Anne Ogle

Anne Langford was born in 1500.1 She married William Stafford.1 Her married name became Stafford.1

Child of Anne Langford and William Stafford

• Thomas Stafford+1 d. 1584

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Biography

From “A History of Bradfield College.” edited by Arthur Francis Leach. Page 24. GoogleBooks

The Langfords managed to hold Bradfield and the de la Bechc manors, with their own ancestral manors of Botenhampstead (Bottomstead) and Benfield, apparently undisturbed all through the reigns of the Lancastrians, Yorkists, and Henry VII—no slight feat in those troublous times. They passed from William Langford,' chivaler,' in 1412, in virtue of a deed of entail, to his cousin Edward Langford, Esquire; from him, in 1474, to his son Thomas, by another entail, and under the same entail to his son John in 1493. This John died a knight in 1510, leaving, by his first wife Katharine, a daughter Ann his sole heiress.

Her great fortune brought her some strange matrimonial experiences. At the time of her father's death she was only eleven years old, but had already been married twice, once to Walter Smith, who died before the marriage was consummated, and again to Thomas Spenser, son of John Spenser, Gent., a descendant of the Despensers who had robbed her ancestors, the Suttons, of Bradfield for a time. Then on the very day of her father's death she was married for a third time to William Stafford, Esquire, lord of the manor of Pebworth, in Gloucestershire. She was again married to Thomas Ogle, as appears by her presenting to the rectory of Bradfield with her husband as late as 1556, so that in spite of her varied career she attained at least the age of fifty-six. The exact date of her death does not appear, as an inquisition on it is not forthcoming and there is a gap in the parish register of burials from 1549 to 1559. Probably she did not die at Bradfield, for her son by Thomas Stafford had apparently been allowed to occupy the Manor House before 1540, when his children begin to appear.

References

• The Gentleman's Magazine, Page 380. GoogleBooks “... Their second son (9) William Stafford, esq. acquired the manor of Bradfield and other estates in Berkshire by his marriage in 1516 with Anne, daughter and heiress of Sir John Langford, knt. and died circa 1538.”
• http://www.thepeerage.com/p70172.htm#i701717
• “Magna Britannia: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire”. By Samuel Lysons. Page 233. GoogleBooks “ Sir Thomas Langford, above mentioned, died in 1391% and his descendants, several of whom served the office of sheriff, continued at Aldworth till 1509, when John Langford esq. died seised of the manors of Aldworth and De la Beche, having covenanted that Ann, his only child, then nine years of age, should, when she came to years of discretion, marry either Walter, son and heir of Henry Smith, or Thomas, son and heir of John Spencera: perhaps death relieved her from making the choice: it does not appear, at least from records, that the manor of Aldworth, or any of the other Berkshire estates which belonged to the Langfords, were ever in the families of Smith or Spencer. ln the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the manor of Aldworth was the property of Sir John Norris, from whom it descended to the Berties.”
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Langford-1744 “ Anne was born in 1500. Sole heiress of father. Brought manor of Bradfield to her 3rd husband, William Stafford. --- Is this her that is referred to?: ...attained at least the age of fifty-six. The exact date of her death does not appear, as an inquisition on it is not forthcoming and there is a gap in the parish register of burials from 1549 to 1559. Probably she did not die at Bradfield, for her son by Thomas Stafford had apparently been allowed to occupy the Manor House before 1540, when his children begin to appear.. --- John de Langford died in 1509 and left as his sole heiress a daughter Anne, then aged nine, who married William Stafford of Bradfield and was holding the manor of Aldworth in 1534. (VCH) --- John Langford died in 1509, leaving an only daughter and heir Anne. She married a certain William Stafford, and with him sold the manor of Chael, Isle of Wight, to William Pounde. (VCH)”
• ”The Four Visitations of Bershire Made and Taken by Thomas Benolte ...,” Volume 57. edited by William Harry Rylands. “Stafford, of Bradfield.” GoogleBooks
• daughter of this Sir John Langford, Kt., of Bradfield
• ” A New, Correct, and Much-improved History of the Isle of Wight: From the ...” By John Albin. Page 608. GoogleBooks “ Another account fays, that Richard de Langford, son of Sir Richard, obtained certain lands in Chale, with common pasture on the down, from Richard Barnevyle, in the twenty-first year tof Edward the First, and that John Langford, chief lord of Chale, obtained the rest of Barnevyle'? lands in the second year of Edward the Second. Perhaps this makes up the additional quarter of a fee, which they held in the reign of Edward the Third. The heiress of the family was married to Thomas Pound, Esq. of Southwick, in the county of Southampton, who succeeded to Chale in the first year of Henry the Eighth; of whom it was purchased by captain Richard Worfley, and now remains in the Appuldurcombe family. A watch was kept on the down in the time of Edward the Second, of four men by night and two by day, as there was of two men under the command of Mr. Meaux, so late as 1638. Certain tenements in Chale paid rents of fourteen shillings and eight pence, which had belonged to the priory of Carisbrooke, in 1565.”
• “A History of Bradfield College.” edited by Arthur Francis Leach. Page 243. GoogleBooks “Thomas Ogle, armiger et Anna eius uxor, filia union untii ralis et legitima ac heres Domini Johannis Langford. “
• ” Lists and Indexes, Issue 54” By Great Britain. Public Record Office. “Early Chancery Proceedings.” Page 291 “ John TURNOUR v. Alexander HOLWEYE and Joan, wife of Thomas OGLE, and daughter and heir of John Langford, knight. Tenements in the manor of Bradfield. (The manor is demised as a whole by copy of court roll. BERKS.“