Johnson / Bryans Families

Tracing the ancestry of Pamela Murdoch Bryans and Maurice Alan Johnson

John Fortescue, of Wymston[1]

Male - Bef 1501

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  • Name John Fortescue 
    Relationshipwith Marion Murdoch Johnson
    Gender Male 
    Death Bef 23 May 1501  [1
    Last Modified 6 Oct 2021 

    Father William Fortescue, of Wymston 
    Mother Isabel or Mabel Falwell 

    Wife Jane Preston  
              d. 23 May 1501 
    Children 
     1. John Fortescue, of Wyneston
              b. Bef 1451  
              d. 22 May 1519 (Age > 68 years)
    Last Modified 6 Oct 2021 

  • Notes 
    • MP for Totnes, Tavistock and Plympton according to Vis Dev (Fortescue, p. 353) but I think this is mixed up with his cousin, also called John, who appears to have been the actual MP.

  • Sources 
    1. [S0445] JL Vivian, Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Herald's Visitations of 1531, 1564, & 1620, (Execter, 1895), Fortescue; pages 352-358.