MANORIAL HERITAGE REGISTRY CONVEYANCE & DESCENT HISTORY ============================================================================ Wootton or Bosoms Public record: https://manorialregistry.com/?mhr_manor=wootton-or-bosoms Exported: 15 October 2026, 21:01 GMT+0000 Recorded historical holders: 11 Location: Wootton, Bedfordshire SUCCESSION REGISTER | EARLIEST RECORDED TO PRESENT ============================================================================ Relationships below reproduce saved published paths; unrecorded routes are not inferred. 1. Maud the eldest sister Transfer: Purchase Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 2. John de Mowbray the grandson of Maud | 1311 Transfer: Passed Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 3. Roger Marshall of Milton and Sarah his wife | 1320 Transfer: Grant Holding arrangement: Joint Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 4. Thomas | 1361 Transfer: Succession Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 5. Richard | 1456 Transfer: Passed Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 6. Edward Langley | Attested 1514 Transfer: Recorded possession Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 7. Ann and her husband Nicholas Taylor for ninety-nine years | 1527 Transfer: Settlement Holding arrangement: Joint Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 8. Thomas | 1531 Transfer: Settlement Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 9. George the son of Thomas | 1544 Transfer: Inheritance Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 10. George and his wife Elizabeth | 1564 Transfer: Settlement Holding arrangement: Joint Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 11. Humphrey | 1628 Transfer: Succession Relationship to present holder: Not recorded DETAILED CONVEYANCE HISTORIES AND LINKED PEDIGREES ============================================================================ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 1 Maud the eldest sister Transfer: Purchase Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: That third of the manor which was acquired by Maud the eldest sister, widow of Roger de Mowbray, was held for the term of his life by her second husband Roger Lestrange, who died in 1311, when it passed to John de Mowbray the grandson of Maud, who in 1316 settled it for life on his father-in-law William de Braose. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 2 | 1311 John de Mowbray the grandson of Maud Transfer: Passed Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: That third of the manor which was acquired by Maud the eldest sister, widow of Roger de Mowbray, was held for the term of his life by her second husband Roger Lestrange, who died in 1311, when it passed to John de Mowbray the grandson of Maud, who in 1316 settled it for life on his father-in-law William de Braose. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 3 | 1320 Roger Marshall of Milton and Sarah his wife Transfer: Grant Holding arrangement: joint Narrative / explanation: In 1320 he granted the reversion of the manor to Roger Marshall of Milton and Sarah his wife, to hold of him by service of a rose yearly; but William de Braose quitclaimed his life interest to them in the same year and they entered into possession. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 4 | 1361 Thomas Transfer: Succession Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: John Marshall died in 1361 and was succeeded by his son Thomas, then two years of age, at whose death without issue in 1374 his sister Maud, then wife of Walter Merwe and afterwards of — Dale, inherited the premises. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 5 | 1456 Richard Transfer: Passed Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: William Bosun, from whom the holding derived the additional name of BOSOMS MANOR, died in 1424, leaving a widow Margaret, who lived until 1447, and two daughters, of whom Margaret the elder, the wife of William Burgoyne, inherited the manor, which on the death of her husband in 1456 passed to their son Richard. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 6 | Attested 1514 Edward Langley Transfer: Recorded possession Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: The Burgoynes appear to have afterwards alienated Bosoms Manor, for in 1514 it was in the possession of Edward Langley, from whom it was purchased in that year by George Monoux, citizen and alderman of London, in whose family it remained for many generations. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 7 | 1527 Ann and her husband Nicholas Taylor for ninety-nine years Transfer: Settlement Holding arrangement: joint Narrative / explanation: In 1527 George settled the manor on his daughter Ann and her husband Nicholas Taylor for ninety-nine years, and in 1531 he settled the reversion on Thomas, grandson of his brother and heir Humphrey. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 8 | 1531 Thomas Transfer: Settlement Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: In 1527 George settled the manor on his daughter Ann and her husband Nicholas Taylor for ninety-nine years, and in 1531 he settled the reversion on Thomas, grandson of his brother and heir Humphrey. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 9 | 1544 George the son of Thomas Transfer: Inheritance Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: George Monoux died in 1544, when the manor was inherited by George the son of Thomas, who had died in 1537. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 10 | 1564 George and his wife Elizabeth Transfer: Settlement Holding arrangement: joint Narrative / explanation: In 1564 the manor was settled on George and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of John Lord Mordaunt, and passed on his death in 1593 to Lewis son of his son Humphrey, who had died in 1585. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 11 | 1628 Humphrey Transfer: Succession Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: On his death in 1628 Lewis was succeeded by his son Humphrey, created a baronet in 1660, and the manor then descended as in Sandy (q.v.) to the fifth baronet, Sir Philip Monoux, who succeeded to the title in 1757; but there is no mention of the manor after 1770, and it did not by name form part of the property divided among Sir Philip's four sisters and co-heirs in 1809. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. END OF EXPORTED APPROVED CONVEYANCE HISTORY