Margaret (Jenny) Stratton (1385 - 1469)

Born 1385 in Shotley, Suffolk, England

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Died 1469 at about age 84 in Shotley, Suffolk, England

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Biography

Margaret Jenny was a member of the aristocracy in England.

Father Sir Thomas Jenney

Margaret Jenney married Sir George Seckford, Lord of Seckford Manor & of Hakeford Hall, son of Sir John Seckford, Lord of Seckford Manor & of Hakeford Hall and Alice, before 1401.^[1]

Margaret Jenney married Augustine Stratton, son of Walter Stratton and Cecily, after 1401.

Family 1

• Sir George Seckford, Lord of Seckford Manor & of Hakeford Hall d. 1401

Child

• George Seckford, Esq., Lord of Seckford Manor & of Hakeford Hall d. 1450

Family 2

• Augustine Stratton b. c 1385, d. a 1428

Child

• Edmund Stratton b. c 1420, d. 11 Oct 1476

Research notes

Question: There was a Sir Thomas Jenney of Suffolk who married an Elizabeth Born or Bourne and had a daughter and heiress Margaret. (The crucial record for that relationship is the will of this Margaret's great granddaughter Ann Scrope.) But that Margaret seems to be quite a different person, who married John de Herling, and then to Sir John Tuddenham, as Blomefield shows under East Herling.^[2] There were apparently two Margarets? Or maybe the great granddaughter was wrong?

The answer is probably that the two Margarets are in different generations. The one who married John de Herling already had an adult son in 1389. This leaves open the question of how many Thomases there were. Could the two ladies be aunt and niece? If they were then the elder Margaret was not her father's main heiress (but she may have been heiress of her mother).

In any case, the subject of this profile corresponds to the following types of records:

Blomefield:

• Colteshall [1]: " In 1425, Augustine Stratton and Margaret his wife, widow of Sir George Seckford, Knt. settled the manor and advowson on Sir Simon Felbrigge, Knt. and other trustees, to the use of George Seckford, Esq."
• Great Bealing [2]: "He, in 1401, settled the lordship on Margaret his wife, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Jenney, Knt., who, after the death of Sir George, re- married Augustine Stratton, of Shottery, and this property passed to Sir George's son, Seckford."
• Concerning Herling Thorp in West Harling:^[3]

Sir John [Secford], son of this Sir John, lived at Great Bealings in Suffolk, and upon his marriage, settled it on William de Rothyng, rector here, and James de Rothing, to the use of Alice his wife, who kept court in 1372, after his death. In 1401, Sir George de Secford, Knt. was lord, and settled it on Margaret his wife, who was daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Jenney of Suffolk, Knt. After his death, she settled it on Sir Simon Felbrige, Knt. and other trustees, upon her second marriage with Augustine Stratton. At her death it went to George Secford, Esq.

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Robert Berdewell of Belagh, Esq. (who built the old hall at Herling, and first settled there) became his heir, who, in 1439, did homage to the Earl of Arundell for WestHerling, and in 1446, to Ralf Lord Cromwell and Tateshale for Gatesthorp: he had two wives, the first was Elizabeth, his second was Margery, daughter of Sir Thomas Jenny, who outlived him some years, she being alive and his widow in 1462.

Does this mean Elizabeth married three times?

And there was also a coheiress of a Thomas Jenny named Elizabeth, who married Thomas Manning.^[4] Who was she?

Sources

1. ↑ David A. Sandmire M.D., The Ancestry of Uriah Patch,.
2. ↑ Francis Blomefield, 'Hundred of Giltcross: Market-Herling, or East-Herling', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 1 (London, 1805), pp. 316-333. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol1/pp316-333 [accessed 18 September 2022].
3. ↑ Francis Blomefield, 'Hundred of Giltcross: West-Herling', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 1 (London, 1805), pp. 297-312. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol1/pp297-312 [accessed 17 September 2022].
4. ↑ Crabbe: https://archive.org/details/norfolkantiquar03unkngoog/page/n284/mode/2up; Blomefield: Francis Blomefield, 'Hundred of South Greenhoe: Narburgh', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 6 (London, 1807), pp. 147-167. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol6/pp147-167 [accessed 17 September 2022].

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