BURGON OF DONCASTER

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BURGON

RICHARD BURGON of Doncaster, Yorkshire, died ca 1553.[1] He married BARBARA EARNING alias SHEEPSHANK.[2] She was buried on 27 July 1602 at Doncaster.[3] After the death of Richard Burgon, Barbara married, ca 1556, John Pettie[4] (see here). She later married, on 12 December 1575 at Doncaster, Robert Hemingfield,[5] and then on 4 May 1590 at Doncaster, John Awborn.[6]

Child of Richard and Barbara (Earning alias Sheepshank) Burgon:[7]

i AGNES BURGON, bur 4 Dec 1604, Doncaster;[8] m 20 Nov 1575, Doncaster, WILLIAM CAYTON[9] (see here).

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[1] Doncaster Archives, AB5/1/3, abstracted in A Calendar to the Records of the Borough of Doncaster, 4 vols (Doncaster, 1899-1903), 2:125; National Archives, CP 40/1157.

[2] National Archives, CP 40/1157; will of Thomas Ernynge alias Sheepshanke of Warmsworth, dated 25 May 1579, proved 2 Oct 1583 (Borthwick Institute); will of Hugh Ernynge alias Shepshanke of Warmsworth, dated 18 Feb 1592[/93], proved 29 Mar 1593 (Borthwick Institute). Thomas’s will mentions, among others, his brother Hugh, “my syster Pettie” and “my brother Roberte Hemingefeild”, perhaps referring to Robert’s wife Barbara by her previous surname. Hugh’s will mentions, among others, his brother Thomas’s children and “my sister Awburne” as well as Edward, Alexander, John, Richard and Alice Pettie. The 1558 will of John Wilson of Skellow in the parish of Owston includes a legacy to a Barbara Pettie.

[3] Doncaster parish registers; will dated 23 Apr 1601, proved 19 Nov 1602 (Borthwick Institute).

[4] National Archives, CP 40/1157; Doncaster Archives, AB5/1/3, abstracted in A Calendar to the Records of the Borough of Doncaster, 4 vols (Doncaster, 1899-1903), 2:149.

[5] Doncaster parish registers; will of Robert Hemingfield, dated 28 Jul 1583, proved 2 Dec 1583 (Borthwick Institute).

[6] Doncaster parish registers; will of John Awborn, made 28 Oct 1594, proved 16 Nov 1594 (Borthwick Institute).

[7] Agnes is named in the 1601 will of her mother Barbara as “Agnes Cayton my daughter” and in the will of John Pettie, dated 26 Mar 1575 (Borthwick Institute), as “Agnes Burgon my doughter in lawe” (stepdaughter). John also leaves a calf to a Richard Burgon, but no relationship to him is stated. It is possible that Barbara’s husband Richard also had one or more children by an earlier wife.

[8] Doncaster parish registers.

[9] Doncaster parish registers.