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Shropshire Wroxeter

Margaret heiress of Sir Thomas Bromley1555 and and Isabel Lister / Lyster www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/2059497076/ on whose tomb she stands

www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/2059497080/

She lies beside husband Sir Richard Newport. d1570 of Eyton on Severn & High Ercall, son of Thomas Newport and Joan / Ann daughter of Robert Corbet of Moreton Corbet by Elizabeth Vernon www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/7852471574/

Children (4 sons and 4 daughters)

1. Francis (heir) d1623 m Beatrice daughter of Roland Lacon of Willey : great grand daughter of Sir John Blount of Kinlet www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/4712389512/ (ancestors of the Earls of Bradford and Torrington

2. Andrew d1611

3. son died an infant

1. . Magdalene m Richard son of Edward Herbert of Blackhall, Montomeryshire and Elizabeth Price

2.. Mary m1 William Gratwood m2 Ralph Sneyd

3. Elizabeth m1 Francis son of Richard Lawley of Spoonhill and Barbara Rudgeley. m2 Sir Thomas Lawley son of Thomas Lawley of Wenlock

4. Isabel m Charles son of Charles Foxe, secretary of the council in the marches by 1st wife Elizabeth 1574 daughter of Miles Crosby of Suffolk & brother of Sir Edmund Foxe at Much Cowarne www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/dW23e2

 

Richard in his will made the day before he died naming as executors his wife and his 13 year-old heir Francis and as supervisors his ‘cousins’ George and Thomas Bromley ; in the following year the wardship of Francis was granted to his mother and George Bromley. . The Shrewsbury chronicle described Richard as ‘a valiant knight of Shropshire and of a princely personage ... for whose death there was much moan made in Shrewsbury

.Will of Margaret wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=be...

www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member...

 

They were ancestors of the earls of Bradford. The uncle of Thomas was judge Sir Reginald Corbet www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/2145405313/

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