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CAWDRON, Frances (16??-16??)
- Yes, date unknown Has no ancestors but 13 descendants in this family tree.
1620 - 1692 (72 years)-
Name CAWDRON, Frances (16??-16??) Gender Female Death Yes, date unknown Person ID I56 Edgoose Last Modified 1 Feb 2026
Family EDGOOSE, Anthony, b. 1620, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire 
d. 1692, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire (Age 72 years) Marriage 7 Jul 1663 Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire Children 1. EDGOOSE, Mary, b. 1664, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire d. 1716, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire (Age 52 years)2. EDGOOSE, Elizabeth, b. 1667, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire d. 1706, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire (Age 39 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F10 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
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Marriage - 7 Jul 1663 - Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire 
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Biographies 
EDGOOSE, Frances (16??-16??) formerly CAWDRON, wife of Anthony EDGOOSE (1620-1692)
The date and place of Frances CAWDRON's baptism has not been discovered, but see Maddison's 'Lincolnshire Pedigrees'.
Anthony EDGOOSE married Frances CAWDRON at Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, on 7 July 1663. It was his second marriage: his first marriage was to Joan SUMPTER from 4 February 1644/45 to the date of her burial on 5 July 1658.
Mary, daughter of Anthony and Frances EDGOOSE, was baptised at Pinchbeck on 24 June 1664.
Elizabeth, daughter of Anthony and Frances EDGOOSE, was baptised at Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, on 24 February 1666/67.
Anthony EDGOOSE, labourer, was buried at Pinchbeck on 2 April 1692.
Further references can be found in the will of Anthony's brother Richard EDGOOSE (1623-1702) of Whitechapel, Middlesex:
Anthony EDGOOSE, the Testator's brother.
Un-named daughter of Anthony EDGOOSE.
NOTES & QUERIES:
1. "The CAWDRONS first appear as gentry in 1634, though they have a very decent pedigree back to William CAWDRON, the King's Bailiff, of Heckington, who died in 1544, and whose daughter married "old Robert Carre," of Sleaford, who so enormously developed the wealth of his family, and who died in 1590, perhaps one of the richest commoners in England.
No doubt this alliance helped on the CAWDRONs. They intermarried with the KINGs of Ashby-de-Launde, and took the side of the Parliament. Robert CAWDRON, Esq., of Great Hale, was indicted for high treason, in 1643, for having joined with the Parliament against Charles I. Coming down to the 18th century we find them intermarrying with the DYMOKEs of Scrivelsby. They are supposed to be now extinct; but in 1714, Robert CAWDRON, of Great Hale, who married Jane, daughter, and eventually co-heir of Sir Charles DYMOKE, knt., mentions his sons Robert, Edward, Lewis, George, Dymoke, and Austin. His widow Jane died in 1734."
(From Rev. A. R. Maddison's Introduction to Lincolnshire Wills Second Series 1600-1617, page xxvii)
2. There is a reference to Anthonye CAWDRON, gentleman, in the will of Nicholas HARRYMAN of Quadring, Lincolnshire, dated proved in 1567. (PROB 11/49)
3. From the Will of Jane CAWDRON of Spalding, dated 14 March 1582/83, witnesses Anthony CAWDRON, Robert MASSYE and Jane CAWDRON. "To Elizabeth CAWDRON five poundes."
Proved at Lincoln 28 November 1607.
NOTE: "She was the daughter of James ASHTON, of Chadderton, in Lancashire, and was the wife of first, Nicholas WOLRICH, of Spalding; secondly, of Anthony CAWDRON, of Heckington, Co. Lincoln. Her daughter by her first husband, Jane, married Sir Matthew GAMLYN Knight, of Fulney Hall, in Spalding."
(Rev. A. R. Maddison's Lincolnshire Wills Second Series 1600-1617 No. 28 on pages 26-27. See footnote.)
4. From the Will of Baruch WHITTINGHAM of Sutterton, Lincolnshire, made 12 February 1609, Probate Boston 2 May 1610:
"......debts which I owe unto Mr. CAUDRON [sic] for my lands latelie purchased of him."
(Rev. A. R. Maddison's Lincolnshire Wills Second Series 1600-1617, Will No. 47 on pages 42 and 43)
5. From the Will of Richard WHITTINGHAM, gent., of Sutterton in Lincolnshire, made on 6 March 1615/16 and proved at Boston on 11 April 1616:
"And all my lands etc. in Sutterton late CAWDRON's"
(Rev. A. R. Maddison's Lincolnshire Wills Second Series 1600-1617, Will No. 125 on pages 128-130)
6. Frances CAWDRON: Where was she baptised? No trace at Pinchbeck between 1638 and 1646.
A Frances, daughter of Robert CAWDRON, was baptised at Great & Little Hale, Lincolnshire, on 23 March 1619 (=1619/20?)
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7. Frances CAWDRON:
Was CAWDRON her maiden name or was she a widow?
Anthony EDGOOSE (1620-1692) married Frances CAWDRON at Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, on 7 July 1663. She was his second wife.
Did she remarry after his death?
When did she die?
15. From Gosberton Parish Register:
1729 Widow CAWDRON buried at Gosberton 14 May.
1729/30 William CAWDRON buried at Gosberton 4 March.
(revised 06.06.2026)