Click to expand/collapse all notes

William Derneford

William was born in 1450 in Framlingham, Suffolk, England. He died at the age of 62 in 1512 in Framlingham, Suffolk, England.

Death Notes
- WILL: 15 AUG 1512
  
  Ipswich Wills, Archives, Suffolk
  Book 5, Folio 280
  "On the Feast of the Assumption of Our Lady, 1512, I William Dernford of Framingham at the Castle make will etc. To be buried in Churchyard of St. Michaels, Framlingham. Legacies for repairs of Churches of Babyngham (Ravyngham) and Cranesford. Isabell, my wife, to have my tenement called Gerveys, for life and 40s yearly out of my close or tenement called Lyncolness. Powle (Paul) my son at age of 24 to have my said tenement called Lyncolness.. James my son at age of 24 to take profits in Badyngham (Radyngham) called Senglers; to him and his heirs. Reynold my son after death of my wife to have tenement called Gerveys; to him and heirs of his body; for default same go to my daughters, Isabell and Elizabeth. Legacies to Johan Smyth, Margaret Walle and Isabell Ederych. Wife and John Ederych to be executors and Sir Thomas Greveson, Supervisor.
  Witness Sir Thomas Greveson
  Proved 23 Oct 1512

General Notes
- New Eng Fam Gen & Mem Vol 2 p 585
  A Danforth Story, by Art Danforth, p 37
  
  FRAMLINGHAM, ten miles north of Woodbridge, has been centred on its magnificent Castle since the twelfth century. The original seat of the Dukes of Norfolk, it boasts a superb set of curtain-wall fortifications and a series of towers topped by ornamental Tudor chimney stacks. Footpaths Crisscross the surrounding moat, while from the internal wall walkways, there are sweeping views across town to the imposing redbrick mass of Framlingham College. Of the rest of the castle, where Mary Tudor was proclaimed Queen of England in 1553, very little else survives; you'll get just as much sense of its dimensions from the outdoor tables of the Castle Inn, by the main entrance. One other point of interest, however, lies in the local parish church of St Michael, just behind the pub, which contains a lovely hammer-beam roof, fan coving and a fantastic collection of Classical sixteenth-century tombs belonging to the Howard family who owned the castle at the time.
  
  The town below the castle makes for an enjoyable hour or two's amble, especially since the elongated Market Hill Is equipped Crown Hotel, a traditional sixteenth-century inn with roaring fires.

Click here for details of William's family with Isabell ?