Thomas Wingfield

Sir Thomas Wingfield

Birth: Jan. 8, 1500 Kimberley Norfolk, England Death: Jan. 22, 1609 Letheringham Suffolk, England

Thomas Wingfield

Born in 1500 - Magna,DUNHAM MAGNA MANOR, Norfolk, England Deceased 22nd of January, 1609 - Letheringham, England , age at death: 109 years old

Parents

Sir John Dunham Wingfield 1464-1545 Margaret DORWARD 1476-

Spouses and children

Married in 1534 , Kimberley, Norfolk, England, to Elizabeth Woodhouse 1503-1517 with 3 children of issue: Elizabeth Woodhouse Born in 1503 - Dunham Magna, Norfolk, England Deceased in 1517 - England , age at death: 14 years old

Her Parents DAD:Thomas Woodhouse 1477-1521 MUM:Thomasine Townsend 1475-1551

CHILDREN: Roger Wingfield 1508- Robert Wingfield 1510- John Wingfield 1512- 2nd Spouse/not known. Cicely wingfield 1524-1562 Elizabeth Wingfield 1528-1621 Robert Wingfield 1530- Amy Wingfield 1534-1621

Siblings

Humphrey Wingfield 1485- Alice Wingfield 1493- Sir Anthony Wingfield 1493- Margaret Wingfield 1505- Frances Wingfield 1515- Margery Wingfield 1517- Female Wingfield 1520- ............................ DUNHAM MAGNA MANOR, Arundel's Fee, or Harsick's Manor,

So called from its site, Dun signifying a hill, or rising ground. It was at the survey a beruite to the manor or honour of Mileham, which William de Noiers held or farmed under the Conqueror, who seized on it, on the deprivation of Archbishop Stigand, who was lord in the reign of the Confessor, when there belonged to it 4 carucates of land, 19 villains, 8 borderers, 2 servi, paunage for 20 swine, with one acre of meadow, and 8 socmen held 34 acres of land, with a borderer, and one acre of meadow; there was also then a carucate and an half in demean, and a carucate and an half amongst the tenants or men; 2 animals, or cows, &c. and there belonged to it the moiety of a market, and half an acre of land in Thetford, and 2 socmen, and 2 borderers had 40 acres of land, and a carucate, the whole, including the manor of Mileham, and the beruite of Licham, was valued in King Edward's time at 30l. at the survey 60l.

It was three leucas long and one broad, and paid 20d. to a 20s. gelt,

On the death of Sir Roger Harsike in 1454, who married Alice, daughter of Nicholas Witchingham of Fishley, in Norfolk, Esq. it came to his two daughters and coheirs, Margaret and Jane; and on a division of the Harsike's estate, this was assigned to Jane, the youngest, who married Richard Dorward, Esq. (third son of John Dorward, Esq. serjeant at law and speaker of the House of Commons) by whom he had a daughter and sole heir, Margaret, who was the wife of Sir John Wingfield, fourth son of Sir John Wing field of Letheringham in Suffolk, and in her right was lord of this village, and dying in the beginning of Henry the Eighth's reign, was buried in the chancel of Dunham church, as was his lady in or about 1509.

Thomas Wingfield was their son and heir, who took to wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Woodhouse of Kimberley, by whom he had two sons, Roger and John, who left by Ann his wife, daughter of Thomas Townsend of Testerton, a daughter and sole heir Anne, married to Thomas Athow, Esq. of Beacham Well, serjeant at law; Roger, the elder brother, married Elizabeth, daughter of John Golding of Belchhamp St. Pauls in Essex, and had a son John, who died without issue by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of—Foster of Yorkshire. Roger his father conveyed by fine to Thomas Golding, Gent. son of John Golding, this manor of Arsick's, and the manor of Rous in this town, in the 38th of Henry VIII. with 6 messuages, 2 cottages, 500 acres of land, 60 of meadow, 200 of pasture, 30 of wood, 100 of heath and furze, and 10l. per ann. rent in Dunham Magna and Parva, and East Lexham: and in the 6th of Elizabeth, Sir Thomas Golding, Knt. and Henry Golding, Esq. conveyed to Nicholas and William Mynns the aforesaid two manors.

In 1572, And. Clerk presented as lord, and Christian his wife.

After this, in the reign of King James I. Henry Bastard, Gent. was lord, and presented to this church in 1599, and 1616; and in 1660, Mary, widow of Thomas Hogan, Esq. descended from Robert Hogan, Esq. of East Bradenham, living in the reign of Henry VIII. and dying in the 1st of Edward VI. left Thomas his son and heir, who was a knight, and died in the reign of Queen Elizabeth; Henry Hogan, Esq. was his heir, and by Anne his wife, daughter of Sir Henry Wodehouse of Waxham, had Robert, who died a minor in the 10th of James I. and being near his full age, at the instigation of his mother, then the wife of Sir Julius Cœsar of Bennington in Hertfordshire, levied a fine of certain lands to her use.

By Jonathan Robert De Mallie, Historian

Burial: Priory Church of St Mary Churchyard Letheringham Suffolk Coastal District Suffolk, England

About the year 1509, there died and was buried in the Chancel of the church of Dunham, County Norfolk, England,* Sir John Wingfield,- who belonged to a family who, Camden says, "were famous for their Knighthood and ancient nobility." In his veins flowed the commingled blood of Sir Simon Montague (A. 1). 1300), William the Conqueror, Malcolm, King of Scotland. William, Earl of Warren, William, Duke of Aquitaine, King Henry III. of England, Joan of Acres, dau. of Edward I., and many other illustrious persons whose names form the early History of England. He was Lord of Dunham Magna in County Norfolk and married Margaret, sole dau. and heir of Richard Dorward, son of .John Dorward, Speaker of the House of Commons. His children were William. Alice and Thomas.

Thomas Wingfield married Elizabeth Woodhouse, dau. of Sir Thomas Wood- house of Kimberly (Norfolk). Their children were,

(1.) Robert (or Roger) m. to Elizabeth, dau. of John Golding of Belcham, St. Paul, Essex.

(2.) John.

(3.) Elizabeth, (the eldest child) to. first * * Towsisend,

probably son of Thomas, she m. second,

I, Sik Jeffky Downing of Poles. Belcham, (or Belcamp, St. Pauls) Essex.

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Sources

History & Genealogy of the Montague Family of America, by George & William Montague, 1886.

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