Agnes Gibbons

Also known as Agnes Giles.

She was "sole heir of John Giles of Biddenden in Kent. . . She seems to have been of an armorial family and thus brought arms to be quartered with the Whitfield arms, as was done in the heraldic monuments of son John's descendants."

"After his [Robert Whitfield's] death Aganes remarried to _____Gibbons. she became the guardian of her three orphaned granddaughters, children of her son Thomas, and is so named in a law suit of 1577 in which the youngest of these girls sued her uncles over the estate of her father. Agnes is said to have been buried at Wadhurst in 1567."

She was also called "Annis, Daughter and heiress od John Giles, of Bidlerden, Kent. Buried 1567."

Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~barbpretz/ps04/ps04_362.html

"Robert bapt. at Alston, 1451. Went to Wadhurst, Sussex, about 1491. Accused of being a Scot in 1522. Buried June 2, 1541, aged 88 or so."

"Perhaps toward the end of the 15th century and apparently as a single man, he moved south and settled in Wadhurst, Sussex, where he is supposed to have found his first wife. Robert Whitfield is said, according to these Visitation pedigrees which were based on information furnished by the family, to have first married Katherine Wenbourne, a widow of Wenbourne in Wadhurst."

"By his first wife he had two surviving daughters, by his second wife he had had three sons. It is apparent from the chronology that his second wife was much younger and time he started this second family. Nothing can be found concerning these wives."

"Robert Whitfield made his will sometime in early 1541. According to the Visitation of London he was buried 2 June 1541, being 88 years old. His will was proved 2 March 1542/3. In his will he names his wife and three sons but only one daughter, Elizabeth. Perhaps the other daughters were dead."