Nicholas Atwood1

M, b. 1538, d. 10 May 1586
     Nicholas was born in 1538 in Sanderstead Court, County Surrey, England. He was the son of John Hewson Atwood and Margaret (?) Nicholas had the position of Assistant Sergeant of the Queen’s Carriages, after the second year of Queen Elizabeth's reign.2 Nicholas married Olive Harmon, daughter of James Harmon, on 30 January 1569 in Westminister [Greater London], County Middlesex, England, at St. Martin's-in-the-Field.3 Nicholas departed this life on Saturday, 10 May 1586 in Sanderstead Court at age 48 years. He was buried there.4

Children of Nicholas Atwood and Olive Harmon

Citations

  1. [S1257] Elijah Francis Atwood, Ye Atte Wode Annuals, Part 1, page 3 - It is likely that John Hewson Atwood became keeper of the King’s Falcons, John Ownstead was Sergeant of he Queen’s Carriages, under Elizabeth…. John Hewson settled certain Sanderstead Manor lands on his youngest son Thomas, who died in 1569; Robert Atwood died in 1568. John Hewson Wood died in St. martin’s 1562, while Margaret had died in 1558. A Chancery suit includes statement that Court Roll in 1547 show Nicholas Atwood to have then been the heir of Sanderstead Manor.

    Page 5 - Nicholas Atwood, or Wood, was borne before 1539, hence probably at Sanderstead Court. His brass relates that he served Queen Elizabeth after the second year of her reign. His position was undoubtedly that of Assistant Sergeant of the Queen’s Carriages, with his cousin John Ownstead as Sargeant.
  2. [S1254] Charles Atwood, History of the Atwood Family in England & the United States, page 6 - …This Nycholas had, probably, some office connected to the stables of Queen Elizabeth. In an old parchment of English genealogy brought from England before the revolution, one name of the family recorded had annexed to it the words: “E. Stab. Elis. Reg.” – (of the stables of Queen Elizabeth).
  3. [S1257] Elijah Francis Atwood, Ye Atte Wode Annuals, page 5.
  4. [S1254] Charles Atwood, History of the Atwood Family in England & the United States, page 6 - "Here lyeth Nycholas Wood, the third son of John St Wood of Sanderstead Court, who served Queene Elizabeth sens the second year of her rayne, and deceased the 14 of May, 1586, leaving behind him a wife wyfe and children, - 7 sons, Harman, John, Nicholas, Thomas, James, John, Richard, Allis, Susan."