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- “ROBERT RAYNSFORD...Esquire, of Staverton, co. Northampton, was baptized at Epping, co. Essex, 7 February 1566/7 and died at Staverton, 15 April 1629.
He was twice married according to the pedigrees, first to Georgina Pope, daughter of John Pope, Esq., of Wroxton, co. Oxon, by his wife Elizabeth Brockett (Oxfordshire Visitations, 151-2). Georgina was baptized at Wroxton, 3 January 1563/4 (letter from R. E. L. Walker, incumbent, who states her marriage is not recorded there nor are there any Raynsford entries in this period).
Robert married second at Croydon, 14 December 1602 Mary Kirton (Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 4 [1837]: 93; confirmed by letter of A. O. Meakin, Chief Librarian of the Central Library, Croydon, which holds transcripts of the parish registers). The Kirton pedigree presented by Baker shows she was daughter of Thomas Kirton of Thorpe Mandeville, co. Northampton, whose marriage to Marie Sadler is recorded in the London parish of St. Andrew Undershaft on 19 February 1559/60 (microfilm of parish register, no. MS 4107 at Guildhall Library, London). Mary Kirton was a granddaughter of two Aldermen of London, Stephen Kirton and John Sadler (The Aldermen of London...[London, 1913], 2:30, 110, 345), great-granddaughter of a Sheriff of the city, Nicholas Leveson, and was both niece and great-niece of Lord Mayors: Sir Nicholas Woodruff and Sir William Hewett. Her baptism is not among those of chilren recorded to her parents at St. Andrew Undershaft between 1560 and 1567 or at Thorpe Mandeville between 1573 and 1577, but the pedigrees show she was mother of Robert’s children as listed below, and she was alive on 20 April 1634 when named in the will of her son John Raynsford as “my loving mother Mary Raynsford, widow” (PCC 105 Seager).
Robert Raynsford of Steverton, Esquire, made his will 10 October 1628 and it was proved by his son John 1 May 1629 (PCCd 39 Ridley). To wife Mary he left life interest in the Staverton property with reversion at death to eldest son John, a halflf-part of his tithes and duties in the County of Warwick to be held in common with eldest son John, and various movables. Second son Richard was left £40 yearly during the life of his mother, to be paid by brother John, and third son Edward wawas to have £100 when twenty-one. A legacy of £300 was left to youngest daughter Anne, £200 to be paid when she was twenty-one and the remaining £100 when she was twenty-two. To “ungratious daughter Jane Awbery” he left 3 shillings, 2 pence, to be paid “within three months, on demand” and he named son John as executor. Witnessed by Geo: Addams, Henry [Bassindine?], [his mark], Matthew Horne.”«s77»
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Connected Bloodlines
Bef 1566 - 1629 (> 63 years)
