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Surnames/tags: Gardiner Gardner

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Contents 1 About 1.1 England 1.1.1 Berkshire 1.1.1.1 allied families 1.1.2 Buckinghamshire 1.1.2.1 allied families 1.1.3 Dorset 1.1.3.1 Pedigree of William Gardyner of Blandford 1.1.4 Essex 1.1.4.1 Pedigree of Sir Thomas Gardiner of Tollesbury 1.1.5 Hertfordshire 1.1.5.1 allied families 1.1.6 London 1.1.6.1 allied families 1.1.7 Middlesex 1.1.8 Norfolk 1.1.8.1 allied families 1.1.9 Northamptonshire 1.1.10 Northumberland 1.1.11 Oxfordshire 1.1.11.1 Pedigree of Sir Thomas Gardiner "of Cuddesdon" 1.1.11.2 allied families 1.1.12 Suffolk 1.1.12.1 Allied Families 1.1.13 Surrey 1.1.13.1 allied families 1.1.14 Sussex 1.1.15 Wales 1.1.16 Wiltshire 1.2 USA 1.2.1 Massachusetts 1.2.2 New York

About

Pedigrees and other sources for the surname Gardiner (and its variations such as Gardner).

England

The following image are the Gardiner/Gardner entries from:

• Joseph Foster, Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714 : Their Parentage, Birthplace and Year of Birth, with a Record of Their Degrees : Being the Matriculation Register of the University (Oxford: Parker & Co, 1891), 546-549. https://books.google.bg/books?id=9-MUAAAAQAAJ (accessed March 2024).

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The next image are entries from:

• Edward Walford, (1869). "Gar," in The County Families of the United Kingdom Or, Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland, p. 392 - 393. Google Books. (19th century ancestors). Click image to view:

See Also...

• for a list of clergy members in the Gardiner family (UK) see https://theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/persons/index.jsp

Berkshire

allied families

Buckinghamshire

allied families

Dorset

Pedigree of William Gardyner of Blandford

Gardiner/Grove Coat of Arms.

From the heraldic visitation of Dorset in 1623 :

Ancestor: Unknown Gardyner of Collynby Hall, Yorkshire;

Great-grandfather: William Gardiner of London mar. Unknown da. of Unknown GROVE of Grove Place, Buckinghamshire-- granted a land patent in March 1509;

Grandfather: William Gardiner of Grove Place, Buckinghamshire mar. Anne da. of John NUDIGATE of Warwickshire;

Father: Thomas Gardiner of Ashwells, Buckinghamshire mar. Grisell da. of John HILDESHAM of Suffolk.

ARMS. — Quarterly : 1 and 4, Azure, on a chevron Or between three gryphons’ heads erased Argent as many escallops Sable [Gardiner] ; 2 and 3, Ermine, on a chevron [engrailed ?] Gules three escallops Or [Grove].

CREST. — A gryphon's head erased bendy of six Azure and Purpure, beaked Or.

• St. George, Henry, Samson Lennard, J. Paul Rylands, and Frederic Thomas Colby. The visitation of the county of Dorset, taken in the year 1623. (London: Mitchell and Hughes, printers, 1885), 44.

Essex

Pedigree of Sir Thomas Gardiner of Tollesbury

Sir Thomas Gardiner Coat of Arms.

From the heraldic visitation of Essex in 1634. Note: Sr. Thomas Gardiner "hath no yssue," heir apparent was nephew Frances Gardiner of Tollesbury, son of Christopher Gardiner of Tinhead, com. Wiltshire.

Great-grandfather: John Gardiner of Greate Missenden, Buckinghamshire;

Grandfather: Robert Gardiner of Greate Missenden;

Father: Thomas Gardiner of Greate Missenden mar. Catherin da. of Unknown DENBOW (BENBOW?)’.

ARMS: Or, a chevron Gules, between three griffins’ heads erased Azure.

Manor of Tollesbury

Bourchiers Hall, the mansion house, is pleasantly situated on rising ground, about a mile north-west from the church. From thence there is a pleasant prospect to the sea and Mersea Island.

The manor at this time was stated to comprise of 40 messuages, 20 cottages, 40 gardens, 1000 acres of arable, 100 of meadow, 600 of pasture, 600 of fresh marsh, 2000 of salt marsh, 140 acres of wood.

In the course of years the manor was owned by families named, Gardiner; Duke; Hallam.

There is a memorial to Jane wife of Thomas Gardiner, who died 1654 affixed to the north wall inside the Chancel of St. Mary's Church, Tollesbury.

• Douglas J. Gurton, “A History of Tollesbury,” Mersea Museum, https://www.merseamuseum.org.uk/mmresdetails.php?col=MM&ba=cke&typ=ID&pid=DJG_HIS (accessed Apr 2024).
• Walter C. Metcalfe, The visitations of Essex by Hawley, 1552; Hervey, 1558; Cooke, 1570; Raven, 1612; and Owen and Lilly, 1634 : to which are added miscellaneous Essex pedigrees from various Harleian manuscripts, and an appendix containing Berry's Essex pedigrees v.13, p. 402. https://archive.org/details/visitationsofess13metc/page/402/mode/1up

Hertfordshire

allied families

London

allied families

Middlesex

Norfolk

allied families

Northamptonshire

Northumberland

Oxfordshire

Pedigree of Sir Thomas Gardiner "of Cuddesdon"

allied families

Suffolk

Allied Families

Surrey

allied families

Sussex

Wales

Wiltshire

See Also...

• Burke, B. (1882). "Gardiner of Coombe Lodge," in Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, I, p. 618. London. Google Books.

USA

Gardiner/Gardner Coats of Arms brought to America.

Massachusetts

See Also...

• Gardner, F. A. (Frank Augustine). (1933). Gardner memorial: a biographical and genealogical record of the descendants of Thomas Gardner, planter, Cape Ann, 1624, Salem (NaumKeag), 1626-1674, through his son Lieut. George Gardner. Salem, Mass.: F.A. Gardner. Hathitrust.org. eBook.

New York

Lion Gardiner Coat of Arms on Crypt.

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See also:

• Gardner Family Lines in Early New England
• Gardiner/Gardner Households in 1901 UK Census
• Gardner Surname Variations in Scottish Records
• GARDNER SURNAME Y-DNA PROJECT
• Irish Surname Study - 1890 & 1990
• English ship Zouche Phoenix (1624)