Agnes Gainsford
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: John Gainsford (died 1450).
Mother: Margaret.
Davies gives John as Agnes’s father. Agnes is described by Woodger and Fleming as the sister of the John Gainsford who married Anne Wakehurst. These parents are given for that John by French (p. 59), and the Joseph Jackson Howard edition of the 1623 Visitation of Surrey. The Bannerman edition of the Visitations of Surrey (p. 92) and the Victoria County History of Surrey, Volume 4 (sub Crowhurst) also give the father as John Gainsford.
Spouse: Richard Wakehurst (died 1454).
This relationship is given by Davies. Woodger notes that the wife of Richard Wakehurst was a sister of the Surrey M.P. John Gainsford. Fleming notes that she was named Agnes Gainsford, and subsequently married Sir John Culpepper. The will of Richard Culpepper names his wife’s mother, Agnes.
Spouse: Sir John Culpepper (died 1480). Married before 1460.
This relationship is given by Davies. The marriage is given by Fleming and Attree (p. 58).
Children (by Richard Wakehurst):
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Margaret Wakehurst married Richard Culpepper.
Elizabeth Wakehurst married Nicholas Culpepper.
Children (by Sir John Culpepper):
Sir Alexander Culpepper (died 1541) married (1) Joyce Connorthe; married (2) Agnes Davy; married (3) Constance Chamberlayn.
Walter Culpepper (died 1520) married Anne Aucher.
Joyce Culpepper married (1) Richard Peckham; married (2) Jervys Hamme.
References
Attree, F.W.T., and Booker, J.H.L. “The Sussex Colepepers. Part I.” in Sussex Archaeological Collections (Lewes: Sussex Archaeological Society, 1904), Volume XLVII, pages 47 to 81.
Bannerman, Bruce (ed.). The Visitation of Kent taken in the Year 1592. (Harleian Society, 1924). Volume 2.
Bannerman, Bruce (ed.) The Visitations of the County of Surrey made and taken in the years 1530 by Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux king of arms; 1572 by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux king of arms, and 1623 by Samuel Thompson, Windsor herald, and Augustin Vincent, Rouge croix pursuivant, marshals and deputies to William Camden, Clarenceux king of arms. (London: The Harleian Society Volume XLIII, 1899).
Davies, Matthew. “Gainsford, John I (d. 1450) of Crowhurst, Surr.” in The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1422-1461 (Linda Clark ed.) (University of Cambridge Press, 2020).
Fleming, Peter. ‘Culpeper family (per. c.1400–c.1540)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/52784, accessed 24 April 2014]
French, G.R. “A Brief Account of Crowhurst Church, Surrey, and its Monuments,” in Surrey Archaeological Collections Volume III pages 39 - 62. (London: Surrey Archaeological Society, 1865).
Howard, Joseph Jackson (ed.). “The Visitation of Surrey” in Surrey Archaeological Collections Volume 6 (Surrey Archaeological Society, 1874).
Malden, H.E. (ed). A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 4 (Victoria County History, 1912).
Woodger, L.S. “Wakehurst, Richard (d. 1455), of Wakehurst in Ardingley, Suss. and Ockley, Surr.”, in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421 ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe. (Boydell and Brewer, 1993).