STAFFORD of Grafton

Humphrey STAFFORD of Blatherwycke

Mother: Margaret FOGGE

Married: John BROWNE of Narborow

Children:

1. John BROWNE of Narborow

Died: 1548

Mother: Margaret FOGGE

Married: Margaret TAME

Children:

1. Anne STAFFORD

2. Humphrey STAFFORD (Sir)

3. John STAFFORD

Anne STAFFORD

Born: BEF 1513, England

Died: AFT 1613, England

Notes: her husband, Anthony Cope of Bedhampton, was denounced by Justices 1569 for refusing to subscribe to the Act of Uniformity.

Humphrey STAFFORD (Sir)

Mother: Margaret TAME

Married: Anthony COPE of Bedhampton (Sir Knight) (b. 1509 - d. 1586)

Children:

1. Anne COPE

2. George COPE

3. Jane COPE

4. Elizabeth COPE

5. Margaret COPE

6. Stephen COPE

7. Anthony COPE

8. John COPE

9. John COPE

10. Edward COPE

Died: 1574

Notes: in 1555 he and his wife Elizabeth leased the site of the manor of Milton Keynes for twenty-one years to Laurence Woodall and his son Richard. This arrangement ended in a quarrel, as Thomas Digby alleged that Richard Woodall had transferred his interests to him rather than his son Thomas. In 1563 the manor retuned to Sir Humphrey. In 1562, before the Court of Requests, he stated that he had beaten his wife (a husband’s right in those days) because she had uttered "many unseemly and quarrelous words". His goal was to reform "her manners and life".

Mother: Margaret TAME

Married: Elizabeth CAVE (d. AFT 1562) (dau. of Thomas Cave of Stanford and Elizabeth Danvers)

Children:

1. Humphrey STAFFORD (d. unm.)

2. John STAFFORD (d.1596)

John STAFFORD

Died: 1595

Notes: inherited Milton Keynes in 1574.

William STAFFORD of Blatherwycke

Mother: Margaret TAME

Married: ¿?

Children:

1. Humphrey STAFFORD of Sudbury

2. William STAFFORD of Blatherwycke

Notes: came to an arrangement with his brother whereby William took the manor of Milton Keynes. On his demise in 1606 his son William, then a minor held the manor. In 1637 William's first son Edward held the manor, dying the following year leaving the manor to his brother Charles; who was succeeded by his younger brother William in 1643. He did not enjoy the profits of the estate. It was mortgaged for £6000 in 1634 to Sir Lewis Watson (who became Lord Rockingham) and John Loddington. Parliament were ignorant of this fact and granted Sir John Corbett the estate in recompense for losses caused by the kings troops. Corbett and Rockingham fought out their case in the Chancery and in 1652 it was referred to Parliament . Corbett pleading the Act of Oblivion. Rockingham died in 1653 and his son Edward Watson and John Loddington joined William Stafford in levying for Milton Manor. Henry Stafford, son of William, was sued whilst a minor in 1669 by Dr. Lewis Atterbury with regard to the glebe lands. In 1667 Henry Stafford conveyed the manor to Heneage Finch and his son Daniel.

Father: John STAFFORD

Mother: ¿?

Married: ¿?

Children:

1. William STAFFORD of Blatherwycke

William STAFFORD of Grafton (Sir)

Born: BEF 1512, Chebsey, Staffs., Rochford, Essex & London

Died: 5 May 1556, Geneva

Notes: See his Biography.

Mother: Margaret FOGGE

Married 1:Mary BOLEYN ABT 1533

Children:

1. Son STAFFORD (b. 1535 - d. 1545)

Married 2: Dorothy STAFFORDAFT Jul 1543

Children:

2. Edward STAFFORD of Grafton (Sir)

3. John STAFFORD of Marlwood Park (Sir)

4. William STAFFORD

5. Elizabeth STAFFORD

6. Ursula STAFFORD

Edward STAFFORD of Grafton (Sir)

Born: ABT 1552

Died: 5 Feb 1604/5

Buried: Westminster Abbey

Notes: See his Biography.

John STAFFORD of Marlwood Park (Sir)

Mother: Dorothy STAFFORD

Married 1: Roberta CHAPMAN

Children:

1. William STAFFORD

2. Dau. STAFFORD

3. Dau. STAFFORD

Married 2:Douglas HOWARD (B. Sheffield of Butterwick) 29 Nov 1579

Children:

4. Son STAFFORD

5. Son STAFFORD

Born: 1 Apr 1553, Bobbing Court, Bobbing, Kent, England

Died: 28 Sep 1624

Mother:Dorothy STAFFORD

¿Married 1: Bridget CLOPTON (b. ABT 1554)?

Children:

1. Humphrey STAFFORD

Married 2: Millicent GRESHAM

Children:

2. Thomas STAFFORD

Married 3: Anne MOODY

Married4: Susan WYNNARD ABT 26 Oct 1607

Humphrey STAFFORD

Born: ABT 1574

Father: John STAFFORD of Marlwood Park (Sir)

Mother: Bridget CLOPTON

Married: Lucy EYRE

Children:

1. Alice STAFFORD

2. Gertrude STAFFORD

Alice STAFFORD

Born: 1610

Father: Humphrey STAFFORD

Mother: Lucy EYRE

Married: Anthony SAVAGE

Children:

1. Alice SAVAGE

2. Dorothy SAVAGE

Thomas STAFFORD

Born: 5 May 1580

Died: 1607

Father: John STAFFORD of Marlwood Park (Sir)

Mother: Millicent GRESHAM

Married: ¿?

Children:

1. Thomas STAFFORD (b. 1605)

Elizabeth STAFFORD

Born: ABT 1546

Died: 6 Feb 1598/9

Buried: Nettlestead, Kent, England

Notes: was in exile during Mary Tudor's reign with her parents and returned to England in 1559. On 28 Nov 1568 she became a chamberer to Queen Elizabeth at £20 per annum. In 1573, she married Sir William Drury of Hawstead. The Queen graciously granted their union and was in attendance at the wedding. Both Elizabeth and her daughters received gifts of clothing from Elizabeth.

Mother: Dorothy STAFFORD

Married 1: William DRURY of Hawsted (Sir)

Children:

1. Robert DRURY of Hawstead (Sir)

2. Charles DRURY

3. Frances DRURY

4. Elizabeth DRURY (C. Exeter)

5. Susannah DRURY (d. 1607, while hunting, in Lincolnshire)

6. Diana DRURY (V. Wimbledon)

7. Dorothea DRURY (d. infancy at age 4 months)

Married 2: John SCOTT of Nettlestead (Sir) (d. 1616) AFT 1589

Elizabeth Stafford,

attributed to William Seger c. 1585

William STAFFORD

Born: 1554

Died: 16 Nov 1612

Notes: educated at Winchester College, where he was admitted in 1564, and New College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1571. In 1573 he was elected a fellow of New College, but two years later he was deprived of his fellowship for being away without leave. He came to London, where his mother Dorothy was in attendance on Queen Elizabeth. In 1585, William went to France secretly, staying in the lodgings of his brother Sir Edward Stafford, ambassador to France, and spying on his own account. When this was found out, he begged Sir Francis Walsingham's intercession with his mother. He soon returned to England. The following year, William became involved with the plans of Châteauneuf, the French ambassador. By 1587, Châteauneuf was conspiring to poison Queen Elizabeth, using William Stafford's court connections to plant a poisoned gown or saddle for the Queen's use. William confessed the plot to Walsingham, who arrested the conspirators. William was released from the Tower in Aug of 1588 without any charges being brought. It is speculated that William was an agent provocateur for Walsingham in this plot; certainly he suffered no lasting harm from the episode. After this, William retired to a quiet life in the country. His son was another William Stafford, a notable author of 'The Reason of the War, with the Progress and Accidents Thereof, Written by an English Subject' which was published in 1646, arguing for Charles I to give more power to the Parliament.

Mother: Dorothy STAFFORD

Married: Anne GRYME(dau. of Thomas Gryme of Antingham) 1593

Children:

1. William STAFFORD

2. Dorothy STAFFORD

Ursula STAFFORD

Born: ABT 1553, Bobbing Court, Kent, England

Notes:Richard Drake obtained a Court appointment as Equerry to Queen Elizabeth in 1577, and bought an estate in Esher. He received a ransom of 2,500 pounds for a distinguished Spanish prisoner who was captured after the defeat of the Armada and housed with Richard Drake for four-and-a half years until his exchange with an English prisoner in the hands of the Spaniards. The family of Drake of Shardeloes in Buckinghamshire are descendants of this Richard.

Humphrey STAFFORD of Hook

Mother: Dorothy STAFFORD

Married: Richard DRAKE (Esq.)

Children:

1. Francis DRAKE

Died: 31 Oct 1413

Father:John STAFFORD (Sir)

Mother:Margaret STAFFORD

Married1: Elizabeth AUMARLE (w. of John Maltravers)

Married 2: Alice GREVILLE ABT 1365

Children:

1. Humphrey STAFFORD of Hook

2. Elizabeth STAFFORD

Humphrey STAFFORD of Hook

Born: ABT 1379, Hooke, Dorset, England

Died: 27 May 1442

Mother:Alice GREVILLE

Married: Elizabeth MALTRAVERS (b. ABT 1380 - d. 1442) (dau. of John Maltravers and Elizabeth Aumarle) BEF Oct 1397

Children:

1. Alice STAFFORD

2. Richard STAFFORD of Southwick

3. John STAFFORD

4. William STAFFORD (Sir)

5. Humphrey STAFFORD of Southwick

Alice STAFFORD

Born: ABT 1391

Died: BEF 24 Apr 1448

Richard STAFFORD of Southwick

Mother:Elizabeth MALTRAVERS

Married1:Edmund CHENEY

Children:

1. Elizabeth CHENEY

2. Anne (Agnes) CHENEY

Married 2: Walter TALBOYS (Sheriff of Lincoln) BEF 1432

Children:

3. William TALBOYS (Sir Knight)

4. Eleanor TALBOYS

Died: ABT 1427

Mother:Elizabeth MALTRAVERS

Married:Maud LOVELL

Children:

1. Avice STAFFORD

Avice STAFFORD

Born: 4 Dec 1423, Woodsford, Dorset

Died: 3 Jun 1457

Father:Richard STAFFORD of Southwick

Mother:Maud LOVELL

Married:James BUTLER (1° E. Wiltshire)BEF 4 Jul 1428

John STAFFORD