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Jane (Legh) Gerard (1518 - 1575)

Dame Jane "of Bromley" Gerard formerly Legh
Born in Lyme, Prestbury, Cheshire, Englandmap
Ancestors ancestors
Sister of [half] and
Wife of — married [date unknown] (to Nov 1556) [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 57 in Bromley, Staffordshire, Englandmap
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Biography

Jane (Joan) Legh was born circa 1508 at Lyme, Prestbury, Cheshire, England.[1]

Jane was the sister of:

  1. Sir Peter Legh, kt.[2]
  2. George Legh;[2]
  3. Ellen Standley;[2]
  4. Elizabeth Downes;[2]
  5. Ales Rowley;[2]

She married Sir Thomas Gerard, Sheriff of Lancashire, son of Sir Thomas Gerard and Margery Trafford, before 1522.

Jane and Thomas had children:

  1. Sir Thomas Gerard, knight;[2]
  2. Katherine, who was married to 1) William Torbock, Esq, and 2) Robert Charnocke;

Thomas had several illegitimate children:

"Dame Jane Gerarde of Bromley in the countie of Staff" as she styled herself, made her last will and testament on 20 November, 1575, in which she names as executors her son Sir Thomas Gerarde, knight, her brother Sir Peter Legh knight, her son-in-law Robert Charnock, her cousin Henry Eccleston, esquires, and her trusty servant, Edmund Allat, leaving bequests to:[2]

  • her son Sir Thomas Gerard knight;
  • her daughter-in-law Dame Elizabeth Gerard;
  • her son's children;
  • Margaret Tarbocke, niece of Jane's son Tarbocke;
  • Frances Tarbocke, niece of Jane's son Tarbocke;
  • her brother, Sir Peter Legh knight;
  • her cousin Henry Eccleston;
  • her brother George Legh;
  • her son-in-law Robert Charnocke;
  • her sister Ellen Standley;
  • her sister Elizabeth Downes;
  • her sister Ales Rowley;
  • and others.

Sources

  1. Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: A study in Colonial and Medieval Families (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 2004). 444.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 W M Fergusson Irvine, ed., A Collection of Lancashire and Cheshire Wills Not Now to be Found in Any Probate Registry. 1301—1752, (The Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents relating to Lancashire and Cheshire, XXX, 1896), 98-100, e-book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/publications11chesgoog/page/n118/mode/1up : accessed 28 July, 2022).




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