Thomas Gainsford

....Thomas Gainsford, who married Agnes, daughter of William Ailoff, and had two children, John, an idiot, and Anne, who married William Forster, and whose remarkable monumental slab has been already noticed. She had for her share of the Gainsford estates the Manor of Chellows, in Crowhurst, and her son and heir, Sir John Forster, in 1612, sold this manor, which, after passing through several hands, at length was purchased by the family of Donovan, by whom it is now held.

Surrey Archaeological Collections, Vol. 3, 1865

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References

• 'Parishes: Crowhurst', in A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 4, ed. H E Malden (London, 1912), pp. 274-281. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/surrey/vol4/pp274-281 [accessed 16 August 2021]. Sir John Gainsford, grandson of the above John, was twice Sheriff of Surrey and died in 1540, having married six times. (fn. 11) His heir was Thomas, his son by his fourth wife, Joan Poliver. (fn. 12) Thomas had two children, a son John, who was an idiot from birth, and who died in 1559, (fn. 13) and a daughter Anne, who married William Forster. (fn. 14) Apparently some settlement was made at the death of John. Anne Forster and her children never held the main manor here, which seems to have passed to her father's half-brother Erasmus, son of Sir John Gainsford by Grace Warham his sixth wife.