Richard Gardiner and Margery
1559/30 Richard "Gardyner," carpenter, of Bramford, wrote his will on January 27. Hyde abstracts it as follows: [1]
unto Margery my wief my Tenement called Crabbes wt all the lands lyenge … in Brampforde and in Sprowton Duringe her naturall life … yf she beynge and aged woman do depe her selfe a wedowe all the same terme of her lief naturall she shall pesablye and quyetlye enioye my sayd Tenement … excepte my lytle parlor withe the Chymney in yt whiche parlor I will my syster Felgate shall have duringe her lief naturall wt free passage in and oute … I will that after the decease of my sayd wief that my sayd howse and lande shalbe solde to the beste proofe [profit] And the value therof to be equallye devyded amonge fyve of my sonnes that ys to saye Philippe Gilberte John Edmonde and Will'm Gardener … I do ordeyne … the two eldeste myne Executors that is to saye Phillippe and Gylberte and my nevye Edmonde Gardener of Ippiswhiche to be sup'vysor … unto my sonne Thomas who hathe hadde his porcyon alreadye one sylver spone for a better remembraunce … unto my doughter Ane Gardyner thre pownds syxe shillings and eighte pence … at … her maryage or at the age of xviii yeres … I will that yf anye of my sayd sonnes shalbe able to bye my sayd howse & londe that he shall have yt fortye shillings under the pryce that any other manne will geve for yt / And yf none of my sonnes be able to bye yt then that my nevye Edmonde Gardyner of Ippiswiche shall have the like bye yt then that my nevye Edmonde Gardyner of Ippiswiche shall have the lke preferment yf he be able to bye yt / … I will that my wief shall delyver unto my sayd Executors Imediatly after my deathe fortye pownds … to be equally devyded amonge the childerne of John Cokke of Brampforde … accordinge to the true meanynge of there Fathers will … fyve marks for my doughter Ane … unto ev'rey of my sayd five sonnes a beede a boulster and all other necessaries therunto belongynge at the dyscrcyon of my my wief chargynge every of my sayd sonnes to be content with there mothers appoyntment or ells to have none at all … to everye of my sayd fyve sonnes one brasse pote and a sylver spone … I geve all my tooles to two of my sayd sonnes that is to saye Gilbert and edmonde And Gilbert to chose the fyrste toole & Edmonde the nexte and so untill they have take all my sayde tooles betwene them … I will that they all my chldene shall see weel and bee good to there mother but speciallye my two soone Gilbert and Edmonde because they have all my dooles duringe her naturall life … unto johan Cannon one sylver spone … unto Thomas Cocke one sylver spone
1559/60 Richard Gardiner was buried on February 15 in Bramford, Suffolk. [2]
1560 The will of Richard Gardiner was proved on October 13 in the Archdeaconry Court of Suffolk. [3]
1583 Margery Gardiner wrote her will on July 13. She bequeathed to the daughters Alice, Susan, and Blanche of Johane Canon widow and to the wife Margerie and son Thomas of Henrie Cole. She bequeathed to Elizabeth Gardiner, daughter of Gilbert Gardiner, to Elizabeth Gardiner, wife of Gilbert Gardiner, to George, Johane, Thomas, and Gilbert, children of Gilbert Gardiner, and to her son Thomas Gardiner. She named her son Edmund Gardiner executor. [4]
1583 Margery Gardiner (recorded as "Elizabeth Gardiner Widow") was buried on July 22 in Bramford, Suffolk. [5]
1583 The will of Margery Gardiner was proved November 7 in the Archdeaconry Court of Suffolk. [6]
Research Notes:
1570 Henrie Cole and Margerie Coke and were married on June 25 in Bramford, Suffolk. [7]
Hyde suggests, based on the bequests and wording of Margery Gardiner's will, that Margery was a second wife of Richard Gardiner and not the mother of his children Joan and Philip. Richard referred to Philip and Gilbert as the eldest of the five sons who were to share in the proceeds of the sale of his property after Margerie's death and states that his son Thomas had already received his portion. He also states that the five sons are to accept his wife their mother's division of household property bequeathed to them. This suggests to me that Thomas was the Richard's eldest son and that all of the children, with the possible exception of Joan, were children of Margery.
[1] Myrtle Stevens Hyde, "The English Ancestry of Samuel Smith of Hadley, Massachusetts,, citing Archdeaconry Court of Suffolk, 1560, folio147 FHL film 096921.
[2] Myrtle Stevens Hyde, "The English Ancestry of Samuel Smith of Hadley, Massachusetts,, citing Bramford, Suffolk, parish registers, microfiche copy of originals obtained from the Ipswich Record Society.
[3] Myrtle Stevens Hyde, "The English Ancestry of Samuel Smith of Hadley, Massachusetts,, citing Archdeaconry Court of Suffolk, 1560, folio 147 FHL film 096921.
[4] Myrtle Stevens Hyde, "The English Ancestry of Samuel Smith of Hadley, Massachusetts,, citing Archdeaconry Court of Suffolk, 1583, folio 501, FHL film 96930.
[5] Myrtle Stevens Hyde, "The English Ancestry of Samuel Smith of Hadley, Massachusetts,, citing Bramford, Suffolk, parish registers, microfiche copy of originals obtained from the Ipswich Record Society.
[6] Myrtle Stevens Hyde, "The English Ancestry of Samuel Smith of Hadley, Massachusetts,, citing Archdeaconry Court of Suffolk, 1583, folio 501, FHL film 96930.
[7] Myrtle Stevens Hyde, "The English Ancestry of Samuel Smith of Hadley, Massachusetts,, citing Bramford, Suffolk, parish registers, microfiche copy of originals obtained from the Ipswich Record Society.