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

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Their last two children were born while he was Bishop of London and then Archbishop of York. Meanwhile, back in Hampshire, Thomas, the second Baron Sandys of The Vyne (1496-1560) is believed to have had three sons: Henry, William and Walter. William had a son, Thomas, who moved to York and raised a family there. Walter moved to Timsbury in Hampshire where he had a son, William. Henry married Elizabeth WINDSOR and had either three or four sons: William, Thomas, James (or George) and possibly Henry. Henry senior died in 1555 while the three/four boys were not yet in their teens and the boys were brought up by their uncle Walter. Their grandfather Baron Thomas Sandys died in 1560, leaving the 18-year old William to become the third Baron Sandys of The Vyne. James went up to St Johns College, Cambridge in 1566 and Henry followed him there in 1569. Nothing more is known of James, but Henry is believed to have become a travelling preacher, based mainly at Boxford in Suffolk. Henry married three widows in succession and died in 1626 at Groton. He had no children of his own but left bequests to the children of all three of his wives by their former husbands. William the third Baron Sandys of The Vyne (1542-1623) married Catherine BRAY and had a son, William and two daughters. William junior (1570-1629) was briefly the fourth Baron Sandys and died without issue. William’s heir was his sister, Elizabeth, who had married Bishop Edwyn Sandys’ nephew, Edwyn. Their son Henry (1605-1644) became the 5th Baron Sandys of The Vyne. Henry had

three sons: William, Henry and Edwin, who all inherited the title in succession and all died without issue. The title was extinguished on the death of Edwin the eighth Baron Sandys of The Vyne in 1684. As already noted, William Sandys of Guildford moved in 1503 to live with his son, Robert, at Little Pachesham near Leatherhead. Robert had a son, Thomas, who lived at Dorking and married Jane Agmondisham in c1540. They had two or three sons: Robert, Richard and, possibly, Thomas. Robert Sandes, to use the spelling used by this branch of the family, married Anne, the daughter of John SKINNER , who was the Clerk of the Green Cloth in the Court of Queen Elizabeth. Richard married Rose BULLOCK of Reigate. Thomas lived at Dorking and had a daughter, Martha and a son, Roger, who married in Reigate. Robert Sandes had two sons: John and Robert, who both studied at Balliol College, Oxford. Robert lived at Fetcham and married a Jane SKEET while John’s daughter Jane married an Edward SKEET , of Leatherhead. John’s son Thomas Sandes lived at Little Pachesham. He married a Catherine PEARSE and they had a daughter Katherine. Robert Sandes, of Fetcham had a son, Francis, who lived at Leatherhead and had a son, Thomas. Thomas had two sons: Thomas, who studied at Christ Church, Oxford, and John, who studied at Lincoln College, Oxford and had two daughters: Anne and Elizabeth. This branch of the family has not been researched any further. Nick Alexander

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