The Grey Family of Goswould Hall, Thrandeston Suffolk
The following is quoted from a records of research done in the 1960’s.
The Grey family were descended from Walter De Bowyer, a Norman Knight who was granted the land from William the Conqueror.
Tombstones in Thrandeston Church yard
On the N side of the church at the chancel end stood 3 alter tombs to the Rix and Blakeley families. The earliest of these, with several dates from 1697, 1706, etc. have now disappeared entirely, wilst a small marble slab in the outer wall of the church records the following.
VAULTS
OF THE FAMILY OF
JOHN RIX
GENTLEMAN, DIED 1706
AND FRANCESCA HIS WIFE
DAUGHTER OF TIMOTHY GREY GENTLEMAN
OWNERS SUCESSIVELY
OF GOSWOULD HALL
On the table slab at the top of this was the inscription
Sacred
To the memory of.
JOHN RIX GENTLEMAN
of Goswould Hall in this Parish
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
November 25th 1706
Aged 55 years
Also to
FRANCES MARY his wife
Daughter of
TIMOTHY GREY Gentleman
Whose family had for many
centuries held this manor of
Goswould Hall by decent from
WALTER DE BOWYER
A Norman Knight
on whom it was conferred
with various privileges
by an especial grant from
William the Conqueror
in the year of 1066
Sir Thomas Grey
Sir Thomas Grey (d 1402) of Heaton, Northumberland married Jane Mowbray, daughter of John Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk.
Note: Another source has his death as 1400, and her name as Joan Mowbray)
Their known children were
Sir John De Grey, Lord of Powys and Earl of Tankerville who married Joan Charlton daughter and Heiress of Ed Charlton
Sir Thomas Grey married Alice Neville. He was beheaded (See Shakespeare Henry V)
(-----) Grey the Bishop of London
Sir Henry Grey of Kettering Norfolk
Maud who married Sir Robert Ogle
THE NEXT GENERATION
John De Gray and Joan Charlton
They had a son Sir Henry De Grey who married Antigone daughter of Humphrey Duke of Glouster.
This couple’s children were;
Richard
Humphrey
Elizabeth, who married Roger Kynaston.
Nothing more is known of this line.
Henry Grey of Kettering Norfolk
His son was Sir Henry Grey Sheriff of Norfolk
His daughter was Eleanor who married (unknown) Harrington
GENERATION 3
Sir Henry Grey, Sheriff of Norfolk
He had a son Richard Grey of Goswold Hall, who married the daughter of Peter Harpye. She later remarried Walter De Broyere
GENERATION 4
Richard Grey
He had a son Thomas Grey of Goswould Hall who married Anne Plumstead
Thomas and Anne Grey
They had four children that we know of.
Apparently there was a (Royal?) visitation in 1561
Thier children are;
Henry Grey of Eye who married Anne daughter of Robert Browne, Baron of the Exchequer.
Joanne
John Thomas
Roger Grey of Goswould Hall (---1618) who married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Billingford of Blackford, Norfolk.
GENERATION 5
Roger and Margaret Grey
They had four children we know of:
Margaret (-----1601)
Dorothy (1582---) married Ed Yates in 1600.
Francisca married Henry Gravenor in 1600
John Grey (1584-1661) married Mary (----1651) the daughter of Ed and Ursula Horning. Ursula was the daughter of Sir Anthony Wingfield.
GENERATION 6
John and Mary Grey
John and Mary Grey had eight children that we know of;
Ursula (1613-1613)
Mary (1615-1637)
Margaret, who married Thomas Tyrall of (Gipping?)
Theoposius (1619-1685)
John (1622-1658)
Timothy (1624-1690) who married Elizabeth (-----1691) daughter of Barque of Eye, Baron of the Exqueuer
Elizabeth (1628--)
Rebecca (1630-1663)
GENERATION 7
Timothy and Elizabeth Grey
Timothy and Elizabeth Grey of Goswould Hall had a daughter Francesca who married John Rix.
The line is continued in the Rix Roots page
GOSWOULD HALL
THRANDESTON CHURCH
Rix Roots
Rix Stories
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