Margaret Rastall

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information: ¹⁵⁹⁵
William Penn, son of William Penne of Minety, and grandson of John Penne of the same place, was apprenticed as a law-clerk to the counsellor-at-law, Christopher George of Bawnton, near Cirencester, eventually becomeing his cheif clerk. William married, sometime before 1570, Margaret Rastall, daughter of John Rastall, Alderman of Gloucester, and his wife Anne George, sister of Christopher.

William and his wife apparently settled in Malmesbury, four or five miles southwest of Minety. In the Malmesbury Subsidy Rolls of 1570/1 (13 Elizabeth I, William was taxed six shillings on his movable goods, and was taxed there again ten years later. In the 1587 Lay Subsidy Roll for Malmesbury borough in the Public Record Office is and entry for "Wilms Pene." William was deceased by 1588, and his widow and six children, in 1590, were living in Minety with the elder William Penne.

Chidren of William Penn of Malmesbury and his wife Margaret Rastall:

• George, buried in Minety, 1632
• Giles Penn, b. cir. 1573, deceased by 1656
• William Penn, deceased by 1628, married to Margery who survived her husband. He was the business partner of his older brother Giles
• Maria, named in her grandfather's 1590 will
• Sara, named in her grandfather's 1590 will
• Susana, named in her grandfather's 1590 will

"The Family of William Penn," The Pennsylvania, Genealogical Magazine, pp. 72-74

Margaret married William Penn, son of William Penn and Unknown, By 1570 in Malmesbury, Gloucester, England.¹⁵⁹⁵ (William Penn was born in Minety, Gloucestershire, England ¹⁵⁹⁵ and died By 1588 in Malmesbury, Gloucester, England ¹⁵⁹⁵.)