On Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 1:35:34 AM UTC, John Watson wrote: > Dear Robert, > > Here is a brief overview of the Mowbray family of Easby, Yorkshire as > I have it at the moment. If you need any specific sources, I'd be > happy to oblige. If you have any sources for Joan Wateby and her third > husband William Newsome of York, I'd be interested to see them. Their > daughter Maud (d. 1457), who married firstly Sir John Hotham (d. 30 > Sep 1419) is one of my ancestors. > > 1. William Mowbray of Easby in the parish of Stokesley, Yorkshire (ca. > 1275 - ca. 1320) > William de Mowbray married before 1310 Agnes, widow of Alan Baudewyne > [Baldwin]. On 1 April 1312, Alan Romund came before the king, on > Saturday in Easter week, and sought to replevy to William de Moubray > and Agnes his wife their land in Brunton-on-Swale, taken into the > king's hands for their default against against Olive, late the wife of > Walter Gill. On 20 November 1316, William de Moubray and Ralph de > Lestre were appointed to levy and take to York the 80 quarters of > wheat and 120 of oats which they were ordered to purvey in the > wapentake of Langebergh, Yorkshire. William was dead by 1320 and had > been succeeded by his elder son Thomas de Mowbray of Easby to whom a > debt was acknowledged on 13 January 1320. > > William Mowbray and Agnes had two sons, Thomas and John. > > 2a. Thomas Mowbray of Easby (ca. 1310 - 1377) first son of William > Mowbray and Agnes, married Alice. > On 1 May 1329, he described himself as a great-grandson of William de > Mowbray in a gift to Guisborough Priory "Willelmi de Moubray, proavi > ipsius Thomae, cujus haeres ipse est". The deed also names his wife as > Alice, "Thomam de Moubray et Alicia uxor ejus". In 1330 Thomas, son of > John de Hertford sued Thomas, son of William de Moubray for a messuage > and 140 acres of land and six acres of meadow and half a mill in > Barton near Melsamby. In 1348, the Prior of Guisbrough claimed against > Thomas de Moubray that he should acquit him of the service which the > Bishop of Durham requires for the free tenement which the Prior holds > of Thomas in Kepewyk. The will of Thomas Mubray of Esby in Cleveland > is dated 15 November 1377 and was proved on 21 November 1377. > John, son of Thomas was the ancestor of the later Mowbrays of Easby, > who seem to have died out in the late 1400s. > > 2b. Sir John Mowbray, (ca. 1315 - ca. 1373) second son of William > Mowbray and Agnes, married Margaret, daughter of Sir Alexander Percy > of Ormesby and Sneaton and his wife Julian. > "Johanne filio Willelmi de Moubray" was witness to a gift to > Guisborough Priory in 1347. In 1352, William, son of Sir Ivo de > Aldeburgh, gave to John, son of William de Moubray and Margaret, his > wife, his manor of Aldeburgh, in Richmondshire. On 11 July 1359 John > Moubray was appointed as a justice of the Bench. > > Sir John Mowbray and Margaret Percy had three sons, Alexander, William > and John (a clergyman). > > 3a. Sir Alexander Mowbray, (ca. 1330 - 1370) first son of John Mowbray > and Margaret Percy married Elizabeth de Musters, daughter of Henry de > Musters of Treswell, Nottinghamshire and Kirklington, Yorkshire and > his second wife, Elizabeth Thornhill. > > On 20 August 1355, Sir John de Musters (grandfather of Elizabeth) > granted by charter to John son of William Moubray and Alexander his > son and to Elizabeth daughter of Henry de Musters, now Alexander's > wife, all his manor of Kirtelyngton and all his lands in Syndreby. In > September 1367, Alexander son of John Moubray and Elizabeth his wife, > granted the manor of Kirklington to Sir John Moubray his father, for > life. On 6 February 1370, a commission of oyer and terminer was > ordered on information that many evildoers came to Kirtlyngton co,. > York, in array of war, broke the manse of the manor of John de Moubray > one of the justices of the Bench, while he was in the king's > protection, ravished and carried away Elizabeth late the wife of > Alexander Moubray, 'chivaler,' his son, took away goods of the said > John, and assaulted, wounded and imprisoned his men and servants. > Elizabeth later married the man who had abducted her - John de > Wandesford of Westwick, Yorkshire. > > Alexander Mowbray and Elizabeth Musters had two children, Alexander > and Elizabeth (see below). > > 3b. Sir William Mowbray, (ca. 1335 - 1391) second son of John Mowbray > and Margaret Percy married firstly, Ellen and secondly Margaret > Chaumont, daughter of John Chaumont, esq. of Colton in Ainsty, > Yorkshire and his wife Joan, daughter of Richard Wateby of York. > > William Mowbray died in 1391, seised of the manor of Barton, > Yorkshire, leaving a daughter Eleanor, afterwards wife of Thomas > Ingleby, and a widow Margaret. Margaret held the manor in dower until > her death in 1419, when it descended to William son of Thomas and > Eleanor Ingleby. In the will of William Mowbray of Colton, dated at > York on "le dymangue prouchayn avant le fest de Saynt Petre ad > vincula, la'n le Roy Richard le secound quynzesme" [26 July 1391] he > leaves alms to pray for the souls of his father John Mowbray, Master > John Mowbray his brother and Ellen once his wife. He also mentions > dame Margaret, his wife, dame Jane Chaumon, her sister, and Elizabeth > Gascoigne (daughter of his brother Alexander). > > William Mowbray and Margaret Chaumont had an only daughter Eleanor, > who married Thomas Ingleby of Ripley, Yorkshire. > > Margaret married secondly, before 25 June 1396, Walter Dallingridge > and thirdly William Cheyne. She died before 3 November 1419. > > 4a. Alexander Mowbray (ca. 1355 - 1380), son of Sir Alexander Mowbray > and Elizabeth Musters. > Alexander Mowbray married Eleanor in or before 1373. He died childless > about 1380 and his heir was his sister Elizabeth. > > 4b. Elizabeth Mowbray (ca. 1350 - 1396), daughter of Sir Alexander > Mowbray and Elizabeth Musters married Sir William Gascoigne of > Gawthorpe, Yorkshire, Chief Justice. > > > Best regards, > > John