Catherine (Savage) Cockayne (1498)

Born 1498 in City, Cheshire, England

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Biography

Catherine was the daughter of John Savage, gentlrman, of the city of Chester (Not Sir John), and married William Cokayne. ^[1]. The Visitation of Bedfordshire 1566 has mangled the details for William and his brother Humphrey, reversing their wives and children.^[2]

The report of a litigation held at The National Archives, Kew show that after William's death in 1527 Catherine married Robert Lockton - Reference: C 1/852/34-35 Short title: Markham v Lockton. Plaintiffs: William Markham, esquire, and Frances, his wife, daughter and heir of Humphrey Cokeyn. Defendants: Robert Lockton and Katherine, his wife, late the wife of [William Cokeyn, brother and heir of the said Humphrey]. Subject: Detention of deeds relating to lands in Hatley Cockayne (Buryhatley), Potton, Wrestlingworth and Pyncote (near Tadlow). Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire Note: Answer mutilated. Date: 1533-1538^[3]

Research Notes

She was formerly the da. of Sir John Savage and Dorothy Vernon, and I found no evidence while researching their ancestry that they had a da. Catherine or a da. who married a "Cockayne".

Sources

1. ↑ Cockayne Memoranda (Congleton, Cheshire, England, 1873) https://books.google.fr/books?id=cykIAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA39&hl=fr&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=true
2. ↑ "The Visitation of Bedfordshire 1566" The Harleian Society 1884; https://archive.org/details/visitationsofbed19blay/page/18
3. ↑ The National Archives online catalogue http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7483514