1454. Thomas Gorges Sir
was born in 1536 in Wraxall, Somersetshire, England. He died on 30 Mar
1610 in Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire, England. Knighted at Beddington in
1586 and Member of Parliament from Downton in 1587. He was a favorite of Queen
Elizabeth (her second cousin). He married without first obtaining the permission
of the Queen and he was for a short time imprisoned in the Tower of London as
a result. One of the people with whom he worked was Sir Francis Drake.
The following is quoted from Thorne George, p. 162: "1586, Sept. 10th.--A
warrant to Sir Thomas Heneage, Knight, Treasurer of Her Majesties Chamber;--'To
deliver unto Thomas Gorge, Esquire, one of Her Majesties gromes of her Privy
Chamber, for rydinge with expedicion (beinge accompanied with Mr. Stanley and
Fourtene others) unto Chartley, whence he was emploied in the remove of the Quene
of Scotes, to Fodringhay Castle, and thence retorned backe againe with like expedicion
the somme of forty-five poundes.'" Mary was tried in October 1586 and beheaded
February 8th 1587 at Fotheringhay Castle.
Helena Snachenburg
was born in 1549 in Sweden. She died in Apr 1635. Thomas Gorges Sir and Helena
Snachenburg had the following children:
+1525 i.
Elizabeth Gorges.
1526 ii.
Francis Gorges was born in 1579. He died before 1610. Received a B.A.
from Christ Church, Oxford, in 1596.
+1527 iii.
Frances Gorges.
+1528 iv.
Edward Gorges Sir.
+1529 v.
Theobald Gorges.
+1530 vi.
Bridgett Gorges.
+1531 vii.
Robert Gorges.
1532 viii.
Thomas Gorges was born in 1589.
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