Chapter 9: 

George Carew (1511 – 1538)

13 generations between George Carew and James Rupuha Elers

The lives of George Carew and Margaret Englefield

Source: Predominantly National Archives Probate 11/27/152

Just like his father, George lived a very short life, so the opportunity to find meaningful facts about him is very limited.

• George esquire, of Stoodleigh and Camerton, Somerset, was born in 1511 and died at the young age of 27 in 1538.

• He married Margaret Englefield.

• They had two sons, John and Thomas, and a daughter Elizabeth.

• Margaret was also born in Camerton, Somerset in 1516 (Wikitree). She was the daughter of Sir Thomas Englefield (1488-1537) and Lady Elizabeth Throckmorton (1490-1543), of Englefield, Berkshire (Source: Probate 11/58/517 of Sir Edward Saunders).

• After the death of husband George, Margaret married Edward Saunders (4 Apr 1506 – 12 Nov 1576). (Source: historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/saunders-edward-1506-76)

• Edward, of Whitefriars, London; Westminster, Middlesex; and Weston-Under-Wetherley, Warwickshire. was the Chief Baron of the Exchequer.

• In his probate (11/58/517), Edward willed his body be buried at the parish church of Weston-Under-Wetherley. In that will he left one hundred pounds to his son-in-law Thomas Morgan and Mary his wife, daughter of Edward.

• Margaret and Edward had one daughter, Mary Saunders who married Thomas Morgan (as quoted in his probate 11/58/517)

• Margaret died on 11 Oct 1563 (Wikitree).

PROGENY OF GEORGE and MARGARET CAREW

1. Thomas Carew 

• See Bio for Thomas in the “Lives of Thomas Carew and Elizabeth Biccombe”- Chapter 10.

2. John Carew

• Nothing is known about John, except reference is made of his existence in the “Somerset Archive and Record Service, Crowcombe Court MS DD/TB/36/29”

3. Elizabeth Carew

• Little is known about Elizabeth, except reference is made of her existence in the will of her grandmother Elizabeth Throckmorton (National Archives Prob 11/30/47). The will mentions George and Margaret had two sons, John and Thomas as well as a daughter Elizabeth who married Francis Saunders (born c1513, died 20 June 1585).

• Francis and Elizabeth had a son Francis (1556-1630).