Individual Details
GF-1579-Sons1-3 Ferrers
( - )
The History of Parliament, The House of Commons,1509-1558, Vol I (1982), p. 129:
[Lists his 3 wives then says:] "at least 3 other s. and 2da. [fn. 4]"
The note in the Dictionary of National Biography above does not specify by which wife or wives he had the "at least 3 other s. and 2da." But he was married to his first wife, Elizabeth Bacon from only 1541 to before 1546. I believe I saw a note they had no issue. The Wikipedia article re George states that Julius' mother was Jane Southcote, George's second wife. (They were married in 1546.) But I could find no source for Julius' mother. By the time George married Margaret Preston(e) in 1569 he was 59 years old and Margaret Preston had already been married at least once.
Of the various possibilities for the mother(s) of his children, I suspect the mother would have been either Eizabeth Bacon or Jane Southcote or both. If he had 3 or 4 sons and 2 daughters, Elizabeth did not live long enough after their marriage to have had 5 or 6 children. It also seems unlikely George would have had many (if any) children after he married Margaret Preston.
For the above reasons, I am going to assign all of the children to Jane Southcote, recognizing one or more could have been the children of Elizabeth or Margaret. If nothing else, it makes sense that the daughter Jane was likely named after her probable mother, Jane Southcote.
[Lists his 3 wives then says:] "at least 3 other s. and 2da. [fn. 4]"
The note in the Dictionary of National Biography above does not specify by which wife or wives he had the "at least 3 other s. and 2da." But he was married to his first wife, Elizabeth Bacon from only 1541 to before 1546. I believe I saw a note they had no issue. The Wikipedia article re George states that Julius' mother was Jane Southcote, George's second wife. (They were married in 1546.) But I could find no source for Julius' mother. By the time George married Margaret Preston(e) in 1569 he was 59 years old and Margaret Preston had already been married at least once.
Of the various possibilities for the mother(s) of his children, I suspect the mother would have been either Eizabeth Bacon or Jane Southcote or both. If he had 3 or 4 sons and 2 daughters, Elizabeth did not live long enough after their marriage to have had 5 or 6 children. It also seems unlikely George would have had many (if any) children after he married Margaret Preston.
For the above reasons, I am going to assign all of the children to Jane Southcote, recognizing one or more could have been the children of Elizabeth or Margaret. If nothing else, it makes sense that the daughter Jane was likely named after her probable mother, Jane Southcote.
Families
| Father | George Ferrers (1510 - 1579) |
| Mother | Margaret Preston ( - ) |