Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Burial: 26 December 1607.
Place of Burial: Burton Dassett.
The burial is recorded in the parish register.
Relationships
Father: Thomas Makepeace of Northend.
This relationship is given by Thomas Wagstaff in Nicholas (4:186). Thomas’s information was “collected out of old deeds.” Thomas left a will in 1559, but both the original and register copy are now missing.
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: John Wagstaff.
This relationship is given by Thomas Wagstaff in Nicholas (4:186). Thomas’s information was “collected out of old deeds.”
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
James Wagstaff married Elizabeth Sheldon in 1593 in Over Norton.
Joan Wagstaff married Richard Profitt 2 July 1582 in Burton Dassett.
William Wagstaff (buried 7 January 1564/5 in Burton Dassett)
Thomas Wagstaff possibly married Mary Evans widow 15 February 1590 in Burton Dassett.
Elizabeth Wagstaff (baptized 5 July 1569) married John Ledbrooke 20 June 1592 in Burton Dassett.
William Wagstaff (baptized 22 December 1570)
John Wagstaff (baptized 14 June 1573 in Burton Dassett) married Elizabeth.
Giles Wagstaff
Evidence
from the Burton Dassett parish registers:
Mary Wagstaff wyf of John Wagstaffe farmer buried the 26th of December 1607
References
Burton Dassett parish registers. Digital images on Findmypast.co.uk accessed 3 January 2020.
Nichols, John. Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century; Comprising Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer, Printer, F.S.A., and Many of his Learned Friends; an Incidental View of the Progress and Advancement of Literature in this Kingdom during the Last Century and Biographical Anecdotes of a Considerable Number of Eminent Writers and Ingenious Artists; with a Very Copious Index. 6 vols.
Will of John Wagstaffe of Knightcoate, yeoman. Proved 28 September 1613 in the Consistory Court of Lichfield and Coventry. Digital images on Findmypast.co.uk accessed 3 January 2020.