Edmund Reade

Notes:

Edmund Reade (1563-1623) = Elizabeth Cooke (d. ~1637)
Elizabeth Reade (1614-1672) = Gov. John Winthrop, Jr. (1606-1676)
Waitstill Winthrop (1642-1717) = Mary Browne (1656-1690)
John Winthrop (1681-1747) = Ann Dudley (1684-1776)
John Still Winthrop (1720-1776) = Jane Borland (1732-1760)
Thomas Lindall Winthrop (1760-1841) = Elizabeth Bowdoin Temple (1769-1825)
Robert Charles Winthrop (1809-1894) = Elizabeth Cabot Blanchard (1809-1842)
Robert Charles Winthrop (1834-1905) = Elizabeth Mason (1844-1924)
Margaret Tyndal Winthrop (1880-1970) = James Grant Forbes (1879-1955)
Rosemary Isabel Forbes (1913-2002) = Richard John Kerry (1915-2000)
John Forbes Kerry (1943- )

Edmund married Thomasine Wallenger on 14 Nov 1592. Thomasine (daughter of Thomas Wallenger) died before 7 Dec 1592; was buried on 7 Dec 1592 in Wickford, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edmund married Elizabeth Cooke about 1594. Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas Cooke) died about 1637. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Margaret Reade was born on 11 Jul 1598; was christened on 16 Jul 1598 in North Benfleet, Essex, England; died between 30 Aug 1672 and 24 Sep 1672 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.
2. Martha Reade was born on 13 Jul 1602 in North Benfleet, Essex, England; was christened on 22 Jul 1602 in North Benfleet, Essex, England.
3. Col. Thomas Reade was born before 15 Aug 1612; was christened on 15 Aug 1612 in North Benfleet, Essex, England; died between 25 Jul 1662 and 6 Nov 1662 in England.
4. Elizabeth Reade was born before 27 Nov 1614; was christened on 27 Nov 1614 in Wickford, Essex, England; died on 24 Nov 1672 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; was buried in Center Church, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut.

Notes:

"William Reade seems to have increased the family property to a great extent, from the evidence of his will. He was local assessor of the Lay Subsidies of 1563, 1567, 1598 and 1600, in all of which he was a large tax-payer." The Ancestry of Bethia Harris, citation details below]

William married Martha Church. Martha (daughter of John Church) was born in of Runwell, Essex, England; died before 16 Dec 1577 in Wickford, Essex, England; was buried on 16 Dec 1577 in Wickford, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Roger married (Unknown first wife of Roger Reade). (Unknown died before 1553. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From The Ancestry of Bethia Harris, citation details below:

The family of Reade, of Wickford, co. Essex, presents an interesting example of a gradual rise, by the acquisition of property, from the ranks of the yeomanry to the status of gentry. There is some slight evidence that the Reades had claims to gentility before the series of wills on which we rely in visualizing them commenced in 1534. When the brothers William and Thomas Reade applied to the College of Arms in 1654, arms were not granted but confirmed to them as follows: "Azure, a griffin segreant and a canton or; crest, a griffin's head erased azure, beak and ears or." In the pedigree of the family of Mildmay the match is recorded of a Thomas Mildmay, living in the town of Chelmsford, near Wickford, in 1521, and Agnes Reade, whose parentage is unknown but who was a daughter of a fam ily which bore as arms "Vert, a griffin segreant or."

Two at least of the farms owned by the Reades in Wickford and neighboring parishes, "Fryearne" and "Sopers," are still called by those names and can be easily identified.