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

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Catherington had three sons: William, John and Thomas. He may also have had a daughter Alice. Thomas had a daughter, Julia, who married Robert FENROTHER , who was a Goldsmith and an Alderman in the City of London. (Thomas is wrongly shown as a son of William Sandes and Margaret Rawson of Esthwaite in the Cumberland Visitation of 1615.) William Sandys junior also had three sons and a daughter: Robert, William, Oliver and Jane. (William and Oliver are wrongly shown as sons of William Sandes and Margaret Rawson of Esthwaite in the Cumberland Visitation of 1615.) In 1492 or possibly some years earlier, William moved from Catherington to Harleyford Manor beside the River Thames west of Great Marlow in Buckinghamshire. William died there in 1493 and Harleyford passed to his oldest son, Robert. Robert Sandys died in 1509 while his son, John, was still a child and in 1529 John was involved in a case in the Court of Chancery as he tried to claim his inheritance from his mother and her second husband. John had two sons: Thomas and Henry, who lived at Sonning a few miles further up the River Thames. Oliver Sandys was one of the first Yeomen of The Guard when this unit was created by King Henry VII in 1485. In 1486, Oliver was appointed by Sir Reginald Bray to be his deputy keeper at the park of Shere Vachery, near Guildford in Surrey. After Sir Reginald died in 1503, this park passed to his nephew, Edmond Bray, and Oliver retired to Shere Village where he died in 1512. Oliver’s daughter Anne was a Lady in Waiting in the household of Catherine of Aragon and married Sir Richard WESTON , another courtier.

William Sandys was appointed by Sir Reginald Bray to be his deputy keeper at Guildford and Henley Park in 1488 and continued in this role until Sir Reginald’s death in 1503. After that, William appears to have gone to live with his oldest son, Robert at Little Pachesham, near Leatherhead in Surrey. William had four daughters who all married into landed gentry families near Guildford. Some pedigrees show either William of Guildford or Oliver of Shere as having a daughter, Jane, who married Robert WINTERSHALL . Dating the successive generations in the Wintershall pedigree in the Visitation of Surrey in 1563 shows that Jane Cholderton’s two orphaned boys, William and Christopher, William Sandys was knighted after the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471, like his cousin John. (The List of Combatants in the Wars of The Roses wrongly shows him as the son of Bernard Sandys of The Vyne.) William had already married Margaret CHENEY and had three sons: John who died some ten years before his father, William and Richard. Sir William Sandys senior lived at East Cholderton and died there in 1496. He bequeathed all of the property which he had inherited from the Fifhide family to his son William and all of the property that he had purchased to his son, Richard. William Sandys junior was knighted after the Battle of East Stoke in 1487 and recovered The Vyne from the Brocas family after Bernard Brocas died there in 1488. He married Margery BRAY , the grand-daughter of his great-aunt Margaret and Sir Richard Bray. was in fact William and Oliver’s sister. Returning to Thomas Sandys of East

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