'Dransfield1'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Dransfield of Stubbs Walden, Dransfield of West Bretton, Dransfield of Whitley

                               
Nicholas de Dransfield of Bradley, Yorkshire
1. Ralph de Dransfield
m. Mabella
2. Hugh de Dransfield of Whitley, Yorkshire (a 1198)
  A. William de Dransfield of Whitley, later of West Bretton (a 1240)
  m. Cecilia
  i. Thomas de Dransfield of Bretton (d 10.1315)
m. Joan
  a. John Dransfield of West Bretton (d 1344)
  m. (06.1318) Agnes Thornhill (a 1356, dau of John de Thornhill)
  (1) John Dransfield of West Bretton (d 1359?)
m. Elizabeth (a 1371)
  (A) John Dransfield of West Bretton (d 1418?)
  m. Joan Stainton (dau/heir of John de Stainton of Woolley Moorhouse)
  (i) Sir William Dransfield of West Bretton, Sheriff of Yorkshire (d(vp) 1406)
  m. Grace Gascoigne (dau of Sir William Gascoigne of Gawthorpe)
  (a)+ issue (d young) - Thomas, John
(ii) Agnes Dransfield (d 03.10.1430)
  m. (20.01.1407) John Wentworth of North Elmsall (d 15.10.1425)
  (iii) Isabell Dransfield (a 1455) sb daughter rather than sister of Sir William?
  m1. John Bosville of Ardsley (d 1441)
  m2. (1454) Henry Langton
  (B) Richard Dransfield (d 1425?, rector of Kirkheaton)
  (2) Edmund Dransfield (a 1365, 1380)
(A)+ issue - John (a 1406), Thomas (a 1415, cleric), Richard (a 1415)
  (3) Christopher Dransfield of Stubbs Walden (a 1430, younger son)
  m. ?? Gascoigne (dau of Sir William Gascoigne of Gawthorpe)
  (A) William Dransfield of Stubbs Walden
m. Elizabeth Soothill (dau of John Soothill of Soothill)
  (i) Charles Dransfield of Stubbs Walden
  m. Alice FitzRandolph (dau of Sir Ralph FitzRandolph)
  (a) Ralph Dransfield of Spennithorne (dsp)
  m. Mary Lascelles (dau of Sir Roger Lascelles of Brakenburgh)
  (b) Isabel Dransfield
  m. (1441) John Swale of Grinton
  (c) Elizabeth Dransfield
m. _ Warcop of Smardell
  (d) Anne Dransfield
  m. Francis Percy of Scotton
  (e) Dorothy Dransfield
  m. John Forster of Leyburn
  (4) Cecilia Dransfield (a 1342)
  m. Robert de Rockley (d c1341)
  (5) Margaret Dransfield (Dronsfield) possibly fits here
  m. Robert de Barnby
  (6)+ other issue - Henry (d 1362, rector of Kirkheaton), Robert of West Bretton (a 1322), William of West Bretton (a 1367)
  b. Robert Dransfield of Barnby, Yorkshire
m. Margery
  c. Thomas Dransfield
  m. (07.1312) Mariota Amyas (dau of John Amyas of Netherton)
  d. Edmond Dransfield (a 1365)
  m. (1316) Margaret Savile (dau of Henry Savile by Amabel)
  (1)+ issue - John , Walter
  ii. John de Dransfield
  m. Cecilia
  iii. Elizabeth de Dransfield
  m. Henry Woodrove of Woolley
  iv.+ other issue (a 1315) - Edmond, Henry, William
  B. Thomas de Dransfield of Whitley (a 1207)

Main source(s): Walker's Yorkshire Pedigrees (1942, Dransfield or Dronsfield, of West Bretton)
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