Ancestry of Tregender, Nanspyan, Nanspan, Nansfan, Nanfan, Nance and Crouch

A Crouch Family Heritage Association Family Tree page, Nance family line
Quoted from "Genealogy of the Nances in Cornwall" by Martin L. "Pete" Nance, 1970.
Text excerpted from Dave Nance's Definitive Definitive Nance Genealogy Clearinghouse

Ancestry of Chesten Nanspyan who married HENRY TRENGROVE of NANCE in Illogan, Cornwall. Each roman numeral is a generation, beginning with Chesten's great grandfather:

I. John Nansfan, high sheriff of Cornwall 1451, later governor of Guernsey and Jersey.

II. Sir Richard Nanspyan, 1457-1507, personal friend and advisor to Henry VII, Deputy of calais, peace commissioner to Cornwall 1485, married Cheston, the only daughter of John Powlsulsack.

III. Henry Nanspyan, Esquire, of Powlsack, married Joan Tregender, daughter of William Tregender, and only child, held the manors of Gourlyn and Tregender as heir by law. Joan Tregender's ancestry listed below.

IV. Chesten Nanspyan, married HENRY TRENGROVE, alias Nans, Esquire, of Illogan Parish.

TREGENDER

Ancestry of Joan Tregender who married Henry Nanspyan. Each roman numeral is a generation, beginning with Joan's great grandfather:

I. William Tregender lived ca 1350, wife Joanne, daughter and heir of Thomas Gourlyn.

II. William Tregender II, wife unknown.

III. William Tregender III, wife Joan, only child of William Godwrey.

IV. Joan Tregender, heir by law to above three estates, married Henry Nanspyan. Males of Tregender, Gourlyn and Godwrey became extinct ca 1500.

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