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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.