General Notes

Misc. Essex pedigrees, Visitation of Essex book 2, page 620.
Elizabeth Grindall was the sister of Archbishop Edmund Grindall who was first Bishop of London, then Archbishop of York, and finally on 10 January 1575 elected Archbishop of Canterbury.  Edmund Grindall, Archbishop of Canterbury left in his will dated 8 May 1583 [PCC 39 Rowe, 60 Dorset]    . . "to my nieces Dorothy, Katherine, Elizabeth and Isabell, the daughters of Elizabeth Woodhall, my sister late deceased, £50 to each.... *William Woodhall, my nephew,* Mr. WIlson, my chaplain, nieces Dorothy, Katherine, Elizabeth and Isabel, daughters of Elizabeth Woodhall, my sister, late deceased (50 pounds each), the children of Mabel, daughter of his sister, to be divided at the discretion of their uncle WIlliam Woodhall, niece Isabel Wilson, godson Edmond Woodhall, and others, will dated 8 May 1583, proved 15 July 1583.

Source: Henry F. Waters, "Genealogical Gleanings in England," New England Historical & Genealogical Register, Vol. 38, No. 3, July, 1884. John Brooks Threlfall, Ancestry of the Children of John Brooks Threlfall, privately printed, 1970.



The Dean Register has the following entries (taken from a transcript): John Wooddall, baptised 8 Jul 1544, Dean Isabel Wooddall , baptised 2 Mar 1546 (?7), Dean Dorathye Wooddall, baptised 20 Feb 1548, Dean Christopher Wooddall, buried 6 Oct 1549, Dean Elizabeth Wooddall, baptised 10 Mar 1552, Dean John Wooddall, buried 2 Feb 1553, Dean William Woodall, buried 15 Nov 1553, Dean Elizabeth Wooddall, baptised 13 Mar 1555, Dean, John Wooddall, baptised 2 Feb 1556, Dean John Wooddall, buried 10 Feb 1558, Dean Oswald Woodal = 10 May 1559, Dean = Margaret PAYLL Elizabeth Wooddall, baptised 20 August 1561, Dean Elizabeth Wooddall, buried 1 Mar 1561, Dean Richard Wooddall, buried 4 Mar 1563 Dean William Wooddall, buried 20t May 1565, Dean John Wooddall, baptised 30 Feb 1567, Dean Thomas Wooddall, buried 10 Feb 1567, Dean Henry Wooddall, baptised 25 Oct 1570, Dean Thomas Wooddall, buried 13 May 1570, Dean Jane Woodall, baptised 11 Sep 1573, Dean Margaret Woodall, baptised 26 Feb 1574, Dean, buried 26 Feb 1575, Dean Thomas Wooddall, buried 13 Jul 1575, Dean Robert Wooddall = 30 Jul 1577 Dean = Jane GAYTSCARTH John Wooddall, buried 9 Apr 1578, Dean Oswald Wooddall = 2 Jun 1579 Dean = Mary SALKELD Henry Wooddall, baptised, 22 May 1580, Dean, buried 4 Sep 1582, Dean Anthony Wooddall, buried 2 Feb 1580/1, Dean Mary Wooddall, buried 14 Jan 1582, Dean John Wooddall, buried 2 Dec 1582, Dean (WILL 1582) Elizabeth Wooddall = 28 Jun 1584 Dean = Willm BOWMAN Robert Woodall, buried 4 Feb 1586, Dean John Woodhall, buried 1587/8, Dean John Woodhall, buried 10 Nov 1586, Dean