Agnes Longhurst b.1524 St Margaret, Ockley,

[BronwenS]

Kia ora

I am looking for this woman's background, where does she fit in to the Longhurst lot.
Agnes Longhurst b.1524 St Margaret, Ockley, Surrey
married Henry Spooner 1545 St Margaret Ockley, Surrey
Died 1572 Feb 25 St Margaret Ockley, Surrey, Eng.

I have John & Edith who married in 1515 but I cannot find a birth for her in this family.

Any help gratefully received.

Nga mihi
Bronwen
Aotearoa

[Little Nell]

Ockley parish registers only date from 1539, which is very early.  Not all parishes have registers dating from then.

The options for tracing Agnes and her family have to be looking at every Longhurst family in the area, any surviving wills to see if you can piece the history together, plus other records for the area.  What you find may depend on her family's position in life, whether they made any impact on local community affairs.  Perhaps looking at her husband's links might provide some clues to follow.

Nell

[Bookbox]

Have you looked at the abstracts of Surrey & South London wills on FindMyPast? There are quite a few references to Longhurst and Spooner/Sponer in and around Ockley.

[Vance Mead]

I suppose this must be the father, John Longhurst, in 1531.

http://aalt.law.uh.edu/Indices/CP40Indices/CP40no1068/CP40no1068Def.htm

Hilary term 1531
Surrey. John Longhurst, of Okeley, husbandman; John Bundell, of Wotton, husbandman, together with William Adaye, of Abyngworth, turner; William Burley, of Wotton, laborer, attached to answer Richard Hyll, Thomas Agace, William Hyll, for trespass: breach of close at Wotton and taking trees and underwood worth 10 pounds. John L and John B, by Westdene their attorney come and ask permission to imparl (confer) in Easter term.

[Vance Mead]

This is the will of John Longhurst, made in 1546. It's not very informative, possibly made in haste. Available on Ancestry.

Will of John Longhurst of Howbrouk, Ockley. In traditional Catholic form (soul to God, St Mary and all the holy company of heaven). Body to be buried in churchyard of Ockley St Margaret.
Harry my son to be sole executor.
To see his mother honestly kept or she to have 40 shillings yearly.
Witnesses Harry Longhurst, Raffe Longhurst, and others.

[BronwenS]

Kia ora Vance

I don't think that is his will, he doesn't have a son called Harry, this is what I have for him - I cannot find him as Agnes father.  I do think that is correct that Hilary term record.  (Why is it called Hilary Term?) 

John (West) Longhurst 1496c the elder married Edith Emma (1500-1537) St James, Abinger, Surrey in approximately 1515. 
They had three children:
John Longhurst 31 March 1515, St Margaret, Ockley, Mole Valley District, Surrey,
Margaret Longhurst 1519c, St Margaret, Ockley, Surrey (married Richard Lyllie (1515-1593) 26 September 1540 Ockley, Surrey)
Thomas Longhurst 1525c-7 May 1585, St John the Evangelist, Wotton, Surrey, (married Margaret Walter 1550 St James, Abinger, Common, Surrey)
Agnes Longhurst wife of Ralph Spooner mother of Henry Spooner  b.1524 St Margaret, Ockley, Surrey, Eng.  m.1545 St Margaret Ockley, Surrey, Eng. d.1572 Feb 25 St Margaret Ockley, Surrey, Eng.
John Longhurst died 31 March 1567 age 70 Dorking, Surrey.  (St Margaret churchyard, Ockley, Mole Valley District, Surrey

Thanks Nell I do have extensive information on the various Longhursts, and am aware that the Ockley Parish records are very early as many of them start in the 1550s.  But it is all quite confusing too many Longhursts. 

Thanks Bookbox I shall check there, I do have lots of wills for a variety of Longhursts but hadn't checked in Find My Past  and shall do.

Nga mihi
Bronwen

[goldie61]

(Why is it called Hilary Term?)

Old divisions of the year, which some universities and schools in the UK still adhere to.

Hilary term is the second academic term of the University of Oxford and the University of Dublin. It runs from January to March and is so named because the feast day of St Hilary of Poitiers, 14 January, falls during this term

Michaelmas term is the first academic term of the academic year in a number of English-speaking universities and schools in the northern hemisphere, especially in the United Kingdom. ... Michaelmas term derives its name from the Feast of St Michael and All Angels, which falls on 29 September.

Trinity term runs from about mid April and is named after Trinity Sunday, which falls eight weeks after Easter, in May or June

[BronwenS]

Thanks for that Goldie.  Very Helpful.

nga mihi
Bronwen

[goldie61]

Used to  love the 'Michaelmas daisies' that flowered in the autumn...........