John Sherman (abt. 1445 - 1504)

Born about 1445 in Norfolk, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Descendants

Died Nov 1504 at about age 59 in Yaxley, Suffolk, England

Biography

Biography

Birth and Parents

Sherman (1920), the genealogist, states that the earliest documentary mention of John is the 1492 will of John's father Thomas Sherman of Diss, Norfolk and Yaxley, Suffolk. The family members explicitly mentioned in that will are Thomas' wife Agnes, his son John, and unnamed and unnumbered daughters of John. Agnes, wife of John Clerk, is mentioned but not explicitly named as his daughter. ^[1]

Marriage

John Sherman's wife was Agnes Fuller, daughter of Thomas Fuller. She also married Robert Hendry, after the death of John Sherman. ^[2]

1504 Death

John Sherman died in 1504 -- his will was dated 10 August and it was proved on 12 December. He mentioned his wife Agnes, and two children - Thomas and Margery, both under the age of sixteen. He also gives the name of his father-in-law as Thomas Fullen (sic).^[2]

Children

1. Thomas Sherman, Gent, of Yaxley
2. Margery Sherman was under 16 years of age in 1504. She married Robert Lockwood of eyhe, Suffolk

Research Notes

Was John's mother Agnes Fuller?

Some of the imports that created this profile had John's mother as Agnes Fuller. His wife is known to have been Agnes Fuller, it is unlikely that his mother had the same/similar name. During the merge of Sherman-816 into Sherman-221 the UNKNOWN mother was retained; the other imported mother (Fulmer-134) has been merged into Fuller-367.

Sources

1. ↑ Thomas Townsend Sherman. Sherman Genealogy, including Families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, England. Some Descendants of the Immigrants, Captain John Sherman, Reverend John Sherman, Edmund Sherman and Samuel Sherman, and the Descendents of Honorable Roger Sherman and Honorable Charles R. Sherman New York : Tobias.A. Wright, 1920. p. 18 Digitized by Archive.com.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Sherman, 20