Elizabeth Reade

Elizabeth married John Winthrop, Governor of Connecticut on 6 Jul 1635 in St. Matthew, Friday Street, London, England. John (son of John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Mary Forth) was born on 12 Feb 1606 in Groton Manor, Edwardstone, Suffolk, England; was christened on 23 Feb 1606 in Groton Manor, Edwardstone, Suffolk, England; died on 5 Apr 1675 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

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]

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He was married three times, first to Margaret Rice of Bures St. Mary, Suffolk; second to Elizabeth North of Colchester, Essex; and third, at Bures St. Mary, to Susan Brand of Boxford, Suffolk. His Visitation pedigree credits son Thomas to his first wife, but from chronological evidence his daughter Elizabeth is almost certainly a daughter of the second or third, since she was married about 1594 and had a child born as late as 1614.

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

Robert married Joan Syday about 1539. Joan (daughter of John Syday and Helen) died between 17 Nov 1561 and 12 Jan 1562 in Pebmarsh, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Walter Goodwin Davis (citation details below) describes her will as "a document containing many complicated legacies and provisions for remainder interests, obviously drawn up by a skillful lawyer."

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.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Pebmarsh, Essex, England

Notes:

From Walter Goodwin Davis (citation details below):

The village of Pebmarsh in the county of Essex is not far from the compact and busy little town of Halstead, but the winding lanes by which it is approached give it a feeling of remoteness. It is a purely agricultural parish, divided, as are many Essex parishes, into several small manors which are not more than large farms in extent. In such a parish yeoman families seem often to have acquired considerable wealth, and a position, through leasing the manors of absentee landlords, comparable to that of the provincial gentry. Of such were the Cookes and the Sydays of Pebmarsh. Their holdings were large, not only in their own parish, but in the neighboring villages of Alphamston, Lamarshe, Bures-at-Mount and in the town of Halstead, and during Cromwellian times their Puritan leanings, added to their wealth, brought them into prominence.

In the Visitation of Essex, 1684, the Cookes entered a pedigree, stating that their first Pebmarsh ancestor had come from the Essex parish of Horkesley and that "the ancient arms of this family of Cooke remaineth on a grave stone in Horkesley Church where one of the Ancestors lieth buried with the said arms." This coat was: Sable, three bendlets argent; Crest: a cockatrice statant argent, wings or, beaked and combed gules, and thus it may still be seen, not in the church of Horkesley but in that of Pebmarsh. It was exemplified or confirmed by the Clarencieux King of Arms in 1585 to John Cooke of Little Stambridge, son of Robert Cooke of Pebmarsh, with the difference of a field azure.

JOHN COOKE is stated in the Visitation pedigree to have come from Horkesley to Pebmarsh and to have married a daughter of the family of Newton. This would have been in the last years of the fifteenth century or early in the sixteenth. John Cooke, Senior, witnessed the will of John Syday, whose daughter married Cooke's son, in 1589.

John married (Unknown) Newton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a wealthy yeoman; at the time of his death he owned the leases of Berwyke Hall in White Colne, Essex; Loveney Hall in Colne Wake; Cole Eugaine; White Colne and Bures-at Mount, Essex; and of the manors of Paiton Hall in Bures and Lamarshe Hall in Lamarshe, Essex.

John married Helen. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]