Thomas Hungerford (abt. 1511 - 1581)

Born about 1511 in Bremhill, Wiltshire, England

Ancestors

Died 1581 at about age 70 in Chelsea, Middlesex, England

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Biography

Thomas Hungerford was a member of the aristocracy in England.

Thomas Hungerford of Chelsea was a younger son of Robert Hungerford of Cadnam, Wilts. by Eleanor, da. of John Yorke of Halthorp, Wilts. He m. aft 1540 Ursula Maidenhead, 'da of Lady Sandys', wid. of James Barnard; 2s. 1da.^[1]

2 sons, 1 da.

1. Unknown Son
2. Mary Hungerford?
3. Edmund Hungerford of Marlborough, Wiltshire (d. 1614) ^[2]

Thomas is buried at All Saints Churchyard, Chelsea, London.

Research Notes

Hoare reports his ancestry as follows, perhaps confusing his with his nephew, Thomas Hungerford of Calne.

Thomas was the son of Robert, the 4th son of Robert of Cadenham and Mary Longe. ^[3]

Sources

"John Barnard (d. 1537), citizen and mercer, chamberlain of the City of London, and his wife Alice had property in Chelsea, described as 3 messuages, 6 cottages, 100 a. land, 10 a. meadow, and 10 a. pasture,with property in Kent, which they settled in 1528 on themselves for life and then on their son James and his heirs. (fn. 17) Barnard owed 54s. 6½d. quit rent to the manor of Chelsea, (fn. 18) and at least three of the houses which can be traced later had commoning rights,(fn. 19) suggesting that the estate had been built up from a number of medieval freeholdings. James (d. 1540) left his mansion house at Chelsea and all his lands to his widow Ursula for life on condition that if she married again she should support his children until they came of age. The lands were then to pass to his son Richard, (fn. 20) who seems to have died without issue, as James's heir in 1582 was his daughter's son. (fn. 21) ^[4]

By 1543 Ursula had married Thomas Hungerford (d. 1581), courtier and gentleman pensioner, who in 1544 acknowledged that he held in his wife's right seven cottages and 100 a. freely from the manor for 545.6½ d. rent and suit of court. (fn. 22) He was presented for overstocking on the common with his cattle in 1543, and his property in 1566 included a messuage on the south side of the new parsonage house in Church Lane and land in Eastfield. (fn. 1) He also received 2 messuages and 2 gardens in 1569 from Adam Powell and his wife Alice, William Dabourne and his wife Anne, and William Beane. (fn. 2) Alice, Anne, and William were the children of Thomas Beane (d. 1549): he left this house called the Great Rose next to the church to his son William, two houses to Alice and another to Agnes, (fn. 3) and the property conveyed to Hungerford may have included the Great Rose, which stood on the corner of Church Lane opposite the church, since a house on that site was later said to have belonged to Hungerford. (fn. 4)

Ursula Hungerford died in 1583 leaving her leases to her son Edmund Hungerford, and bequests of 12 pictures, including portraits of all the Tudor sovereigns which hung in the parlour and the great chamber of her house in Chelsea. (fn. 5) The property which had belonged to Hungerford had been divided by 1587: the smaller part passed to Edmund Hungerford, (fn. 6) while the Barnard freeholding, known as Hungerford's farm, was held in 1587 by Thomas Young for 545. 6½ d." ^[5]

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Reference: C 2/Eliz/S25/25 Description: Short title: Stoneley v Allen. Plaintiffs: Edward Stoneley. Defendants: Frances Allen and William Beeley. Subject: To establish a lease parol, and for discovery as to the same. A messuage and land in Little Brickhill, Buckinghamshire, granted to plaintiff by Thomas Hungerford and Ursula Hungerford his wife. Document type: [Pleadings] Date: Between 1558 and 1603 Held by: The National Archives, Kew Legal status: Public Record(s) Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

Reference: C 1/1298/23-26 Description: Short title: Enesie v Hungerford.

Plaintiffs: James ENESIE (Ensto, Anesto) of London, yeoman, and Margery his wife.

Defendants: Thomas HUNGERFORD of Chelsea, gentleman, and Ursula his wife, executrix and late the wife of James Barnard, servant to the Chancellor.

Subject: Money payable to the said Margery by the saidJames, her brother, as a condition of a gift of plate to him by John Barnard their father, deceased, chamberlain of London. Middlesex

Date: 1551-1553 Held by: The National Archives, Kew Legal status: Public Record(s) Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

1. ↑ HUNGERFORD, Thomas (1510/12-81/82), of Chelsea, Mdx.The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982
2. ↑ http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/hungerford-edmund
3. ↑ Hoare, Hungerfordiana, p. 20
4. ↑ Reference: PROB 11/28/246 Description: Will of James Barnarde or Barnard, Gentleman of Chelsea, Middlesex Date: 15 October 1540 Held by: The National Archives, Kew Legal status: Public Record(s) Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
5. ↑ Reference: PROB 11/66/56 Description: Will of Ursula Hungerford, Widow of Chelsea, Middlesex Date: 19 October 1583 Held by: The National Archives, Kew Legal status: Public Record(s) Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

• The House of Commons: 1509-1553 Vol 1 Pg 412, edited by S.T. Bindoff.
• "England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JZ1T-Q93 : accessed 27 July 2015), Thomas Hungerford, ; citing St. Mary'S Church, Sandwich, Kent, England, reference item 3 p 134; FHL microfilm 1,850,185.

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/120237627/thomas-hungerford