Individual Details

Thomas Ferrers

(Ca 1472 - )

The History of Parliament, The House of Commons,1509-1558, Vol I (1982), p. 129:
George Ferrers (1510-1579) son of Thomas Ferrers of St. Albans, mother Alice da. Of John Cockworthy of Cockworthy, Devon....

FERRERS, GEORGE (1500?-1579), poet and politician, was son of Thomas Ferrers of St. Albans, Hertfordshire, where he was born at the beginning of the sixteenth century.

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From Nonconformity in Herts; being lectures upon the nonconforming worthies of St. Albans..., W. Urwick (1884) (Google Books)

Page 125: The first minister of the Abbey [St. Albans] is supposed to have been George Witherall who was silenced in Mary's reign; but before him we find Giles Ferrers of St. Albans, named as Archdeacon, and he probably also preached at the Abbey church. He was Protestant. He and his brother, Thomas Ferrers, also of St. Albans, took an active part in the movement against Popery. This Thomas Ferrers was the father of the celebrated Georges Ferrers, who was born at St. Albans about 1510, went first as a student to Oxford, but took the degree of B.C.L. at Cambridge in 1531...

Events

BirthCa 1472
ResidenceSt. Albans, Hertfordshire, England
ReligionProtestant
Title (Nobility)Archdeacon, St. Albans

Families

SpouseAlice Cockworthy ( - )
ChildGeorge Ferrers (1510 - 1579)
ChildGiles Ferrers ( - )
FatherJohn Ferrers (1446 - 1488)
MotherCatherin Bensted ( - )
SiblingElizeus Ferrers ( - 1548)
SiblingAlice Ferrers ( - )

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