George Stonehouse

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Pedigree
ChartsAncestors of Harriet Hanson Robinson
George Stonehouse, son of Robert Stonehouse, Gent. and Rose Roydon, died before 1573, when his will was proved.1

George married (1) Elizabeth Gibson, daughter of Nicholas Gibson;2,3 he married (2) Elizabeth Woodroos, whose ancestry is unknown (or not traced here).4

He was of Little Peckham, Kent, and of Radley, Berkshire and one of the Clerks of the Board of Green Cloth to Queen Elizabeth.5

George Stonehouse left a will of unknown date, but proved in 1573. In it, he described himself as a merchant of the Staple and Clerk of the Green Cloth of the Queens Household of Bersted, Kent, and named Edward, Thomas, William, Nicholas, James, Suzan, and [---] Thompson.1

Family 1

Elizabeth Gibson
Children
  • Rose Stonehouse4
  • Mary Stonehouse4
  • Edward Stonehouse4 b. 1551
  • Thomas Stonehouse4 b. 1552
  • Susanah Stonehouse+5 b. say 1556, d. bef. 28 Dec 1621

Family 2

Elizabeth Woodroos d. aft. 1571
Children
  • Denise Stonehouse4
  • William Stonehouse4 b. 1558
  • Nicholas Stonehouse4 b. 1563
  • Walter Stonehouse4 b. 1565
  • James Stonehouse4 b. 1567
This person was last edited on10 Jul 2025

Citations

  1. [S949] Ancestry.com, England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858 (on-line database & images), Georgij Stouehouse, 1573, Original data: Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Series PROB 11, Kew, England: The National Archives, further cited as PCC Wills & Probate.
  2. [S2730] H. Stanford London and Sophia W. Rawlins, Visitation of London 1568: With Additional Pedigrees 1569-90, The Arms of the City Companies and a London Subsidy Roll, 1589 (London, England: The Harliiean Society, 1963), 109-110:92-93, further cited as London & Rawlins, The Visitation of London 1568.
  3. [S271] Rev. C. W. Bingham, "The Family of Wynyard," Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica New Series, 2 (1877): 269-272, at 270, further cited as Bingham, "Wynyard Family."
  4. [S2730] London & Rawlins, The Visitation of London 1568, 109-110: 92-93.
  5. [S271] Bingham, "Wynyard Family,."