Francis Bernard Esq (1558 - 1630)

Born 1558 in Kingsthorpe, Northamptonshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Woolhouse) Bernard — married about 1598 in London,,, England

Descendants

Died 1630 at about age 72 in Kingsthorpe, Northamptonshire, England

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Biography

Francis was the son of Francis Bernard and Alice Haselwood.^[1] He was born in 1558.^[2][3]

Francis lived at Kingsthorpe, Northamptonshire.^[2][3]

Francis married Mary Woolhouse, daughter of Anthony Woolhouse (a London haberdasher) and Millicent Strelley, and sister of Elizabeth Woolhouse, who was the second wife of his brother Richard.^[2][3][4] They had four children:

• Robert, who became a baronet^[2][3] and who was born in 1601^[5]
• John^[2][3]
• James^[2][3]
• Col. William^[2][3]

Francis died in 1630,^[2][3] quite likely at Kingsthorpe, Northamptonshire.

Research Notes

Children

The following children have been previously shown as children of Francis Bernard and Mary Woolhouse, and have been detached in the absence of reliable sources:

• Elizabeth Bernard
• Thomas Bernard

Son John is not the John, Barnard-152 who immigrated to Massachusetts.

Sources

1. ↑ Walter C Metcalfe (ed.). The Visitations of Northamptonshire, made in 1564 and 1618-19, Mitchell and Hughes, 1887, p. 3, Internet Archive
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. I, pp. 187-188, BERNARD 15, Google Books
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. I, p. 346, BERNARD 18
4. ↑ Joseph Hunter. Familiae Minorum Gentium, Vol. II, Harleian Society, 1895, pp. 467-468, Internet Archive
5. ↑ G E Cokayne. Complete Baronetage, Vol. III, William Pollard, 1903, pp. 249-250, Internet Archive

See also:

• Wikipedia: Sir Robert Bernard, 1st Baronet
• Frederick Lewis Weis, with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard and William R Beall. The Magna Carta Sureties, 1215, 5th edition, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1999, p. p. 66, line 46/14
• "Barnard Pedigree" from the Robert Barnard family papers, 1658-1917 (MS 0541), The Historical Society of Washington, D.C., catalogue entry (pedigree not viewable on the web; not seen when this profile was re-reviewed)

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed for the Magna Carta project by Michael Cayley on 17 October 2022.

Francis Bernard Esq was identified by the Magna Carta Project in a trail from Gateway Ancestor William Bernard to Magna Carta Surety Baron John FitzRobert that was project approved/badged in March 2015. Over time, the project identified this profile in other badged trails from William Bernard to surety barons Roger le Bigod, Hugh le Bigod, Richard de Clare, Gilbert de Clare, John de Lacy and Saher de Quincy. Francis Bernard Esq also appears in Magna Carta Ancestry in a Richardson-documented trail from William Bernard to surety baron Robert de Ros (vol. 1, pages 186-188 BERNARD) and another trail, to surety William d'Aubigny branches off the Ros trail. These two trails were badged in October 2022. All the trails named above are outlined in the Magna Carta Trails section of William Bernard's profile.

See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".