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    Porter, Agnes

    Female - Abt 1520


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    • Name Porter, Agnes 
      Born Of Holkam, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Gender Female 
      Died Abt 1520  Of Little Walsingham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Person ID I06620  My Genealogy
      Last Modified 13 Jun 2015 

      Family Gresham, William,   b. Of Walsingham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1500 
      Children 
       1. Gresham, James,   b. Of Walsingham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1526, Little Walsingham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location
       2. Gresham, Margery,   b. Of Walsingham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1523
       3. Gresham, Ursula,   b. Of Walsingham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1520
      +4. Gresham, Susan,   b. Of Walsingham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1520, England Find all individuals with events at this location
      Family ID F01945  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Notes 
      • Daughter of Geoffrey Porter accoring to "Geneology of the Greshams"

        William Gresham, of Walung--Agnes, d. of Geoffrey* Porter, of Holkham, In Norfolk, and ham Parva, in Norfolk, Esq. Beatrix his wife. Her will was proved 26 Oct 1520.

        23 Aug. 1520. Agnes Gresham, of Little Walsingham, widow. Desires to be buried by the sepulture of her husband, William. Mentions her father and mother-in-law, Jeffrey and Beatrix; and her son James, to whom she leaves her cupboard. He was to give x*. to his sisters Ursula and Susan. She mentions, also, her daughter Margaret Dunne ; and Agnes, her daughter-in-law.
        [Proved, 26 Oct. 1520. Ibid. Robinson, quire xxix.]


        Margaret Gresham married John Downe (or Dunne); Ursula married Francis Garbridge; and Susan William Candelor, three Norfolk men; whose sumames, were also borne by three of Sir Thomas Gretham's servants -Vide suprj, pp. 106 and 109.