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William Reade

Male - 1534


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  • Name William Reade 
    Birth of Wickford, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Death Between 16 May 1534 and 26 Jun 1534  [1
    Person ID I5973  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of TNH
    Last Modified 9 Mar 2020 

    Children 
    +1. Roger Reade,   b. of Wickford, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 10 Dec 1557, Wickford, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F4288  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 31 Jan 2016 

  • 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.

  • Sources 
    1. [S3826] The Ancestry of Bethia Harris, 1748-1833: Wife of Dudley Wildes of Topsfield, Massachusetts by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1934.