Sir Thomas Gerard Knight
- Born: 15 Jul 1431, Kingsley, & Bryn, Lancastershire, England 821
- Marriage (1): Dulcia Assheton 713,826
- Marriage (2): Cecily Foulshurst 160,826
- Died: 27 Mar 1490, Lancashire, England at age 58 821
 General Notes:
~Weis's Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 233B:37, he was the ward of Thomas Daynell 1449, proof of age 2 Aug 1452, pension from Edw. IV, m. abt 1440 as a child, Douce, dau. of Sir Thomas Ashton, m. (2) Cicely, daughter of Sir Robert Foulshurst. 160
~Ormerod's History of Cheshire, Gerard Pedigree, Vol. II, p. 132, underage at 24 Sep 28 Henry VI, living 18 Edward IV. 713
Noted events in his life were:
• Background Information. 826
Sir Thomas Gerard, who came of age in 1452, [Proof of age was given at St. Mary's Church, Chester, on 2 Aug. 1452. John Leicester said that Thomas was of age on 15 July] was married in childhood to Douce daughter of Sir Thomas Ashton; afterwards he married Cecily, daughter of Sir Robert Foulshurst, by whom he had a son and heir Peter, and other children. [Ormerod, loc. cit.; Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxix, App. 132] He died on 27 March 1490; [Duchy of Lanc. Inq. p.m. iii, no. 21] his widow Cecily afterwards made a vow of chastity. [Lich. Epis. Reg. Hales, xiii, fol. 121b] The son Peter, aged thirty at his father's death, married Margery daughter of Sir Thomas Stanley of Hooton, and granddaughter and coheir of Sir John Bromley, by whom the estate of Gerard's Bromley came to this family. Peter Gerard died four years after his father.
~A History of the County of Lancashire, Volume IV, pp. 142-147
Thomas married Cecily Foulshurst, daughter of Sir Robert Foulshurst Knight and Joan de Vernon 160.,826
Thomas next married Dulcia Assheton, daughter of Sir Thomas Assheton Knight and Elizabeth le Byron 713.,826 (Dulcia Assheton was born in Ashton, Lancashire, England.)
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