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William MUSCHAMP, Esq.
1480 - Abt 1542 (61 years)
Has 5 ancestors and 1376 descendants in this family tree.
Set As Default Person 
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Name William MUSCHAMP Suffix [ONS gp] Esq. Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born 10 Aug 1480 - Named in Surrey vis, shown as son and heir, aged 22 and more in the IPM of his mother, taken in 1501, suggesting born 1478 or 1479.
BM MS says St. Lawrence Day [10 Aug] and Thursday. 10 Aug was Monday in 1478, but Thursday in 1480. This year is correct if age in IPM is his age at the date the IPM was taken rather than at the time his mother died.
Gender Male Died Abt 1542 - I am guessing it was this William for whom there were IPMs, in both Sussex and Surrey, in the year 1542 - 3.
Siblings1 brother and 3 sisters Patriarch & Matriarch 
Person ID I24781 All | Teresa's direct ancestors Last Modified 30 Jul 2022
Father Thomas MUSCHAMP, b. Est 1450, d. Between 1498 and 1501 (Age ~ 48 years) Mother Elizabeth WELBECK, d. 27 Mar 1501 Married - Named as a Welbeck in a Surrey visitation, and her IPM shows her Christian name was Elizabeth.
Family ID F9632 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family 1 Elizabeth HARMONDE, d. Yes, date unknown Married Children12 children Last Modified 6 Jan 2018 Family ID F9642 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family 2 Elizabeth SANDS, d. Yes, date unknown
Other Partners: Nicholas MYNSMarried Est 1506 - William was married more than once, and the Collectanea topographica et genealogica ('CTG') and The visitations of the county of Surrey ('Surrey vis') disagree about which wife was the mother of William, while a number of children are not assigned a mother by either source.
Surrey vis. shows Elizabeth Sands as the mother of Raffe and John.
A book "Collections Illustrative of the Geology, History, Antiquities, and Associations of Camberwell and the Neighbourhood", by Douglas Allport, published in 1841 agrees with the Surrey vis, saying on p.153
"An old pedigree in the British Museum, gives this account ...
"William Muschamp, of Camberwell, in co' Surr' maried to his 1 wife, the da: of Scott, but had no issue by her." By "the wydowe of Nynnes," his second wife, he had two sons, Rafe and John; and by his third lady, who is described as "da : of Harman," he had "four more, Richard, Edward, Thomas, and Xpofer, or Christopher, ..."
I am following this for the moment, for the sons, and assigning the daughters according to where they fall within the sequence of sons. However the account misses 3 sons given in the list of births, two Williams and a Francis. Francis and the older William probably died in infancy; Francis and the younger William can be assigned a mother according to their birth dates, but the older William as well as one daughter Mary were born between the sons assigned in Allport. Mostly both of William's wifes Elizabeth had one child a year, at least for the first few years of marriage. However, between John (son of Elizabeth Sands) and the older William there was about a 3 year gap, and another similar gap between the older William and Mary. One of these is probably due to the gap between William being widowered and remarrying. It seems most likely that this was the second gap, the first may have been due to Elizabeth Sands' health declining. Since neither the older William nor Mary had children if I have assigned them wrongly it doesn't make anyone else's ancestors wrong. Since all sources show Elizabeth Sands, alias the 'widow Nynnes' as the mother of John I hope I am correct in showing her as my 12 x great grandmother.
CTG shows Elizabeth's surname as Sandys, and mother of Raffe, Christopher, John, William and Edith.
I hope there may be surviving wills or other documents for members of the wives families which may clarify this.
Children4 children Last Modified 30 Jul 2022 Family ID F9623 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family 3 Agnes SCOTT, d. Yes, date unknown Married Bef 1520 - Shown in the Surrey vis as the first wife of William, but a window in Camberwell Church had (in 1792, but that church was destroyed by fire in 1841) a number of portraits and an incomplete inscription:
"....Statu Willmi Muschamp .... et Agnetis ....".
Lysons considered this would originally have said (in Latin) "Pray for the good estate of William Muschamp, and Agnes his wife."
Lysons noted that the date, 1520, was still preserved. If William and Agnes were living and married in 1520, and some of the children portrayed in the window were William's offspring by previous marriages, as was supposed, then it would suggest that his marriage to Agnes was his last, not his first. Some of the portraits can be seen on the webpage linked to below.
(from Daniel Lysons, 'Camberwell', in The Environs of London: Volume 1, County of Surrey (London, 1792), pp. 68-121. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/london-environs/vol1/pp68-121#anchorn23 [accessed 21 August 2017]).
Shown in Surrey vis, CTG agrees - no issue from this marriage.
Last Modified 5 Jan 2018 Family ID F9636 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- Named in Surrey vis, shown as son and heir, aged 22 and more in the IPM of his mother, taken in 1501, suggesting born 1478 or 1479.