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Note N4321
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Glamorgan Family History Society Indexes for Burials for either Martha John or Martha Howell does not exist for Monknash Indexes. - West Glamorgan Archives visit 2016-04-14
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Note N4325
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Katherine's children by John of Gaunt were:
John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (1373-1410)
Henry, Cardinal Beaufort (1375-1447)
Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter (1377-1426)
Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland (1379-1440)
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Note N4326
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Katherine became attached to the household of John of Gaunt as governess to his daughters Philippa of Lancaster and Elizabeth of Lancaster. The ailing duchess Blanche had Katherine's daughter Blanche (her namesake) placed within her own daughters' chambers and afforded the same luxuries as her daughters; additionally, John of Gaunt stood as godfather to the child.
Some time after Blanche's death in 1368 and the birth of their first son in 1373, Katherine and John of Gaunt entered into a love affair that would produce four children for the couple, born out of wedlock but legitimized upon their parents' eventual marriage; the adulterous relationship endured until 1381 when it was truncated out of political necessity[5] and ruined Katherine's reputation. On 13 January 1396, two years after the death of the Duke's second wife, Infanta Constance of Castile, Katherine and John of Gaunt married in Lincoln Cathedral. Records of their marriage kept in the Tower and elsewhere list: 'John of Ghaunt, Duke of Lancaster, married Katharine daughter of Guyon King of Armes in the time of K. Edward the 3, and Geffrey Chaucer her sister'. On John of Gaunt's death, Katherine became known as dowager Duchess of Lancaster. She outlived him by four years, dying on 10 May 1403, in her early fifties.
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Note N4327
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In about 1366, at St Clement Danes Church, Westminster, Katherine, aged sixteen or seventeen, contracted an advantageous marriage with "Hugh" Ottes Swynford, a knight from the manor of Kettlethorpe in Lincolnshire, the son of Thomas Swynford by his marriage to Nicole Druel. She had the following children by him:
Blanche (born 1 May 1367),
Thomas (21 September 1368 - 1432), and possibly
Margaret Swynford (born about 1369), later recorded as a nun of the prestigious Barking Abbey nominated by command of King Richard II.
[Wikipedia entry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Swynford
2017-04-05]
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Note N4328
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Katherine's children by Hugh Swynford were:
Margaret Swynford (born c. 1369), became a nun at the prestigious Barking Abbey in 1377 with help from her future stepfather John of Gaunt, where she lived the religious life with her cousin Elizabeth Chaucer, daughter of the famous Geoffrey Chaucer and Katherine's sister Philippa de Roet.[5]
Sir Thomas Swynford (1367-1432), born in Lincoln while his father Sir Hugh Swynford was away on a campaign with the Duke of Lancaster in Castile fighting for Peter of Castile.[5][6]
Blanche Swynford, named after the Duchess of Lancaster and a godchild of John of Gaunt. (If, as suggested, she was born after 1375, this date is too late for her to have been fathered by Hugh Swynford, who died in 1371/2. However, since John of Gaunt obtained a dispensation for his marriage to Katherine for being Blanche Swynford's godfather, this theory can be discarded).[5]
In 1846 Thomas Stapleton suggested that there was a further daughter named Dorothy Swynford, born c. 1366, who married Thomas Thimelby of Poolham near Horncastle, Lincolnshire, Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1380, but there is no current evidence to support this claim.[7]
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Name Edward Thomas
Age 62
Estimated Birth Year 1789
Relation Head
Spouse's Name Margt Thomas
Gender Male
Where born Bettws, Glamorgan, Wales
Civil Parish or Township Bettws
County/Island Glamorgan
Country Wales
Registration district Bridgend
Sub-registration district Maesteg
ED, institution, or vessel 4
Piece 2461
Folio 159
Page number 11
Household schedule number 30
Name Margt Thomas
Age 63
Estimated Birth Year 1788
Relation Wife
Spouse's Name Edward Thomas
Gender Female
Where born Llangynwyd, Glamorgan, Wales
Civil Parish or Township Bettws
County/Island Glamorgan
Country Wales
Registration district Bridgend
Sub-registration district Maesteg
ED, institution, or vessel 4
Piece 2461
Folio 159
Page number 11
Household schedule number
Name Elizth Thomas
Age 23
Estimated Birth Year 1828
Relation Daughter
Father's Name Edward Thomas
Mother's Name Margt Thomas
Gender Female
Where born Llangynwyd, Glamorgan, Wales
Civil Parish or Township Bettws
County/Island Glamorgan
Country Wales
Registration district Bridgend
Sub-registration district Maesteg
ED, institution, or vessel 4
Piece 2461
Folio 159
Page number 11
Household schedule number 30
Name Llewelyn Thomas
Age 36
Estimated Birth Year 1815
Relation Son
Father's Name Edward Thomas
Mother's Name Margt Thomas
Gender Male
Where born Llangynwyd, Glamorgan, Wales
Civil Parish or Township Bettws
County/Island Glamorgan
Country Wales
Registration district Bridgend
Sub-registration district Maesteg
ED, institution, or vessel 4
Piece 2461
Folio 159
Page number 11
Household schedule number 30
Name Jane Thomas
Age 54
Estimated Birth Year 1797
Relation Sister
Gender Female
Where born Bettws, Glamorgan, Wales
Civil Parish or Township Bettws
County/Island Glamorgan
Country Wales
Registration district Bridgend
Sub-registration district Maesteg
ED, institution, or vessel 4
Piece 2461
Folio 159
Page number 11
Household schedule number 30
Name Margt Thomas
Age 10
Estimated Birth Year 1841
Relation Granddaughter
Gender Female
Where born Llangynwyd, Glamorgan, Wales
Civil Parish or Township Bettws
County/Island Glamorgan
Country Wales
Registration district Bridgend
Sub-registration district Maesteg
ED, institution, or vessel 4
Piece 2461
Folio 159
Page number 11
Household schedule number 30
GLAHO107_2461_2461-0319 - Thomas, Edward family 1851 Reference County District Parish Place Given Surname Rel'p Status Age Gender Occupation Birthplace Infirmity HO 107 2461 Bettws [Hautwroth] Edward Thomas Head Mar 62 M Farmer of 80 acres Glamorgan Bettws HO 107 2461 Bettws [Hautwroth] Margt Thomas Wife Mar 63 F Glamorgan Langywyd HO 107 2461 Bettws [Hautwroth] Elizth Thomas Daught U 23 F Glamorgan Langywyd HO 107 2461 Bettws [Hautwroth] Llewelyn Thomas Son U 36 M Farmer's Son Glamorgan Langywyd HO 107 2461 Bettws [Hautwroth] Anne Thomas Sister U 54 F Glamorgan Bettws HO 107 2461 Bettws [Hautwroth] Margt Thomas G Daur U 10 F Scholar Glamorgan Langywyd HO 107 2461 Bettws [Hautwroth] William Morgan Servt U 24 M Farm Servt Glamorgan [Marcrofs] HO 107 2461 Bettws [Hautwroth] Gwenillian Bevan Servt U 22 F Farm Servt Glamorgan Lautrit Neath