'Croft4'
Index links to: Lead / LetterFamilies covered: Crofts of Bardwell, Crofts of Saxham, Crofts of West Stow
'Croft4'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Crofts of Bardwell, Crofts of Saxham, Crofts of West Stow
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| Thomas Crofts of Bury St. Edmunds | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | John Crofts of Bury St. Edmunds (d c1467) | ||||||||||||||
| A. | John Crofts of West Stow | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ Cockett of Ampton | |||||||||||||||
| i. | John Crofts of West Stow | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Hervey (d 09.05.1519, dau of Thomas Hervey of Ickworth) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Sir John Crofts of West Stow - continued below | ||||||||||||||
| m. Rose Sampson | |||||||||||||||
| 2. | Thomas Crofts (monk) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sir John Crofts (a temp Philip & Mary) - continued above | |||||||||||||||
| m. (Rose) Sampson (dau/heir of George Sampson) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Thomas Crofts of Bardwell, Suffolk (d 1595-6) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Margaret Copledike (dau of Sir John Copledike) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Charles Crofts 'of Bardwell' (d 1616-7) | ||||||||||||||
| i. | Sir Charles Crofts 'of Bardwell' (b c1580, d 1663) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Bridget (or Sisely) Poley of Badley | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Jane Litton (dau of Sir Rowland Litton) | |||||||||||||||
| Not clear which wife was mother of .... | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Bridget Crofts | ||||||||||||||
| m. (Thomas) Read of Lincolnshire, later of Bardwell | |||||||||||||||
| b. | Elizabeth Crofts (d unm) | ||||||||||||||
| c. | Cicely Crofts | ||||||||||||||
| m. Francis Brewster of Wrentham | |||||||||||||||
| ii. | Elizabeth Crofts | ||||||||||||||
| m. Roger (sb Robert) Drury of Rougham | |||||||||||||||
| iii. | Margaret Crofts | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Syllett | |||||||||||||||
| iv. | Susan Crofts | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Thomas Aldham of Sapiston | |||||||||||||||
| m2. _ Aldham of Sapiston | |||||||||||||||
| v.+ | other issue - John, Robert in London | ||||||||||||||
| 2. | Edmund Crofts of West Stow, Suffolk (d 1557-8) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. _ Burgh (dau of Thomas, Lord Burgh) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Margaret Crofts | ||||||||||||||
| m. (23.08.1563) John Southwell of Barham | |||||||||||||||
| B.+ | other issue - John (dsp 1560-1), Alice (d unm) | ||||||||||||||
| m2. Elizabeth Kitson (dau of Sir Thomas Kitson (not Kilson)) | |||||||||||||||
| D. | Thomas Crofts (d 1612-3) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Susan Poley (dau of John Poley of Badley) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Sir John Crofts of Saxham, Suffolk | ||||||||||||||
| m. Mary Shirley (dau of Sir Thomas Shirley of Wiston, Sussex) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Sir Henry Crofts of Saxham | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Margery | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | William Crofts, Baron Crofts of Saxham (b c1611, dsp 11.09.1677) | ||||||||||||||
| TCP (Crofts of Saxham) reports that William's mother was his father's 1st wife but names her Elizabeth Wortley. We are following BEB1841 not least because TCP (Cornwallis) confirms that Elizabeth Wortley was Sir Henry's 2nd wife. | |||||||||||||||
| m1. (c01.04.1661) Dorothy Hobart (dau of Sir John Hobart, Bart of Intwood, by Philippa Sydney) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Elizabeth Spencer (dau of William, Lord Spencer, by Penelope Wriothesley) | |||||||||||||||
| (2)+ | 3 daughters | ||||||||||||||
| BEB1841 identifies Sir Henry's 2nd wife as just Elizabeth. TCP (Cornwallis) identifies her as ... | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Elizabeth Wortley (dau of Sir Richard Wortley of Wortley) | |||||||||||||||
| (5) | Elizabeth Crofts | ||||||||||||||
| m. Frederick Cornwallis, 1st Lord Cornwallis of Eye (b 11.1610, d 01.1661/2) | |||||||||||||||
| (6) | Hester Crofts named Mary by BEB1841 but Hester by the Poley records, confirmed by TCP (Jermyn) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir Edmund Poley | |||||||||||||||
| (7)+ | other issue - John (Dean of Norwich), Charles, Edmund (dsp), Esther | ||||||||||||||
| b. | Anthony Crofts of Stow (b c1594, d 01.10.1657) | ||||||||||||||
| The following is supported by TCB (vol III, Crofts of Stow). | |||||||||||||||
| m. Mary Franklin (dau of Richard Franklin of Willesden, relict of Sir John Smyth of Leeds Castle) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Sir John Crofts, Bart of West Stow (dsps bur 12.1664) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Bryers Wharton (d 13.01.1669/70, dau of George Wharton by Anne Bryers) | |||||||||||||||
| c. | Anne Crofts (d 16.01.1637/8) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (before 1612) Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Cleveland (b 1591, d 25.03.1667) | |||||||||||||||
| d. | Frances Crofts | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Sir John Compton (d 1625) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Edmund Poley of Badley | |||||||||||||||
| e. | Dorothy Crofts | ||||||||||||||
| BEB1841 identifies Dorothy's husband as Sir John Bennet Burnett but this seems to be an error for ... | |||||||||||||||
| m. Sir John Bennet | |||||||||||||||
| f. | Jane Crofts | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir Humphrey Mildmay of Essex | |||||||||||||||
| g. | Mary Crofts | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir Christopher Abdy of London | |||||||||||||||
| h. | Cicely Crofts | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ Killegrew | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Alice Crofts | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir Owen Smith of Norfolk | |||||||||||||||
| j.+ | other issue - John, Samuel, Edward, Arabella | ||||||||||||||
| ii. | Anne Crofts | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir Richard Gresham | |||||||||||||||
| iii. | Susannah Crofts named by BEB1841 (Crofts) as a 2nd Anne and reported by BEB1841 (Barker) as daughter rather than sister of Sir John | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir Robert Barker of Grimston (d 08.10.1618) | |||||||||||||||
| iv. | Elizabeth Crofts | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anthony Penning of Kettleburg | |||||||||||||||
| v. | daughter | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Grime | |||||||||||||||
| vi.+ | other issue - Henry, William, Robert (d unm), Edmund | ||||||||||||||
Main source(s):
(1) For upper section : various web sites (in particular here), mainly based on Ancestry.com
(2) For lower section :
BEB1841 (Crofts of Stow)
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