Gascoyne Family Tree

Nicholas was born on 19 May 1571 in (Old Hurst Hunts?). His parents were George Gascoigne and Mary Stokesley.

Dewsbury Yorkshire Parish Registers: 20 May 1571 Mr George Gascoyne had a child christened name Nicholis.

He married Elizabeth Longueville daughter of Henry Longueville of Wolverton on 26 Dec 1598.  They had 12 children some born at Wolverton, Bucks and others at Old Hurst, Hunts.

The Wolverton registers contain the following:

  • Elizabeth bapt Sept 30th 1599,
  • Robert bapt April 21st 1601, died young.
  • Alathea (Esthalita) Dec 13th 1602.
  • Henry bapt Nov 14th 1603, died young
  • Frances (Ffranceys) bapt July 4th 1605, buried September 1610,
  • Susanna bapt December 19th 1606 married Gulielimus Acton  
  • Mary bapt June 19th 1608, buried February 26th 1609
  • Mary bapt December 10th 1609

Other children likely to have been born at Old Hurst appear to be:-                  

  • Dorothea born October 21st 1611            
  • Alice born March 26th 1616
  • Katherine born September 23rd 1617
  • John August 7th 1613
  • Jane September 29th 1614.

Nicholas died in 1617, 3 years before his father George, and was buried on 26 Jan 1617 at Old Hurst Hunts.

 

After Nicholas’s death, Elizabeth soon remarried. The following appears in the Bishop’s Transcripts of Old Hurst registers for 1620:
FRANCIS StJOHN, SON OF Mr OLIVER StJOHN & YE LADY GASCOIGNE
HIS WIFE, WAS BAPT. NOVEMB. Xxiii th.
 

The St.John’s were a landowning family of Norman descent, but had no connection with Huntingdonshire. This Oliver St John was not the man of that name who played a leading part in the trial and conviction of the Earl of Strafford.

"OLD HURST, a parish in the hundred of Hurstingstone, county Huntingdon, 5 miles north-east of Huntingdon. The greater part of the parish was formerly woodland. The village, which is small, is wholly agricultural. The living is a curacy annexed to St. Ives. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, contains an old octagonal font.

 [Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]