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Shropshire Wroxeter

Margaret heiress of Sir Thomas Bromley 1555 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

4. son (pictured on the monument as living to maturity)

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

2.. Mary m1 William Gratwood / Gratewood 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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