Seventeenth Generation

67088. George RAYNSFORD²³ died about Mar 17, 1559 in North Weald Bassett, England. He was buried on Mar 27, 1559 in North Weald Bassett, England. George was the third son; "Gentleman, of North Weald Bassett,
Co. Essex,

where he was buried 27 March 1559 (parish register)." His will requests burial at the
altar end of

the North Weald Church and leaves money "for my tythes
negligently

forgotten". His siblings are given in the pedigree, including
the oldest

brother. Sir William Rainsford, "Gentleman Usher to Henry VIII;
ob. 1557."

North Weald Basset is about 20 miles NE of the heart of London.

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Gentleman of North Weald Bassett, co Essex, where he was buried
27

March 1559 (parish register). He married Katherine Taverner,
daughter

of Walter and Alice ( ) Taverner of North Weald Bassett, almost

certainly the Katherine Rainsford buried there 24 September 1558


(ibid.) Visitation pedigrees call her daughter of "[blank]
Taverner

of Theydon Garnon," but two Taverner wills prove her parentage.

George Raynsford made his will at North Weald Bassett, 23
Marddch

1559, proved 7 June following (Archdeaconry Court of Essex. ref.


3/321; abstract in F.G. Emmison, Elizabethan Life: Wills of the
Essex

Gentry & Yeomen [Chelmsford, 1980], 62) He requested burial "in
North

Weald churchyard at the altar end," and left L40 to daughter
Jane at

marriage or "Michaelmas come 4 years"; L20 to daughter Ursula at


eighteen but "if either die before, their portion to be divided
among

their brethren and sister"; L20 to son Hercules in four years;
L10 to

son John at Michaelmas come four years, "or if he die, to Henry
his

brother"; L10 to son Henry at eighteen; four years lease of the
farm

and park to son Richard; L20 to son-in-law Andrew Larder and the
farm

lease after four years, also "my Dutch cloak and a coat of buff

leather." Son Richard to be overseer and to have 20 shillings
"for

his pains." Six shillings, eight pence to the high altar of
North

Weald Bassett church "for my tythes negligently forgotten."
Witnessed

by John Cormoth, vicar of Weald, John Sprynger, Richard Burton
and

John Gladwyn. George RAYNSFORD and Katherine TAVERNER were married before 1552 in North Weald Bassett, England.

67089. Katherine TAVERNER²³ died about Sep 24, 1558 in North Weald Bassett, England. She was buried on Sep 24, 1558 in North Weald Bassett, England. Katherine Taverner, daughter of Walter and Alice ( ) Taverner of


North Weald Bassett, almost certainly the Ktherine Rainsford
buried

there 24 September 1558. Visitation pedigrees call her daughter
of

"[blank] Taverner of Theydon Garnon," but two Taverner wills
prove her

parentage.

The will of Walter Taverner of "North Wyld bassett," Gentleman

dated 23 January 1523 and proved 14 February 1524 (Archdeaconry
Court

of Essex. 103 Sell) requests burial in the churchyard of St.
Andrew in

said parish, and leaves daughter Kateryn a bullock, son John a
bay

colte, son Rauf four nobles, daughter Alice a calf, four
shillings to

Thomas Morse, four shillings to Margarett TAverner, ten
shillings to

my brother Andrew Taverner, three shillings four pence to
daughter

Jane, L10 "for an trenball of masses to be songe for my soule
[my]

father & mother's souls & all those soles I am bound to praye
for."

Property in the parish of Roxwell to be sold and its profit

distributed "among my children equally to Walter, Rauf, John
Jhane,

Kateryn and Alice. . . . Alice my wife to have my house & my
lande

lying in the parish of Margaret[rooth]yng during her life," with


remainder to son Walter and his heirs. John Colyn of Wrettyll

(Writtle) was named overseer and the will was witnessed by
Thomas

Wyllymson, John Dowset, and George Hynde.

The will of John Taverner of Theydon Garnon, yeoman, made 16
August

1552, no date of probate entered (ibid., 153 Boswick; copy in
Calendar

of State Papers; Domestic, 6: 413-4) names brother Ralph
Taverner of

Heningham, godson John Rainsford, sister Joan Pycke, mother
Wybred and

"my father John Wybred of Copersall," sister Maynard, daughter

Katherine, brother George Rainsford, daughter Jane and son

Christopher. Should his own children die, estate to be divided
among

children of "my brothers and sisters," and executors to be
brothers

Rainsford, Glastock and Maynard and father John Wybred. Children were:

33544	i.	Richard RAYNESFORD.
	ii.	Hercules RAYNSFORD.
	iii.	John RAYNSFORD.
	iv.	Henry RAYNSFORD.
	v.	Martha RAYNSFORD.
	vi.	Jane RAYNSFORD.
	vii.	Ursula RAYNSFORD.
	viii.	Marcus RAYNSFORD.