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Powell, Carne, Stradling connection
From a Family Tree Scroll which
was discovered in a Car Boot Sale in 2007.
............from the scroll and what I have since found - died - means died
infant.
STRADLING
THOMAS, Knight c1498
- 27 Jan 1571
Married
Catherine Gamage
There is a lot of
information available in the archives about this Thomas -
including Commissioner for the Marches of Wales; M.P. for East Grinstead ;
Commissioner for the Suppression of Heretics, under Elizabeth, 1558. He m.
Catherine, dau. of Sir Thomas Gamage, of Coity. The building of the
Stradling Chapel in St. Donat's Church is ascribed to him.
It was this same Sir Thomas Stradling (State Papers, Eliz., Vol. XVII.)
who was committed to the Tower by command of Elizabeth, for the pretended
" invention " or discovery of the form of a cross, " rather longer than a
man's foot," in the interior substance of a tree on his estate blown down
in a storm.
13 Jun 1529
Edward Knighted in 1575 ) Knight MP Scholar and Patron of Literature
19 Nov 1566
Married Dame Agnes Gage
15 May 1609
Edward died in Sussex. They had one daughter
Catherine, born 1569 - END OF THIS LINE OF STRADLING
They adopted a kinsman who inherited the estate on Sir Edward's
death in 1609 -
*Sir JOHN STRADLING, son of Francis Stradling of S. George, Bristol
second son of Thomas Stradling (d. 1480) and Jenet Mathew
David, 2nd son - ?retired abroad with 2 of his sisters.
c1530 Elizabeth
Joice
Gwenillian
Jane
Thomasina (or Damasyn) 2nd daughter
c1567
Traherne, p. 264, prints a 1567 letter from
the Countess of Feria
announcing her death.