Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Dates when known to be living: 1417, 1418
1417 is given by French (p. 59). The VCH of Surrey (Volume 4, sub Crowhurst) gives the date as 1418. The Bannerman edition of the Visitations of Surrey (p. 91) has “Sr John Gaynsford of Crowhurst in com. Surrey Knt. temp. H.5.”.
Date of Death: 1420.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by Emery (3:328).
Relationships
Father: John Gainsford.
Mother: Christina.
These parents are given by French (p. 59), Greenfield (p. 337), and the VCH of Surrey (Volume 4, sub Crowhurst).
Spouse: unknown.
French (p. 59) suggests that she was a daughter of …. Poyle of Poyle, based on the quartered coat of arms on the tomb of Sir John’s son, John.
Children:
John Gainsford (died 1450) married Margaret.
References
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).
Emery, Anthony. Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300 - 1500: Volume 3, Southern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
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).
Gainsford, William Dunn. Annals of the House of Gainsford (London, 1909).
Greenfield, Benjamin Wyatt. “The Descent of the Manor and Advowson of Hampton-Poyle”, in The Herald and Genealogist, Volume 1 (London: John Bowyer Nichols and Sons, 1863).
Malden, H.E. (ed). A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 4 (Victoria County History, 1912).