Sir George Wroughton

Sir George Wroughton

Child

1.Mary Wroughton+2

Property

'Parishes: Wilcot', in A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 10, (London, 1975) pp. 190-204. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol10/pp190-204 [accessed 12 May 2024].

In 1544 the king granted Wilcot to William Allen who sold it in 1549 to John Berwick. (fn. 64) In 1558 John settled it on himself and his wife Dorothy, (fn. 65) who, after his death in 1572, gave up her right in it to her daughter Anne and her husband Sir Thomas Wroughton. (fn. 66) Sir Thomas held the manor, then called the manor of Wilcot and Stowell, until his death in 1597, (fn. 67) and Anne held it until her death in 1610. (fn. 68) It then passed to George, the youngest of the three sons of Sir Thomas and Anne. (fn. 69)

Origins

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wroughton-9

Sir Thomas Wroughton was the 1st s. of Sir William Wroughton by his 2nd w. Eleanor Lewknor, da. of Edward Lewknor of Kingston Buci, Sussex. He became a ward of John Berwick, whose daughter he later married.[1] He m. Anne, da. and coh. of John Berwick of Wilcot, 4s. 3 or 4 da. [2]

He suc.fa. 1559, Kntd.1574, sheriff of Wilts. 1576-7, MP Heytesbury 1571. He d. 4 June 1597.

Children:

1. William Wroughton
2. Giles Wroughton
3. George Wroughton m. Anna Gibbes
4. Thomas Wroughton
5. Dorothy Wroughton m. Henry Unton
6. Mary
7. Gertrude Wroughton m. Raphe Gibbs

He died 4 June 1597 and was buried at Broad Hinton, where the parish church contains a monument to him. His will, drawn up in May 1597, was not proved until nearly a year after his death. The bequests, which were mainly to relatives and servants, were in some cases considerable: one daughter, Mary, was to have £900. The will mentioned two married daughters, one of them ‘my sweet and well-beloved daughter, the Lady Unton’ (Dorothy, wife of Henry Unton), and four sons. Wroughton asked the executors, his widow and their son Giles, to make arrangements for the disposal of goods, including several satin suits and other clothing which he had left in London. Sir Henry Knyvet, Wroughton’s brother George and his brother-in-law Sir Henry Poole were to act as overseers. The heir, William, was 36 at his father’s death.6

Citations

1.[S37] BP2003 volume 3, page 4233. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]

2.[S37] BP2003. [S37]

Source http://www.thepeerage.com/p61337.htm#i613366