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Families covered: Geste of Handsworth, Dugdale of Merevale, Goodlake of Letcomb Regis

John Geste or Ghest of Handsworth, Staffordshire (a 1496)
m. Margaret Hawkes (dau/heir of Thomas Hawkes, great-granddau of Henry Hawkes of Hopwode)
1. Richard Geste of Handsworth (d 1541)
  A. John Geste of Handsworth (d 1601)
  i. Richard Geste of Handsworth
  m. (04.02.1595-6) Elizaebth Piddocke (dau of Roger Cooper Piddocke of Windsor Green)
a. John Geste of Hansworth & Hopwode (b 08.01.1601, d 1649)
  m. (1627) Joan Court (dau of John Court of Studley)
  (1) Richard Geste of Handsworth (d 1692)
  m. Mary Spencer (dau of William Spencer of Hansdworth)
(A) Nicholas Geste of Handsworth (d 1720-1)
  m. Phoebe Downing ("of the family of" Sir George Downing of East Hatley)
  (i) Richard Geste of Handsworth (d 1736)
  m. (19.04.1722) Jane Dugdale (d 1772, dau of William Dugdale of Blyth Hall)
  (a) Richard Geste or Geast, later Dugdale of Blyth Hall & Merevale (d 1806)
  m. (1767) Penelope Bate Stratford (d 1819, dau/coheir of Francis Stratford of Merevale)
  ((1)) Dugdale Stratford Dugdale of Merevale Hall, Warwickshire (b 1773)
  m1. (1799) Charlotte Curzon (dau of Assheton, 1st Viscount Curzon)
  ((A)) William Stratford Dugdale of Merevale HAll (b 01.04.1800, d 15.09.1871) had issue
m. (01.03.1827) Harriet Ella Berkeley-Portman (dau of Edward Berkeley-Portman of Bryanstone)
  m2. (16.09.1834) Mary Elizabeth Egerton (b 14.04.1748, dsp 26.10.1846)
  ((2)) Penelope Geast or Dugdale
  m. Charles James Packe of Prestwold
  ((3)) Louisa Anne Geast or Dugdale
  m. William Dilke of Maxstoke Castle
  ((4)) Emma Geast or Dugdale
  (b) Henry Geste
  m. Anne Walford (dau of John Walford, great-granddau of Thomas Walford of Binton)
  ((1)) Henry Geste, later Geste-Dugdale of Bordesley Park, Worcestershire (a 1822, 2nd son)
  ((2)) Anne Geste (dsp 1813)
  m. Francis Dugdale Astley
  ((3))+ other issue - Richard (dsp 1797), Jane (d unm), Mary (d unm 1794), Phoebe (d 1779)
  (B) Mary Geste
  m. Humphry Wyrley
  b. Maria Geste
  m. (1616) Thomas Ashford
  c. Elizabeth Geste
  m. (1625) Abraham Errington
  d.+ other issue - Martha, Jane
  ii. Henry Geste
  m. Dorothea Smallwood of Queyslade
2. Laurence Geste of Row Heath
  A. William Geste of Owley Grange
3. Thomas Geste
  A. Edmund Geste, Bishop of Rochester then Bishop Almoner of Salisbury (d 1576)

 

 

William Goodlake of Letcomb Regis, Berkshire (a 1546)
1. Thomas Goodlake of Letcomb Regis (b 1580)
  m. Elizabeth Beconsall (dau (sb sister?) of White Beconsall of Moyles Court)
  A. George Goodlake of Letcomb Regis (d 1644)
  m. Ann Wiseman (dau of Sir Charles Wiseman of Steventon)
i. Thomas Goodlake of Letcomb Regis (b 04.06.1633, d 15.02.1693)
  m. (01.1676) Ann Wiseman (dau of Edmond Wiseman of Sparsholt Court)
  a. Thomas Goodlake of Letcomb Regis (b 28.01.1678, d after 1754)
  m. Barbara Garrard (dau of Thomas Garrard of Upper Lambourne)
  (1) Thomas Goodlake of Letcomb Regis (b 23.09.1708)
  m. Anna Butler of Kirby House)
  (A) Thomas Goodlake of Letcomb Regis (b 17.05.1744)
  m. (1775) Catherine Price (dau of Rev. Ralph Price, sister of Sir Charles, 1st Bart)
  (i) Thomas Goodlake of Letcomb Regis (b 09.04.1776) had issue
  m. (26.07.1806) Jane Mills (d 11.1808, dau/heir of William Warnton Mills of Yadley House)
  (ii) John Hughes Goodlake (bpt 02.12.1778, d 28.10.1821) had issue
  BLG1886 (Surman of Swindon Hall) provides the following connection, reporting that John's eldest son inherired Swindon Hall and assumed the name Surman.
  m. (24.06.1807) Elizabeth Surnam (d 26.11.1843, dau of William Surnam, niece/heir of John Surnam of Swindon Hall)
  (iii) Catherine Goodlake (d young)
  (B) Catherine Goodlake
  m. (24.11.1763) Thomas Justice of Sutton Courney
  (2)+ 14 other children

Main source(s):
(1) For Geste (uploaded 15.07.08) : Commoners (vol I, Dugdale of Merevale), BLG1886 (Dugdale of Merevale Hall)
(2) For Goodlake (uploaded 12.08.08) : BLG1886 (Goodlake of Wadley House)
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