Richard Stokes

• Preferred Name: Richard Stokes
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: ABT 1547 in Yardley, Worcestershire, England at LATI: N2.468 LONG: E1.8069
  
• Birth: ABT 1475 in Yardley, Worcestershire, England at LATI: N2.468 LONG: E1.8069
  
• Burial: in Yardley, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N2.468 LONG: E1.8069
  
• Occupation: with note: Description: landowner
  
• FSID: GCVL-68R
  
• Notes:

  === !SOURCE: NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GEN ===
  !SOURCE: NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER, VOL CXLVII JAN 1993, PG 24
  
  === He is the earliest likely progenitor of ===
  He is the earliest likely progenitor of this family. Name of wife is unknown In 1497, as Richard Stokes, yeoman of Yardley, he served as a feofee for a charitable trust involving a tenement at Stycheford. He appeared later as a landowner about 1500-1512 in rent rolls of nearby Bordesley manor in the parish of Aston,co.Warwick. - Publications of the Dugdale Society,4 [London, 1924],1:31,46.He is likely the one who appeared on a tax roll for Swanshurste Quarter in Yardley ca 1547.(NEGHS93.p24. B&Dn near Yardley,Worcesters.Eng.
  
  === Parents of Elizabeth Darcy ===
  Numerous historical documents show the parents of Elizabeth Darcy to be Lord Thomas Darcy and his second wife Edith Sandys.
  
  Elizabeth married Sir Marmaduke Constable II (1498) and they had 8 children. Her father and Marmaduke's father were allies in the Pilgrimage of Grace and were both executed by King Henry VIII.
  
  See:
  
  http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/constable-sir-marmaduke-ii-1498-1560
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Darcy,_1st_Baron_Darcy_de_Darcy#CITEREFThorpe1982
  
  http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/MarmadukeConstableofNuneaton.htm
  
  === Richard Stokes the 1st Stokes we find in ===
  Richard Stokes the 1st Stokes we find in this family married 1497 ________?? he was a yoeman of Yardley

• m. BEF 1500

1. Humphrey Stokes, b. ABT 1500 in Yardley, Worcestershire, England     d. BEF 7 JAN 1551 in Yardley, Worcestershire, England