Nicholas Gifford 
Nicholas was born about 1508 in Hillesdon, Buckingham, England. Nicholas' father was Roger Gifford and his mother was Mary Nanseglos. His paternal grandparents were John Gifford and Agnes Winslowe; his maternal grandparents were Walter Nanseglos and Lucy. He had four brothers and three sisters, named George, Ralph, William, John, Alice, Joan and Anna. He was the youngest of the eight children. He died on May 19th, 1546 in Duston, Northhampshire, England.General Notes
On 20 OCT 1530 Nicholas Gifford was recommended to Thomas Cromwell by John Plauden, "late clerk of the lands of Woolsley's College, Oxford." (Letters Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII). In 1538 he was one of the gentlemen to attend upon the King's household when required. In that year he was called of Brynon, Northants. He was active in the work of dissolving the monasteries; and by letters patent, date 12 SEP 1545, the house and lands of the dissolved monastery of St. James, in the parish of Duston near Northampton, with the annual fair held there, were granted to him and his heirs, and he died seised thereof, Roger Gyfford, a minor, aged eighteen years and three months, being his son and heir (NEHGR, Vol. 74, p. 236).
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 1332 in Twyford, Buckinghamshire, England d.25 Sep 1394 in Twyford, Buckinghamshire, England
- b.1367 in Twyford, Buckinghamshire, England d.14 Apr 1409 in Twyford, Buckinghamshire, England
- b.1339 in Twyford, Buckinghamshire, England d.1367 in Twyford, Buckinghamshire, England
- b.1408 in Fringford, England d.29 May 1469 in Twyford, Buckinghamshire, England
- b.1365 in Kingstrowe, Buckinghamshire, England d.~ 1440
- b.1431 in Twyford, Buckinghamshire, England d.23 Sep 1506 in Twyford, Buckinghamshire, England
- b.1354 in Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, England d.1401 in Buckinghamshire, England
- b.1370 in Harrowden, England d.1405 in Burgos, Northamptonshire, England
- b.1344 in Lathbury, Buckinghamshire, England
- b.1405 in Twyford, Buckinghamshire, England d.~ 1470 in Twyford, Buckinghamshire, England
- b.1350 in Toulouse, France d.26 Mar 1378 in Saint Jaques-De-Comopostelle, Spain
- b.1374 in Whitby, York, Bucher, England d.< 1454 in Northamptonshire, England
- b.1356 in Welby, England d.> 1380
- b.1462 in Begbroke, Oxford, England d.23 JAN 1541/42 in Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire, England
- b.1333 in London, Middlesex, England d.1387
- b.1389 in Burton, Oxfordshire, England d.1426
- b.1337 in Hempstead Hall, Essex, England d.1409
- b.1416 in Burton, Oxfordshire, England d.31 Mar 1463 in Begbroke, Oxfordshire, England
- b.1346 in Burton, Oxfordshire, England d.29 Nov 1398
- b.1379 in Burton, Oxfordshire, England d.29 Oct 1443
- b.1350 in Burton, Oxfordshire, England d.29 Oct 1443
- b.1439 in Begbroke, Oxfordshire, England d. in Twyford, Buckinghamshire, England
- b.1356 in Coughton, Warwickshire, England d.> 1411
- b.1382 in Coughton, Warwickshire, England d.12 Apr 1445 in Coughton, Warwickshire, England
- b.1360 in Besford, Worchestershire, England
- b.1420 in Coughton, Warwickshire, England d.1458 in Begbroke, Oxfordshire, England
- b.~ 1350 in Coughton, Warwickshire, England d.1427
- b.1385 in Coughton, Warwickshire, England d.> 1466 in Coughton, Warwickshire, England
- b.1354 in Twickenham Parish, Middlesex, England
- b.~ 1508 in Hillesdon, Buckingham, England d.19 May 1546 in Duston, Northhampshire, England
- b.~ 1390 in Cornish, England
- b.~ 1420 in Cornish, England
- b.~ 1443 in Shaldeford, Essex, England d.3 FEB 1475/76 in Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire, England
- b.~ 1422 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.1466 in Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire, England d.> 1542 in Middle Clayton, Begbroke, Oxfordshire, England
- b.~ 1446 in Holborn, London, Middlesex, England
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Children
Margaret Gifford
Margaret was born about 1535 in Duston, Northhampshire, England. She died in Courteenhall, Northampton, England. She was buried in All Saints Parish, Courteenhall, Northampton, England.
Roger Gifford
Roger was born in Abbey, St. James, Northamptonshire, England. He died on October 20th, 1591.
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