Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Thomas’s family lived in Tipton, Staffordshire. He was of age in 1528.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Thomas was living in 1557 and dead by 1586.
Relationships
Father: Cornelius Dudley.
Mother: Ann Hoo.
These relationships are given by Glazebrook (pp. 59-62). Thomas is described as “Thomas Dudley of Tipton, gent., son and heir of Cornelius Dudley, deceased” in a deed of 29 Henry VIII (p. 60, citing Beltz). Thomas Dudley is given as the son of Cornelius Dudley and Ann Hoo in a pedigree in Harl. MS. 6128, although his wife is given as Elizabeth Swynnerton there (p. 59).
Spouse: Agnes Swancote.
This relationship is given by Glazebrook (pp. 59-62), citing Beltz, who was working from the Dudley family papers, where apparently an Agnes is attested as the wife of Thomas Dudley in 29 Henry VIII (1537-8); and also citing the 1557 will of Thomas Swancote of Eccleshall, Staffordshire, which mentions his daughter Agnes Dudley and her husband Thomas Dudley. I have been unable to track down the will.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Thomas Dudley is said to have married Elizabeth Swynnerton.
Jane Dudley (buried 3 March 1602/3 in Eccleshall, Staffordshire) married Hugh Swynnerton.
A daughter married Randolph Machin in about 1585.
Robert Dudley.
William Dudley (died about 1598) married Ann Salter 30 August 1584 in Albrighton (Shifnal), Shropshire.
Evidence
1528 Gift Walsall Archives 35/1/1
[1493 lease above annexed]
1528
Reginald Tolle, Ralph Tolle
Thomas Dudley of Tipton
Property in the 1493 lease.
1532-1538 Bowde v Hardwyke, Chancery, National Archives catalogue C 1/750/19
Plaintiffs: William grandson and heir of Joan Bowde.
Def: Roger Hardwyke, and Thomas and Edward Dudley.
Expulsion from land in Tipton, Dudley, Sedgley, and Worley.
Fine: Staffordshire no. 36. On the Octaves of St. Martin. 30 Hen. VIII.
Between Thomas Dudley, complainant, and Roger Hardwyke and Margaret his wife, deforciants of a messuage, a cottage, twenty-four acres of land, and six acres of meadow in Tybyngton and Segeley.
Roger and Margaret remitted all right to Thomas and his heirs, for which Thomas gave them £40 sterling.
1546:(with Annexed gift of les Dalowes from James Wolriche to William Butler 1539);
Gift Walsall Archives 35/33/7
William Butler of Preston Capps, gent.
Thomas Dudley of Tipton
For 70 lbs, les Dalowes in Berondnee, Eccleshall, Staffs.
Gift 26 Dec 1549 Walsall Archives 35/4/1
Thomas Dudley of Tipton, yeoman
William Dudley, his brother, and William Grove of Rowley Regis, yeoman
to (2) pastures in field called Dalowes, Eccleshall, croft called Nicke Croft, Tipton
31 Dec 1549: Feoffment Walsall Archives 35/42/3
William Dudley, William Grove
Thomas Dudley of Tipton
to (2) pasture called le Dalowes in Berondnes, Eccleshall.
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).
Bridgeman, Rev. Canon. “A History of the Family of Swynnerton of Swynnerton, and of the younger branches of the Family settled at Eccleshall, Hilton, and Butterton” in Collections for a History of Staffordshire v. 7 pt 2 (1886).
“Staffordshire Fines” in Staffordshire Historical Collections v. 11 (1890).