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Thomas Gawdy MP (1528 - 1605)

Thomas (Francis) Gawdy MP
Born in Harleston, Norfolk, Englandmap
Brother of [half] and [half]
Husband of — married 2 Jun 1563 in Redenhall, Norfolkmap
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 77 in London, Englandmap
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Biography

European Aristocracy
Francis Gawdy was a member of the aristocracy in England.

Family and Education

s. of Thomas Gawdy of Harleston by his 3rd w. Elizabeth, da. of Oliver (or Thomas) Shires. educ. I. Temple 1549, called, bencher by 1558. m. 1563, Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Christopher Coningsby of Wellington, 1da.1 Kntd. 23 July 1603.[1]

Extract from DNB GAWDY, Sir FRANCIS (d. 1606), judge, was, according to the pedigrees in the Harleian MSS., the son of Thomas Gawdy of Harleston, Norfolk, by his third wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Shires, and therefore half-brother of Thomas Gawdy, serjeant-at-law, who died in 1556, and of Sir Thomas Gawdy [q. v.] Coke tells us that his ‘name of baptism was Thomas, and his name of confirmation Francis, and that name of Francis, by the advice of all the judges, in anno 36 Hen. VIII, he did bear, and after used in all his purchases and grants

Sources

  1. The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981 [1]




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At birth he seems to have been Thomas Gawdy (third son of his father called Thomas), and it appears his name changed to Francis at confirmation. See his Wikipedia article and his entry in the DNB, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gawdy,_Francis_(DNB00).
posted by Michael Cayley