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Elizabeth Lewknor,[1] daughter of Edmund Lewknor[2] of Tangmere, Esq. and Joan Tyrrell was born at Tangmere, Sussex, 2 March 1538[/9?].[3][4] See the Research Note below regarding how she is presented on various visitations or pedigrees.

She was the oldest of six children and her father died when she was about 7. With six very young and fatherless children to provide and care for, her mother probably quickly remarried John Gunter.[5] A well-off widower, Guntor held part of his manor of Racton, Sussex, of Henry, Earl of Arundel.[6] Thomas Stoughton was comptroller of the Earl's household and he and Gunter likely knew each other. Gunter arranged his step-daughter’s marriage to Thomas Stoughton, who was seventeen years older than Elizabeth. Besides his position with the Earl, he was an MP, a Justice of the Peace, and a bencher of the Inner Temple.[3][7]

When she was not quite 15, and as his second wife, she and Thomas, son of Lawrence Stoughton and Anne Combes,[2][3] were married, 27 February 1553 [/4?].[7][8]

They began having children right away, and would have four in quick succession before she was 20:

  1. Sir Lawrence Stoughton, MP, born 12 November 1554; died 13 December 1615; married Rose Ive, 23 April 1575.[2][9][10]
  2. Adrian Stoughton[3] MP born 7 May 1556; died 25 October 1614; married Mary Jordan.[2][11]
  3. Mary Stoughton[3] born March 1556/7; married (1) William Dawtrey; (2) [Dr.] (---) Ball.[2][3]
  4. Katherine Stoughton[3] born December 1558; died 31 August 1629; married Laurence Alcocke.[2] Richardson does not show this marriage.[3]

There is no further trace of Elizabeth after the birth of her last child in 1558. Thomas survived her, and he died 26 March 1576,[7][8] although both Richardson and Manning & Bray show the year as 1578.[2][3] Please see the the research note on his profile for more on this discrepancy.

Research Note

Pedigrees and Visitations

Elizabeth is not named on any known Lewknor visitation.[12] She is shown only as a daughter of an unnamed Lewknor in several Stoughton visitations.[13][14][15] She is named as a daughter of "Edm. Lewknor" in the History of Surrey.[2]

Sources

  1. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., Kimball G. Everingham, editor (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), 5: 50 STOUGHTON 18.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Owen Manning & William Bray, The History and Antiquities of The County of Surrey, 3 vols. (J. Nichols, London, 1804-1814), 1:169-172, FamilySearch (image page 322).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Richardson, Royal Ancestry, 5:50 STOUGHTON 18.
  4. ↑ W. Sparrow Simpson, "On the Pilgrimage to Bromholm in Norfolk," Journal of the British Archaeological Association 30 (1874): 52-61 at 59-61 Internet Archive
  5. ↑ Richardson, Royal Ancestry, 5:49-50 STOUGHTON 17.
  6. ↑ L. F. Salzmann, "A Calendar of Post Mortem Inquisitions Relating to the County of Sussex, 1 to 25 Elizabeth," Sussex Record Society 3 (1903): 7, Internet Archive.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 S.T. Bindoff, ed., The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, (Boydel & Brewer, 1982), History of Parliament Online, entry for Thomas Stoughton.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 P.W. Hasler, ed., The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, (Boydell and Brewer, 1981), History of Parliament Online, entry for Thomas Stoughton.
  9. ↑ Richardson, Royal Ancestry, 5: 50 STOUGHTON 19.
  10. ↑ Hasler,The History of Parliament:…1558-1603, History of Parliament Online, entry for Laurence Stoughton.
  11. ↑ Hasler,The History of Parliament:…1558-1603, History of Parliament Online, entry for Adrian Stoughton.
  12. ↑ Thomas Benolte, et al., The Visitations of the County of Sussex: Made and taken in the years 1530 and 1633-4, W. Bruce Bannerman, editor (London: The Society, 1905), 27, Internet Archive.
  13. ↑ Thomas Benolt, et al., The Visitations of the County of Surrey: Made and taken in the years 1530,…1572,… and 1623…, W. Bruce Bannerman, editor, (London: The Society, 1899), 85-87, Internet Archive.
  14. ↑ The Visitations of Sussex, 79, Internet Archive.
  15. ↑ William Camden, John Fetherston (ed.), The Visitation of the County of Warwick in the Year 1619, The Publications of The Harleian Society (London: The Society, 1877), 141-142, Internet Archive.

See also:

  • Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, Kimball G. Everingham, editor, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), 4:112, STOUGHTON 13, Google Books




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