Thomas Dudley

Events 

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Thomas’s parents were married before 1435. 

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Thomas lived in Tipton, Staffordshire. He was still living in 1493. 

Relationships

Father: John Dudley.

Mother: Margery Turnpenny.

These relationships are given by Glazebrook (p. 60). Margery’s mother was named Katherine.

Spouse: Joan Welles alias Clarke. Married about 1469.

This relationship is given by Glazebrook (p. 60). 

Children: 

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Margaret Dudley married John Phillips of Birmingham.

Cornelius Dudley married Ann Hoo.

Evidence

from Glazebrook:

John Dudley of Tibinton, otherwise Tipton, married before 14 H. VI., 1435, Margery, daughter of …Turnpenny and Katherine his wife, by whom he was father of a son, Thomas Dudley, of Tipton, on whom, and Joan his wife, and the heirs of their bodies, the lands called Barnfield within Tibington were settled in 9 Edward IV., 1469.  

(Presumably the deeds are now in the  Staffordshire Record Office (D695/1/8/1): 15 deeds mainly of Tipton, and of Rowley Regis Staffordshire, 1399-1620 (Wellyes/Clerke/Dudley).)

1493 Lease:  Walsall Archives 35/1/1

1. John Tolle of Tipton and his wife Elizabeth

2. Thomas Dudley of Tipton

1. to (2) land in le barnfild, Tipton, 96 years, 4d p.a.

References

Glazebrook, Henry Sydney. “An account of the Younger Branches of the Family of Sutton alias Dudley” (continuation) in Collections for a History of Staffordshire v. 10 pt 2 (1889).

“Pedigree of Grosvenor of Bushbury” in The Herald and Genealogist v. 4 (1867).