'Williams05'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: William of Burfield, Williams of Thame

                               
Jestin ap Growant of Glamorgan
1. Madock ap Jestin
  A. Howell
  m. ?? (dau of Gruff ap Ivor Petts)
  i. Knerick
  m. Angharat (dau of Hu ap Rees ap Roger)
  a. David
  (1) Madock
Visititation (Hampshire) shows the following Gwm as son rather than great-grandson of the above Knerick but describes him as Gwm ap Madock ap David ap Knerick. It is therefore unclear whether or not the above 2 generations existed.
  (A) Gwm
  (i) William
  (a) Sir John Williams of Thame and Berfeld or Burfield or Burghfield
  BE1883 starts with Sir John and suggests that he descended "from a common progenitor with the Sir Robert (sic) Williams, Knt., who assumed the name Cromwell, and was ancestor of the Protector." It is not clear how such may be.
  m. (before 20.02.1495/6) Elizabeth or Isabel Moore (dau of Richard (not William) Moore of Burfeld or Burghfield by Elizabeth, dau of William Brokas of Southton)
((1)) Reginald Williams of Burghfield
  m. Elizabeth Fox (dau of John Fox of Thisteworth)
  ((A)) John Williams (dsp(m) 16.02.1599/60)
  m. _ Poole
  ((B)) Nicholas Williams of Burghfield (b 1531/2, dspm 01.04.1568)
  m1. Elizabeth Hawkes (dau of Robert Hawkes of Iver)
  ((i)) Rawson Williams
  m2. Mabell Stafferton (dau of Richard Stafferton of Warvylde, widow of Francis Waferor of London)
  ((ii)) Sara Williams
((C)) Elizabeth Williams
  m. Lawrence Lovett of Sulbery (Liscombe)
  ((D)) Edyth Williams (d c1599)
  m1. Edmond Odingsell of Ichington
  m2. (13.06.1567) Deodatus Staverton (Stafferton) of Eversley
  ((E)) Anne Williams
  m. Anthony Forster of Combner or Cumnor
((F)) Frances Williams
  m. Rafe Rockcliff or Rockley of Rynkborne
  ((G)) Catherine Williams
  m. Henry Stafferton of Durley
((H))+ other issue - Richard (d 10.4.1568), Francis (bur 15.02.1559/60), Elizabeth
  ((2)) John Williams of Rycote, Sheriff of Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire, Lord Williams of Thame (b c1500, d 14.10.1559)
  m1. (before 04.07.1524) Elizabeth Bledlowe (d 25.10.1556, widow of Andrew Edmonds of Cressing Temple, dau of Thomas Bledlowe (son of Thomas, Sheriff of London) by Elizabeth, dau of Sir Humphrey Starkey)
  ((A)) Henry Williams (dvpsp bur 20.08.1551)
  m. Anne Stafford (dau of Henry Stafford, 1st Lord, by Ursula Pole)
  ((B)) Francis Williams (dvpsp)
((C)) Isabel Williams (d 1587)
  m1. Richard Wenman, Sheriff of Oxfordshire (d 1572)
  m2. Richard Huddleston of Little Haseley
  ((D)) Margery Williams (d 12.1599)
  m. Henry Norris, 1st Lord of Rycote (b c1525, d 27.06.1601)
  m2. (after 19.04.1557) Margaret Wentworth (dau of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Lord, by Margaret Fortescue, she m2. Sir William Drury, m3. James Crofts)
  ((E)) daughter (dvp)
  ((3)) Jane Williams
  m1. John Cheney of Woodhey
  m2. Gerard Harvey of Thirley or Thurley
  ((4)) Anne Williams possibly of this generation, married twice?
  m1/2. William Boddie of London & Crake (d 1557)
  m2/1. William King of Devonshire

Main source(s): Visitation (Hampshire, 1530+1575, Williams) with some support from Visitation (Berkshire, 1566, Williams of Burfielde), BE1883 (Williams of Thame), TCP (Williams of Thame)
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