CRANE Family in Hertfordshire

[Tantan]

Please do any of you guys have any knowledge of a Thomas Crane who evidently lived in the St Albans area in 1578. According to the IGI his daughter Sara was baptised at Saint Albans Abbey on 15/6/1578. Thomas Crane was married to a Dorothy ? and they later relocated to Newton Tony in Wiltshire where they bought the Manor before 1586, when his last daughter Eluzai was baptised. Ideally I am hoping to find his origins and evidence of marriage to Dorothy. Any ideas/advice welcomed.
Regards
Tantan

[janan]

Hi

Have you got this?

Will of Thomas Crane of Newton Toney 7 June 1597   reference      PROB 11/90

If not it is available to Download for £3.50 from the National Archives Documents Online service

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/?source=ddmenu_search5

Jan

[Lady Di]

From The Visitations of Hertfordshire:

Dorothe was the dau of John Lockey of St Alban's and Joane, dau of William Marston of Napsbury nere St Alban's

The record shows that Dorothe (Lockey) married Tho's Crane but no further information given re dates.

She had two sisters Ellen and Elizabeth and a brother William.

The Lockey family was originally from York a few generations earlier.

Di

[janan]

It says here he bought the manor in 1581

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=115434

Jan

[Tantan]

Jan & Di you are stars. I do have his will already but many thanks for all the other stuff, which I shall look at more closely.
Best Regards
Tantan

[Rustics]

Hi There

I would be very interested if anyone obtains the following [& kindly passes on the content to me]
Reference:    212A/38/43/1
Description: Copy of inquisition post mortem on the estate of Thomas Crane of Newton Tony. NEWTON TONY manor
SEVENHAMPTON
Date:    1597
Held by:    Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

[Vance Mead]

In Herts Names Online there's a will of John Lockey, of St Albans, 1578.

Earlier, there's the will of Richard Lockey of St Albans in 1544, and of Agnes Lockey, widow of Richard, in 1549.

https://www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/services/libraries-and-archives/hertfordshire-archives-and-local-studies/hertfordshire-archives-and-local-studies.aspx

[Vance Mead]

I don't know if this is relevant but there's a will of Robert Crane in St Albans (St Albans Wills 1471-1500, Herts Records Publications, edited by Susan Flood)

Robert Crane, will made 10 Sept 1487, probate 6 Oct 1487
4d to High Altar of St Andrew's chapel
Residue to wife Joan, executrix

Before that there's the will of Roger Crane, in 1456, of Watford