Jane Pontesbury

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: between 1537 and 1546.

Place of Death: unknown.

Place of Burial: the chancel of the parish church of Chetwynd, Shropshire.

A bequest was left to Jane in the will of her son John Onley, dated 11 November 1537. The burial place of his “mother in law Jane Pygot” is mentioned in the will of Jane’s step-son and son in law Thomas Piggot, dated 15 September 1546.

Relationships

Father: Thomas Pontesbury.

Mother: Elizabeth Grafton.

These relationships are given in the 1623 Visitation of Shropshire (pp. 403-404) and by Owen/Blakeway (2:290). Hawkyard gives Thomas Pontesbury as Jane’s father.

Spouse: John Onley.

This relationship is given by Hawkyard. The 1564 Visitation of Northamptonshire (p. 38) gives “...Only of co. Salop, Esq., mar. Jane, da. to ...Ponsperye.”

Spouse: Robert Pigott. Married before 11 November 1537.

The relationship is made clear by the 1538 will of Jane’s son John Onley (“I bequeth to my mother Jane Pygott iij li vj s viij d”.) and the 1623 Visitation of Shropshire (p. 404). The same Visitation (p. 401) erroneously has her as the wife of Robert Pygott’s grandson Robert. The 1546 will of Robert’s son Thomas refers to the burial place of his “mother in law” Jane Pygot in the chancel of the parish church of Chetwynd.

Children:

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John Onley (probably born in Withington, Shropshire - died 22 November 1537 in London) married (1) Jane Smith; married (2) Elizabeth, widow of William Whitlok.

Robert Onley

Adam Onley

Elizabeth Onley (died 1554) married Thomas Pigott.

Mary Onley (died 12 March 1559/60) married Sir George Cotton of Combermere.

References

Hawkyard, A.D.K. “Onley, John (by 1498 - 1537), of London and Catesby, Northants.” in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982.

Owen, Hugh, and John Brickdale Blakeway. A History of Shrewsbury Volume II (1825).

The Visitations of Northamptonshire made in 1564 and 1618-19 (Walter C Metcalfe, ed.) (1887).

The Visitation of Shropshire, 1623. Paul Grazebrook and John Paul Rylands, eds. (London, 1889).

Will of John Onley. Proved 1538 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.

Will of Thomas Pygot of Chetwynd. Proved 1549 in the Consistory Court of Lichfield and Coventry.