GREY FAMILY

VIII. MERTON LINE

John De GREY

Born: ABT 1232, Cavendish, Suffolk, England

Died: 1302

Father: William De GREY (Sir Knight)

Mother: Agnes De HARESTON

Married: Margaret ?

Children:

1. Thomas De GREY (Sir Knight)

Thomas De GREY (Sir Knight)

Born: ABT 1270, Cavendish, Suffolk, England

Died: 1 Jan 1321

Father: John De GREY

Mother: Margaret ?

Married: Alice CORNERTH (b. ABT 1274) ABT 1305

Children:

1. Thomas De GREY (Sir Knight)

2. Roger De GREY (b. ABT 1308)

3. John De GREY (b. ABT 1310)

Thomas De GREY (Sir Knight)

Born: 1306, Cavendish, Suffolk, England

Father: Thomas De GREY (Sir Knight)

Mother: Alice CORNERTH

Married: Isabel BAYNARD

Children:

1. Roger De GREY (Sir Knight)

2. Thomas De GREY

3. Fulke De GREY

4. Margaret De GREY

5. Joan De GREY

6. Son GREY b. ABT 1342

Roger De GREY (Sir Knight)

Born: ABT 1332, Merton, Norfolk, England

Died: 5 Sep 1371

Father: Thomas De GREY (Sir Knight)

Mother: Isabel BAYNARD

Married: Margaret CLIFTON (dau. of Roger Clifton) (m.2 John Shardelow - m.3 John Lakynhethe) BEF 1360

Children:

1. Margaret De GREY

2. Joan De GREY

3. Thomas De GREY (b. Apr 1371 - d. 26 Aug 1375)

Joan De GREY

Born: 1367, Merton, Norfolk, England

Father: Roger De GREY (Sir Knight)

Mother: Margaret CLIFTON

Married: Thomas PYNCHBEKE

Margaret De GREY

Born: 1364, Merton, Norfolk, England

Died: 29 Oct 1390

Father: Roger De GREY (Sir Knight)

Mother: Margaret CLIFTON

Married 1: Thomas SHARDELOW

Married 2: John PELHAM

Thomas De GREY

Born: ABT 1334, Merton, Norfolk, England

Died: 1404

Father: Thomas De GREY (Sir Knight)

Mother: Isabel BAYNARD

Margaret De GREY

Born: ABT 1338, Merton, Norfolk, England

Died: 1382

Father: Thomas De GREY (Sir Knight)

Mother: Isabel BAYNARD

Joan De GREY

Born: ABT 1340, Merton, Norfolk, England

Father: Thomas De GREY (Sir Knight)

Mother: Isabel BAYNARD

Married: Thomas PYNCHBEKE AFT 1365

Fulke De GREY

Born: ABT 1336, Haddenham, Cambridgeshire, England

Died: BEF 20 Oct 1384

Father: Thomas De GREY (Sir Knight)

Mother: Isabel BAYNARD

Married: Margaret VERNON (b. ABT 1340, Elme, Cambridgeshire, England) BEF 20 Jan 1375

Children:

1. Fulke De GREY (Esq.)

Fulke De GREY (Esq.)

Born: 28 Oct 1382, Merton, Norfolk, England

Died: BEF 1 Jun 1423

Father: Fulke De GREY

Mother: Margaret VERNON

Married: Eleanor BERNARDISTON

Children:

1. William De GREY (Esq.)

William De GREY (Esq.)

Born: ABT 1414, Merton, Norfolk, England

Died: 11 Nov 1474

Father: Fulke De GREY (Esq.)

Mother: Eleanor BERNARDISTON

Married: Christian MANNING

Children:

1. William GREY

2. Christian GREY

Christian GREY

orn: ABT 1446, Merton, Norfolk, England

Died: 13 Jun 1492

Father: William De GREY (Esq.)

Mother: Christian MANNING

Married: George BOKENHAM

William GREY

Born: ABT 1445, Merton, Norfolk, England

Died: 12 Feb 1494

Father: William De GREY (Esq.)

Mother: Christian MANNING

Married 1: Mary BEDINGFIELD (b. ABT 1449 - d. 25 Apr 1480) (dau. of Thomas Bedingfield and Anne Waldegrave) ABT 1472

Children:

1. Thomas GREY of Merton

2. Dau. GREY

3. Dau. GREY

4. Dau. GREY

5. Edmund GREY

Married 2: Grace TEYE (b. ABT 1449 - d. BEF 4 Feb 1535) (dau. of Thomas Teye, Esq.) (m.2 Sir Humphrey Catesby - m.3 George Heath) 8 Oct 1482

Children:

6. William GREY

7. Edmund GREY (b. ABT 1485)

8. Dau. GREY (b. ABT 1487)

9. Margaret GREY (b. ABT 1489)

10. Fulke GREY of Merton

Edmund GREY

Born: ABT 1481, London, Middlesex, England

Died: 20 Aug 1548

Father: William GREY

Mother: Mary BEDINGFIELD

Fulke GREY of Merton

Born: ABT 1492, Carbrook, Norfolk, England

Died: BEF 8 Jan 1560/1

Father: William GREY

Mother: Grace TEYE

Married: Elizabeth DRURY

Children:

1. John GREY (b. ABT 1533 - d. BEF 30 May 1595)

2. Edmund GREY (b. ABT 1535 - d. 1592)

3. Thomas GREY of Steckfield

4. Anthony GREY of Carbrook

5. Elizabeth GREY

Elizabeth GREY

Born: ABT 1539, Carbrook, Norfolk, England

Died: BEF 2 May 1625

Father: Fulke GREY of Merton

Mother: Elizabeth DRURY

Married 1: James DOWNES

Married 2: Jerome SPRING

Thomas GREY of Steckfield

Born: ABT 1536, Carbrook, Norfolk, England

Died: AFT 10 May 1596, Steckfield, Hampshire, England

Father: Fulke GREY of Merton

Mother: Elizabeth DRURY

Married 1: Jane WILLOUGHBY

Married 2: Anne ?

Anthony GREY of Carbrook

Born: ABT 1537, Carbrook, Norfolk, England

Died: BEF 30 May 1595

Father: Fulke GREY of Merton

Mother: Elizabeth DRURY

Married: Alice BALL (dau. of Edmund Ball) ABT 1563

Children:

1. George GREY (b. ABT Jan 1570 - d. 15 Feb 1570)

2. Mary GREY (b. 8 Jan 1564)

3. Anthony GREY (b. 24 Jul 1568 - d. AFT 27 Nov 1586)

4. Mary GREY (b. 23 Apr 1573)

5. Jane GREY

6. Frances GREY (b. 18 Oct 1579)

7. Anne GREY (b. 2 Mar 1580)

8. Thomas GREY (b. 1 Nov 1582 - d. AFT 1616)

Jane GREY

Christened: 19 Aug 1576, Carbrook, Norfolk, England

Died: BEF 16 Dec 1596

Father: Anthony GREY of Carbrook

Mother: Alice BALL

Married: Charles GUNTER

William GREY

Born: ABT 1483, Carbrook, Norfolk, England

Died: BEF 14 Jun 1529

Father: William GREY

Mother: Grace TEYE

Married: Janet BENNETT

Children:

1. Agnes GREY

Agnes GREY

Born: ABT 1511, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Father: William GREY

Mother: Janet BENNETT

Married: Duncan FORBES ABT 1530, Monymusk, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Children:

1. William FORBES (b. ABT 1531)

2. John FORBES (b. ABT 1534)

3. Duncan FORBES (b. ABT 1536)

4. Isabel FORBES (b. ABT 1538)

5. Elizabeth FORBES (B. Towie) (b. ABT 1540)

6. Dau. FORBES (B. Udnie) (b. ABT 1542)

Thomas GREY of Merton

Born: 1479, Merton, Norfolk, England

Died: 1 Sep 1556

Buried: Merton Church, Norfolk, England

Father: William GREY

Mother: Mary BEDINGFIELD

Married: Elizabeth FITZLEWIS (dau. of Richard Fitzlewis of Bardwell) ABT 1503

Children:

1. Edmund GREY of Merton

2. William GREY

3. Robert GREY (b. ABT 1508)

4. Mary GREY (b. ABT 1510)

5. Elizabeth GREY (b. ABT 1512 - d. AFT 14 Jul 1556)

William GREY

Born: ABT 1506, Merton, Norfolk, England

Buried: 9 Feb 1571, Caxtons, Little Cornard, Suffolk, England

Father: Thomas GREY of Merton

Mother: Elizabeth FITZLEWIS

Married: Jane BENNETT (dau. of John Bennett of Attleborough)

Children:

1. John GREY

2. Thomas GREY (b. ABT 1541)

3. Elizabeth GREY (b. ABT 1543)

4. Edmund GREY (b. 22 Oct 1545)

5. Gertrude GREY (b. 16 Mar 1547)

6. Gabrielle GREY (b. 25 Sep 1551)

John GREY

Born: ABT 1539, Thompson, Norfolk, England

Father: William GREY

Mother: Jane BENNETT

Married: Elizabeth ? ABT 1557, Methwold, Norfolk, England

Children:

1. William GREY (b. ABT 1558)

2. Thomas GREY

3. Ela GREY

4. Margaret GREY

5. Fulke GREY

Thomas GREY

Born: ABT 1560, Spykesworth, Norfolk, England

Father: John GREY

Mother: Elizabeth ?

Married: Ursula DRURY ABT 1584

Children:

1. John GREY (b. ABT 1585)

2. Francis GREY (b. ABT 1587)

Ela GREY

Born: ABT 1562, Griston, Norfolk, England

Father: John GREY

Mother: Elizabeth ?

Married: John READ Wisbich, Northumberland, England

Margaret GREY

Born: ABT 1564, Griston, Norfolk, England

Father: John GREY

Mother: Elizabeth ?

Married: Son HARRISON Langham, Northumberland, England

Fulke GREY

Father: John GREY

Mother: Elizabeth ?

Married: Joan DRURY

Edmund GREY of Merton

Born: BEF 1510, Gray's Inn, London and Merton, Norfolk, England

Died: 20 Aug 1547

Buried: Merton Church, Merton, Norfolk, England

Notes: Member of Parliament for Lynn 1545. Educated Gray's Inn, admitted 1524. Treasurer, Gray's Inn 1540, Lent Reader 1543. Commissioner gaol delivery, Norwich 1535; other commissions, Norfolk 1540-death; chief steward, Buckenham priory, Norfolk by 1535; steward, sheriff's court Norwich Mar 1536-Aug. 1540, recorder 13 Aug 1540 - death; justice of the peace Norfolk 1540-death. Edmund Grey did not live to emulate his father-in-law the judge, whom he survived by only three years, but he made his mark locally, being retained as counsel by both Lynn and Norwich. His representation of Norwich in a dispute between the city and the dean heard before the Council early in 1539 may mean that he was the man elected with Augustine Steward to the Parliament of that year, before the city received Cromwell's letter asking for the return of John Godsalve: the exchange would have been smoothed by their membership of the same inn of court, and Grey's speedy promotion to the recordership could have been a reward for his accommodation in the matter. Although he was not to sit for Norwich he is likely to have favoured the choice of his kinsman Richard Catlyn as a fellow-Member of the Parliament in 1545. Nothing is known about his part in the House. By a will made nine days before his death on 20 Aug 1547 Grey provided for his children and named his mother-in-law, his kinsman Sir Edmund Bedingfield and Richard Sandell executors and Sir Richard Southwell supervisor; in the following Oct the wardship of his 17 year-old son was acquired by Thomas Gawdy.

Father: Thomas GREY of Merton

Mother: Elizabeth FITZLEWIS

Married: Elizabeth SPELMAN (dau. of John Spelman of Narborough and Elizabeth Frowick) 31 Dec 1524

Children:

1. Thomas GREY of Merton

2. Ellen GREY (b. ABT 1530)

3. Jane (Joan) GREY

4. Edmund GREY

5. Robert GREY

6. Elizabeth GREY

7. Eleanor GREY

8. Bridget GREY

9. Mary GREY

10. Fulke GREY (b. ABT 1543)

11. Martha GREY (b. ABT 1545 - d. 23 Jun 1552)

12. Huggen GREY (b. ABT 1547 - d. BEF 26 Oct 1592)

Jane (Joan) GREY

Born: ABT 1532, Merton, Norfolk, England

Father: Edmund GREY of Merton

Mother: Elizabeth SPELMAN

Married: Anthony TALBOT BEF 11 Aug 1547

Elizabeth GREY

Born: ABT 1537, Merton, Norfolk, England

Father: Edmund GREY of Merton

Mother: Elizabeth SPELMAN

Married: Robert KEMPE (son of Robert Kempe and Margaret Curzon) BEF 14 Jul 1556

Eleanor GREY

Born: ABT 1539, Merton, Norfolk, England

Father: Edmund GREY of Merton

Mother: Elizabeth SPELMAN

Married: Fabian CASTON

Bridget GREY

Born: ABT 1541, Merton, Norfolk, England

Father: Edmund GREY of Merton

Mother: Elizabeth SPELMAN

Married: Son TAVENER

Mary GREY

Born: ABT 1542, Merton, Norfolk, England

Father: Edmund GREY of Merton

Mother: Elizabeth SPELMAN

Married: Edward KEMPE

Robert GREY

Born: 1535, Merton, Norfolk, England

Died: 28 Feb 1601/2

Buried: 7 Mar 1601/2, Merton Church, Merton, Norfolk, England

Father: Edmund GREY of Merton

Mother: Elizabeth SPELMAN

Married: Anne LOVELL 26 Aug 1574 (settlement)

Children:

1. William GREY

William GREY

Born: BEF 19 Jun 1583, Merton, Norfolk, England

Died: 19 Oct 1632

Buried: 20 Oct 1632, Merton Church, Merton, Norfolk, England

Father: Robert GREY

Mother: Anne LOVELL

Married: Anne CALTHORPE 7 Oct 1601, Cockthorpe, Norfolk, England

Children:

1. Jane GREY (b. 20 Oct 1624 - d. 27 Jul 1698) (m. Thomas Bacon)

2. Edmund GREY (d. ABT 1688) (m. Alice Irby)

Edmund GREY

Born: 1534, Baynard, Bunwell, Norfolk, England

Father: Edmund GREY of Merton

Mother: Elizabeth SPELMAN

Married: Mary JERNINGHAM ABT 1559

Children:

1. John GREY (b. ABT 1560)

2. Elizabeth GREY

3. Anne GREY

4. Eleanor GREY

5. Margaret GREY (b. ABT 1568)

Elizabeth GREY

Born: 1562, Baynard, Bunwell, Norfolk, England

Died: AFT 1614

Father: Edmund GREY

Mother: Mary JERNINGHAM

Married 1: Edward MARSHAM 10 Oct 1603

Married 2: Son ROOCKWOOD

Anne GREY

Born: 1564, Baynard, Bunwell, Norfolk, England

Father: Edmund GREY

Mother: Mary JERNINGHAM

Married: George PIERSON

Eleanor GREY

Born: 1566, Baynard, Bunwell, Norfolk, England

Father: Edmund GREY

Mother: Mary JERNINGHAM

Married: John ALDEN

Thomas GREY of Merton

Born: Dec 1529, Bunwell & Merton, Norfolk, England

Died: 12 May 1562, Bunwell & Merton, Norfolk, England

Father: Edmund GREY of Merton

Mother: Elizabeth SPELMAN

Married 1: Anne EVERARD ABT 1552, Linsted, Suffolk, England

Children:

1. Thomas GREY of Merton

Married 2: Temperance CAREW ABT 1557, Mertin, Norfolkshire, England

Thomas GREY of Merton

Born: 1555, Merton, Norfolk, England

Died: 21 Mar 1566, Baconsthorpe, Norfolk, England

Father: Thomas GREY of Merton

Mother: Anne EVERARD

Married: Elizabeth DRURY

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