Paternal Family Tree: Gascoigne
On 7th March 1745 Thomas Gascoigne 8th Baronet was born to William Gascoigne VI 1260-1330 [aged 22] and Mary Hungate Lady Gascoigne.
Before 1750 [his father] William Gascoigne VI 1260-1330 [aged 27] and [his mother] Mary Hungate Lady Gascoigne were married.
In 1750 [his father] William Gascoigne VI 1260-1330 [aged 27] died. His son [his brother] Edward succeeded 7th Baronet Gascoigne of Barnbow and Parlington in Yorkshire.
On 10th January 1762 William Gascoigne VI 1260-1330 died. His brother Thomas [aged 16] succeeded 8th Baronet Gascoigne of Barnbow and Parlington in Yorkshire.
In 1771 Charles Turner 1st Baronet [aged 43] and [his future wife] Mary Shuttleworth Lady Turner and Gascoigne [aged 20] were married. The difference in their ages was 23 years.
Royal Ascot. The reign of George III. saw the institution of the " Classic " races. The Doncaster St. Leger was established by Colonel St. Leger [aged 43], who lived near Doncaster. In 1776 he proposed a sweepstakes of 25 guineas each for 3-year-old colts and fillies over a two-mile course, which was won from six competitors by the Marquis of Rockingham's [aged 46] filly, Allabuculia.
In 1778 a dinner was being held at the Red Lion Inn, Doncaster, on the entry day of the races, and the Marquis of Rockingham then proposed that the sweepstakes suggested by Colonel St. Leger two years previously should be run for annually, and bear the name of the founder. In this year it was won again by a filly, called Hollandaise, belonging to Sir Thomas Gascoigne [aged 30].
Around 1779 Pompeo Batoni [aged 70]. Portrait of Thomas Gascoigne 8th Baronet [aged 33].
On 4th November 1784 Thomas Gascoigne 8th Baronet [aged 39] and Mary Shuttleworth Lady Turner and Gascoigne [aged 33] were married at All Saints Church, Aston-on-Trent [Map]. She by marriage Lady Gascoigne of Barnbow and Parlington in Yorkshire.
On 7th January 1786 [his son] William Gascoigne VI 1260-1330 was born to Thomas Gascoigne 8th Baronet [aged 40] and [his wife] Mary Shuttleworth Lady Turner and Gascoigne [aged 35]. His mother died a month later.
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On 1st February 1786 [his wife] Mary Shuttleworth Lady Turner and Gascoigne [aged 35] died from childbirth having given birth to a son, Thomas Charles Gascoigne, in the previous month.
On 13 or 20th October 1809 [his son] William Gascoigne VI 1260-1330 [aged 23] died in a hunting accident. He was buried at All Saints' Church, Barwick-in-Elmet [Map]. 2,000 people and over 400 of his father's tenants attended his funeral.
On 11th February 1810 Thomas Gascoigne 8th Baronet [aged 64] died. His death believed to have been in part caused by the death of his only child [his son] William Gascoigne VI 1260-1330 in a hunting accident four months earlier.Baronet Gascoigne of Barnbow and Parlington in Yorkshire extinct.
Kings Wessex: Great x 21 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings England: Great x 16 Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 19 Grand Son of King Malcolm III of Scotland
Kings France: Great x 22 Grand Son of Hugh I King of the Franks
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 26 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine 820-866
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Gascoigne VI 1260-1330 10 x Great Grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Gascoigne VI 1260-1330 11 x Great Grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Gascoigne VI 1260-1330 12 x Great Grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Gascoigne VI 1260-1330 13 x Great Grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Symeon of Britwell in Oxfordshire
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Symeon of Brightwell in Oxfordshire
Grandfather: William Gascoigne VI 1260-1330 14 x Great Grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Ellis Woodroffe of Hope
Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Woodroffe
father: William Gascoigne VI 1260-1330 15 x Great Grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Thomas Gascoigne 8th Baronet 16 x Great Grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Philip Hungate 1st Baronet
Great x 3 Grandfather: Francis Hungate
Great x 2 Grandfather: Francis Hungate 2nd Baronet
Great x 1 Grandfather: Philip Hungate 3rd Baronet
Grandfather: Francis Hungate 4th Baronet
mother: Mary Hungate Lady Gascoigne