August 1641 for his loyal supporter John Goodricke of Ribston, Yorkshire. He represented Yorkshire in the Cavalier Parliament from 1661 to his death.

The family was originally of the county of Somerset, and from there moved into Lincolnshire, upon the marriage of Henry Goodricke, esq. third son of Robert Goodricke, esq. of Nortingley, with a Lincolnshire heiress. Miss Strickford.[1]

In Lincolnshire the Goodrickes flourished for six subsequent generations, until Henry Goodricke, esq. (third and youngest son of William Goodricke, esq.—brother of Thomas Goodricke (1494–1554), Lord Bishop of Ely, and Lord Chancellor of England of [Edward VI—purchased Ribstone and other estates, in Yorkshire, from Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk in 1542.[1][2]

Henry Goodricke married Margaret, 'daughter and co-heiress of Sir Christopher Rawson, knt. of London', and dying in 1556, was succeeded, by his eldest son:[1]

Richard Goodricke, esq. of Ribstone, in Yorkshire, who was born, 1524. was high-sheriff of Yorkshire in 1579, and died 1581. He married Clare, daughter of Richard Norton, of Norton-Comers, in Yorkshire Esq; and was succeeded by his eldest son:[2]

Richard Goodricke, esq. who was born in 1560 was also high-sheriff of Yorkshire in 1591. He married Meriol, daughter of William, Lord Eure, and dying in 1601, was succeeded by his eldest son:[1] .....

• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodricke_Baronets
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His will quoted in the footnote under his mother's will, p.131