Rachel Palmer
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth Date: 1710 - Stonham Parva, Suffolk Christening: 13 March 1710 - Stonham Parva, Suffolk Death: 1735 - Earl Stonham, Suffolk Burial: 26 February 1735 - Earl Stonham, Suffolk Cause of Death:Events
• Marriage: to Richard Goldsmith, 25 July 1734, Cotton, Suffolk.
Parents
Father: Stephen Palmer Mother: Martha Unknown
Notes
General:
Rachel's husband Richard Goldsmith remarried two years after Rachel's death to Catherine Todd on 13 May 1738 at Cotton, Suffolk.
Stephen Palmer
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 1702 - Stonham Parva, Suffolk Christening: 21 July 1702 - Earl Stonham, Suffolk Death: 1717 - Little Stonham, Suffolk Burial: 22 June 1717 - Earl Stonham, Suffolk Cause of Death:Events
• Marriage: to Martha Unknown.
Parents
Father: Stephen Palmer Mother: Martha UnknownStephen Palmer
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: Christening: Death: 1743 - Little Stonham, Suffolk Burial: 8 June 1743 - Earl Stonham, Suffolk Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Martha Unknown Marriage: Children: 1. Stephen Palmer 2. Martha Palmer 3. Rachel Palmer 4. Martin Palmer 5. Edmund Palmer 6. Benjamin Palmer
Notes
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On Stephen Palmer's grave:
Gent: Of Little Stonham
Maud Pantulf
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth Date: Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: William Pantulf Mother:
Spouses and Children
1. *Ralph Le Botiller Marriage: Children: 1. William Le Botiller 2. Joanna Le BotillerWilliam Pantulf
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:Events
• Residence: : Wem, Shropshire.
Spouses and Children
Children: 1. Maud PantulfAlice Parker
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth Date: 1490 - Morley, Norfolk Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Sir William Parker Mother: Baroness Alice LovellAnn Parker
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth Date: 1589 - Erwarton, Suffolk Christening: 30 October 1589 - Erwarton, Suffolk Death: Burial: Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Sir Phillip Parker Mother: Lady Catherine GoodwinAnn Parker
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth Date: 1534 Christening: Death: 1571 - Little Glemham, Suffolk Burial: 8 December 1571 - Little Glemham, Suffolk Cause of Death:Events
• Marriage: to Thomas Glemham: Glemham, Suffolk.
Parents
Father: Lord (Sir) Henry Parker Mother: Lady Elizabeth Calthorpe
Notes
General:
Ann was also known as Amy. Her husband died shortly before her and was buried at Little Glemham on 25th September 1571.
Anne Parker
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth Date: 1604 Christening: Death: May 1681 - Assington, Suffolk Burial: 23 May 1681 - Assington, Suffolk Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Sir Calthorpe Parker Mother: Lady Mercy Soame
Spouses and Children
1. *John Gurdon Marriage: April 1624 Children: 1. Robert Gurdon 2. Phillip Gurdon 3. Rev. Nathaniel Gurdon 4. Barrett Gurdon 5. William Gurdon 6. Judith Gurdon 7. Amy Gurdon 8. Anne Gurdon 9. John Gurdon 10. Ludeth Gurdon 11. Amy Gurdon
Notes
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The will of Anne Gurdon:
I desire that my body may have a private and decent burial. I give to my son Robert Gurdon my great seal gold ring which was both his grand- father's and his father's. I give to my said son Robert all my stock of deer and conies that shall be in the warren park at the time of my death. I give, more, to my said son Robert ten pounds. I give to my son in law Dr. Thomas Jacomb and my daughter his wife ten pounds apiece. I give to my daughter Gould ten pounds. I give to my daughter JollifF ten pounds. I give to my son Philip and his wife ten pounds apiece. I give to my son Nathaniel aud his wife ten pounds apiece. I give to my son Brampton ten pounds. I give to my son Barret ten pounds. Certain household stuff to Brampton and to Barret. To my dear brother Mr. Henry Parker forty shillings and to my nephew Mr. Henry Parker, his son, forty shillings. To my dear brother Mr. Nathaniel Parker forty shil- lings. To Ann Gurdon, my son Nathaniel's eldest daughter, thirty and to her (his?) daughter Eliza: twenty pounds, to be paid to them at the age of twenty years. If either of them die before that age, unmarried, her part shall go to the other. To Mr. Thomas Walker of Nayland forty shillings and to his wife twenty shillings. Sundry small legacies to others named. The remainder of my estate to be laid out in land or otherwise improved for the best advantage of my son Nathaniel's children, Ann, Elizabeth, John, Amy, Judeth ami Robert, to be paid to them when they attain to the age of twenty years. I do now declare my sun Philip Gurdon and my daughter Mrs Anne Jolliflfe to be my executors. Reference to a deed made to nephew Mr. Henry Parker and Mr. Thomas Walker of Nayland.
Calthorpe Parker
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: Christening: Death: 1675 - Erwarton, Suffolk Burial: 12 November 1675 - Erwarton, Suffolk Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Sir Calthorpe Parker Mother: Lady Mercy SoameSir Calthorpe Parker
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: Abt 1580 - Erwarton, Suffolk Christening: Death: 5 September 1618 - Erwarton, Suffolk Burial: 8 September 1618 - Erwarton, Suffolk Cause of Death:Events
• Marriage: to Mercey Soame, 27 February 1598, St Pancras Soper Lane, London.
Parents
Father: Sir Phillip Parker Mother: Lady Catherine Goodwin
Spouses and Children
1. *Lady Mercy Soame Marriage: 27 February 1598 - St Pancras Soper Lane, London Children: 1. Sir Phillip Parker 2. Anne Parker 3. Steven Parker 4. Henry Parker 5. William Parker 6. Calthorpe Parker 7. Lady Mary Parker 8. Nathaniel Parker 9. Thomas Parker 10. John Parker
Notes
General:
Sir Calthorpe Parker was knighted by King James I at Whitehall, London before his coranation on 23 July 1603 and in 1612 was the High Sheriff of Suffolk.
The will of Sir Calthorpe Parker:
I give and bequeath unto Dame Mercye. my now wife, my capital messuage or manor home of my manor of Erwarton with the orchards, gardens, mills, dovehonses &c. to have and to hold until my eldest son shall accomplish his full age of one and twenty years. The manor of Gaynes and other estate to be in the charge of the executors, a portion of the rent to be employed for the benefit of the younger children. The three hundred pounds paid to Sir Stephen Soame to he employed for me in the East Indian Company I give, with the profits arising of the said Adventure, unto my daughter Anne Parker. to be paid at her day of marriage or age of one and twenty years. Other bequests to daughters Anne and Mary Parker. To my sister Dame Katherine Cornwallis fifty pounds. I do same and appoint my assured loving brothers in law Nathaniel Baroardiston Esquire, Thomas Soame of London Esquire and my trusty and assured friends, William Cage of Ipswich. Suffolk, gentlemen, and John Gaseley of Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, yeoman, my true and lawful executors. 1 do give and bequeath unto Dame Mereye my wife my capital and new built messuage in Great Wenham, Suffolk, and lands, meadows, pastures and fennes in said town of Great Wenham or Capell to have and to hold during her natural life. And after her decease I give them to Stephen Parker my second son and to his heirs forever.
Edward Parker
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Lord (Sir) Henry Parker Mother: Lady Elizabeth CalthorpeElizabeth Parker
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth Date: 1576 - Erwarton, Suffolk Christening: 27 December 1576 - Erwarton, Suffolk Death: 1577 - Erwarton, Suffolk Burial: 10 August 1577 - Erwarton, Suffolk Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Sir Phillip Parker Mother: Lady Catherine GoodwinFrancis Parker
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Lord (Sir) Henry Parker Mother: Alice St JohnLord (Sir) Henry Parker
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 1510 - Blicking, Norfolk Christening: Death: 9 January 1552 - Morley, Norfolk Burial: Cause of Death:Events
• Marriage: to Grace Newport, 18 February 1523, Bletsoe, Bedfordshire.
• Marriage: to Elizabeth Calthorpe, Abt 1534, Ewarton, Suffolk.
Parents
Father: Lord (Sir) Henry Parker Mother: Alice St John
Spouses and Children
1. *Lady Elizabeth Calthorpe Marriage: 1548 - Morley, Norfolk Children: 1. Ann Parker 2. Edward Parker 3. William Parker 4. Sir Phillip Parker
Notes
General:
Sir Henry Parker had 6 children with heis first wife Grace Newport - Henry, Charles, Edmund, Mary, Margaret and Amy. Charles Parker became a bishop of Manchester.
Henry Parker was knighted on the day of Queen Anne Boyleyn coronation on 30 May 1533 and he became Lord Morley after his grandfather died in 1555.
In 1541 the under sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire was sued for abducting a 14 year-old ward, Jane Barenton, who had been contracted in marriage to the younger John Newport, presumably Parker's brother-in-law. Parker was apparently a party to the abduction, for his servants escorted the girl in her flight from her guardian and helped her to elude him in London.
His grandson, William Parker, Lord Monte and Morley, was the nobleman to whom the remarkable letter was addressed, which led to the discovery of the Gunpowder plot.
Henry Parker
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 1608 - Erwarton, Suffolk Christening: 29 October 1608 - Erwarton, Suffolk Death: Burial: Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Sir Calthorpe Parker Mother: Lady Mercy SoameLord (Sir) Henry Parker
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 1485 - Morley, Norfolk Christening: Death: 25 November 1556 - Great Hallingbury, Essex Burial: 3 December 1556 - Great Hallingbury, Essex Cause of Death:Events
• Marriage: to Grace Newport.
• Marriage: to Alice St John.
• Residence: Hallingbury Place: Great Hallingbury, Essex.
Parents
Father: Sir William Parker Mother: Baroness Alice Lovell
Spouses and Children
1. *Alice St John Marriage: Children: 1. Francis Parker 2. Katherine Parker 3. Lady Margaret Parker 4. Lady Jane Parker 5. Lord (Sir) Henry Parker
Notes
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Henry Parker was brought up in the household of Margaret Beaufort. Lady Margaret paid five hundred marks to the new husband of his mother, Sir Edward Howard, to make sure that young Henry kept some family land.
Henry was made a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Queen Anne Boleyn in 1533, and was groom of the privy chamber in attendance on Anne of Cleves at Calais in 1539.
Henry who was summoned to Parliament as Baron Morley, from 5th April 1523 to 20th October 1555.
Henry Parker, Lord Morley, was a gentleman usher to King Henry VIII and was present at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520. In around 1518, he took over the Hallingbury estates. He probably built the Tutor house, which was finally pulled down in 1923. Henry died in 1556 and the funeral helms in the church are his. (one is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum).
Henry’s grandson succeeded him. He was also called Henry and was a recusant in Elizabeth’s reign, which is probably why the priest, Richard Amadas continued to worship as a Catholic. He hid the altar Statues in the walls of the church. They were found when the church was rebuilt in the nineteenth century.
Henry was implicated in the rebellion of the Northern earls against Elizabeth in 1570, although previously in 1560, he had entertained Elizabeth at Hallingbury Place. After the uprising, he was considered a dangerous traitor and fled abroad. The crown seized the estates.
After the death of Henry, his son Edward was restored to the estates. He conformed to the Protestant religion, and in 1586 was one of the judges in the trial of Mary Queen of Scots. He again entertained Elizabeth on one of her progresses through Essex and in 1592 he bought Hatfield Forest, previously a royal hunting forest.
Jane Parker
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth Date: 1487 - Morley, Norfolk Christening: Death: Burial: Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Sir William Parker Mother: Baroness Alice LovellLady Jane Parker
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth Date: Abt 1505 - Blickling, Norfolk Christening: Death: 13 February 1542 - Tower Of London, London Burial: February 1542 - St. Peter Ad Vincula, Tower Of London Cause of Death: ExecutedEvents
• Marriage: to Lord George Boleyn, 1526.
Parents
Father: Lord (Sir) Henry Parker Mother: Alice St John
Notes
General:
Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford (by courtesy) (c. 1505 – 13 February 1542) was an English noblewoman who lived in the reign of Henry VIII. She was a sister-in-law of Henry's second wife Anne Boleyn and lady-in-waiting to his fifth wife Catherine Howard, with whom she was executed.
After eleven years of marriage, Jane's husband George Boleyn was arrested in May 1536 and imprisoned in the Tower of London, accused of having had sexual intercourse with his sister, the Queen. It was Jane's supposed testimony which helped convict him of incest and treason, stating that she believed that he and his sister Anne had been involved in a sexual relationship since the winter of 1535, thus strongly implying that George had been the biological father of a foetus Anne had miscarried early in 1536. There was no truth in these rumours, according to the vast majority of contemporary witnesses, but they provided the legal pretext which the Boleyns' enemies needed to send Lord Rochford to the block.
Lady Rochford kept her post as lady-in-waiting to the new Queen Catherine and exerted considerable influence over her, eventually becoming one of her favourites. When the teenage Queen grew bored with her aged and obese husband, it was Lady Rochford who helped organise secret meetings between Queen Catherine and the handsome courtier Thomas Culpeper. The affair progressed with Lady Rochford's help throughout the royal tour of the North in 1541, but Queen Catherine's past was uncovered in the autumn and an investigation was launched into her private life.
At first, the Queen was detained in her apartments and then eventually placed under house arrest at Syon Abbey, a disused convent far from Court. Her confidantes and favourites were questioned and their rooms searched; many of the servants and ladies-in-waiting recalled Lady Rochford's suspicious behaviour with Catherine and Culpeper, with the result that Jane was herself detained for questioning.
Subsequently, a love letter from Catherine to Culpeper was discovered and it explicitly mentioned Jane's role in arranging their meetings. This was a crime of misprision of treason, which carried the death penalty in Tudor England. Jane was taken to the Tower of London and imprisoned there for several months, whilst the government decided how and when to proceed against the accused.
During her imprisonment in the Tower, she was interrogated for many months, but as she was an aristocrat she was not tortured. Under psychological pressure, however, she seems to have suffered a full nervous breakdown and by the beginning of 1542 was pronounced insane. Her 'fits of frenzy' meant that legally she could not stand trial for her role in facilitating the queen's adultery, but since he was determined to have her punished, the King implemented a law which allowed the execution of the insane. Jane was thus condemned to death by an Act of Attainder (that is, without trial) and the execution date was set for 13 February 1542, the same day as Catherine Howard's.
The Queen died first, apparently in a weak physical state, although she was not hysterical. Jane, who had been on the scaffold to watch the girl's death, then spoke before kneeling on the just-used scaffold. Despite her nervous collapse over the last five months, she was calm and dignified and both women won mild posthumous approval for their behaviour. One eyewitness, a merchant named Ottwell Johnson, wrote that their 'souls [must] be with God, for they made the most godly and Christian end.' The French ambassador Marillac merely stated that Jane gave a 'long discourse'; Johnson says that she apologised for her 'many sins', but neither man's accounts supports the later legend that she spoke at length about her late husband or sister-in-law. According to Alison Weir, the dead queen was not much more than seventeen at the time of her death and Jane was about thirty-six.
The execution was carried out with a single blow of the axe and she was buried in the Tower of London alongside Catherine Howard, and very close to the bodies of Anne Boleyn and George Boleyn.
Jane Parker
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth Date: Christening: Death: June 1784 - Westerfield, Suffolk Burial: 13 June 1784 - Westerfield, Suffolk Cause of Death:Events
• Residence: 1761, Dunham Bridge, Suffolk.
• Marriage: to Thomas Wallage, 16 October 1761, St Clements Church, Ipswich.
Spouses and Children
1. *Thomas Wollege Marriage: 16 October 1761 - St Clements Church, Ipswich Children: 1. Thomas Wollege 2. Patience Wollege 3. Patience Wollege 4. Mary Wollege 5. William Wollege 6. Ann Wollege 7. John Wollege 8. John Wollege 9. Steven Wollege 10. Mary Wollege
Notes
General:
Downham Bridge (or Dunham Bridge) as per the marriage record was a a crossing point or ford (not bridge) on the river Orwell. Before the dock was built, ships navigated up the river to this point before being unloaded. This area is now Bridge Wood between the A14 and the River Orwell.
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