The English ancestry of Reinold and Matthew Marvin of Hartford, Ct ...

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The English Ancestry of
Jane, the wife of Jherome Guylberd, was the elder daughter
of Robert Wingfield of Brantham Hall, Suffolk ; her mother
was a daughter of Sir Thomas Pargiter,* Kt., of London, by
his wife Anne Talmache, who was the daughter of "John
Talmache, descended from a baronial family of prominence
in the time of Stephen, and having a seat at Bentley, Suf-
folk, in the reign of Edward I. The mother of Anne was a
daughter of Lowth, of Sawtrey, co. Hunt."f
Robert was the son and heir of Sir Humfrey Wingfield,
of Brantham and Letherington (or Letheringham), Kt, by
his wife Mrs. Anne Edgar, the daughter of Simon Wiseman,
of Brantham, Suffolk, and widow of Sergeant Gregory Edgar.
Robert had a son John, who married Elizabeth Gillgat or
Gillyat, a family name mentioned in the Will of John Marvin
(41), a cousin of John (48), printed above.J
Sir Humfrey was the twelfth son of Sir John Wingfield
and Elizabeth Fitz Lewes, whose mother was Lady Anne
Montague, a daughter of the Earl of Salisbury. According
to the Visitations of Huntingdonshire,! Sir Humfrey was
* " Visitations of Suffolk ; edited by Walter C. Metcalfe, F. S. A.," Exeter, England,
1882, calls him " Sir Thomas " on p. 70, and " Sir John Pargeter " on p. 176, but in its
Notanda, p. 214, says it is " clear " that the latter was meant for Sir Thomas. " The
Visitation of Huntingdonshire, 1613" (Camden Society, 1849), p. 130, says Sir Thomas
was Lord Mayor of London, and gives some particulars of the family not found in the
Suffolk Visitations.
t See Shoberl, p. 220. "Visitations of Suffolk " gives (p. 70) the pedigree of Anne
and the Talmache arms. For the Wingfield arms, which have fourteen quarterings,
see the same, p. 79.
% See pp. 116 and 118, supra.
§ Visitations of Huntingdonshire as cited, p. 130. In Suffolk Visitations, quoted
above, will be found the pedigrees of several branches of the Wingfields, but there is