Thomas and Edith Rolfe
Page accessed April/May 2026 with the search term "Thomas Rolfe"
It is unfortunate that the name Rolfe is the same as that of the husband of Pocahontas. - Not needed in main section and irrelevant to BW
Need to expand on the local significance of Thomas Rolfe.
Thomas Rolfe esq. of Gosfield Place
Thomas Rolfe is a name associated with the History of Belchamp Walter, Essex. Thomas Rolfe of Gosfield married Edith Greene and their daughter was co-heir to the Belchamp Estate.
Thomas Rolfe was owner of Gosfield Hall and the founder to Gosfield church. He is buried and memorialied there.
The connection between the Rolfe's and the Wentworths is not entirely clear or obvious. The account from Thomas Wright in his history of Essex is a little vauge.
Thomas Wright in his History and Topography of Essex, 1831/36
John Helion, Esq. was their son and heir, who, dying in
1450, left, by his wife Editha, daughter and co heiress of Thomas Rolfe, Esq. of Gosfield, Philippa, married to Sir Thomas Montgomery, Esq. of Faulkbourne Hall; and Isabel, the wife of Humphrey Tyrell, Esq. of Little Warley, to whom she bore an only daughter, named Anne, who, by marriage, conveyed this and other great estates to Sir Roger Wentworth, of Codham Hall, in Wethersfield.
Quote from historyhouse.co.uk about Gosfield Church
The Church (St. Catherine,) is a small neat building, in the park, and has a tower, and three bells. On the north
side of it is a small chapel, originally built for a chantry priest, by Thomas Rolfe, who was buried here in 1440.
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Background to this page
Having seen some of my history pages being found by those making an Internet search I have decided to add
a bit more context on how the pages came about.
Edith Rolfe - according to GEDCOM
Brief Life History of Edith
When Edith Rolfe was born about 1420, in Gosfield, Essex, England, her father, Thomas Rolfe, was 35
and her mother, Hawkwood, was 40. She married John Helion, Esq. about 1435, in Essex, England, United Kingdom.
They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She died before 20 May 1497, in England.
