George Audley - Wymondley/Hitchin

[Kells]

Hello, it has been a couple of years since this post but I am hoping to make contact regarding Rhoda, daughter of George Audley, who married John Marshall. I am seeking further information to expand my Marshall research and would love to know more about the contents of George Audley's will, of which I am unable to obtain a copy from the Hertfordshire Archives as I am overseas.

[Cambridge]

Hi Kells,
Happy to share what I have! Rhoda was my 9 x Great Grandmother (I think, I haven’t looked at it all for a while!)
Happy to share my copy of George’s will too. George is a bit of a mystery to me, if he is part of the family I think/hope he is then he has an exciting lineage!
Not sure if you can private message me here so we could swap details?

[Vance Mead]

There were two Audeleys recorded in the lay subsidy rolls in Hechyn/Hitchin in 1545:
William Avdeley/Audeley 40 s
William Audeley 17 d
https://archive.org/details/hertsgenealogist01brig/page/n669/mode/2up

And in 1567 William Awdeley and William Coker were the plaintiffs against Richard Cowper for two messuages and a garden in Hitchyn. This was called Common Recovery, an elaborate legal fiction, but the result was that the two Williams "recovered" seisin or possession of the land.
http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT5/Eliz/CP40no1251/aCP40no1251fronts/IMG_0271.htm

There's a will of William Audeley, yeoman of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, 13 May 1547.
Daughters Joan, Agnes
Son William
Wife Alice
Executors son William Audeley and brother John Audeley
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D950992

[Cambridge]

Oh that’s interesting - thank you!

I need to pick up my research really, I’m trying to trace George’s line back and it looks like he is linked to the Audley-Tuchet family but I haven’t found much around it!

[Kells]

Hello Cambridge,

I will try a private message to you.

I am related to Rhoda's husband John Marshall's brother Thomas Marshall of Michelham in Surrey, originally of Hitchin. There is a Marshall family crest that may be of interest to you, which can be found on the tomb of their elder brother Edward Marshall at Wimpole in Cambridgeshire.