In my continuing series on the additional medieval ancestry of Sarah
Duchess of York, we come to that
Rachel Bagshaw who m William FitzHerbert in or about 1709.
Leo has this Rachel here
http://www.genealogics.org/pedigree.php?personID=I00252242&tree=LEO
to which we can add
A) She was baptised at Bakewell on 18 Aug 1685
B) Her father Thomas Bagshaw of Bakewell and eventually of Ridge died
on 13 Apr 1721 "aged 81" per his monument which survives at Bakewell
C) His wife is there given as "Mary Allestree, daughter of Thomas esq
of Alvaston"
Here and there we find bits and pieces that *imply* that Thomas
Bagshaw had an elder brother who had sons and was of Ridge, but that
they all died s.p. or eventually s.p. so that Thomas outliving them
all come into the paternal estates at Ridge.
I can't quite put my finger immediately on that smoking gun that links
Thomas Bagshaw of Bakewell and Ridge back to his parents and
grandparents, but hope to soon. If so we could probably add several
more generations to Sarah's ancestry.
Will Johnson
