"Sir Thomas Barnardiston of ketton and Great Coates, knight; aged 32 and more 5 April 1543; Knight of the Carpet at the Coronation of Edward VI. 22 February 1546/7. Will dated 10 September 1551, proved 2 October 1551 (P.C.C. 26 Bucke). Inq. p. m. taken at Ipswich 14 June 1552 (W. and L. Vol. 6, fo. 74)" married "Mary Walsingham, dau. of Sir Edward [should be Edmund] Walsingham of Scadbury, co. Kent; executrix to her husband's will 2 October 1551. She marr 2ndly, after 1 January 1554/5 Francis Clopton of Ketton" who subsequently married Sir Thomas' sister Elizabeth. [1]
Research Notes:
The Walsingham pedigree shows ancestors of Mary Walsingham, daughter of Sir Edmund Walsingham and Eleanor, and her marriage to Sir Thomas Barnardiston. [2]
[1] Frederick Arthur Crisp, ed., Visitation of England and Wales, Notes, Vol. 7 (Privately Printed, 1907), 170, [GoogleBooks].
[2] William Archibald Scott Robertson, "Chislehurst and its Church," Kentish Archaeology, Vol. 4, section 6 (London: Mitchel and Hughes, 1880), 70, [GoogleBooks].