Thomas Wodhull Gent. (abt. 1537 - bef. 1592)

Born about 1537 in England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret (Unknown) Wodhull — married before 1570 in England

Descendants

Died before 30 Mar 1592 before about age 55 in Thenford, Northamptonshire, England

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Biography

Thomas Wodhull, Gent., of Thenford, Northamptonshire, was the second son of Fulk Wodhull, Gent. and Alice Wickliffe.^[1] His date and place of birth are unknown and are estimated.

He married Margaret ______ before 1570.^[1] They had five daughters:

• Alice, married William Elkington
• Elizabeth, married Hudford
• Joan
• Bridget
• Judith

"Thomas Wodhull was named as second son of Fulk Wodhull of Mollington in the visitation of co. Oxford conducted in 1566. In 1574 his children were bequeathed ten sheep apiece by his father Fulk, and in her will, proved in 1590, his mother Alice bequeathed to his daughters 10s apiece."^[2]

Thomas was buried at Thenford, Northamptonshire on 30 March 1592. He left a will dated 25 March 1592 and proved 6 May 1594.^[1] His widow, Margaret was buried at Mollington, Oxfordshire on 9 October 1606.^[1]

"In his will Thomas Wodhull employs 'cousin' in several of its different sixteenth century meanings. As applied to Anthony Wodhull, his brother's son, it stands for 'nephew', a frequent use. As applied to Nicholas Wodhull, who in modern usage is his second cousin, it stands for 'a collateral relative'. In the case of Michael Coles, whose sister had married Nicholas Wodhull's father, it stands for 'kinsman'. He uses 'nephew' in the will to mean 'grandchild', a sixteenth century and common seventeenth century usage."^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011, vol. II, page 109 ELKINGTON 15.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Charles M. Hansen, "The Barons of Wodhull with Observations on the Ancestry of George Elkinton, Emigrant to New Jersey," in The Genealogist, vol. 7 (1986), pages 56-57

• Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011). See also WikiTree's source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.
• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013). See also WikiTree's source page for Royal Ancestry.

See also:

• Jacobus D. L. The American Genealogist, (New Haven, CT: 1945), Vol. 22, pages 8-9. Online at New England Historic Genealogical Society (Online Database).
• Roberts, Gary Boyd. The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2008), page 457.
• Weis, Frederick Lewis, et al. The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215. (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2006).

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Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed and approved for the Magna Carta Project by Thiessen-117 18:11, 11 March 2020 (UTC).

Thomas Wodhull Gent. is in a Richardson-documented trail to Magna Carta Surety Baron William Malet (Magna Carta Ancestry, vol. II, pages 108-109 ELKINGTON). That trail was developed and badged by the Magna Carta project in 2015 and re-reviewed/approved in March 2020. See the Magna Carta Trails on the profile of George Elkington to view the profiles on that trail.

See Base Camp for more information about Magna Carta trails. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".