Katherine de Hastang

Katherine married Ralph de Stafford before 9 Feb 1327. Ralph (son of Edmund de Stafford and Margaret Basset) was born on 24 Sep 1301 in Amington in Tamworth, Warwickshire, England; was christened in St. Edith's, Tamworth, Warwickshire, England; died on 31 Aug 1372 in Tonbridge Castle, Kent, England; was buried in Tonbridge, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1375

Margaret married John de Stafford before 1337. John (son of William de Stafford and Isabel de Stafford) was born in of Bramshall, Staffordshire, England; died before 1369. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Nicholas de Beke. Nicholas (son of Robert de Beke and Mary) was born in of Hopton in St. Mary's, Staffordshire, England; died before 24 Jul 1359. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1355, of Stafford, Staffordshire, England

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Worcestershire 1383, 1384, 1401; knight of the shire for Staffordshire 1404.

Ralph married Maud Hastang after 20 Aug 1373. Maud (daughter of John Hastang and Maud Trussell) was born on 2 Feb 1359 in Chebsey, Staffordshire, England; was christened on 2 Feb 1359 in Chebsey, Staffordshire, England; died before 1410. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Warwickshire Oct 1383; Wiltshire Nov 1384; Dorset Sep 1388, Jan 1390, 1391, 1393; Somerset 1394; and Dorset 1395, Jan 1397, 1399, 1401, Jan 1404, 1406, 1407, and 1410.

Sheriff of Staffordshire 1 Nov 1383 to 11 Nov 1384, 1 Dec 1388 to 15 Nov 1389, Somerset and Dorset 18 Nov 1386-7, 21 Oct 1391 to 18 Oct 1392, 22 Nov to 19 Dec.1405, and 29 Nov 1410 to 10 Dec 1411.

Called one of the wealthiest commoners in England of his time.

"In 1388, Humphrey Stafford was caught up in the crisis of the Lords Appellant, being required by them to take oaths of loyalty to the regime in Dorset. It was at this time – in a possibly related incident – that members of the Cornish gentry conspired to assassinate him, eventually managing to shoot him 'with a certain engine called a "gunne" so that his life was despaired of.' However, since at the same time he loaned King Richard II 100 marks, and later received a royal appointment to assess the Appellants' forfeited lands there, the king clearly did not see Stafford as a major player in the rebellion locally. Following Richard II's deposition by Henry Bollingbroke in 1399, Stafford does not seem to have lost royal favour by his previous support for the old king; indeed, within a few weeks of Henry's coronation he was referred to as a 'King's Knight' and was granted the royal manor of Seavington, Somerset. By now Stafford was, in E.F. Jacob's words, 'a shire knight of standing and influence,' and of all the gentry in the county, Humphrey was 'at their head for wealth.' His estates were valued in the 1412 tax assessment at around £570 per annum." [Wikipedia, accessed 25 Sep 2020]

Humphrey married Alice Grenville before 1365. Alice (daughter of John de Grenville) was born about 1344; died before 1386. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Humphrey married Elizabeth d'Aumarle between Jun 1386 and Jan 1388. Elizabeth (daughter of William d'Aumarle and Agnes) was born about 1345; died on 17 Oct 1413; was buried in Abbotsbury Abbey, Dorset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called de Beek.

Elizabeth married Robert de Swynnerton before 1357. Robert (son of Thomas de Swynnerton and Maud de Holand) was born about 1340 in of Swinnerton, Stone, Staffordshire, England; died before 7 Apr 1387. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Worcestershire, 1415.

From Wikipedia:

Stafford's early life has been described by Carol Rawcliffe as being 'full of violent incident.' In early 1401, he was suspected of the murder of a Worcestershire man, but although the earl of Warwick was sent to arrest him, he appears to have avoided capture. His father entered into bonds to keep the peace with the victim's family, and within a coupe of years, Humphrey Stafford was a member of the Prince of Wales' retinue. He probably fought with him at the Battle of Shrewsbury (21 July 1403), and by 1404, he had received a Royal pardon for the murder and exoneration by the King's council. His father and uncle (Humphrey Stafford (died 1413) provided securities for him. However, he was soon further embroiled in law-breaking and violence. In 1405, William, Lord Abergavenny accused him of illegally entering Bergavenny's manor and forest of Feckenham, including illegally hunting and fishing, and beating up his reatiners. At least one of those servants succeeded in having Stafford bound over to keep the peace with him.

In 1410, Stafford was elected MP for Worcestershire, and a year later his father died, leaving him a patrimony based there, Staffordshire and Warwickshire. Following his father's death, he again agreed to join the Prince of Wales' army in Calais, although probably did not leave until early 1412. Rawcliffe notes that at some point around this time, Stafford had patched up relations with some of his earlier adversaries. For example, the earl of Warwick appointed him deputy Sheriff of Worcestershire in November 1411, and when he was elected MP in 1415 his running mate was the same retainer of Lord Bergavenny that had successfully had him bound-over ten years earlier.

Stafford joined the second royal campaign to France in 1417, during which campaign in Normandy he was appears to have been knighted. It also seems that it was on this campaign that Humphrey Stafford died on 20 February 1419.

Humphrey married Elizabeth Burdet before 1400. Elizabeth (daughter of John Burdet and Katherine Arderne) died before 1419. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married John Tuchet before 1398. John (son of John Tuchet and Maud) was born on 23 Apr 1371 in of Ashwell, Rutland, England; died on 19 Dec 1408. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Edmund Lowe. Edmund was born between 1358 and 1366 in of Whittington, Staffordshire, England; died after 1422. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Staffordshire 1403-04; Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset 1415-16. Knight of the shire for Staffordshire in 1406 and knight of the shire for Dorset ten times between Apr 1414 and 1432.

He was Knight of the Body to Henry V at his coronation in 1413. In his later years he was styled Sir Humphrey "of the silver hand," because of his use of an artificial limb after the loss of one of his own.

Humphrey married Elizabeth Maltravers before Oct 1397. Elizabeth (daughter of John Mautravers and Elizabeth d'Aumarle) was born about 1378; died before Jan 1420; was buried in Abbotsbury Abbey, Dorset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1428

Notes:

Shortly after the death of her first husband, Humphrey Peshale (d. <1388), she was abducted by John de Ipstones, described in several places as a notorious bully, and forced to marry John's son William Ipstones and convey her property to him.

Maud married Humphrey Peshale before 1381. Humphrey (son of Richard de Peshale and Joan de Chetwynd) was born in of Over Tayne, Staffordshire, England; died before 1388. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married William Ipstones in Dec 1388. William (son of John de Ipstones and Elizabeth Corbet) was born in of Ipstones, Staffordshire, England; died in Oct 1399. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married John Savage before 1401. John (son of John Savage and Margaret Danyers) was born in of Clifton, Cheshire, England; died on 1 Aug 1450. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Worcestershire, 1423-24, 1426, 1447, 1449. Knight of the shire for Staffordshire 1427-28. Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire, 1423-24, 1430-01. Sheriff of Worcestershire, 1431-32. Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 1437-38. Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire 1438-39. Sheriff of Herefordshire and the Welsh Marches, 1446-47.

With his brother William, he led a force of royal loyalists in an attempt to suppress the rebellion of Jack Cade. The royal contingent was ambushed by a larger group of rebels at Sevenoaks and he and his brother were both killed. Cade took the expensive clothing and armor of Humphrey Stafford as his own.

Humphrey married Eleanor Aylesbury after 2 Jan 1424. Eleanor (daughter of Thomas Aylesbury and Katherine Pabenham) was born about 1406; died after 1475. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married John Luttrell before 1423. John (son of Hugh Luttrell, Mayor of Bordeaux and Katherine Beaumont) was born between 1394 and 1398 in of Dunster, Williton, Somerset, England; died on 30 Jul 1430. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Escheator of Stafforshire in 1424. Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1440-41.

Family/Spouse: Alice Butnore. Alice (daughter of William Butnore) died after 1448. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Edmund Cheyne before 1424. Edmund (son of William Cheyne and Cecily Strecche) was born on 4 Dec 1401 in of Avon in Bremhill, Wiltshire, England; died on 30 May 1430. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Walter Tailboys before 1432. Walter (son of Walter Tailboys and Margaret) was born in of Goltho, Lincolnshire, England; died on 13 Apr 1444. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Between 1396 and 1397

Alice married Randal Brereton before 29 Sep 1410. Randal (son of William de Brereton and Margaret Done) was born in of Malpas, Cheshire, England; died after 1436. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married William Stanley on 15 Dec 1424. William (son of William Stanley and Blanche Arderne) was born about 1405 in of Hooton in Wirral, Cheshire, England; died after 6 Feb 1456. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 29 Jun 1463

Notes:

Chamberlain of Middlewich. Bailiff of the Forest of Macclesfield. According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (citation details below), he extended Savage interests by obtaining a stake in the Middlewich salt industry. He was never knighted.

John married Eleanor Brereton before 1423. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married John Dutton in 1418. John (son of Peter Dutton and Elizabeth Butler) was born in of Dutton, Runcorn, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Richard Beauchamp on 27 Jan 1447 in Alcester, Warwickshire, England. Richard (son of John Beauchamp and Margaret Ferrers) was born about 1435 in of Powick, Worcestershire, England; died on 19 Jan 1503 in Broomhill, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Berkeley. William (son of Maurice Berkeley and Ellen Montfort) was born about 1436 in of Weoley in Northfield, Worcestershire, England; died in 1501. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Wikipedia:

Sir Humphrey Stafford, and his brother Thomas Stafford, joined by Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell, led the inauspicious Stafford and Lovell Rebellion in 1486.

The conspirators hoped to restore the Yorkist monarchy. While Lord Lovell went to Yorkshire, the brothers Stafford went to the Midlands. On 23 April 1486, after a failed attempt to seize Henry VII in York, Lord Lovell escaped to Burgundy. In the meantime, the Stafford brothers's rebellion in Worcester had failed, in part due to lack of planning and in part due to the fact that King Henry had some support in that area.

During this time Henry was on a nationwide tour of the country. As soon as he advanced towards Worcester in order to eliminate Yorkist support, on 11 May 1486 the Stafford brothers again fled to sanctuary, this time at Culham.

Despite the fact that Stafford had sought sanctuary at the church in Culham, King Henry VII decided to force Stafford to kiss his feet. Stafford was forcibly removed from his sanctuary on the night of 13 May by John Barrowman and one follower. Henry then ordered the execution of Humphrey Stafford of Grafton, but pardoned the younger Thomas Stafford.

The arrest prompted a series of protests to Pope Innocent VIII over the breaking of sanctuary; these resulted in a Papal bull in August which severely limited the rights of sanctuary, excluding it completely in cases of treason, thereby vindicating the King's actions.

Humphrey was executed at Tyburn on 8 July 1486.

Humphrey married Katherine Fray after 1462. Katherine (daughter of John Fray and Agnes Danvers) was born about 1447; died on 12 May 1482. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He fought at the battle of Wakefield, 30 Dec 1460. That he died less than two months later suggests that his death was a result of injuries in the battle. That he was posthumously attainted indicates that he must have fought on the Yorkist side.

James married Elizabeth Courtenay between 1450 and 1451. Elizabeth (daughter of Philip Courtenay and Elizabeth Hungerford) was born in Exeter, Devon, England; died on 1 Sep 1493; was buried in Dunster, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married Robert Grey before 1447. Robert (son of Reynold Grey and Joan Astley) was born about 1420 in of Whittington, Staffordshire, England; died before 20 Jun 1460. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married John Willoughby before 4 Mar 1445. John (son of John Willoughby and Jane Welby) was born about 1422 in of Kirton-in-Holand, Lincolnshire, England; died between Dec 1475 and Aug 1477. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Knightley, Staffordshire, England

Notes:

Justice of the peace for Staffordshire. According to The Parshall Family (citation details below), he was sheriff of Shropshire in 1463.

Family/Spouse: Lettice Harcourt. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Agnes Egerton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Randolph.

Family/Spouse: Katherine Bulkeley. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Cheshire in 1463. In 1450 he fought for the king against Jack Cade.

Family/Spouse: Alice Hoghton. Alice (daughter of Richard de Hoghton and Margaret) was born in of Mollington Banastre, Cheshire, England; died after 11 Mar 1466. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ralph Mainwaring. Ralph (son of Randall Mainwaring and Margery de Venables) was born in of Kermingham, Cheshire, England; died between 1473 and 1474. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Clifton, Cheshire, England
• Alternate birth: Abt 1422

Notes:

Fought at Bosworth Field. Mayor of Chester, 1484-86. Chamberlain of Middlewich.

"Although there is a possibility that John (III) entered the service of the house of York, it seems more likely that it was his son Sir John (IV) Savage (c. 1423–1495) who did so. He was therefore well placed to benefit from Henry VI's deposition. John (III) served as deputy to Sir Thomas Stanley, afterwards Baron Stanley, as steward of the duchy lordship of Halton, Cheshire. John (IV) married Stanley's daughter Katherine; the couple's children were many and prominent. Aside from John (V), Savage's son and heir, there was Thomas Savage (d. 1507), who rose to be bishop of Rochester in 1492, and of London in 1497, and archbishop of York in 1501, Sir Humphrey, Lawrence, James, Sir Edmund, Christopher, William, George, and Richard. His daughters made good matches, with Ellen being married to Peter Legh of Lyme, Katherine to Thomas Legh of Adlington, Margaret to Edmund Trafford of Trafford, Lancashire, Alice to Roger Pilkington (d. 1527) , and Elizabeth to John Leek of Langford, Derbyshire. John (IV) was knighted at Elizabeth Woodville's coronation in May 1465, and although he is not always easily distinguished from his son and namesake, he probably also became a knight of the body to Edward IV, and a banneret after the Scottish campaign of 1482; he was also very prominent in local affairs in Cheshire and the north midlands. In 1484, as mayor of Chester, he presided when his sons were made freemen of the city." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below]

Family/Spouse: Katherine Stanley. Katherine (daughter of Thomas Stanley and Joan Goushill) was buried in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married William Booth in 1443. William was born in of Dunham Massey, Bucklow, Cheshire, England; died on 6 Apr 1477. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Robert Willoughby before 28 Feb 1495. Robert (son of Robert Willoughby and Blanche Champernoun) was born between 1470 and 1472 in of Brook in Westbury, Wiltshire, England; died on 10 Nov 1521. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Richard Lygon about 1490. Richard (son of Thomas Lygon and Anne Giffard) was born between 1467 and 1477 in of Madresfield, Worcestershire, England; died on 1 May 1512 in Madresfield, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married John Gyse before 23 Sep 1483. John (son of John de Gyse and Alice Wysham) was born in of Elmore, Gloucestershire, England; died on 30 Sep 1501; was buried in Elmore, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Coningsby. Elizabeth (daughter of Humphrey Coningsby and Alice Fereby) died between 30 Nov 1545 and 8 May 1546. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Richard Neville about 1483. Richard (son of Henry Neville and Joan Bourgchier) was born about 1468 in of Snape, Yorkshire, England; died before 28 Dec 1530 in Snape Castle, Yorkshire, England; was buried in Well, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Humphrey married Margaret Fogge after 1490. Margaret (daughter of John Fogge and Alice Haute) died before 1532. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset 1488-89.

He was created a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Elizabeth, wife of Henry VII. In 1501 he was selected to escort Katherine of Aragón on her arrival in England from Crewkerne to Sherborne.

Hugh married Margaret Hill in 1487. Margaret (daughter of Robert Hill and Alice Stourton) died before 1508. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hugh married Welthian Yarde before Feb 1508. Welthian died after 7 Jun 1521. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Whittington, Staffordshire, England
• Alternate birth: Bef 1449

Family/Spouse: Anne Fielding. Anne (daughter of William Fielding and Agnes Seyton alias St. Liz) was born in of Lutterworth, Leicestershire, England; died before 20 Oct 1507. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Under-sheriff of Cornwall 1478. Sheriff of Devon 1480-81, 1487-88. Knight of the Body to Henry VII. King's councillor. Lord Steward of the Household. Receiver of the Duchy of Cornwall. Admiral of the Fleet and Marshal of the Army in the Boulogne campaign of 1492.

He was with Buckingham's rebels against Richard III in 1483, and upon its failure, he took refuge in Brittany with Henry Tudor. Attainted in 1484, he was in exile at the court of Charles VIII of France until 1485, when he returned to England and fought at Bosworth Field.

He was summoned to Parliament by writ 12 Aug 1491.

Family/Spouse: Blanche Champernoun. Blanche (daughter of John Champernoun and Elizabeth Bikebery) was born about 1453; died before Dec 1480. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"[T]he IPM of Richard Peshale taken in 1524 stipulates that his heirs were his two first cousins, children of his Peshale aunts. This was doubtless because Richard's ?sisters, Eleanor, Joan, and Elizabeth Peshale, were his heirs of the half-blood. Another heir of the half-blood to Richard Peshale would be his great-nephew, John Blount, Esq. In this time period, heirs of the half-blood were excluded from inheritance, which practice commenced back in the reign of King John. Given this evidence, it would appear that Eleanor, Joan, and Elizabeth Peshale were the children of Humphrey Peshale, Esq. (died 1498), by his 1st unknown wife, not by his 2nd wife, Lettice Harcourt." [Douglas Richardson, SGM, 21 Dec 2021]

Family/Spouse: Humphrey Wolryche. Humphrey (son of Thomas Wolryche and Elizabeth) was born in of Dudmaston in Quatt, Shropshire, England; died in 1533. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Isabella Stanley. Isabella (daughter of John Stanley) died after 1505. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Ipstones, Staffordshire, England

Notes:

Also called Randolph.

Family/Spouse: Emma Carington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Cheshire 16 Jan 1462.

Family/Spouse: Margaret Bromley. Margaret (daughter of John Bromley and Joane Hexstall) died in 1469. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margaret Tytley. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Pallbearer to Edward IV. Said to have had charge of the left wing at Bosworth Field; subsequently made Knight of the Garter by Henry VII.

Killed at the siege of Boulogne. According to J. D. Mackie, The Earlier Tudors 1485-1558 (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1952), "The siege was not pressed hard, and save that Sir John Savage was killed nothing of note occured."

"Traditionally, the wife of Sir John Savage is claimed to have been Dorothy Vernon, a descendant of the Vernons of Shipbrook, Cheshire. This claim is based upon the Visitation of Cheshire of 1580 [...T]here is no evidence that Dorothy Vernon even existed." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]

"Sir John (V) Savage (d. 1492), who fought for Edward IV at Tewkesbury, became a royal carver and knight of the body, and was second in order of precedence when Edward was buried. He received many important grants, including that of the constableship of Hanley Castle, Worcestershire. As such close supporters of Edward IV, and associates of the Stanleys, it is not surprising that John (V) and his father seem to have been mistrusted by Richard III. Thomas Savage may have been abroad during the latter's reign and possibly acted as the Savages' direct contact with Henry Tudor. According to Polydore Vergil, John (V) was one of those who 'invited' Tudor to invade. He certainly played an important role at Bosworth, where he commanded the left wing. The author of Bosworth Feilde described him and his men, clad in their distinctive white livery hood:



Sir John Savage, that hardy Knight,

deathes dentes he delt that day

with many a white hood in fight,

that sad men were at assay.



As a result of this support, in 1486 he received an extensive grant in the north midlands of the forfeited estates of John, Lord Zouche, and Francis, Viscount Lovell, valued at £158 p.a. or more. He also received extensive grants of office, especially in Worcestershire and Gloucestershire. The support of the Savages for Henry Tudor guaranteed them a growing prominence at court, and at eight out of eleven council meetings for which evidence survives during the period June–July 1486 either John (V), or Thomas, or both, were present. Sir John (V) Savage led the force that seized Humphrey Stafford from sanctuary at Culham in 1486. [...] Sir John (V) was killed at the siege of Boulogne in 1492." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 2 Sep 1507, Cawood Castle, Cawood, North Yorkshire, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1492

Ellen married Peter Legh about 1467. Peter (son of Peter Legh and Mabel Croft) was born about 1455 in of Lyme in Prestbury, Cheshire, England; died on 11 Aug 1527 in Lyme in Prestbury, Cheshire, England; was buried in Winwick, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Dugdale, in the 1664-65 visitation of Lancashire (citation details below), calls her "Elizabeth, dau. of Sir John Savage".

Margaret married Edmund Trafford after 1480. Edmund (son of John de Trafford and Elizabeth Assheton) was born about 1454 in of Trafford, Lancashire, England; died on 15 Aug 1513. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Katherine Montfort before Jan 1473. Katherine (daughter of Robert Montfort and Mary Stapleton) died on 7 Dec 1498. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Margaret Neville after 22 Nov 1505. Margaret (daughter of Richard Neville and Anne Stafford) was born on 9 Mar 1495. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Gloucestershire 1534-35. Sheriff of Worcestershire 1548-49.

Richard married Margery Greville before 1511. Margery (daughter of William Greville and (Unknown) Arrell) died in 1542. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called John Guise.

Family/Spouse: Tacy Grey. Tacy (daughter of John Grey and Anne Grey) died before 15 Nov 1558; was buried on 15 Nov 1558 in Elmore, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Isabel Dennis. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Edward Willoughby after 22 Nov 1505. Edward (son of Robert Willoughby and Elizabeth Beauchamp) was born in of Alcester, Warwickshire, England; died in Nov 1517. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Northamptonshire 1547-48. Esquire of the Body to Henry VIII.

Humphrey married Margaret Tame after 10 Feb 1526. Margaret (daughter of Edmund Tame and Agnes Greville) died after Jan 1558. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married Roger Yorke before 1520. Roger (son of Walter Yorke, Mayor of Exeter and Welthian Yarde) was born in of Wellington, Shropshire, England; died on 2 Feb 1535. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Richard Saint Barbe. Richard (son of John Saint Barbe and Jane Sydenham) was born between 1470 and 1480 in of Ashington, Somerset, England; died on 10 Dec 1530. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 11 Nov 1521

Notes:

Steward of the Duchy of Cornwall. Warden of the Stanneries in Devon and Cornwall.

Robert married Elizabeth Beauchamp before 28 Feb 1495. Elizabeth (daughter of Richard Beauchamp and Elizabeth Stafford) died on 10 Aug 1503. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also spelled Elizabeth Woolrich.

Family/Spouse: Edward Hopton. Edward (son of Henry Hopton) was born in of Rockhill in Greet, Shropshire, England; died before 29 May 1557. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Catherine married John Blount on 1 Aug 1492. John (son of Thomas Blount and Anne Croft) was born before 1471; died on 27 Feb 1531. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ormerod has him as "Randle" Brereton and calls him chamberlain of Chester, 21 Hen. 7., and knight of the body to Henry VII. But this individual is given a different wife, and may be a different person.

Family/Spouse: Joan. Joan died after 12 Jul 1531. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

VCH Lancaster (citation details below), evidently in error, calls her father "Sir Thomas Stanley of Hooton", but nonetheless correctly notes that she was "granddaughter and coheir of Sir John Bromley, by whom the estate of Gerard's Bromley came to this family."

Margery married Peter Gerard about 1476. Peter (son of Thomas Gerard and Cecily Fouleshurst) was born about 1460 in of Bryn in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, England; died on 20 Jun 1494. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Julian Spurway before 29 Mar 1548. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robert Needham. Robert (son of Robert Needham) was born in of Cranage, Cheshire, England; died in 1448. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to Frank Renaud (citation details below), he was "afflicted with lameness."

Peter married Jane Gerard before 1488. Jane (daughter of Peter Gerard and Margery Stanley) died on 5 May 1510. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Peter married Margaret de Tyldesley about 17 Jan 1514. Margaret was born in of Tyldesley, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margery married Thomas Gerard before 19 Aug 1511. Thomas (son of Peter Gerard and Margery Stanley) was born about 1488 in of Bryn in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, England; died on 7 Nov 1523 in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Longford. Elizabeth died on 27 Jan 1548. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 11 Nov 1519

Family/Spouse: Ellen Montgomery. Ellen (daughter of John Montgomery) died after 18 Nov 1523. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Fulk Greville before 11 Apr 1526. Fulk (son of Edward Greville and Anne Denton) was born in of London, England; died on 10 Nov 1559; was buried in Alcester, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Berkeley. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called William Guise.

William married Mary Rotsey before 1540. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Henry Ligon. Henry (son of Richard Lygon and Margery Greville) was born in of Upton St. Leonard's, Gloucestershire, England; died on 31 Jul 1577. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Eleanor.

Family/Spouse: Anthony Cope. Anthony (son of John Cope and Bridget Raleigh) was born in of Adstone, Northamptonshire, England; died between 6 Jun 1558 and 20 Dec 1558. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ellen married Thomas Barlow before 1568. Thomas was born in of Huncote in Narborough, Leicestershire, England; died after 1571. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Edmund Percival before 1547. Edmund (son of James Percival and Joan Kenne) was born about 1506 in of Weston-in-Gordano, Somerset, England; died on 21 Sep 1551. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Third son of Richard Saint Barbe and Margery Grey. He was a member of Henry VIII's privy council, and one of the witnesses who signed that king's will.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1510, of Homington, Wiltshire, England

Notes:

Second son of Richard Saint Barbe and Margery Grey. He was a merchant based in Salisbury. In 1547 he purchased the manor of Homington, Wiltshire and the vicarage of Compton Chamberlaine from his brother William Saint Barbe, who was a member of Henry VIII's privy council.

Thomas St. Barbe (d. 1563) = Joan (d. 1573)
George St. Barbe = Mary Warburton
Ursula St. Barbe = William Ussher (d. 1671)
Adam Ussher, Archdeacon of Clonfert (1650-1713) = Rebecca Wye (d. 1694)
William Ussher, Archdeacon of Clonfert (1680-1744) = Mary Jenney
Mary Jenney Ussher = Richard Molesworth (d. 1758)
Henrietta Molesworth = John Staples (1736-1820)
Elizabeth Staples = Rev. Hugh Hamilton
Rev. Thomas Hamilton (1826-1905) = Mary Warren (1826-1916)
Florence Augusta Hamilton (1862-1908) = Albert James Lewis (1863-1929)
Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963)

Making TWK a ninth cousin twice removed to C. S. Lewis.

Family/Spouse: Joan. Joan died after 17 Jan 1573. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Margaret Neville after 22 Nov 1505. Margaret (daughter of Richard Neville and Anne Stafford) was born on 9 Mar 1495. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Katherine married Thomas Anderson about 1545. Thomas (son of Thomas Anderson) was born in of London, England; died between 24 May 1552 and 20 Mar 1554. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Henry VIII, King of England. Henry (son of Henry VII, King of England and lord of Ireland and Elizabeth of York, Queen Consort of England) was born on 28 Jun 1491 in Greenwich, Kent, England; died on 28 Jan 1547 in Hampton Court Palace, Richmond upon Thames, London, England; was buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Gilbert Tailboys about 1519. Gilbert (son of George Tailboys and Elizabeth Gascoigne) was born before 1500 in of Kyme, Lincolnshire, England; died on 15 Apr 1530; was buried in Priory church, Kyme, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margery married John Holford about 1506. John (son of George Holford and Isabel Legh) was born in of Holford, Cheshire, England; died about 1546. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane married Peter Legh before 1488. Peter (son of Peter Legh and Ellen Savage) was born about 1479 in of Lyme in Prestbury, Cheshire, England; died on 4 Dec 1541 in Bradley-in-Burtonwood, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

VCH Lancaster (citation details below) calls him "a turbulent and lawless man." He was killed while fighting the Scots at Berwick-upon-Tweed.

Thomas married Margery Trafford before 19 Aug 1511. Margery (daughter of Edmund Trafford and Margaret Savage) died on 10 May 1540. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1632

Oliver married Margaret Torbock before 1587. Margaret (daughter of William Torbock and Katherine Gerard) was born after 14 May 1558; died after 1640. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Maud Brereton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Judge of the Common Pleas, 1457; MP for London, 1450; Judge of the King's Bench, 1472.

Notes:

Richardson's Royal Ancestry (citation details below) (3:83; 3:557) makes Jane Legh a daughter of Piers Legh and his first wife, Jane Gerard. But that would make Jane Leigh and Thomas Gerard--who are noted as having been second cousins through common Savage ancestry--into first cousins, both grandchildren of Peter Gerard and Margaret Stanley. John Blythe Dobson (citation details below) says that "there is no doubt" that Jane Legh who married Thomas Gerard was a daughter, not of Piers Legh's first wife Jane Gerard, but rather his second wife Margaret de Tyldesley, and this seems more plausible.

Jane married Thomas Gerard before 1522, and was divorced on 27 Nov 1550. Thomas (son of Thomas Gerard and Margery Trafford) was born between 1502 and 1512 in of Bryn in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, England; died after 1550. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Constance Rowson. Constance was born about 1537; died after 1567. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: (Unknown mistress of Thomas Gerard). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1512
• Alternate death: Between 1550 and 1560
• Alternate death: 1553
• Alternate death: Between 1553 and 1560

Notes:

Sheriff of Lancashire 1548, 1553.

In 1536 he was expected to bring a contingent of 450 men to serve against the Pilgrimage of Grace. He was knighted in 1544 during the invasion of Scotland.

John Blythe Dobson (citation details below) says he was at some unspecified time "M.P. for Lancashire", but the History of Parliament entry for his son, also Thomas Gerard (d. 1601), says nothing about the elder Thomas Gerard having been in Parliament.

Thomas married Jane Legh before 1522, and was divorced on 27 Nov 1550. Jane (daughter of Peter Legh and Margaret de Tyldesley) was born after 1513; died after 20 Nov 1575 in Bromley, Staffordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robert Langley. Robert was born in of Agecroft Hall, Agecroft, Pendlebury, Lancashire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Jane Booth.

Joan married Thomas Holford after 28 Jun 1539. Thomas (son of John Holford and Margery Brereton) was born in of Holford, Cheshire, England; died on 24 Sep 1569. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Giles Reade. Giles (son of William Reade and Katherine Rowdon) was born about 1541 in of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England; died in 1611; was buried in Bredon, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Edward Basset. Edward (son of William Basset and Jane Ashe) was born in of Uley, Gloucestershire, England; died between 3 Jun 1601 and 5 Nov 1602. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called John Guise.

John married Jane Pauncefoot on 27 Jun 1564 in Elmore, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Christian married Richard Lowle about 1570. Richard (son of John Lowle and Apolyn Leversedge) was born about 1535 in Somerset, England; died before 7 Jun 1577. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Alice Symbarbe.

Alice married Christopher Batt on 8 Jul 1568 in St. Martin's, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. Christopher (son of John Batt and Margaret Thistlethwaite) was born between 1538 and 1540; died before 31 Aug 1581; was buried on 31 Aug 1581 in St. Martin's, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Fulk Greville before 11 Apr 1526. Fulk (son of Edward Greville and Anne Denton) was born in of London, England; died on 10 Nov 1559; was buried in Alcester, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lucretia married Edmund Bressey in Feb 1566 in St. Mary Colechurch, London, England. Edmund (son of Ralph Bressey and Margaret Massey) was born about 1539 in of St. Dionis Backchurch, Langbourn, London, England; died on 7 Nov 1612 in Nettleden, Buckinghamshire, England; was buried in Nettleden, Buckinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Duke of Richmond and Somerset. Earl of Nottingham. Died of consumption. He was the only illegitimate child of Henry VIII to be acknowledged by his father.

Notes:

According to Royal Ancestry (citation details below), Thomas Holford and Jane Booth were married by dispensation, being related in the 3rd equal and 3rd and 4th mixed degrees of affinity. What we can see is that Jane Booth was a G3-granddaughter of Maud Swynnerton (b. 1370) by her third wife John Savage, and Thomas Holford was a G4-grandson of Maud by her second wife William Ipstones.

Thomas married Joan Booth after 28 Jun 1539. Joan (daughter of William Booth and Ellen Montgomery) was born about 1500; died after 5 Nov 1545. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Constance Rowson. Constance was born about 1537; died after 1567. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: (Unknown mistress of Thomas Gerard). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1512
• Alternate death: Between 1550 and 1560
• Alternate death: 1553
• Alternate death: Between 1553 and 1560

Notes:

Sheriff of Lancashire 1548, 1553.

In 1536 he was expected to bring a contingent of 450 men to serve against the Pilgrimage of Grace. He was knighted in 1544 during the invasion of Scotland.

John Blythe Dobson (citation details below) says he was at some unspecified time "M.P. for Lancashire", but the History of Parliament entry for his son, also Thomas Gerard (d. 1601), says nothing about the elder Thomas Gerard having been in Parliament.

Thomas married Jane Legh before 1522, and was divorced on 27 Nov 1550. Jane (daughter of Peter Legh and Margaret de Tyldesley) was born after 1513; died after 20 Nov 1575 in Bromley, Staffordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

As Douglas Richardson points out (Royal Ancestry 4:27), "she is called Anne and Mary indifferently in English records."

Anne married Benjamin Gill before 16 Jul 1641. Benjamin was born in St. Andrew's, Holborn, London, England; died on 22 Nov 1655 in Port Tobacco, Charles, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sergeant-at-law of Cheshire, 1461, and bailiff of Drakelowe and Rudheth, 1461 and 1472-76.

Family/Spouse: Isabel Bromley. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Torbock. William (son of Thomas Torbock and Elizabeth Moore) was born about 1526 in of Torbock Hall, Lancashire, England; died between 1558 and 1559. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Grace. Grace died before 1586. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Reddish. John was born in of Reddish Hall, Manchester, Lancashire, England; died about 1569. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Bruen. John (son of John Bruen and Mary Oteley) was born in of Bruen Stapleford in Tarvin, Cheshire, England; died on 14 May 1587; was buried on 15 May 1587. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Richard Brent in 1594. Richard (son of Richard Brent and Mary Hugford) was born in of Larkstoke in Ilmington, Gloucestershire, England; died before 1 May 1652; was buried on 1 May 1652 in St. Mary's, Ilmington, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane married John Deighton on 12 Apr 1605 in St. Nicholas, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. John (son of Thomas Deighton and Anne) was born before 18 Nov 1568; was christened on 18 Nov 1568 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England; died on 16 May 1640; was buried in St. Nicholas, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Robert Haviland on 7 Jul 1604 in Kenn, Somerset, England. Robert (son of Matthew Haviland, Mayor of Bristol and Mary Kitchin) was born before 11 Feb 1577 in of Hawkesbury Barnes, Gloucestershire, England; was christened on 11 Feb 1577 in St. Werbergh's, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England; died before 19 Jul 1648; was buried on 19 Jul 1648 in St. Werbergh's, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1602
• Alternate birth: 1603
• Alternate death: Aft 28 Feb 1677

Notes:

One of JTS's eleven proven "gateway ancestors."

Audrey married William Almy after 17 Jul 1626 in Lutterworth, Leicestershire, England. William (son of Christopher Almy and (Unknown) Clarke) was born between 1600 and 1601 in of South Kilworth, Leicestershire, England; died between 28 Feb 1677 and 23 Apr 1677 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Kingston Seymour, Somerset, England
• Alternate death: 8 Jan 1664, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts

Notes:

One of TWK's twelve proven "gateway ancestors", and LDN's sole one so far. He emigrated to New England in 1639, when he was an old man, with his wife and several other family members, including his son John and John's first wife whose name has been lost. The ship on which they travelled was probably the Jonathan.

Before emigrating he was an assessor for the parish of Kingston Seymour in Somerset, and (probably) a merchant in Bristol.

His descendants include the "Boston Brahmin" Lowell family, as in "the Lowells speak only to Cabots, and the Cabots speak only to God." Notable individuals descended from him include:

James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), poet, critic, editor, abolitionist, and diplomat

Charles Russell Lowell (1835-1864), Civil War general

Percival Lowell (1855-1916), astronomer, founder of Lowell Observatory in Arizona, brother of Abbott Lawrence Lowell and Amy Lowell

Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856-1943), president of Harvard University, 1909-33, brother of Percival Lowell and Amy Lowell

Amy Lowell (1874-1925), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, sister of Percival Lowell and Abbott Lawrence Lowell

Robert Lowell (1917-1977), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet

Herman Melville (1819-1891), novelist

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), Nobel Prize-winning poet

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), playwright

William Bundy (1917-2000), foreign-policy advisor to JFK & LBJ

McGeorge Bundy (1919-1996), brother of the above, National Security Advisor to JFK and LBJ, architect of the Vietnam War

Elliot Richardson (1920-1999), resigned as Nixon's Attorney General rather than obey Nixon's order to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox

Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney (1941- ), 46th Vice President and servant of Beelzebub

Tuesday Weld (1943- ), American actress

Percival married Rebecca about 1600. Rebecca died on 28 Feb 1645 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Joane Byley on 29 Sep 1600 in St. Edmund's, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. Joane (daughter of Henry Byley and Alice Holmes) died before 24 Dec 1623; was buried on 24 Dec 1623 in St. Edmund's, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Giles Reade. Giles (son of William Reade and Katherine Rowdon) was born about 1541 in of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England; died in 1611; was buried in Bredon, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a lawyer of Gray's Inn. In 1593, he was made a freeman of the Haberdasher's Company by patrimony.

Edmund married Constance Sheppard on 29 Dec 1595 in Maulden, Bedfordshire, England. Constance (daughter of Thomas Sheppard and Amphyllis Chamberlain alias Spicer) was born before 31 Aug 1578; was christened on 31 Aug 1578 in Maulden, Bedfordshire, England; died before 1 Jul 1631; was buried on 1 Jul 1631 in Wootton, Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Bruen. John (son of John Bruen and Mary Oteley) was born in of Bruen Stapleford in Tarvin, Cheshire, England; died on 14 May 1587; was buried on 15 May 1587. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Grace. Grace died before 1586. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Torbock. William (son of Thomas Torbock and Elizabeth Moore) was born about 1526 in of Torbock Hall, Lancashire, England; died between 1558 and 1559. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft Nov 1683

Notes:

She was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I.

Family/Spouse: James Neale. James (son of Raphael Neale and Jane) was born in 1615; died between 27 Nov 1683 and 29 Mar 1684 in Charles County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Cranage, Cheshire, England

Notes:

Sheriff of Shropshire 1528-29, 1535-36, 1540-41. Sheriff of Cheshire 1538-39.

Jacobus (citation details below) makes this Robert Needham a younger brother of William Needham who married Isabel Bromley. Richardson (citation details below) clarifies that Robert was a younger son of William.

Family/Spouse: Agnes Mainwaring. Agnes (daughter of John Mainwaring and Maud Legh) died on 2 May 1560. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Aft May 1557
• Alternate death: Aft 1586

Margaret married Oliver Mainwaring before 1587. Oliver (son of George Mainwaring and Julian Spurway) was born in of Exeter, Devon, England; died before 1634. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1641

John married Isabel on 16 Feb 1608. Isabel died in Dec 1655. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Lancashire, England

Family/Spouse: Catherine Dethick. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a Puritan whose piety and iconoclasm (he personally destroyed a great deal of church art and stained glass) was celebrated in a hagiographic biography of him written by William Hinde, husband of Margaret Fox, sister to Bruen's second wife Anne Fox.

"According to Hinde, it was the death of Bruen's father in 1587 that prompted a radical transformation in Bruen's lifestyle. Whether because of a spiritual crisis or because of the financial constraints imposed by his new responsibilities towards eleven siblings, including his sister Katherine Bruen (to become famous in 1601 because of her putative deathbed loss of faith), Bruen imposed a strict code of piety on the household. He began by disparking the estate and suppressing hunting and gaming, and subsequently enforced a culture of discipline on family, servants, and tenants alike. This not only involved prayers seven times daily but also attendance at both morning and evening sermons on Sundays, usually without departing from the church in between. The knowledge of scripture among even his illiterate household servants became legendary: Hinde drew particular attention to 'Old Robert', Robert Pashfield (fl. c. 1600), servant, whose familiarity with the Bible was such that he could cite chapter and verse of almost any scriptural text, despite his inability to read. Bruen also suppressed the drinking, dancing, and sport associated with the annual festivities of the St Andrew's day wakes that he (and Hinde) regarded as popish and profane." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

"BRUEN, JOHN (1560-1625), puritan layman, was the son of a Cheshire squire whose family had long been settled at Bruen Stapleford, and is believed to have given its name to the township. There had been a succession from the middle of the thirteenth century. The elder John Bruen of Bruen Stapleford was thrice married. His union with Anne, the sister of Sir John Done, was childless, but his second wife brought him fourteen children, of whom Katharine, afterwards the wife of William Brettargh, and John, who, although not the eldest born, became by survivorship his heir, were remarkable for the fervour of their puritanism. John was in his tender years sent to his uncle Dutton of Dutton, where for three years he was taught by the school-master James Roe. The Dutton family had by charter the control of the minstrels of the county. Young Bruen became an expert dancer. 'At that time,' he said, 'the holy Sabbaths of the Lord were wholly spent, in all places about us, in May-games and May-poles, pipings and dancings, for it was a rare thing to hear of a preacher, or to have one sermon in a year.' When about seventeen he and his brother Thomas were sent as gentlemen-commoners to St. Alban Hall, Oxford, where they remained about two years. He left the university in 1579, and in the following year was married by his parents to a daughter of Mr. Hardware, who had been twice mayor of Chester. Bruen at this time keenly enjoyed the pleasures of the chase, and, in conjunction with Ralph Done, 'kept fourteen couple of great mouthed dogs.' On the death of his father in 1587 his means were reduced; he cast off his dogs, killed the game, and disparked the land. His children were brought up strictly, and his choice of servants fell upon the sober and pious. One of these, Robert Pashfield, or 'Old Robert,' though unable to read or write, had acquired so exact a knowledge of the Bible, that he could 'almost always' tell the book and chapter where any particular sentence was to be found. The old man had a leathern girdle, which served him as a memoria technica, and was marked into portions for the several books of the Bible, and with points and knots for the smaller divisions. Bruen in summer rose between three and four, and in winter at five, and read prayers twice a day. His own seasons for prayer were seven times daily. He removed the stained glass in Tarvin Church, and defaced the sculptured images. On the Sunday he walked from his house, a mile distant, to the church, and was followed by the greater part of his servants, and called upon such of his tenants as lived on the way, so that when he reached the church it was at the head of a goodly procession. He rarely went home to dinner after morning prayers, but continued in the church till after the evening service. He maintained a preacher at his own house, and afterwards for the parish. Bruen's house became celebrated, and a number of 'gentlemen of rank became desirous of sojourning under his roof for their better information in the way of God, and the more effectual reclaiming of themselves and their families.' Perkins, the puritan divine, called Bruen Stapleford, 'for the practice and power of religion, the very topsail of all England.' His wife died suddenly, and after a time he married the 'very amiable and beautiful' Ann Fox, whom he first met at a religious meeting in Manchester. For a year they dwelt at her mother's house at Rhodes, near Manchester. He then returned to Stapleford, and again his house became the abode of many scions of gentility. Bruen's second wife died after ten years of married life, and the widower broke up his household with its twenty-one boarders and retired to Chester, where he cleared the debt of his estate, saw some of his children settled, and maintained the poor of his parish by the produce of two mills in Stapleford, whither he returned with his third wife, Margaret. He had an implicit belief in special providences, 'judgments,' witchcraft, &c. He kept a hospitable house, and was kind and charitable to the poor of his neighbourhood and of Chester. He refused to drink healths even at the high sheriff's feast. Towards the end of his life his prayers were twice accompanied by 'ravishing sights.' He died after an illness, which was seen to be mortal, in 1625, at the age of 65. There is a portrait of him in Clark's 'Marrow of Ecclesiastical History.' This has been re-engraved by Richardson. Among the Harleian MSS. is a compilation by him entitled 'A godly profitable collection of divers sentences out of Holy Scripture, and variety of matter out of several divine authors.' These are commonly called his cards, and are fifty-two in number. The same collection contains the petition of his son, Calvin Bruen, of Chester, mercer, respecting the treatment he received for visiting Prynne when he was taken through Chester to imprisonment at Carnarvon Castle. The life of John Bruen was not eventful, and he is chiefly notable as an embodiment of the puritan ideal of a pious layman." [William Edward Armytage Axon, Dictionary of National Biography 1885-1900]

John married Anne Fox after Jan 1597. Anne (daughter of William Fox and Margaret Orrell) was born about 1581; died before 29 Dec 1606; was buried on 29 Dec 1606. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

Her short life was dominated by her illustrious elder brother, the godly gentleman John Bruen, who had care of Katherine and ten of her siblings, bringing them up in an atmosphere of strict household discipline and rigorous religious observance. About 1599 Katherine married another of the self-professed godly, William Brettergh of Brettergh Holt, near Liverpool, with whom she had one child, Anne. The two shared an extraordinarily pious lifestyle at Little Woolton in Childwall, Lancashire, reading at least eight chapters of the Bible every day and hearing two sermons on Sundays whenever possible, and she appears to have stiffened his resolve in withstanding the hostility, mockery, and harassment of the parish's strong Roman Catholic minority, organized by a local seminary priest, Thurstan Hunt, and the lord of the manors of Speke and Garston, Edward Norris. In turn, William Brettergh's attempt as high constable of West Derby hundred to apprehend recusants within the parishes of Huyton and Childwall in May 1600 provoked not only a full-scale riot but the maiming of Brettergh's cattle on two separate occasions over the following months.

However, it is Katherine's premature and agonizing death rather than her short life which brought her most fame, and which provoked the biographies that provide virtually all the evidence of her godly lifestyle. At the age of twenty-two she succumbed to an unknown illness, and on her deathbed suffered from a terrible crisis of faith, during which she raged against God's unmercifulness and threw her Bible repeatedly to the floor. She died on 31 May 1601. Her agonies formed the centrepiece of a polemical account of her embattled life appended to the two sermons preached by William Harrison and William Leigh at her funeral in Childwall church on 3 June 1601, published together in 1602 as Death's Advantage Little Regarded, of which five editions had appeared by 1617 and a further two by 1641. Harrison in particular attempted to explain her deathbed anguish as the consequence of a diabolical assault on her virtue rather than a providential punishment for sin and hypocrisy. As a result her death became not only a gigantic struggle between God and Satan for her soul, but also, through a pamphlet exchange (of which the Catholic side has unfortunately not survived), a furious debate between Romanists and puritans over which religion could promise the more merciful death. From this perspective the conspicuous absence of any reference to Katherine's deathbed crisis in William Hinde's elaborate biography of her older brother, published in 1641, seems striking, perhaps even deliberately evasive.

From the 1885-1900 Dictionary of National Biography:

Her biographers are indignant at the imputation that she died despairing. She was buried at Childwall Church on Wednesday, 3 June, as appears from the title of the little book which forms the chief authority as to her life: Death's Advantage little Regarded, or the Soule's Solace against Sorrow, preached in two funerall sermons at Childwall, in Lancashire, at the buriall of Mistris Katherine Brettergh, 3 June 1601. The one by William Harrison, the other by William Leygh, B.D., whereunto is annexed the christian life and godly death of the said gentlewoman, London, 1601. There is a portrait of her in Clarke's second part of the Marrow of Ecclesiastical History, book ii., London, 1675, p. 52, from which it seems that her puritanism did not forbid a very elaborate ruff. The face is oval, the features refined, the hair closely confined by a sort of skull-cap, over which towers a sugarloaf hat.

Katherine married William Brettergh about 1599. William was born about 1571. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 31 Aug 1671 and 15 Feb 1672

Notes:

At Jamestown 23 May 1625; removed to Maryland in 1638. Member of the Provincial Council, 1638-44, and of the Maryland Assembly, 1639, 1641, 1642, and 1648. Acting Governor and Lieutenant-General of Maryland, 1643-44.

“A band of Parliamentarians led by Richard Ingle and William Claiborne attacked St. Mary’s City on February 14, 1644/5, and carried Giles Brent, Father Andrew White, and others in chains to England. Upon his arrival in London, Giles brought suit against his captors and returned to Maryland before June 19, 1647.” [Roberta Estes, citation details below.]

Giles married Mary Kittamaquund before 9 Jan 1645. Mary (daughter of Kittamaquund, Tapac of the Piscataway) was born about 1631 in Maryland; was christened after 15 Feb 1641; died between 18 Apr 1654 and 4 Sep 1655. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Anne Peyton after 1635. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1671, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Notes:

She was a "gateway ancestor," one of LD's five.

Jane married John Lugg on 3 Jan 1628 in St. Nicholas, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. John (son of Richard Lugg) was born before 11 Jul 1595; was christened on 11 Jul 1595 in St. Nicholas, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England; died before 10 Sep 1646; was buried on 10 Sep 1646 in St. Nicholas, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Great Migration Begins shows her baptismal date as 16 Jan 1614, which we suspect may simply be a case of absent-mindedly rendering the date in old style.

Katherine married Thomas Dudley, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony on 4 Apr 1644 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Thomas (son of Capt. Roger Dudley and Susanna Dorne) was born on 12 Oct 1576 in Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, England; died on 31 Jul 1653 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was buried on 6 Aug 1653 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane married Capt. William Torrey on 17 Mar 1629. William (son of Philip Torrey and Alice Richards) was born before 21 Dec 1608; was christened on 21 Dec 1608 in Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset, England; died on 10 Jun 1690 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 17 May 1709

Notes:

Or Anne.

Annis married John Greene before 1649. John (son of Dr. John Greene and Joan Tattershall) was born before 15 Aug 1620 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England; was christened on 15 Aug 1620 in St. Thomas, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England; died on 27 Nov 1708 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joanna married William Gerrish on 17 Apr 1645 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. William was born in of Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 9 Aug 1687 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was apprenticed to Richard Baugh, glover of Bristol, on 17 Feb 1619. Ten years later he appears as a burgess of Bristol in 1629. He was married and had several children by the time of his emigration in 1639. Family tradition gives him a first wife named Mary, but no evidence has been found to confirm that.

Family/Spouse: (Unknown first wife of John Lowell). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Elizabeth Goodale after 1639. Elizabeth (daughter of John Goodale and Elizabeth Parlett) was born before 5 Jun 1614; was christened on 5 Jun 1614 in Yarmouth, Norfolk, England; died on 23 Apr 1651 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"The two daughters, Joanna and Anne, who are herein credited to Percival Lowle, are considered by several very competent genealogists to have been children of John and Elizabeth Goodale of Great Yarmouth, co. Norfolk. As a widow, Elizabeth Goodale came to New England and settled in Newbury where her daughter Elizabeth married Percival Lowle's son John. In her will Elizabeth (Goodale) Lowle names the husbands of Joanna and Anne among her four 'brothers.' John Goodale of Great Yarmouth, her father, had, however, made a very careful and highly genealogical will in 1625, and neither in this document nor in the regular baptismal records of his children do daughters Joanna and Anne appear. It would seem to be a sound conclusion that the husbands of Joanna and Anne were Elizabeth's 'brothers' as husbands of her two Lowle sisters-in-law, and the whole atmosphere surrounding them tends to substantiate it." [Walter Goodwin Davis, citation details below]

Anne's own will, dated 4 Nov 1681 and proved 22 Feb 1691, mentioned her brother Richard Lowle and her daughter Elizabeth Peirce; it also makes her son-in-law Daniel Pierce Jr. her executor.

Robert Charles Anderson also identifies her as a daughter of Percival Lowell (Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume V, M-P, page 459).

Anne married Thomas Millward before 1642. Thomas was born in 1600; died on 2 Sep 1653 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts; was buried in Old Town Cemetery, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Daniel Peirce on 26 Dec 1654 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. Daniel was born about 1611; died on 27 Nov 1677 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 10 Aug 1661, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Notes:

One of TWK's twelve proven "gateway ancestors." He and his family emigrated in 1638 on the Bevis. First at Newbury, then Salisbury, then Boston about 1651.

He was a tanner, then, in Boston, a merchant. Died after being accidentally shot by his son. Ian Watson (citation details below) notes that "the additional detail that the son was 'firing at a mark in his orchard' was reported as early as 1845 by Tristram Coffin and has been repeated many times since, but we are not aware of a reliable contemporary source for it."

Christopher married Anne Baynton on 12 Oct 1629 in St. Edmund's, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. Anne (daughter of Ferdinando Baynton and Jane Weare alias Browne) was born on 23 Sep 1602; was christened on 30 Dec 1602 in St. Edmund's, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England; died between 14 Mar 1679 and 21 May 1679 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Richard Brent in 1594. Richard (son of Richard Brent and Mary Hugford) was born in of Larkstoke in Ilmington, Gloucestershire, England; died before 1 May 1652; was buried on 1 May 1652 in St. Mary's, Ilmington, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 11 May 1646, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut
• Alternate death: Bef 1648, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut

Notes:

He was a linen draper in London, a member of the Fishmonger's Company. Emigrated to New England 1634, first at Ipswich and then at Newport, 1640, and New Haven, 1647.

One of DDB's six proven "gateway ancestors."

Thomas married Phebe Bisby on 4 Aug 1631 in St. Lawrence Jewry, London, England. Phebe (daughter of William Bisby and Raberge) was born before 25 Aug 1611; was christened on 25 Aug 1611 in St. Lawrence Jewry, London, England; died after 6 Dec 1683. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a Puritan whose piety and iconoclasm (he personally destroyed a great deal of church art and stained glass) was celebrated in a hagiographic biography of him written by William Hinde, husband of Margaret Fox, sister to Bruen's second wife Anne Fox.

"According to Hinde, it was the death of Bruen's father in 1587 that prompted a radical transformation in Bruen's lifestyle. Whether because of a spiritual crisis or because of the financial constraints imposed by his new responsibilities towards eleven siblings, including his sister Katherine Bruen (to become famous in 1601 because of her putative deathbed loss of faith), Bruen imposed a strict code of piety on the household. He began by disparking the estate and suppressing hunting and gaming, and subsequently enforced a culture of discipline on family, servants, and tenants alike. This not only involved prayers seven times daily but also attendance at both morning and evening sermons on Sundays, usually without departing from the church in between. The knowledge of scripture among even his illiterate household servants became legendary: Hinde drew particular attention to 'Old Robert', Robert Pashfield (fl. c. 1600), servant, whose familiarity with the Bible was such that he could cite chapter and verse of almost any scriptural text, despite his inability to read. Bruen also suppressed the drinking, dancing, and sport associated with the annual festivities of the St Andrew's day wakes that he (and Hinde) regarded as popish and profane." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

"BRUEN, JOHN (1560-1625), puritan layman, was the son of a Cheshire squire whose family had long been settled at Bruen Stapleford, and is believed to have given its name to the township. There had been a succession from the middle of the thirteenth century. The elder John Bruen of Bruen Stapleford was thrice married. His union with Anne, the sister of Sir John Done, was childless, but his second wife brought him fourteen children, of whom Katharine, afterwards the wife of William Brettargh, and John, who, although not the eldest born, became by survivorship his heir, were remarkable for the fervour of their puritanism. John was in his tender years sent to his uncle Dutton of Dutton, where for three years he was taught by the school-master James Roe. The Dutton family had by charter the control of the minstrels of the county. Young Bruen became an expert dancer. 'At that time,' he said, 'the holy Sabbaths of the Lord were wholly spent, in all places about us, in May-games and May-poles, pipings and dancings, for it was a rare thing to hear of a preacher, or to have one sermon in a year.' When about seventeen he and his brother Thomas were sent as gentlemen-commoners to St. Alban Hall, Oxford, where they remained about two years. He left the university in 1579, and in the following year was married by his parents to a daughter of Mr. Hardware, who had been twice mayor of Chester. Bruen at this time keenly enjoyed the pleasures of the chase, and, in conjunction with Ralph Done, 'kept fourteen couple of great mouthed dogs.' On the death of his father in 1587 his means were reduced; he cast off his dogs, killed the game, and disparked the land. His children were brought up strictly, and his choice of servants fell upon the sober and pious. One of these, Robert Pashfield, or 'Old Robert,' though unable to read or write, had acquired so exact a knowledge of the Bible, that he could 'almost always' tell the book and chapter where any particular sentence was to be found. The old man had a leathern girdle, which served him as a memoria technica, and was marked into portions for the several books of the Bible, and with points and knots for the smaller divisions. Bruen in summer rose between three and four, and in winter at five, and read prayers twice a day. His own seasons for prayer were seven times daily. He removed the stained glass in Tarvin Church, and defaced the sculptured images. On the Sunday he walked from his house, a mile distant, to the church, and was followed by the greater part of his servants, and called upon such of his tenants as lived on the way, so that when he reached the church it was at the head of a goodly procession. He rarely went home to dinner after morning prayers, but continued in the church till after the evening service. He maintained a preacher at his own house, and afterwards for the parish. Bruen's house became celebrated, and a number of 'gentlemen of rank became desirous of sojourning under his roof for their better information in the way of God, and the more effectual reclaiming of themselves and their families.' Perkins, the puritan divine, called Bruen Stapleford, 'for the practice and power of religion, the very topsail of all England.' His wife died suddenly, and after a time he married the 'very amiable and beautiful' Ann Fox, whom he first met at a religious meeting in Manchester. For a year they dwelt at her mother's house at Rhodes, near Manchester. He then returned to Stapleford, and again his house became the abode of many scions of gentility. Bruen's second wife died after ten years of married life, and the widower broke up his household with its twenty-one boarders and retired to Chester, where he cleared the debt of his estate, saw some of his children settled, and maintained the poor of his parish by the produce of two mills in Stapleford, whither he returned with his third wife, Margaret. He had an implicit belief in special providences, 'judgments,' witchcraft, &c. He kept a hospitable house, and was kind and charitable to the poor of his neighbourhood and of Chester. He refused to drink healths even at the high sheriff's feast. Towards the end of his life his prayers were twice accompanied by 'ravishing sights.' He died after an illness, which was seen to be mortal, in 1625, at the age of 65. There is a portrait of him in Clark's 'Marrow of Ecclesiastical History.' This has been re-engraved by Richardson. Among the Harleian MSS. is a compilation by him entitled 'A godly profitable collection of divers sentences out of Holy Scripture, and variety of matter out of several divine authors.' These are commonly called his cards, and are fifty-two in number. The same collection contains the petition of his son, Calvin Bruen, of Chester, mercer, respecting the treatment he received for visiting Prynne when he was taken through Chester to imprisonment at Carnarvon Castle. The life of John Bruen was not eventful, and he is chiefly notable as an embodiment of the puritan ideal of a pious layman." [William Edward Armytage Axon, Dictionary of National Biography 1885-1900]

John married Anne Fox after Jan 1597. Anne (daughter of William Fox and Margaret Orrell) was born about 1581; died before 29 Dec 1606; was buried on 29 Dec 1606. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

Her short life was dominated by her illustrious elder brother, the godly gentleman John Bruen, who had care of Katherine and ten of her siblings, bringing them up in an atmosphere of strict household discipline and rigorous religious observance. About 1599 Katherine married another of the self-professed godly, William Brettergh of Brettergh Holt, near Liverpool, with whom she had one child, Anne. The two shared an extraordinarily pious lifestyle at Little Woolton in Childwall, Lancashire, reading at least eight chapters of the Bible every day and hearing two sermons on Sundays whenever possible, and she appears to have stiffened his resolve in withstanding the hostility, mockery, and harassment of the parish's strong Roman Catholic minority, organized by a local seminary priest, Thurstan Hunt, and the lord of the manors of Speke and Garston, Edward Norris. In turn, William Brettergh's attempt as high constable of West Derby hundred to apprehend recusants within the parishes of Huyton and Childwall in May 1600 provoked not only a full-scale riot but the maiming of Brettergh's cattle on two separate occasions over the following months.

However, it is Katherine's premature and agonizing death rather than her short life which brought her most fame, and which provoked the biographies that provide virtually all the evidence of her godly lifestyle. At the age of twenty-two she succumbed to an unknown illness, and on her deathbed suffered from a terrible crisis of faith, during which she raged against God's unmercifulness and threw her Bible repeatedly to the floor. She died on 31 May 1601. Her agonies formed the centrepiece of a polemical account of her embattled life appended to the two sermons preached by William Harrison and William Leigh at her funeral in Childwall church on 3 June 1601, published together in 1602 as Death's Advantage Little Regarded, of which five editions had appeared by 1617 and a further two by 1641. Harrison in particular attempted to explain her deathbed anguish as the consequence of a diabolical assault on her virtue rather than a providential punishment for sin and hypocrisy. As a result her death became not only a gigantic struggle between God and Satan for her soul, but also, through a pamphlet exchange (of which the Catholic side has unfortunately not survived), a furious debate between Romanists and puritans over which religion could promise the more merciful death. From this perspective the conspicuous absence of any reference to Katherine's deathbed crisis in William Hinde's elaborate biography of her older brother, published in 1641, seems striking, perhaps even deliberately evasive.

From the 1885-1900 Dictionary of National Biography:

Her biographers are indignant at the imputation that she died despairing. She was buried at Childwall Church on Wednesday, 3 June, as appears from the title of the little book which forms the chief authority as to her life: Death's Advantage little Regarded, or the Soule's Solace against Sorrow, preached in two funerall sermons at Childwall, in Lancashire, at the buriall of Mistris Katherine Brettergh, 3 June 1601. The one by William Harrison, the other by William Leygh, B.D., whereunto is annexed the christian life and godly death of the said gentlewoman, London, 1601. There is a portrait of her in Clarke's second part of the Marrow of Ecclesiastical History, book ii., London, 1675, p. 52, from which it seems that her puritanism did not forbid a very elaborate ruff. The face is oval, the features refined, the hair closely confined by a sort of skull-cap, over which towers a sugarloaf hat.

Katherine married William Brettergh about 1599. William was born about 1571. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1641

John married Isabel on 16 Feb 1608. Isabel died in Dec 1655. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Aft May 1557
• Alternate death: Aft 1586

Margaret married Oliver Mainwaring before 1587. Oliver (son of George Mainwaring and Julian Spurway) was born in of Exeter, Devon, England; died before 1634. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anthony married Elizabeth Roswell about 1680. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Elizabeth Calvert about 20 Dec 1681. Elizabeth (daughter of Col. William Calvert and Elizabeth Stone) died after 17 May 1684. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Elizabeth Lord in 1687. Elizabeth (daughter of Capt. John Lord) died between 17 Jan 1734 and 22 Apr 1734 in Charles County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Shavington in Adderley, Shropshire, England

Thomas married Anne Talbot on 1 Feb 1526. Anne (daughter of John Talbot and Margaret Troutbeck) was born between 1510 and 1515. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

As Douglas Richardson points out (Royal Ancestry 4:27), "she is called Anne and Mary indifferently in English records."

Anne married Benjamin Gill before 16 Jul 1641. Benjamin was born in St. Andrew's, Holborn, London, England; died on 22 Nov 1655 in Port Tobacco, Charles, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 1 Feb 1672 and 19 Oct 1673

Notes:

"He immigrated to Maryland in 1638, brought his family in 1650, [and] was lord of St. Clement's, Basford, and Westwood Manors, St. Mary's County, Maryland. He was a controversial figure in provincial politics and frequently at odds with the proprietor's spokesman. He served as a member of Provincial Assembly and Upper House, the Provincial Council, and a Justice of the Provincial Court. He supported Fendall's Rebellion in 1659/60, for which he was permanently barred from voting or holding office in the colony. He removed to Westmoreland County, Virginia in 1664, where he settled at Gerard's Reserve in Lower Machadoc." [Royal Ancestry, citation details below]

"Doctor Thomas Gerard, 'Esq.,' Lord of 'St. Clement's Manor,' St. Mary's County, Md. [...] ]was a Member of the Assembly of Maryland from St. Mary's Hundred, and also in 1641, of the Council. He seems to have been a fearless and determined man, and to have acted on his conviction irrespective of all parties. With the grant of a manor, there was frequently granted a right for the Lord of the Manor to hold a 'Court Leet and Court Baron.' There is a record of the holding of several of such Courts at 'St. Clement's Manor,' from 1659-72, which gives an interesting insight into the life and customs of that time. It was in the session of Assembly that met on February 28th, 1659-60, (which convened at Thomas Gerard's) that Governor Fendall, Thomas Gerard and Nathaniel Utie (Utye), the latter two were of the Council, and the majority of the house of Delegates, struck their blow for the overthrow of the Lord Proprietor's power and attempted to make the house of Delegates supreme. By this means a Commonwealth, similar to that which had existed in the Mother country, was to be established." [Ancestral Records and Portraits, citation details below]

From John Walton, "Genealogica Marylandia: Gerard's Daughters" (citation details below):

Dr. Thomas Gerard, member of an ancient and great Lancashire County Catholic family, was born in 11609, probably in Newhall. In 1629 he married Susanna Snow, daughter of John and Judith (some say Edryth) Snow of Staffordshire, and a sister of Abel, Justinian, and Marmaduke Snow who were associated with Lord Baltimore in the Maryland enterprise. Abel Snow held the manor of Snow Hill. Apparently, Dr. Thomas Gerard was a distant cousin of the Richard Gerard who came to Maryland in 1633 and returned to England in 1635. Richard was probably a descendant of Sir Thomas Gerard, the great Elizabethan. As far as is known Dr. Thomas Gerard came to Maryland, first, in 1638; after a return trip or two, brought his family over in 1650. On September 19 of that year he demanded 2000 acres of land for transporting himself, his wife, and five children into the province as well as Mr. Austin Hall (or Hull) and eight manservants and four woman servants. His children were Justinian, Susan, Frances, Temperance, and Elizabeth.

Of all Baltimore's manorial Lords, Dr. Thomas Gerard probably governed his demesne in the most traditionally baronial style. At St. Clement's he held manorial courtto--the Court Leet and the Court Baron--he took advantage of prover bial prerogatives of his position for the enjoyment of the good things of this world, and he continued to acquire land. To the 3500 acres that lay across the Potomac in Westmoreland County he retreated after his unexplained participation in Josias Fendall's rebellion in 1660. There he married his second wife, a young widow by the name of Rose Tucker (by whom he had no children), and there he died in 1673. His body was brought back to St. Clements to lie by that of his first wife, Susanna.

A footnote to the history of Virginia records that Dr. Thomas Gerard, together with Henry Corbin, John Lee, and Isaac Allerton*, erected a "Banquetting House"; many years later an unusually strait-laced Bishop of Virginia cited the events that occurred in this house as an example of "riotous living" in the seventeenth century.

[* Son of the Mayflower passenger Isaac Allerton by his second wife, Fear Brewster. --PNH]

Thomas married Susanna Snow after 21 Sep 1629. Susanna (daughter of John Snow and Eydreth) died before 1673. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robert Darcy. Robert (son of Edward Darcy and Elizabeth Astley) was born in of Dartford, Kent, England; died before 1632. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1681, Newark, Essex, New Jersey

Notes:

One of TSW’s eight proven “gateway ancestors”, and one of LD's five. He was a member of the drapers’ guild in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, although this does not prove that he actually worked as a draper.

“He and his family emigrated to New England in 1640, where they lived successively at Marshfield and Gloucester, Massachusetts, and New London, Connecticut. He served as Deputy Judge for New London, 1660, Judge for New London, 1662-6, Patentee of the Royal Charter, 1662, Deputy for New London to the Connecticut Legislature, 1665-6, and Clerk for New London County Court in 1666. In 1667 he and his wife, Sarah, removed to Newark, New Jersey.” [Royal Ancestry, citation details below.]

“Obadiah Bruen was born in Bruen Stapleford, England, and immigrated to New England with his wife Sarah in 1640. He settled first at Plymouth Colony, and then at Gloucester, Massachusetts (1642), where he was town selectman (1643) and a representative to the Connecticut General Court (1643-1651). He was one of the early settlers at Pequot (later New London), Connecticut, and served as the town clerk (1651-1666) and as a representative from New London in the Connecticut General Court (1652-1666). His name is the only name from New London to appear on the royal charter for the colony of Connecticut. In 1666, he joined an association to found a colony on the Passaic River called Milford (later Newark, New Jersey). He was one of the signers of the deed to purchase land from the Indians along the Passaic River (July 11, 1667).” [Yale Indian Papers Project.]

In 1889 his remains were re-interred in the Founders’ Vault at Fairmount Cemetery.

Obadiah married Sarah Seeley on 7 May 1633 in St. Martin's, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. Sarah (daughter of William Seeley and Alice Byssell) was born before 22 Oct 1609; was christened on 22 Oct 1609 in St. Giles, Sheldon, Warwickshire, England; died after 1696. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

For DNA evidence that Mary Brent married Charles Beaven and that their descendants carry DNA indicating descent from Mary Kittamaquund, see Daughters of Princess Mary Kittamaquund by Shawn Henry Potter and Lois Carol Potter.

Mary married Charles Beaven about 1674. Charles died between 20 Jun 1698 and 21 Jun 1699 in Prince George's County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Mary Sewall on 27 Mar 1687. Mary (daughter of Henry Sewall and Jane Lowe) was born between 1658 and 1659; died on 12 Mar 1694. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Esther married James Bell before 1658. James was born about 1633; died in 1676 in Raynham, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Esther married Richard Marshall on 11 Feb 1677. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was minister at Hull, 1656-1664, and minister of the First Parish of Weymouth, 1664 to 1707.

Samuel married Mercy Chickering on 30 Jul 1695 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Mercy (daughter of Francis Chickering and Anne Fiske) was born in Apr 1648 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts; was christened on 9 Apr 1648 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 12 Mar 1721 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

One of DGH's four proven gateway ancestors.

William married Deborah about 1668. Deborah was born about 1649; died on 8 Feb 1729 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Deputy to the Rhode Island legislature in 1704, 1707, 1708, 1714, 1715, and 1719.

Samuel married Mary Gorton on 24 Jan 1695. Mary (daughter of Benjamin Gorton and Sarah Carder) was born on 31 Oct 1673; died in Jan 1732. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 10 Sep 1654

Elizabeth married Stephen Greenleaf on 23 Oct 1676. Stephen (son of Capt. Stephen Greenleaf and Elizabeth Coffin) was born on 15 Aug 1652 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 13 Oct 1743 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a cooper. He is not the John Lovwell, tanner, who married Elizabeth Silvester in Scituate in 1658, who was erroneously merged into this John Lowell by Lowell family genealogist Delmar Lowell.

Family/Spouse: Naomi Torrey. Naomi (daughter of Capt. William Torrey and (Unknown third wife of William Torrey)) was born on 3 Dec 1641 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Hannah Proctor on 3 Mar 1653 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of George Proctor and Edith) was born before 14 Apr 1634; was christened on 14 Apr 1634 in Pitminster, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1704

Elisabeth married Daniel Pierce on 5 Dec 1660 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. Daniel (son of Daniel Peirce and Katherine) was born about 1638 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 22 Apr 1704 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts; was buried in First Parish Burying Ground, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Edmond Angier on 12 Jun 1657 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Edmond (son of John Angier and Ann Sherman) was born before 31 Mar 1612; was christened on 31 Mar 1612 in Dedham, Essex, England; died on 4 Mar 1692 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane married Dr. Peter Toppan on 3 Apr 1661 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. Peter (son of Abraham Toppan and Susanna Taylor) was born in Aug 1633; was christened in Aug 1633 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England; died on 3 Nov 1707 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 31 Aug 1671 and 15 Feb 1672

Notes:

At Jamestown 23 May 1625; removed to Maryland in 1638. Member of the Provincial Council, 1638-44, and of the Maryland Assembly, 1639, 1641, 1642, and 1648. Acting Governor and Lieutenant-General of Maryland, 1643-44.

“A band of Parliamentarians led by Richard Ingle and William Claiborne attacked St. Mary’s City on February 14, 1644/5, and carried Giles Brent, Father Andrew White, and others in chains to England. Upon his arrival in London, Giles brought suit against his captors and returned to Maryland before June 19, 1647.” [Roberta Estes, citation details below.]

Giles married Mary Kittamaquund before 9 Jan 1645. Mary (daughter of Kittamaquund, Tapac of the Piscataway) was born about 1631 in Maryland; was christened after 15 Feb 1641; died between 18 Apr 1654 and 4 Sep 1655. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Anne Peyton after 1635. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Phebe married Joseph Dickinson before 26 Apr 1661. Joseph (son of Nathaniel Dickinson and Ann) was born before 10 Oct 1630; was christened on 10 Oct 1630 in Billingborough, Lincolnshire, England; died on 4 Sep 1675. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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