Elizabeth GODFREY

Est 1520 - Yes, date unknown    Has one ancestor and 1337 descendants in this family tree.

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• Name	Elizabeth GODFREY
  Relationship	with Teresa Ann GOATHAM
  Born	Est 1520	(probably), Winchester, Hampshire, England
  	Based on husbands date of birth and dates her children were baptised
  Gender	Female
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Origins
  Patriarch & Matriarch	William GODFREY,   b. Est 1490,   d. Yes, date unknown  (Father)
  Notes	Elizabeth's son Theodore Becon in a pedigree for submitting to the College of Arms showed his mother as 'Elizabeth daughter of William Godfrey of Winchester in Hampshire marchant'
  Person ID	I3456	All | Teresa's direct ancestors
  Last Modified	14 Nov 2019

  
  

  Father	William GODFREY,   b. Est 1490,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F3055	Family Group Page  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Prebendary Thomas BECON, B.A.,   b. Between 1511 and 1512, Brettenham, Norfolk, England ,   d. 30 Jun 1567  (Age ~ 56 years)
  Married	Between 1549 and 1552
  	What is the evidence that Thomas's wife was one Elizabeth Godfrey? - Theodore Becon, son of Thomas, in a pedigree for submitting to the College of Arms showed his mother to be 'Elizabeth, daughter of William Godfrey of Winchester in Hampshire marchant'. Thanks to Lucy Beacon for pointing out that Thomas's wife is named in the Oxford DNB; following up a reference from that article led me to D. Bailey, 'Thomas Becon: some additional biographical notes', N&Q, 227 (1982), 402— 4, which has the information about the pedigree submitted to the College of Arms. Evidence for the children of Thomas Becon "A New Catechism", 1560 - "The preface of the author unto his children, Theodore and Basil, his two sons, and Rachel, his only daughter: grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ our Lord and alone Saviour, through the mighty operation of the Holy Ghost, be with you, my dear children, both now and for ever. Amen. After that it pleased the Lord my God to call me unto the holy state of honourable matrimony, and to bless me with the increase of you, not of you only, but also two more of your brethen, named Theodore and Christophile, which now rest in glory with our head Christ; ..." (vol. 2 of the Parker Society 'Works of Thomas Becon', 1844, p.4) Could Thomas have had more children after he wrote "A New Catechism"? The archivist of the King's School Canterbury has come across a Thomas who could be his son. I have been looking for more evidence of a son Thomas; whilst I haven't found any if he died young there quite likely wouldn't be any surviving. With their first child probably born no later than 1552, Thomas and Elizabeth probably married between clerical marriage being sanctioned early in 1549 and 1552.
  Children	5 children
  1. Theodore BECON,   b. Abt 1552,   d. Abt 1552  (Age ~ 0 years)   2. Christophile BECON,   b. Abt 1554,   d. 1554  (Age ~ 0 years) + 3. Theodore BECON,   b. Abt 1555, (probably), Marburg, Germany ,   d. 18 Mar 1619/20  (Age ~ 65 years) ▻ Clemencia STRONGHILL;   Dorcas SMITHE  m. 31 Oct 1587 + 4. Rachel BECON,   b. Abt 1557, Marburg, Germany ,   d. Bef 1581  (Age ~ 23 years) ▻ William BESWICKE  m. 23 Dec 1572 + 5. The Rev. Basil BECON,   bap. 14 Jan 1558/59, St. Stephen’s Church, Walbrook, London, England ,   d. 1638, Waltham, Kent, England  (Age ~ 78 years) ▻ Ann COALE  m. 2 Oct 1588
  Last Modified	14 Nov 2019
  Family ID	F2671	Family Group Page  |  Family Chart

  
  

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• Wills (transcripts)

  The will of Elizabeth's husband, Thomas Becon Elizabeth was to receive all of Thomas's goods, except the money he had put aside for his children