Over the past several days I have posted primary documents relating to the Fulnetby family of the 15th and 16th centuries.
From these documents we can see that:
A John Fulnetby who died on 11 June 1524 had a wife named Joan and an eldest son and heir named Godfrey Fulnetby.
Godfrey Fulnetby died 28 January 1541 and married Elizabeth Goodrich, daughter of William Goodrich, and had as his eldest son and heir John Fulnetby who was 30 in 1541. He also had sons Christopher and Marmaduke and daughters, Mary, Anne, Barbara, and Katherine.
John Fulnetby born 1511, died October 1544. He married Margaret Grantham. He had a brother Christopher and daughters, Elizabeth, Isabel, Margaret, Anne and Alice.
John Fulnetby the elder leased land to Sir Robert Dymoke. Godfrey Fulnetby witnessed the will of Sir Lionel Dymoke, Robert’s brother in 1512.
These are facts based on primary evidence. Now turning to visitations or the LIncolnshire Pedigrees, we find that all visitations are unanimous that the Joan married to John Fulnetby the elder was a Dymoke. Various relationships are given but for chronology it is best to make Joan a sister of Sir Lionel and Sir Robert Dymoke and therefore daughter of Sir Thomas Dymoke and Margaret de Welles. This makes sense. As a Joan, she would be named for her paternal grandmother Joan Conyers or her maternal grandmother, Joan de Waterton.
By the IPM we know that John Fulnetby the younger was born in 1511 (aged 30 in 1541). Since he is the oldest son we can infer that he was close to if not the oldest child. That means Godfrey Fulnetby was married no later than 1510 and born say 1485. (And died in 1541 at age 56).
John Fulnetby the elder was married twice. First to Elizabeth Eland by whom he had two daughters. These daughters are the heirs to their uncle by his IPM. John then married Joan Dymoke. If Godfrey were their eldest child they were married no later than 1484. John was married before and possibly about 5-7 years before then in 1478. He was therefore born say 1455. He dies in 1524 at age approximately 69, This dovetails nicely with Joan Dymoke’s birth in the 1460s per her father’s IPM.
This also makes a Katherine Fulnetby born say 1490 and buried in January 1546 at age 56. She easiliy fits into the Whitgift timeline and proves the statement that John Whitgift was a Fulnetby by blood and a relation to the Goodriches by marriage.
This makes John Fulnetby the elder’s parents, also a John Fultneby born say 1425. According to the visitations he married a daughter of Gerard Sothill. Well, the only available Gerard Sothill of the correct age (born 1398) is the one who married Isabel Fauconberge. This couple was recently discussed in The Sothill, Fauconberge and Greystoke Ancestry of William Wentworth of New Hampshire by Terry J. Booth, The American Genealogist 92 (2021):81-92, 92 (2022):217-236. This Gerard Sothill married first a daughter Elizabeth Fulnetby but given the timeline she must have been the daughter of John Fulnetby and Eleanor Skipwith.
That configuration would make John Fulnetby and Joan Dymoke half second cousins through Maud de Greystoke. They would not have needed a dispensation to marry being distantly related. (full second cousins yes, but half second cousins no).
This bolsters the argument that Thomas Bradbury’s ancestry goes back to the Dymokes and now to the Sothills.
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