Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: Nicholas Tufton (died 30 December 1538).
Nicholas’s will and his inquisition post mortem both mention Joan.
Mother: Margaret Hever.
Margaret’s name is given in the 1619-21 Visitation of Kent (p. 118).
Spouse: William Haye (died 22 August 1538).
The 1634 Visitation of Sussex (p. 167) gives William’s wife as a Tufton of Nordiam. William’s wife’s first name is given as Joan in Inquisitions post mortem abstracted by Attree (p. 118, No. 538, and p. 228, No. 1038).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. The birth dates are Reed’s estimates.)
William Haye (born about 1520-21 - died 1588) married Joane.
Thomas Haye (born about 1523 - died 27 February 1591/2) married (1) unknown; married (2) Elizabeth Baker.
Joan Haye (born about 1525).
Mary Haye (born about 1527).
Agnes Haye (born about 1529).
Bridget Haye (born about 1531).
Margaret Haye (born about 1533).
Evidence
Attree’s abstract of William Hayes’s Inquisition post mortem
William Haye, yeo. Vol.67, No. 94.
Robertsbridge, 17 Oct. 34 Hen. VIII. Died 22 Aug. 30 Hen. VIII.
Heir, eldest son, William Haye, aged 17 years 6 months and more at Inq.
Lands in Saleshurst -- settlement 18 Aug. 30 Hen. VIII. -- to use of W. H. for life, then for his son and heir William and his heirs, paying his mother Joan 5 marks a year, then for his son Thomas and his heirs on same condition, remainder to his daughters Joan, Mary, Agnes, Bridget, and Margart Haye.
References
Attree, F. W. T. Notes of post mortem inquisitions taken in Sussex: 1 Henry VII to 1649 and after, [1485-1649]. (London: Sussex Record Society, 1912).
Bannerman, Bruce (ed.), The Visitations of the County of Sussex made and taken in the years 1530 by Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux King of Arms; and 1633-4 by John Philipot, Somerset Herald, and George Owen, York Herald etc. (London: 1905).
Hovenden, Robert, and John Philipot. The visitation of Kent, taken in the years 1619-1621 by John Philipot, Rouge Dragon, marshall and deputy to William Camden, Clarenceux. (London: [Harleian Society], 1898)
Reed, Paul C. “The English Ensigns: Ancestral of Thomas (1) Ensign of Scituate, Massachusetts, and James (1) Ensign of Hartford, Connecticut”, in American Genealogist (Jan, Apr, Jul 2000).