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    Fitzwilliam, Margaret

    Female Abt 1505 -


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    • Name Fitzwilliam, Margaret 
      Born Abt 1505  Of Aldwark, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Gender Female 
      Person ID I09745  My Genealogy
      Last Modified 16 May 2015 

      Family Gascoigne, William,   b. Abt 1490, Of Gawthorpe, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1557, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 67 years) 
      Married Abt 1520  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Family ID F03069  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Notes 
      • Bridget Gascoigne was the daughter of William Gascoigne and Margaret Fitzwilliam. Bridget Gascoigne married Matthew Redman, son of Richard Redman and Dorothy Layton.

        Consistory Court, Matrimonial (annulment - adultery). Has deposition; Has libel; Has sentence, defendant won. 5/1/1563 - 13/12/1565
        Matthew Readman [Readman; Redeman; Redman], plaintiff, armiger
        Harewood (Harewood Castle (Harwood Castell) v. Bridget Readman [Readman; Reademanne; Redeman; Reddeman], defendant, wife of Matthew Readman. Location: Harewood.

        In Michaelmas term 1585, Bridget [daughter of Sir William Gascoigne of Gawthorpe], widow of Matthew Redman claimed against Anthony Mawde, gent, one third of 13 messuages and lands in Dunkeswicke, as her dower. The defendant said that she ought not to have dower because she left her husband at Harewood and went to live in adultery with William Gascoigne, esq. at Caley and lived with him until the death of Matthew. The plaintiff denied this. To be tried by a jury. Result not found. [Common Pleas Roll, Mich 27-8 Eliz. m.2405]..

        Which Margaret?
        Ralph Rokeby, esq., Francis Frobyser, and Thomas Wright als. Jenkynson
        William Gascoigne, kt.
        Manor of Womm[er]sley and 40 messuages and 20 cottages with lands there and in Smeyton, Fullam, Credlyng,- and Whytley, in which Lady Margaret, the wife of William Gascoign, has a life interest.

        From: 'Yorkshire Fines: 1551-55', Feet of Fines of the Tudor period [Yorks]: part 1: 1486-1571 (1887), pp. 153-189. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=49630 Date accessed: 17 January 2012.