Jane Staunton

  General Notes:

~The Visitations of Essex, 1558, pp. 100-101, Janne, daughter and coheire to Thomas Staunton, married John Sharpe of Maulden, son of Henry Sharpe and his wife, Margaret, daughter of Sir John Tey, Knight. Henry Sharpe is given as the son of Thomas Sharpe of Mauldon in Essex. Jane is given as the daughter of Thomas Stauton and his wife, Katherin, daughter and heire to John Fitz Simond. Thomas Stauton and Katherine Fitz Simons had another daughter named Katherine. ⁶⁷⁸

  Noted events in her life were:

• From Gen-Medieval Archives: From Sharpe Ancestry of Bulkeleys. ¹⁹³
From: J.C.B.Sharp<jcbs@obtfc.win-uk.net >
Subject: Re: Sharpe ancestry of Bulkeleys
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 19:27:51 GMT

Here is my version:

Arms: Argent, three eagles heads erased sable, a bordure of the second charged with eight bezants.

THOMAS SHARP had a son Henry.

HENRY SHARP married Margaret daughter of Sir John Tey Knight and had a son John.

JOHN SHARP married Janne daughter and coheir of Thomas Staunton of Essex and his wife Katherine.


REFERENCES
Beaumont, G.F. "History of Coggeshall in Essex", 1890
Metcalfe, Walter C.(ed.) "The Visitations of Essex", Harleian Soc. vols 13 & 14, 1878
Metcalfe, Walter C.(ed.) "The Visitations of Northampton", 1887
Palmer, W.M.(ed.) "Monumental Inscriptions and Coats of Arms from Cambridgeshire", 1932
Public Record Office "Calendar of Inquisitions post mortem, Henry VII", 3 vols, 1898-1955
Somerville, Robert "The History of the Duchy of Lancaster", 1953

J.C.B.Sharp
London

Jane married John Sharpe, son of Henry Sharpe and Margaret Tey, in 1421 in Coggeshall, Essex, England. (John Sharpe was born in 1397 in Coggeshall, Essex, England.)