Robert Gurdon

  General Notes:

Robert Gurdon purcahsed Assington Hall in Suffolk from Sir Miles Corbet. He served as the Sheriff off Suffolk.

The will of Robert Gurdon:

Robert Gurdon of Assington in the diocese of Norwich within the County of Suffolk Esq. 3 April 1578, proved 12 May 1579. I give and bequeath unto Rose my well beloved wife one hundred pounds by the year, half yearly to be paid by John Gurdon my son &c. in full satisfaction and " contentacon " of all her right and title of dower &c. (and furniture and the use of certain rooms &c). To Elizabeth Waldgrave my daughter my lease (unexpired) of the parsonages of Much and Little Coggeshall, Essex. To her three children. Thomas, John and Elizabeth, twenty pounds apiece, to be paid unto my son Thomas Waldgrave their father &c. To my son John Gurdon the tenements &c. which I lately purchased of John Wincoll of Waldingfield, for term of life, with remainder to Brampton Gurdon, son of the said John, and lastly to my right heirs. To my sister Wincoll ten pounds. To Mary the wife of John Glamfield ten pounds. To Frances the wife of John Duke six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence. To Robert Lawrence five pounds. To Mr. Welche minister of Little Waldingfield five pounds. To 'Sir. Knewstub and Mr. Crokes and Mr. Byrde forty shillings each. To the poor in Assington and thereabouts twenty pounds within six years. To my daughter Appleton. for and to the behoof of her son Isaac Appleton, twenty marks. To Thomas Jervis my servant ten pounds. Other servants. The residue of my goods and chattells &c. to my son John Gurdon whom I do constitute, ordain and make sole executor.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Marriage: to Rose Sexton, 1539, Assington, Suffolk.

• Occupation: Sheriff: Suffolk.

Robert married Rose Sexton, daughter of Robert Sexton and Agnes Jermyn, in 1539 in Assington, Suffolk. (Rose Sexton was born in 1509 in Lavenham, Suffolk, died in 1593 and was buried in 1593 in Assington, Suffolk.)