Gervase Hendley1

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Family

Elizabeth Roberts b. bt 1464 - 1480
Child 1.Margery Hendley1
Marriage*He married Elizabeth Roberts, daughter of Walter Roberts and Margaret Penn.1 

Citations

  1. [S301] Adrian Benjamin Burke, John Blythe Dobson and Janet Chevalley Wolfe, "The Exhurst Ancestry of the Stoughton Siblings of New England", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 165,166 (Oct. 2011, Jan. 2012): p. 58-9: "The Kent visitation pedigrees report that Walter had by his first wife, Margaret Penn, a son John and three daughters, Elizabeth married to Gervase Hendley, Mercy (or Mary) married to Linche then Saint Nicholas, and Joan married to Exhurst then Horden.[111] “John Robarth, age 16 and more,” was named as the heir of Margaret’s brother Ralph Penn in 1486, confirming John’s placement in the Kent visitation pedigrees.[112] The Sussex visitation shows just one daughter Elizabeth married to Hendley for this marriage.[113].

    Footnotes: "[111] Bannerman, Visitations of Kent [note 12], 2:24; Hovenden, Visitation of Kent [note 6], 94. [112] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry VII [note 19], 1:79. Further confirmation is given in Calendar of the Close Rolls, Henry VII [note 48], 1:249, which records the quitclaim by “Walter Robarth esquire and John his son, kinsman of Ralph Penne, to wit son of Margaret his sister” of the manor “‘Pennes place’ in Aldenham co. Hertford” and other lands to Humphrey Conyngesby and others on 14 February 1494/5. The 1592 and 1629 pedigrees ([note 13], 3, and [note 14], 186) include a detailed account of the surrender—under duress—of this land by Walter in right of his wife Margaret Penn and their son John. [113] Bannerman, Visitations of Sussex [note 17], 68."