In line 6 of the will of Richard Drax, does the will say Itm lego Johanni Wakfeld iij s or Itm lego Johanne Wakfeld iij s ? Is the bequest to John or to Joan Wakfeld? An image of this will is on Ancestry at http://interactive.ancestry.com/5111/40611_311103-00481/869967 and the will is described in TNA's catalog at http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D968976 In line 5 there is a bequest to "Johanne" designated as the testator's sister. There the last letter is clearly an e. Who was this Joan or John Wakfeld? The Drakes pedigree states that Katherine, a niece of this Richard, married Thomas Wakefield of Newark, https://archive.org/stream/visitationofyork00flow#page/103/mode/1up I am researching the Drax family because Barry Foulks recently alerted me to a 2007 thread in which Michael Andrews-Reading states that "This Katherine was the wife of Thomas Wakefield of Newark, Notts, whose daughter and heir Isabel (Pedigree of the Frecheville and Musard Families, p 4) married Aucher Frecheville." http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/gen-medieval/2007-09/1190893077 If Katherine Drax was the mother of Thomas Wakefeld's daughter Isabel who married Anker Frecheville, then it appears that 17th century New Jersey immigrant Anne (Revell) Curtis would have the following descent from King John of England: John = a daughter of Hamelin Plantagenet and Isabel de Warenne Richard FitzRoy = Rohese de Dover Lorette de Dover = William Marmion John Marmion = Isabel John Marmion = Maud Furnival Joan Marmion = John Bernake Maud Bernake = Ralph Cromwell Maud Cromwell = William Fitzwilliam Elizabeth Fitzwilliam = Robert Rockley Robert Rockley = Agnes Duckenfield Eleanor Rockley = Robert Drax Katherine Drakes = Thomas Wakefeld Isabel Wakefield = Anker Frecheville Eleanor Frecheville = Robert Revell John Revell = Mary Comberford (descendant of Henry II) John Revell = Mary Beighton Robert Revell = Anne Knowles Anne Revell = John Curtis A 1452/53 deed mentions Maud, wife of Thomas Wakefeld of Newark. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002032429152;view=1up;seq=69 I've ordered FHL film 99455 in order to read the 1459 will of Robert Drax listed here, https://books.google.com/books?id=fVwJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA54. I would be pleased to hear about any records that identify the mother of Isabel Wakefeld. In addition to the deed mentioned above, Thomas Wakefeld is mentioned in deeds and Common Pleas (debt) cases from 1459-1484. A Chancery case (1475-1480 or 1483-85) identifies his father as Richard Wakefeld. See http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7447295 Bill of William Gilibrond of Newerk and Elene his wyfe, http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT4/ChP/C1no50/C1no50nos1-301/IMG_0117.htm Answere of Thomas Wakefeld to the bill of William Gelybrand and Elene his wyff, http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT4/ChP/C1no50/C1no50nos1-301/IMG_0114.htm (and adjacent images for the answer of the other defendant, replications, and a rejoinder)