Walmsley Pre-1500 Work

Location: England
Surname/tag: TAMWORTH PRE-1500

Introduction

I've created this FSP to keep track of work on the Tamworth(e) of Leake lineage. This arises from my OT2 work on John Tamworth MP (abt.1524-abt.1570). Both the "Visitation of the County of Lincoln In 1562-4" and the "Lincolnshire Pedigrees, Volume III" have Tamworth lineages, the second probably derived from the first.^[1][2] I saw two issues with this lineage:

• John's mother was given as Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Philip Denkaring by Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of James Finch. I could find no sources for "Denkaring", and soon realised that the correct surname was "de Caruges".
• John is listed as the grandson of John Tamworth of Leake. However, John's Will implies that John, Henry, and Christopher, all being sons of Christopher Tamworth of Leake, by his "first wife", are all contemporaneous with John. The lineage lists only one wife. Furthermore, the lineage has the elder Christopher Tamworth, who John said was his cousin, as the great grandson of John Tamworth of Leake, implying that perhaps there are too many generations in that line.

Since last Wills and Testaments are readily available for the majority of individuals in the lineage, including relatives by marriage, I propose to investigate this by transcribing all the Wills, and building a lineage from scratch to see how it compares to the two references. The Will of John himself is a good start, as it lists a lot of people.

Since I am not pre-1500 certified, I intend to use this page to coordinate my work, and in due course assist the aid of a certified coach to transfer the biographies to individual profiles.

John Tamworth MP (1524-1570)

Profiles exist for both John and the transcription of his Will.

Wiliam Dodyngton of London, gentleman, was cited as being a kinsman.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Visitation of the County of Lincoln In 1562-4, edited by Walter C Metcalfe, published in London by George Bell & Sons, 1881, page 119
   Internet Archive Accessed 17 July 2022.
2. ↑ Lincolnshire Pedigrees, Volume III, edited by The REv. Canon A.R. Maddison, M.A., F.S.A., published by the Harleian Society in London, 1904, page 947
   Internet Archive Accessed 17 July 2022.
3. ↑ Bargain and Sale
   Date: 13 March 1562
   Held by London Metropolitan Archives, City of London
   National Archives Accessed 24 July 2022.