George Dod of Highfields
15
May 1681 (baptised) to 4 January 1713 (buried)
DOD00110
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1681
George Dod was the son of George
and Charity Dod (DOD00101) and was born in 1681 and
baptised on 15 May 1681 (Cheshire, England,
Parish Registers, 1538-1909).
George Dod of Highfields,
Barrister-at-law, Middle Temple 1708, born 1681, educated Brasenose College,
Oxford, married 1708, his second cousin, Jane (buried 26 February 1712 or 1713,
aged 28), only surviving daughter of John Gouldsmyth, Barrister-at-law, of Stapeley Manor and Gouldsmyth’s
Mores, Cheshire (see Heralds’ Visitation of Cheshire 1663)(by his first wife Jane,
youngest daughter of Hugh Radcliffe, of Islington, Middlesex (see Herald’s
Visitation of London 1687), and granddaughter of John Goulsmyth, of Stapeley Manor and Gouldsmyth
Mores, by his first wife Judith, 3rd daughter of Robert Woodruffe,
of Poyle Park, Surrey, and was buried 4 January 1713/1714, leaving issue (Burke, John and Burke, Sir Bernard (1836)(Eighteenth
Edition, 1972), Bellyse Baker of Highfields in Burke’s Landed Gentry,
Volume 3, pages
35 to 38).
c 1705
He became a barrister-at-law.
1708
In 1708 George married his second
cousin, Jane, daughter of John Gouldsmyth, barrister of law of Stapely Manor, Cheshire.
The oldest son, George, born in
1681, married his cousin Jane Gouldsmyth of Stapeley
Manor. Both their fathers were barristers of the Middle Temple and George had
gone to Brasenose with Jane's brother, John. (Baker, J Bellyse (1982), Highfields,
Audlem: Sixteenth Century Home of the Dod and Baker Families, Audlem
District History Society, page 11).
1711
Jane Dod (DOD00130) was born in 1711.
In 1711 they had a daughter, Jane:
the following year her mother died in childbirth (Baker, J Bellyse (1982), Highfields, Audlem: Sixteenth
Century Home of the Dod and Baker Families,
Audlem District History Society, page 11).
Portrait of
George Dod by John Clostermann (Highfields)
1712
George’s wife Jane Dod died in
1712 and was buried at Audlem on 26 February 1712 (St James, Audlem Parish Records).
1712
George died in 1712 and was buried
on 4 January 1713 (St James, Audlem, Parish
Records).
A year later [Jane’s] father died, leaving
Jane to be brought up by her grandparents. Often she
would stay with her Aunt Diana Dod a who lived at Bridgnorth and it was here
that she met a young architect, William Baker. She was staying at Bridgnorth
with her grandmother in 1736 when the latter died. (Baker, J Bellyse
(1982), Highfields, Audlem:
Sixteenth Century Home of the Dod and Baker Families, Audlem
District History Society, page 11).
(Funeral fees due to the Minister and Clerk at
Nantwich for George Dod Esq of Highfields and Jane, his wife, 1718, Baker
Documents 24)