THE WHITFIELD FAMILIES of areas around Thornbury (GLA) The main page for the Whitfield family has address: http://www.prattens.co.uk/FAMILIES/WHITFIELD/start.html You can find items in this list by using the FIND capability in the EDIT menu above These notes were collected in hurried visits to record offices and libraries, or acquired from other researchers or on-line sources. If you use information from these notes you are strongly recommended to check the information against original sources. 1538 Agnes Thurston widow of Oldbury - will dated 1527 at Gloucester - mentions son Edward Thurston, son Thomas Thurston, dau Jane Thurston, dau Jone Thurston, overseers John and Thomas Stone and John Howell, witnesses Thomas Whitfield clerk and curate and others. 1547 William Whitfield of Thornbury will mentions sons John Whitfield and Richard Whitfield. 1553 thomas Whitfield married at Thornbury to Maude Grove. 1559 Elen Whitfield married at Thornbury Robert Smith. 1559 Thomas Whitfield baptised 2/1559 at Thornbury sponsors Thomas Tayer, William Ady and ? Dyer. 1561 John Whitfield baptised 10/1561 at Thornbury sponsors John Barton, Henry Tyler and Maria Tanier?. 1562 John Whitfield buried 1/1562 at Thornbury. 1568 William Whitfield baptised 6/1568 at Thornbury. 1574 John Whitfield baptised 12/1574 at Thornbury. 1586 John Whitfield married at Thornbury (and Oldbury?) to Agnes Fowler. 1591 John Whitfield married at Thornbury (and Oldbury?) to Margaret Gawtkings. 1595 Joan Thurston married at Thornbury William Whitfield. 1602 Humphrey Whitfield married at Oldbury Maude Williams in IGI 7333416. 1610 Richard Whitfield yeoman of Oldbury will mentions brother Thomas Champneys, sisters Mary and Bridget Champneyes, Richard Orchard and his children William, Thomas, Richard, Margery, Elizabeth and Joan; Thomas, Alice and Elizabeth children of Robert Perriman; Thomas son of John Marten; William son of William Asten; Margaret daughter of John Link; wife and executrix Mary; overseers John and Edward Linck. 1612 George Thurston of Kington Thornbury will mentions daus Elizabeth Alice and Ellinor, sons Horatio Thurston John Thurston and Harry Thurston, wife Agnes Thurston sole executrix - mentions William Whitfield and his two children, overseers son John Thurston and John Kynge - at Gloucester 37 Capell 1613 PCC will. 1612 John Thurston married at Oldbury on Severn Annis Whitfield. 1613 John Thurston of Littleton on Severn will mentions land in Oldbury to sons Thomas and Edward; William son of Arthur Stones; daughter Alice under 21; John Parry; William Arthur; Francis Taylor; Richard Foster; Richard Earle; son-in-law Philip Boyce; executor uncle Richard Orchard the elder of Littleton; overseers William Boyce and John Whitfield; witnesses Rich Russell and William Stones PCC will 1614 Catherine Whitfield married at Oldbury Thomas Russell in IGI 7333416. 1614 Thomas Whitfield married at Thornbury (and Oldbury?) to Mary Hunte. 1614 Thomas Whitfield married 9/2/1614 at Aust to Mary Hunte alias Whitfielde of Aust. 1616 Isabella Whitfield married at Oldbury John Hubard in IGI 7333416. 1618 John Whitfield married at Oldbury Marie Baker in IGI 7333416. 1618 Richard Whitfield in will of niece Joan Link of Oldbury with her brother Richard brother Rich Orchit of Littleton, sister Marie Champnies overseers John Martone of Elberton and William Champneys 1620 Isabel Whitfield and her children Humphrey Whitfield and Thomas Whitfield junior in will of her father Thomas Jones 1630 Humphrey Whitfield married at Oldbury Jane Whitfield in IGI 7333416. 1639 Richard Whitfield married at Oldbury Elizabeth Whitfield in IGI 7333416. 1658 John Thurston of Kington Thornbury will mentions dau Johan and her husb John Nott, deceased father in law William Thurrell, eldest son Nathaniel Thurston, son Joseph Thurston, Margaret wife of Richard Thurston, exec John Tayer of Keynton, overseers William Tanner and Walter Webb, debts from Thomas Whitfield of Elberton, brother Richard Thurston, Richard Thurston of Shorneburie, and Thomas Whitfield of Bristol, debts to Margaret wife of Richard Thurston. 1658 Robert Thurston overseer in will of Thomas Whitfield the elder of Kington in Thornbury witnesses Hannah Thurston and Elizabeth Thurston. 1687 Rosamund Thurston married at Thornbury William Whitfield. END