Francis (Iremonger) Ironmonger (bef. 1635 - bef. 1723)

Born before 17 Jun 1635 in Donnington, Berkshire, England

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Died before 1723 at about age 87 in Gloucester County, Virginia

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Biography

Francis (Iremonger) Ironmonger was a Virginia colonist.

Francis was the son of Samuel Iremonger/Ironmonger and Bridget Corderoy. He was baptised at Shaw, Berkshire on 17 June 1635.^[1][2][3] The baptism record describes him as "of Donnington Priory" in Berkshire; a transcript of a book on the parish church of Shaw gives the month of baptism as July.^[4]

Francis is named in his father's 1643 will (proved in 1650), which left him £100 when he came of age.^[5]

Francis married someone called Elizabeth, whose family origins are not known. Douglas Richardson does not give her first name, but it is evidenced by a 1722 lawsuit brought by her son-in-law John Collier.^[6] He had two daughters, who are not named by Douglas Richardson.^[1][2]

• a daughter, probably called Elizabeth, who married John Collier^[1][2] (no first name given by Douglas Richardson: see Research Notes (below))
• a daughter (called Jane on WikiTree as at 30 October 2023, with no sourcing for the first name) who married George Major(s)^[1][2]

Francis patented land in Gloucester Co, Virginia on 21 August 1665.^[1][2][3]

Francis died no later than 1722, when in the lawsuit mentioned above his son-in-law John Collier referred to Francis's wife Elizabeth as his executrix and as wife of William Barnett (Bernard), indicating that she had remarried.^[6]

Research Notes

Daughter who married John Collier

• Richardson does not give a first name for the daughter who married John Collier
• in a family Bible that was owned by Charles Collier of Dallas, Texas, she is named as Elizabeth, said to have married John Collier-1368 on 3 February 1706, and described in the Bible as "Mrs Elizabeth Gaines, dau. of Francis Ironmonger, Esq." The last entry in the Bible is for the birth of a child in 1735 and the family information may have been written down in the first half of the 18th century.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} 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. II, p. 460, IREMONGER 15.ii, Google Books
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. III, p. 402, IREMONGER 21.ii
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Paul C Reed. The Royal Descent of the Bernard, Corderoy, and Ironmonger families of Virginia through the Seymour family, concluded, in 'The American Genealogist', Vol. 73, 1998, pp. 299-300, American Ancestors website
4. ↑ Walter Money, Annals of the Church of St. Mary, Shaw-cum-Donnington, in the County of Berks, Walter J Blackey, 1878, p. 18, Internet Archive
5. ↑ The National Archives, ref. PROB 11/213/736, Will of Samuell Iremonger, Gentleman of Donnington, Berkshire, Discovery Centre catalogue entry
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} The Collier Family, in 'The William and Mary Quarter, Vol. IX, 1901, p. 184, Hathi Trust
7. ↑ Charles Collier family Bible, found in "Cobb family" folder in North Carolina Archives, web, accessed 30 October 2023

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed for the Magna Carta Project by Michael Cayley on 30 October 2023.

Francis Iremonger is listed in Magna Carta Ancestry as a Gateway Ancestor (vol. I, pages xxiii-xxix) in a project approved/badged Richardson-documented trail to Magna Carta Surety Baron William Malet (vol. II, pages 459-460 IREMONGER). He is also a Gateway in trail badged in 2015 to surety barons Saher de Quincy and Robert de Vere. These trails are set out in the Magna Carta Trails section of his aunt, Anna Cordray'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".