The Hampshire Family Historian | Vol.48 No.1 | June 2021

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Table Two: Sandys in Hampshire and Surrey

up at East Cholderton. His wife’s name was Sybil and they had two sons: William, born in 1439 and Christopher, born about two years later. Thomas died in 1442 and, after Sybil died in 1445, it is presumed that William and Christopher were brought up by their uncle, William, with his own family. The boys grew up in the period of the Wars of The Roses and the List of Combatants compiled by the Towton Battlefield Society includes a John Sandys as the second son of William Sandys of Catherington Fifhide. Presumably, this is the John Saundes recorded in other documents as being knighted after the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471. There is no other known reference to William Sandys of Catherington Fifhide, but as its name suggests it was one of the Fifhide properties inherited by Sir Walter Sandys and it is reasonable to assume that William of Catherington was Sir Walter’s younger son. In the early 1430s, William Sandys of

Walter married Agnes WARRINER c1401 and they had three children: Thomas, William and Joanna. Joanna married William BROCAS , one of Sir Walter’s close friends and associates. Walter gave them The Vyne to live in. It was just a few miles from the Brocas home at Beaurepaire. Sir Walter’s wife Agnes died c1407 and he married Margaret ERLEIGH as his second wife. He had a daughter Margaret by this second marriage. (She is wrongly shown as the daughter of William Sandes and Margaret Rawson of Esthwaite in the Cumberland Visitation of 1615.) Sir Walter died in 1435 and his widow, Margaret, died in 1443, having married Sir William CHEYNE the Chief Justice as her second husband. In c1430, Sir Walter’s daughter, Margaret, married Sir Richard Bray as his first wife. Sir Walter’s older son, Thomas Sandys, grew Table One: Sandys Ancestors in Cumbria

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