♂Thomas Stonor

Thomas Stonor of Stonor in Oxfordshire, England, was an esquire who is said to have been the father of Alice Stonor, the wife of Humphrey Forster of Harpsden, near Henley-on-Thames in the same county. He was the sixteenth great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through his daughter Alice Stonor.

His name survives in a single line of the pedigree of the Forsters of Aldermaston, which the heralds recorded at their visitation^W of Berkshire in 1566. The heralds set his daughter and her husband at the head of that family and gave Thomas no dates, no wife and no other children.

Notes

The heralds’ pedigree

The pedigree of the Forsters of Aldermaston in the 1566 heralds’ visitation of Berkshire, as printed by W. C. Metcalfe in 1885 (page 12), opens with Humphrey Forster “of Harpeden, co. Oxon., Esq.”, who “mar. Alice, da. to Thomas Stoner” of Stonor, esquire. It is the only source that names Thomas as Alice’s father.

Which Thomas Stonor

The Stonor family’s own pedigree in the Oxfordshire visitations, as printed by the Harleian Society in 1871 (volume 5, pages 143–144), names more than one Thomas Stonor and no daughter married to a Forster, so the Berkshire pedigree does not settle which of them was Alice’s father.

When he lived

The pedigree gives no dates. The nearest comes from his grandson’s marriage: Sir Stephen Popham, whose daughter the younger Humphrey Forster married, died on 14 November 1444 (Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2005, pages 672–673).