Francis Bernard (abt. 1526 - 1602)

Born about 1526 in Abington, Northamptonshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Alice (Haselwood) Bernard — married [date unknown] in Northamptonshire, England

Descendants

Died 21 Oct 1602 at about age 76 in Abington, Northamptonshire, England

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Biography

Francis was the eldest son John Bernard and Cecily Nuscote.^[1] He was born in 1526.^[2][3] He was likely to have been born at Abington, Northamptonshire where his father lived.

Francis married Alice Haslewood, daughter of John Haslewood^[1] and Katherine Marmion. Both families had property in Northamptonshire^[2][3] and that is probably the county in which they married. The date of their marriage is not known. They had the following children:

• John^[1][2][3]
• Baldwin^[1][2][3]
• Francis^[1][2][3]
• Thomas^[1][2][3]
• Richard^[1][2][3]
• Katherine,^[1] who married Ambrose Agard^[2][3]
• Jane/Joane,^[1] who married Richard Saltonstall^[2][3]
• Anne,^[1] who married John Doyley, James Harrington and Henry Pode^[2][3]
• Elizabeth,^[1] who married Thomas Harrison^[4][5] and Henry Travell^[2][3][6]
• Magdalen,^[1]who married Thomas Danvers^[2][3]
• Dorothy,^[1] who married Thomas Charnock^[2][3]
• Prudence, who married Richard Winhall^[2][3][7]

They may have had two other daughters who died in infancy.^[7]

Francis died on 21 October 1602, probably at Abington, Northamptonshire where he lived. His wife survived him.^[2][3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12} Walter C Metcalfe (ed.). The Visitations of Northamptonshire, made in 1564 and 1618-19, Mitchell and Hughes, 1887, p. 3, Internet Archive
2. ↑ ^{2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14} 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, p. 187, BERNARD 14, Google Books
3. ↑ ^{3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14} 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, pp. 345-346, BERNARD 17
4. ↑ Walter C Metcalfe (ed.). The Visitations of Northamptonshire, made in 1564 and 1618-19, p.98, Internet Archive
5. ↑ J Charles Cox. The Records of the Borough of Northampton, Vol. II, County Borough of Northampton, p. 168, Internet Archive
6. ↑ John Fetherston (ed.). The Visitation of Warwick in the year 1619, Harleian Society, 1877, p. 409, Internet Archive
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Sophia Elizabeth Higgins. The Bernards of Abington and Nether Winchendon, Longmans, Green and Company, 1903, pp. 34-41, Internet Archive

See also:

• Faris, David. Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-century Colonists, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1996, pp. 20-21
• 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 46/13
• "Barnard Pedigree" from the "Barnard Family Papers" collection MS-541 located at the The Historical Society of Washington, D.C. (not consulted when this profile was re-reviewed in October 2022 - it was not viewable on the web)

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed for the Magna Carta Project by Michael Cayley on 21 October 2022.

Francis Bernard was identified by the Magna Carta Project in a trail from Gateway Ancestors Richard Bernard and 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 the Bernard cousins to surety barons Roger le Bigod, Hugh le Bigod, Richard de Clare, Gilbert de Clare, John de Lacy and Saher de Quincy. This profile also appears in Magna Carta Ancestry in a Richardson-documented trail from the Bernard cousins 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 trails were badged in October 2022. All the trails named above are outlined in the Magna Carta Trails sections of the profiles of Richard Bernard and William Bernard.

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".