William Gaylard was born before 1546, when his father died.
He was mentioned in both the May 4, 1567 will of his step-father Giles Alvyn,[1] and the August 29, 1572 will of his mother Joan Alvyn.[2] He had:
Some secondary sources give his death as July 9, 1614 at Pitminster. There is no record of a William dying there then, however Edmond Gaylard was buried June 9, 1614 at Pitminster.
There is no record of William Gaylard or his family in the parish register at Pitminster. He is also not mentioned in the compotus rolls for Tauton Manor when his siblings were. He was alive in 1572, as he is mentioned in the will of his mother.
His daughters, Mary and Elizabeth, were born by 1567, and were mentioned in both Giles Alvyn's and Joan's wills. It happens that in the neighbouring parish of Trull, there are two records for Gaylards:
The first record is indexed on Ancestry (December 2020) as "Robert", however the actual record reads "Elsbeth". The second name is ambiguous, and could be "Harr[y]" if it were a son baptized, but the record states that it was a "dothr".
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Categories: Pitminster, Somerset
The merged profile should use the data from Gaylord-103.