John Atwood1

M, b. circa 1445, d. 30 July 1525
FatherJohn Attewode b. c 1400, d. a 1459
MotherIsabella (?)
All Saints Church, Sanderstead, Surrey, England - [Wikipedea]
     John was born circa 1445 in Sanderstead Court, County Surrey, England. John married Diones (?) circa 1483 in Sanderstead Court. John departed this life on Thursday, 30 July 1525 in Sanderstead Court.2 He was buried there in All Saints Church or Chancel. The oldest inscription in the Sanderstead Church is on a brass: Of your charite pray tor the soulles of John A Wodde and Diones his wife, which John decessed the 30 day of July, A. D., MVXXV, on whose soulles Jesu have mercie.” This inscription is on a brass plate which was probably on the chancel wall. Above it were two small figures in brass representing a man and woman with hands uplifted in prayer. These brasses are now in the parish chest.3,4

Family

Diones (?) b. c 1464, d. 17 Mar 1530
Children

Citations

  1. [S1257] Elijah Francis Atwood, Ye Atte Wode Annuals, Part 1, page 3 - We find nothing of the next John until his death in 1525, leaving a will made just before his death. I hardly think you will find any will in existence that show so queer a thing, for he had four sons named John. However the will of his wife, Denes, made five years later, shows that one John called Hewson and she names a Richard not in the other will.
    John the Elder evidently had estate and inherited quite a flock of sheep at Woodmanstone, where we find the will of a John Atwood several years later, (1529) with some five children not named. (Peter 1346 bought land, Woodmanstone.) Henry got Wadden manor, in Croyden Parish. John Hewson got Sanderstead Manor. John (Richard) seems to have had only personal property. The next two were not yet 20; Edward got the Beckenham lands (See Sir William) and John the Younger got the lands and buildings at Coulsdon.
  2. [S1254] Charles Atwood, History of the Atwood Family in England & the United States, page 6 - of uour charite pray for the soulles of John A Wodde and Diones his wife, which John decessed the 30 day of July, A. D., MVXXV, on whose soulles Jesu have mercy."
  3. [S2099] Charles Atwood, History of the Atwood Family, In England and the United States, Page 6.
  4. [S2104] Tom Cox, Magna Britannia Antiqua & Nova, page 382. Sanderfeld Church: "In the Chancel and Church are divers obserable Monuments of the Dead, 1. Ancient, viz. for John Atwood and Dyones his Wife; Thomas Atwood and Nicholas his son, which last was Servant to Queen Elizabeth 16 years; and John Ownsted, Esq; Servant to Queen Elizabeth, and King James I 40 years, and Joan his Wife; . . . Joyce, Wife of Alixander Holloway, Gent. and Daughter of Mr. Ownsted above mentioned;."