Joan (Tyrell) Gunter (1520 - 1588)

Born 1520 in Beches, Rawreth, Essex [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Edmund Lewknor Esq — married before 1538 in England

Wife of John Gunter Esq. — married after 1545 in Sussex, England

Descendants

Died 1588 at about age 68 in Poynings, Essex

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Biography

Joan Tyrell, probable daughter of Jasper Tyrell and Anne Goring,^[1] was born say 1520 (first child in 1538). She survived her second husband who died in 1558.

Marriages and Children

Joan married (1) Edmund Lewknor, son of Roger Lewknor, Esq. and Anne (…), before 1538 (birth of first child). All but Elizabeth were recorded as baptized at Tangmere^[2] and all were named in their father's will (dated 1 March 1544/5).^[3] There are several sources for the births of his children. The dates given below are as resolved on this Free Space Page.

1. Elizabeth Lewknor, baptized (probably) 2 March 1537[/8];^[4] married Thomas Stoughton.^[5][6]
2. Thomas Lewknor^[7][8] MP,^[9] baptized 27 January 1538[/9];^[2] married (1) Bridgett Lewes, (2) Ann Hill; died July 1596.^[8][9]
3. Anne Lewknor,^[7] baptized 12 May 1540.^[2]
4. Richard Lewknor, Esq.^[7][8] MP,^[10] baptized 14 March 1541[/2],^[2] married (1) Agnes Colpes, (2) Margaret Atkins; died 6 April 1616^[10] (Please see his WikiTree Profile for evidence of his first marriage).
5. George Lewknor, MD,^[7] baptized 1 November 1542;^[2] died after 2 March 1614 when he was named in his brother Richard's will.^[10]
6. Edmund Lewknor,^[7][8] baptized 18 December 1543.^[2]

She married (2) John Gunter, Esq. after 1545.^[7] and they had one child:

• Jasper Gunter

Research Note

There's another Magna Carta line for Rose Stoughton if this Joan Tyrrell can be proved to be the daughter of Anne Goring. [orginally citing a thread at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2015-11/1447735504 ] This is now a broken link, but appears to point to the SGM newsgroup, now on Google Groups. The thread can be found here.

FITCH of Little Canfield ~ Part III Gives Joan's birthplace as “Beches, Rawreth, Essex”. There IS a Rawreth in Essex, but nothing shows a place known as Raworth.^[11]

Sources

1. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., Kimball G. Everingham, editor (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), 5:49-50 STOUGHTON 17.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5} "Parish registers of Tangmere, 1538-1902" FamilySearch Library microfilm #918267, img 360, FamilySearch Image: S3HT-6LJ3-P19.
3. ↑ P.C.C. 31 Pynnying (PROB 11/30/464) National Archives Discovery Centre catalogue entry
4. ↑ W. Sparrow Simpson, "On the Pilgrimage to Bromholm in Norfolk," Journal of the British Archaeological Association 30 (1874): 52-61 at 59-61, Internet Archive.
5. ↑ Richardson, Royal Ancestry, 5:50 STOUGHTON 18
6. ↑ Edward Wedlake Brayley, Gideon Mantell, A Topographical History of Surrey, (London: G. Willis, 1850) 1:445, Internet Archive.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5} Richardson, Royal Ancestry, 5: 49-50 STOUGHTON 17.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3} Thomas Benolte, et al. and W. Bruce Bannerman (ed.), The Visitations of the County of Sussex: Made and taken in the years 1530 and 1633-4 (London: Harleian Society, 1905), 27, Internet Archive.
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} P.W. Hasler, ed., The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603 , (Boydell and Brewer, 1981), History of Parliament Online, entry for Thomas Lewknor.
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1 10.2} Hasler, History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, entry for Richard Lewknor.
11. ↑ Wayback Machine: FITCH of Little Canfield ~ Part III

See also:

• Richardson Douglas: Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd ed. (2011), Volume 4, page 112, STOUGHTON 12.
• Thomas Benolte, et al. and W. Bruce Bannerman (ed.), The Visitations of the County of Sussex: Made and taken in the years 1530 and 1633-4, The Publications of The Harleian Society, (London: The Society, 1905), 25-30.