Person:John Gainesford (1)

John Gainesford

d.1358

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m. Abt 1332

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Name^[1]	John Gainesford
Alt Name	Sir John De Gaynesford, I
Gender	Male
Birth`^?`	Abt 1315	Crowhurst, Godstone, Surrey, Eng
Marriage	Abt 1332	to Margery De La Pole
Property^[2]^[3]	1338	Crowhurst, Surrey, EnglandThe manor was conveyed to John and Margaret by Robert de Stangrave and his wife Joan.
Death^[1]	1358

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Hansen, Charles M. The Barons of Woodhull: with Observations on the Ancestry of George Elkinton, Emigrant to New Jersey. The Genealogist. (1987).
↑ Crowhurst, in Malden, Henry Elliot. The Victoria history of the county of Surrey. (London: A. Constable, 1902-1912)
Volume 4, pages 274 to 281.

In 1338 Robert de Stangrave and Joan his wife conveyed the manor of Crowhurst to John Gainsford and Margaret his wife. Later in the same year Robert also granted them a messuage, a carucate of land and 10 marks rent in Crowhurst. John Gainsford received licence for the celebration of divine service in the oratory of his manor of Crowhurst shortly after. This family continued to hold Crowhurst for nearly four centuries. John Gainsford and Margery held as late as 1348..."
↑ Lewis, Frank B. Pedes finium, or, fines relating to the County of Surrey: levies in the King's Court from the seventh year of Richard I. to the end of the reign of Henry VIII. (Guildford: Surrey Archaeological Society, 1894)
12 Edward III no. 57.
Nichols, John Gough. The Herald and genealogist. (London: J. G. Nichols and R. C. Nichols, 1862-1874)
1:337.