Alton Priors Wiltshire
"Of your charite pray for the soule of Agnes Button late wife of William Button which Agnes departed ye 22 day of May in ye year of our Lord 1528 whose soule God pardon"
Agnes was the daughter & co-heiress of John Cater of Letcombe Regis
She m William Button 1547 second son of John Button 1524 and Edith Tutt. William was MP for Chippenham, and aide to Thomas Cromwell at the court of Henry VIII. His elder brother John having died, he was given all his father’s goods early in 1524 possibly when he married ‘for the loving and natural kindness that I did find in my said son’. Three weeks afterwards John Button fell sick at Holborn and made a will in which he expressed the hope that his heir would agree to further bequests to his mother & 3 sisters: and asking to be buried in the Greyfriars’ church,
Children - an only son
1. William 1526-1590 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/K1sTT0 m Mary daughter of Sir William Kellwey / Kelway of Rockbourne Hants
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Alton Priors Wiltshire
"Of your charite pray for the soule of Agnes Button late wife of William Button which Agnes departed ye 22 day of May in ye year of our Lord 1528 whose soule God pardon"
Agnes was the daughter & co-heiress of John Cater of Letcombe Regis
She m William Button 1547 second son of John Button 1524 and Edith Tutt. William was MP for Chippenham, and aide to Thomas Cromwell at the court of Henry VIII. His elder brother John having died, he was given all his father’s goods early in 1524 possibly when he married ‘for the loving and natural kindness that I did find in my said son’. Three weeks afterwards John Button fell sick at Holborn and made a will in which he expressed the hope that his heir would agree to further bequests to his mother & 3 sisters: and asking to be buried in the Greyfriars’ church,
Children - an only son
1. William 1526-1590 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/K1sTT0 m Mary daughter of Sir William Kellwey / Kelway of Rockbourne Hants
www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member... - Church of All Saints, Alton Priors, Wiltshire