Basset · ◉ direct ancestor
♂William Basset
Dates not yet known.
William Basset was an esquire of Uley and Upton Cheyney, in Gloucestershire, England, and the son and heir of Robert Basset. He was the thirteenth great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through his son Edward Bassett (1558–1602).
Family
William’s mother, Isabel Maudlyn, was his father’s first wife. He married Jane Ashe, a daughter of John Ashe of Tickenham, in Somerset. The couple had one son, Edward Bassett, and one daughter, Cecily. Douglas Richardson’s Plantagenet Ancestry, a study of colonial families descended from the medieval kings of England, traces Jane’s ancestry, through her father, back to King John.
When the heralds recorded the family at the Visitation of GloucestershireW of 1623, they entered him in the Bassett pedigree as “William Bassett of Yewley sonne and heire,” married to “Jane d. of John Ashe of Somersetshire.” They also set down the family’s arms: ermine, with a red canton (a square in the upper corner of the shield) bearing a gold star.
Notes
Sources
William’s parents, his marriage and his children are from Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd edition (2011), vol. 1, pp. 176 and 634, and from the same author’s Magna Carta Ancestry, p. 264, which calls him “William Bassett, of Uley, Gloucestershire.” Richardson cites the 1623 Visitation of Gloucestershire (Harleian Society vol. 21, pp. 204–207), the Basset pedigree in Ellacombe’s History of Bitton (1881), John Smyth’s Lives of the Berkeleys and The American Genealogist, vol. 10 (1933). In his account of Edward, Richardson calls William “of Uley and Highfield.” The arms are blazoned “Ermine, on a canton gules a mullet or.”
Dates
Richardson gives no dates for William or for Jane. An online family tree gives William’s death, with a question mark, as 24 May 1626; that would be more than twenty years after his son Edward’s will was proved in 1602, and nothing in Richardson supports it.
His mother
Richardson names William’s mother as Isabel, daughter of Maudlyn, the first wife of Robert Basset. An online family tree names her Ann Spencer instead.
The children
Richardson gives Cecily’s husband as Sir Barnaby Sambourne.
The name
Richardson spells the family name Basset. The 1623 Visitation writes it Bassett and calls the place Yewley.
Family time line
Recorded events
| Event | When | Where | Evidence ?on record - the record itself, its image, or a transcript or printed copy of it has been read from a compiled source - an index, a printed genealogy or a memorial page says so not yet documented - in the family record, no source attached yet |
|---|---|---|---|
| Living at '15. JANE (or JOAN) ASHE, married WILLIAM BASSET, Esq., of Uley and Upton Cheyney, Gloucestershire, son and heir of Robert Basset, of Uley and Upton Cheyney, Gloucestershire, by his 1st wife, Isabel, daughter of ___ Maudlyn....' (Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry 2nd ed. vol. I p.176 (scan 210), ASHE 15, quoting Vis. of Gloucester 1623...) - compiled, no record seen |
abt 1558 | Uley, Gloucestershire, England | from a compiled source |
Sources
- Richardson, Douglas. Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd ed. (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011) — Living at, about this person, family with Jane Ashe
Borders as they stood about 1530, from the historical-basemaps project, the Newberry Library's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (states and territories, 1783 on) and Natural Earth; the colonies and provinces are drawn along today's lines.
Line of descent
Descendants
- Edward Bassett 1558–1602
- Cecily Bassett