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• Also Known As : Elene
• To Lady Kathleen: Great GrandParent

Elene married Esquire John Prater in 1505 in Inglesham, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom. John (son of Esquire William Prater and Alice Carew) was born in 1480-1492 in , Johnson, Kentucy, United States; died on 20 Jun 1547 in Inglesham, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
Source is from the Will of Elene Kingston Prator

1. Esquire George Prater was born in 1513 in Inglesham, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom; died on 15 Jun 1564 in Nunney, Somerset, England, United Kingdom; was buried in Latton Manor, Village Latton, Cricklade, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom.
2. Joane Prater was born in 1518 in Inglesham, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom; died in 1618 in Swindon, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom.
3. John Prater was born in 1520 in Inglesham, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom; died on 20 Jun 1547 in Inglesham, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom.

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• Occupation: Keeper of the Tower of London when Ann Boleyn was beheaded there
• Occupation: Provost Marshall
• To Lady Kathleen: Great GrandParent
• Occupation: 24 Apr 1538; Knight of the Garter

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(Research):The details in this biography come from the History of Parliament, a biographical dictionary of Members of the House of Commons.

Sir William Kingston of the Blackfriars, London, and Elmore and Painswick, Glos.(by 1476-1540), Kntd. 1513. KG nom. 24 Apr, inst. 18 May 1539. Yeoman, the chamber 1497, gent. usher 1504; j.p. Glos. 1506-d.; yeoman of the guard 1509; esquire of the body 1510; sheriff, Glos. 1514-15; jt. sewer and harbinger 1514; knight of the body 1519; carver l521; steward, duchy of Lancaster, Glos. and Herefs. 20 Mar 1521-d., chief steward, south parts of the duchy and Wales 29 Sep 1525-d.; constable, Thornbury castle. Glos. 29 Jan 1522, the Tower 28 May 1524-d.; capt, of the guard 1523; commr. subsidy, Glos. 1523, 1524, tenths of spiritualities 1535; Councillor by 1533; v.-chamberlain, the Household 1536-9, comptroller 12 Mar 1539-d.

The parentage of William Kingston has not been discovered. He cannot be placed among the Kingstons of Chilney and Kingston Bagpuze, Berkshire, who owned land in Somerset and Wiltshire, nor in the family of Kingston of Wendover, Buckinghamshire, in whose early 16th-century pedigree, however, the names William and George Kingston was to mention a

William married Mary Scrope. Mary was born in 1476 in Bolton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom; died in May 1537. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• To Lady Kathleen: Great GrandParent

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lady at the court of Henry VIII of England. She was particularly influential in gathering evidence against the King's second wife, Anne Boleyn during the latter's imprisonment in the Tower of London.

In 1536 five women were appointed to serve Queen Anne while she was imprisoned in the Tower and to report to Sir William Kingston, the Lieutenant of the Tower, and through him to the King's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, all that the Queen said. These women included Sir William Kingston's wife.