Person:John Geste (3)

The family of Geste or Ghest , dervies from John Geste or Ghest , of Handsworth , in the county of Stafford , who was admitted tenant of copyhold lands there, in the 12 Henry VII. He m. Margaret , daughter and heiress of Thomas Hawkes , and great granddaughter of Henry Hawkes , of Hopwode , in the county of Worcester , close to Row Heath , in right of whom John Ghest claimed a messuage and lands there.