Ancestral Glimpses » John Fray (1419-1461)

Personal data John Fray 

• Alternative names: John Fray, John Frey
• He was born in the year 1419 in Lancashire, ENGLAND.
• Profession: Chief Baron of the Eschequer.
• (Title (Facts Pg) : Baron.
• He died on July 3, 1461 in St Bartholomew-The-Less, Smithfield, Middlesex, ENGLAND, he was 42 years old.
• He is buried on July 12, 1461 in St. Bartholomew the Less, London, ENGLAND.
• A child of John Fray and Harriet Montgomery
• This information was last updated on April 1, 2017.

Household of John Fray

He is married to Agnes Danvers.

They got married October 1436 at Grafton, Worcestershire, ENGLAND, he was 17 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Katherine Frey  ± 1425-1482 
2. Elizabeth Fray  ± 1441-????
3. Margaret Fray  ± 1442-????
4. Agnes Frey  

Notes about John Fray

From: Memorials of the Danvers Family (of Dauntsey and Culworth), F. N. MacNamaka, M.D., London, Haedy & Page, (1895), p. 144.
Agnes Baldington's second husband was Sir John Fray, a lawyer, and a celebrity in his day. A Hertfordshire man, he represented the county in the Parliaments of 28 Sep 1419, and in that of Nov 1420. In the latter sat with him his future father-in-law, John Danvers, than whom he cannot have been many years the junior. In the year 1423-24 he was Recorder of London, and in the following year was raised to the Bench as Baron of the Exchequer, and in 1436 became Chief Baron, and presided in the court for twelve years. He died in the year 1461,¹ and was bur. in the church of St. Bartholomew the Less in Smithfield. His heirs, as we learn from his inquisition (No. 28 of 1 Edward IV.), were his four dau. — Elizabeth Waldegrave, aged 20; Margaret, wife of John Lynham (Plomer), aged 19; Agnes, aged 18; and Katherine, aged 14. Thus, Agnes Fray had living two daus. with the same Christian names, and this was one of the sources of the confusion we shall presently notice regarding her marriages.

Footnotes
1 Will (23 Stockton) was made Mar 1457. See also Clutterbuck's
Herts, vol. ii, p. 491, and Foss's Judges of England and Collect.
Topog. et Genealog.,vol. iv, p. 308.

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