Thomas Baynham (1536-1611) was

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, in the

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, Gloucestershire. He served as

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in 1582 and 1602. He died on 2 October 1611, aged 75, and was buried at

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Origins

He was the 3rd son of Sir George Baynham (died 1546),

in 1543, by Cecilia Gage, daughter of Sir John Gage. After his father's death, his mother married Sir Charles Herbert. Thomas Baynham succeeded his elder brother Christopher Baynham (born 1529) in the Baynham estates. Thomas had seven half-sisters by his father's first wife Bridget, a daughter of

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. Frances Baynham was a maid in the household of Elizabeth Scrope, Countess of Oxford, and then a gentlewoman in the household of

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. She married

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. Dorothy Baynham married Roger Williams of Llangybi and

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, Joan or Jane married Anthony Strelley (a son of

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), and Anne Baynham married William Gefferies of

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.W. Phillimore, ''Visitation of Worcestershire, 1569'' (London, 1888), p. 58.

Marriage and progeny

He married Mary Winter, daughter of William Winter of

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, Gloucestershire. They had two sons who both died without issue and two daughters, joint-co-heiresses: *Cecily, married Sir William Throckmorton, 1st Baronet (c. 1579-1628), of

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, Gloucestershire. *Joanna (born 1585), married John Vaughan of

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, Herefordshire (died pre-1620)

Sources

* MacLean, Sir John
The History of the Manors of Dean Magna and Abenhall. Published in: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Vol.6, 1881-2, pp. 185-187
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