William d'Avranches

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

Family/Spouse: Hamo de Crevecoeur. Hamo (son of Robert de Crevecoeur) died in 1263. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 17 Nov 1301

Family/Spouse: Bertram de Criol. Bertram (son of John de Criol) died in 1295. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Richard de Rokesley. Richard was born in of Westwood in Preston, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnes married Thomas de Poynings about 1317. Thomas (son of Michael de Poynings and Margery Bardolf) was born in of Poynings, Sussex, England; died on 10 Oct 1339 in Honnecourt Castle, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was summoned to Parliament by writs from 24 Feb 1368 to 20 Jan 1376.

Luke married Isabel de St. John before 29 Jan 1349. Isabel (daughter of Hugh de St. John and Mirabel Wake) was born about 1333; died on 16 Oct 1393. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He fought at Crécy and was present at the siege of Calais. He was summoned to Parliament by writs from 1348 to 1368.

Michael married Joan before 1349. Joan died between 11 May 1369 and 28 May 1369. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Henry de Ferrers. Henry (son of William de Ferrers and Margaret de Ufford) was born on 16 Feb 1356 in Tilty Abbey, Essex, England; was christened in Stebbing, Essex, England; died on 3 Feb 1388. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Thomas Saint John.

Thomas married Joan le Strange before 1376. Joan (daughter of Roger le Strange and Aline de Arundel) died after 16 Oct 1390. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnes married William Bardolf after 10 Feb 1366. William (son of John Bardolf and Elizabeth Damory) was born on 21 Oct 1349 in of Wormegay, Norfolk, England; died on 29 Jan 1386. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He accompanied John of Gaunt to Spain in 1386, and died there the next year.

Family/Spouse: Isabel Fitz Payn. Isabel (daughter of Robert Fitz Payn and Elizabeth de Bryan) was born about 1362; died on 11 Apr 1394. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married John Beauchamp before 1397. John (son of John Beauchamp and Joan Fitz With) was born on 6 Jan 1377 in of Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England; died on 27 Aug 1420. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Groby, Leicestershire, England

Notes:

He was summoned to Parliament by writs from 30 Nov 1396 to 13 Jan 1445.

Family/Spouse: Philippe Clifford. Philippe (daughter of Roger de Clifford and Maud de Beauchamp) died after 4 Jul 1405. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Hugh Saint John.

Hugh married Eleanor Welles before 29 Sep 1406. Eleanor (daughter of John Welles and Eleanor Mowbray) died after 7 Nov 1458. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Cecily married Brian Stapleton before 1408. Brian (son of Miles Stapleton and Ela Ufford) was born about 1379; died on 7 Aug 1438; was buried in Ingham, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married Richard Camoys after 10 Jun 1387. Richard (son of Thomas Camoys and Elizabeth Louches) was born in of Camoys in Great Milton, Oxfordshire, England; died between 25 May 1416 and 24 Jun 1416. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Privy Councillor. He was summoned to Parliament by writs from 1404 to 1444.

Robert married Eleanor Grey before 22 Oct 1397. Eleanor (daughter of Reynold Grey and Margaret de Ros) died before 1434. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married John Wysham before 1 Jul 1422. John (son of William Wysham and Margaret de Clifton) was born in of Churchill, Worcestershire, England; died after 1433. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married William Culpepper about 1412. William (son of John Culpepper and Catherine Charles) was born in of Aylesford, Kent, England; died on 20 Jul 1457; was buried in West Peckham, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Isabel Mowbray. Isabel (daughter of Thomas Mowbray and Elizabeth Fitz Alan) died on 23 Sep 1452 in Gloucester Castle, Gloucestershire, England; was buried in Grey Friars, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Tamworth, Warwickshire, England

Thomas married Elizabeth Freville before 1418. Elizabeth (daughter of Baldwin de Freville and Maud le Scrope) was born about 1394. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Paulet. John (son of William Paulet and Eleanor de la Mare) died on 11 Jan 1437 in Nunney, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, 1439-40. Knight of the shire for Yorkshire, 1442, 1449, 1450.

Called by John Paston (d. 1466), in a letter to his wife dated 12 Jul 1461, a "knavish knight" and a "false shrew."

Miles married Katherine de la Pole in 1438. Katherine (daughter of Thomas de la Pole and Anne Cheyne) was born about 1416; died on 13 Oct 1488. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lieutenant of the duke of Exeter, 1443.

Brian married Isabel before 4 May 1438. Isabel died after 1455. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ralph Radmylde. Ralph was born in of Lancing, Sussex, England; died on 3 Aug 1443. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Sussex.

Richard married Eleanor Berkeley after 8 Apr 1423. Eleanor (daughter of John Berkeley and Elizabeth Betteshorne) died on 1 Aug 1455. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John de Gyse. John (son of Reynold Gyse and Katherine Clifford) was born in of Elmore, Gloucestershire, England; died before 1485. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Aylsford, Kent, England

Notes:

Sheriff of Kent, 1471.

Richard married Isabel Worsley before 1480. Isabel (daughter of Otewell Worsley and Rose Trevor) was born about 1460; died on 18 Apr 1527; was buried in Leigh's Chapel, St. Mary's, Lambeth, Surrey, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Edward Grey. Edward (son of Reynold Grey and Joan Astley) was born about 1415; died on 18 Dec 1457. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the King's Bodyguard. Sheriff of Kent 1487-88. Knight of the shire for Kent.

Richardson (citation details below) gives a date for the marriage of this Henry Ferrers to Margaret Hexdale of before 30 Sep 1481, when a grant of land in Kent on that date refers to Henry and Margaret as husband and wife. But another recorded grant of the manor of Hamyldon (Hambleton) to Henry and his wife is dated 14 Nov 1468, and a marriage date shortly before that fits much more tidily with Henry's i.p.m. on 17 Oct 1503, in which his and Margaret's son Edward is said to be "age 30 or more".

Henry married Margaret Hexstall before 14 Nov 1468. Margaret (daughter of William Hexstall and Joan) was born about 1440 in of Hextall's Court, East Peckham, Kent, England; died before 21 Dec 1497. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 5 Oct 1492

John married Eleanor Roos before 1455. Eleanor (daughter of Robert Roos and Joan Skelton) was born on 23 Jun 1432 in St. Christopher, Bread Street, London, England; died before May 1509; was buried in Basing, Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married Christopher Harcourt before 1468. Christopher (son of Richard Harcourt and Edith St. Clair) was born about 1449 in of Great Ashby, Leicestershire, England; died after 1476. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married William Calthorpe before 7 Mar 1464. William (son of John Calthorpe and Anne Wythe) was born on 30 Jan 1410 in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England; died on 15 Nov 1494 in Norwich, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Richers. John (son of John Richers and Margaret) was born about 1435 in of Swannington, Norfolk, England; died between 4 Mar 1501 and 12 Feb 1502. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Margaret Rodnell.

Family/Spouse: John Goring. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married Henry Percy before 25 Jun 1435. Henry (son of Henry Percy and Eleanor Neville) was born on 25 Jul 1421; died on 29 Mar 1461 in near Towton, Yorkshire, England; was buried in St. Dionis, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Anne Berkeley before 23 Sep 1483. Anne (daughter of William Berkeley and Anne Stafford) died after 1502. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1484
• Alternate death: Aft 1525
• Alternate death: Aft 1526

Notes:

Also called Jocasta.

Family/Spouse: Edmund Howard. Edmund (son of Thomas Howard and Elizabeth Tilney) was born between 1478 and 1480; died in Mar 1539. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joyce married Ralph Leigh before 1492. Ralph (son of Ralph Leigh and Elizabeth Langley) died on 6 Nov 1509; was buried in Lambeth, Surrey, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Talbot. Elizabeth (daughter of John Talbot and Joan Cheddar) was born in 1452 in Nutley, Sussex, England; died on 8 Sep 1487. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Killed in the Second Battle of St. Albans, fighting for the Lancastrians.

John married Elizabeth Woodville, Queen Consort of England in 1452. Elizabeth (daughter of Richard Woodville and Jacquetta of Luxembourg) was born in 1437 in Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England; died on 8 Jun 1492 in Bermondsey Priory, Surrey, England; was buried on 12 Jun 1492 in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Bef 1469, of Baddesley, Warwickshire, England
• Alternate birth: 1470

Notes:

MP for Warwickshire in 1529. Knighted at Tournai in 1513.

Edward married Constance Brome between 1 Oct 1497 and 17 Oct 1503. Constance (daughter of Nicholas Brome and Dorothy Arundell) died on 30 Sep 1551. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married James Clerke about 1508. James (son of John Clerke and Lucy Moyle) was born in of Forde Hall, Wrotham, Kent, England; died on 20 Sep 1553 in Wrotham, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Hampshire 1491-92, 1499-1500. He was one of the commanders of the army that subdued the Cornish at Blackheath, 22 Jun 1497. Created a Knight of the Bath at the marriage of Prince Arthur, 14 Nov 1501.

John married Alice Paulet before Jun 1468. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Agnes Darell. Agnes (daughter of Thomas Darell and Thomasine Gresley) died after 1508. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Francis Hasilden before 31 May 1494. Francis (son of John Hasilden and Elizabeth Cheyne) was born in of Guilden Morden, Cambridgeshire, England; died after 21 Nov 1522; was buried in Guilden Morden, Cambridgeshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Family/Spouse: Joan Hewster. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married William Gascoigne before 1469. William (son of William Gascoigne and Joan Neville) was born about 1450 in of Gawthorpe, Yorkshire, England; died on 12 Mar 1487. [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]

Notes:

In one of the charges leading to her downfall, she was alleged to have failed to resist the advances of a gentleman of the king's privy chamber named Thomas Culpeper, who was himself beheaded at Tyburn on 10 Dec 1541, two months before her own execution. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography article about Katherine Howard notes that "he was distantly related to Katherine on her mother's side, for they shared a Culpeper ancestor who had lived in the reign of Edward II." This would be true if the courtier were a son of any number of Culpepers of sixteenth-century Kent, virtually all of them descendants of Thomas Colepeper of Brenchley who died in 1309. But the ODNB confidently states that the courtier Thomas Culpeper was "the second of the three sons of Alexander Culpeper of Bedgebury, Kent (d. 1541), and his second wife, Constance Harper (née Chamberlain); his elder brother, also named Thomas, was a client of Thomas Cromwell." This piques our interest, because this Alexander Culpeper was a son of John Culpeper (~1430-1480) and his wife Agnes Gainsford, who are themselves direct ancestors of JTS and (probably) TNH, AP, and GFS.^{1, 2}

The problem is this: Alexander Culpeper of Bedgebury made his will on 20 May 1540, and died sometime in 1541 before 21 June, when his will was proved. His wife Constance made her will on 4 Oct 1541, after her husband's death. All of these events happened before the courtier Thomas Culpeper was accused, much less executed. And yet both wills name only one son named Thomas. Alexander's calls Thomas "myne eldist sonne" and mentions one other son, John. Constance's also names only two sons by Alexander, Thomas and John. (She had an additional son, George Harper, by her first marriage.)

Constance's will was proved at London on 13 Nov 1542, so it's entirely possible that she lived past 10 Nov 1541, the day the courtier Thomas Culpepper was executed. And there is a codicil to Constance's will, undated, but it makes none of the adjustments one might expect if one of one's legatees had been beheaded at Tyburn since the main will was drawn up.

Even more to the point, if backwoods gentry Alexander and Constance Culpeper had a son who was a fast-rising figure at the royal court, one would think he would at least be mentioned in one or both of their wills. Remember again that when both of these wills were drawn up, the courtier Thomas Culpeper had yet to be accused of any wrongdoing.

Finally, the will of the Thomas Culpeper who was definitely a son of Alexander and Constance Culpeper, mentioned in both of their wills, is dated 6 Aug 1557; it was proved 20 Oct 1558, and he was buried at St. Mary's in Goudhurst on 13 May 1558. He was married twice, to Elizabeth Hawte in about 1522 and to Ellen Hendley in about 1540. He is obviously not the courtier who was executed in November 1541.

Where does the claim about the courtier's parentage come from? Probably the 1592 Visitation of Kent. Specifically, the 1924 volume The Visitations of Kent, Taken in the Years 1574 and 1592 by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux, edited by W. Bruce Bannerman, part 2, London, 1924 (Harleian Society volume 75). "The present Volume contains the remaining portion of the letters, I-Z, of the second Visitation, in 1574, together with the third Visitation, made in 1592, based on a contemporary MS bearing the autograph of Percy, Viscount Strangford, London, 1816, with the addition, from other sources, of some further Pedigrees and Arms." We're uncertain what "contemporary MS" means in this context: an actual manuscript made by a herald in the 1590s, or not? And as to the "autograph of Percy, Viscount Strangford, London, 1816", we are doubtful about the mighty authenticating credibility emanating from the signature of Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford (1780-1855), whose career as a British diplomat went into an abrupt decline when, as ambassador to Russia in 1826, he was caught falsifying dispatches to the British government and revealing confidential documents to the Austrian ambassador in St. Petersburg. At any rate, these are the pertinent passages from the 1924 volume's representation of the 1592 visitation, all on page 92:

S^r John Colepeper of Bedgebery aforsaide knight Sonne and heire to Walter married Agnes the daughter of . . . . . and by her hathe issue S^r Alexander Colepeper knighte his eldest Sonne […]

S^r Alexander Colepeper of Bedgebery aforsaide knighte Sonne and heire to S^r John maried to his first wiffe Agnes Daughter to Roger Davye of Northfelde in the County of Kent Esquire and by her had issue Alys. After the saide S^r Alexander maried to his seconde wiffe Constance Daughter to Robert Chamberlein and wydowe of Harper, and her her had issue Thomas Colepeper his eldist Sonne, and Thomas Colepeper second Sonne, and John Colepeper thirde Sonne, Elizabeth maried to S^t Clere gent., Anne maried to Raulfe Molyns of Barkeshier, and Johan maried to Aldred ffitz James of Somersetshire Esquire, Margarett married to Phillippe Chowte gent and Katherin maried to Edwarde Barrett gent.

Anne's husband was actually William Molyns, not Raulfe or Ralph. Johanna's husband was Alfred Fitzjames, not Aldred, but given the fluidity of late-medieval names he may well have gone by Aldred two or three times a week. At any rate, even stipulating that these passages represent a perfect copy of the original 1592 visitation, it remains that this information would have been taken down by the heralds from people reciting family history over fifty years after the deaths of Alexander and Constance Culpeper.

We would like to know if the author of the ODNB essay about Katherine Howard, Retha M. Warnicke, has other sources that would indicate that the courtier Thomas Culpeper was in fact a son of Alexander and Constance. We would also like to know the source for the information that his stated older brother, also named Thomas, was "a client of Thomas Cromwell." In the absence of any such information, we're inclined to believe that this theory of the parentage of the courtier Thomas Culpeper is merely yet another example of the less-than-perfect reliability of visitation pedigrees.

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(1) Depending on whether TNH, AP, and GFS ancestor Joan Roberts was a daughter of her father Walter Roberts's second wife Isabel Culpepper, daughter of John Culpepper and Agnes Gainsford, as seems most probable, instead of his first wife, Margaret Penn. See Adrian Benjamin Burke, John Blythe Dobson, and Janet Chevally Wolfe, "The Exhurst Ancestry of the Stoughton Siblings of New England", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 165:245, October 2011; 166:46, January 2012.

(2) And possibly of PNH, if it's ever proved that his 9G-grandfather Henry Colepepper (d. 1675 in Virginia) was a son of his fellow Virginia emigrant John Culpeper (1637-1674), as has often been speculated. If this turned out to be the case, John Culpeper and Agnes Gainsford would be the most recent common ancestors of PNH and TNH.

Catherine married Henry VIII, King of England on 28 Jul 1540 in Oatlands Palace, Surrey, 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]

Notes:

She was subsequently married to James Stumpe (d. 1563) and then Thomas Stafford. Over the decades she sold off most of her first husband's property in order that she and her husbands could maintain the extravagant lifestyle to which she had become accustomed at the court of Henry VIII.

Isabel married Edward Baynton about 18 Jan 1532. Edward (son of John Baynton and Joan Digges) was born about 1480 in of Bromham, Wiltshire, England; died on 27 Nov 1544. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Edmund Dudley after 1500. Edmund (son of John Dudley and Elizabeth Bramshott) was born about 1462; died on 18 Aug 1510 in Tower Hill, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Cecily Bonville. Cecily (daughter of William Bonville and Catherine Neville) was born between 1460 and 1461; died on 12 May 1529 in Shacklewell, Hackney, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Valentine Knightley. Valentine (son of Richard Knightley and Joan Skennard) died on 8 Mar 1566 in Fawsley, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He participated in the suppression of Wyatt's Rebellion with a defeat of rebels near Wrotham on 10 Feb 1554.

George married Elizabeth Wilsford about 1533. Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas Wilsford and Elizabeth Culpeper) was born about 1517. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Gifford. William (son of John Gifford) was born in of Itchel in Crondal, Hampshire, England; died on 17 Jun 1549. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Staffordshire 1545-46. Knight of the shire for Staffordshire.

John married Margaret Barantyne before 1523. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In 1580 she he founded Peyton's Hospital in Isleham.

Frances married Robert Peyton in Jan 1516. Robert (son of Robert Peyton and Elizabeth Clere) was born about 1498 in of Isleham, Cambridgeshire, England; died on 1 Aug 1550; was buried in St. Andrew's, Isleham, Cambridgeshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Harry Richers.

Henry married Cecily Tillys before 1515. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jasper Tyrell. Jasper was born in of Rawreth, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ninian Markenfield. Ninian (son of Thomas Markenfield and Eleanor Conyers) was born in of Markenfield, Yorkshire, England; died on 25 Mar 1528. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married George Tailboys before Apr 1493. George (son of Robert Tailboys and Elizabeth Heron) was born about 1467; died on 21 Sep 1538; was buried in Bullington, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called William Guise.

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

Notes:

MP for Malmesbury, 1572; Devizes, 1584 and 1586; Old Sarum, 1589, and possibly Devizes again in 1593.

"In 1593 he succeeded his mother to the site and demesnes of the monastery of Edington, Wiltshire. He so despoiled the house there, that the Marquess of Wiltshire alleged that £1000 would not repair it." [Royal Ancestry, citation details below.]

Family/Spouse: Anne Cavendish. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1st Duke of Northumberland.

John married Jane Guildford before 1526. Jane (daughter of Edward Guildford and Eleanor West) was born about 1504; died on 22 Jan 1555 in Chelsea, Middlesex, England; was buried on 1 Feb 1555 in Chelsea, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

2nd Marquess of Dorset.

Thomas married Margaret Wotton in 1509. Margaret died after 6 Oct 1535. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Family/Spouse: Mary Saxby. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Joan Brydges before 1523. Joan (daughter of Henry Brydges and Margery) died between 4 Dec 1557 and 18 Feb 1558. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Anne.

Agnes married John Knyvet about 1538. John (son of Edmund Knyvet and Jane Bourchier) was born about 1517 in of Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk, England; died before 1556. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Cambridgeshire.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Rich. Elizabeth (daughter of Richard Rich, Speaker of the House of Commons and Elizabeth Jenkes) died on 17 Oct 1591; was buried in Isleham, Cambridgeshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Frances married Edmund Cushin on 20 Aug 1542 in Swannington, Norfolk, England. Edmund (son of John Cushin and Alice) was born about 1515 in of Swannington and Hingham, Norfolk, England; died before 21 Aug 1558; was buried on 21 Aug 1558 in Swannington, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married Edmund Lewknor about 1532. Edmund (son of Roger Lewknor and Anne) was born on 16 Nov 1496 in Tangmere, Sussex, England; died on 11 Mar 1546; was buried on 12 Mar 1546 in Tangmere, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Robert Mauleverer before 2 Feb 1525. Robert (son of William Mauleverer and Anne Conyers) was born in of Wothersome, Yorkshire, England; died before 31 Jan 1541 in Bardsey, Yorkshire, England; was buried on 31 Jan 1541 in Bardsey, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Edward Dymoke between 1523 and 1 Apr 1529. Edward (son of Robert Dymoke and Anne Sparrow) was born about 1508 in of Scrivelsby, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England; died on 16 Sep 1567. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Lincolnshire, 1529.

Gilbert married Elizabeth Blount about 1519. [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]

Notes:

His wife's grandfather, William Weare alias, innkeeper of Salisbury, left to her all his lands and tenements in Salisbury, by which means Ferdinando Baynton became an innkeeper himself. Observed Walter Goodwin Davis (citation details below), "As the third son of a fourth son of his grandfather, Sir Edward Baynton, Ferdinando would have expcted no share in his family's great wealth and it seems obvious that he got none."

Ferdinando married Jane Weare alias Browne about 1598. Jane (daughter of John Weare alias Browne) died after 1629. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Guildford married Jane Grey, Queen of England on 21 May 1553 in Durham House, London, England. Jane (daughter of Henry Grey and Frances Brandon) was born in Oct 1537 in Bradgate, Leicestershire, England; died on 12 Feb 1554 in Tower Hill, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1st Duke of Suffolk. 3rd Marquess of Dorset.

Family/Spouse: Frances Brandon. Frances (daughter of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor) was born on 16 Jul 1517 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England; died on 11 Nov 1559 in London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jane Littleton. Jane (daughter of Edward Littleton and Margaret Devereux) was born about 1587; died in Aug 1657; was buried on 3 Sep 1657 in Fawsley, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Mary Weston on 10 Feb 1599 in St. Andrew's, Holborn, London, England. Mary (daughter of Jerome Weston and Mary Cave) was born before 26 Apr 1579; was christened on 26 Apr 1579 in Roxwell, Essex, England; died before 13 Jul 1614. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Thomas Goddard before 4 Dec 1557. Thomas (son of John Goddard and Elizabeth Berenger) was born in of Upper Upham in Aldbourne, Wiltshire, England; died between 2 Jun 1594 and 12 May 1598; was buried in Aldbourne, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abigail married Martin Sedley in 1577. Martin (son of Martin Sedley and Elizabeth Mounteney) was born about 1531 in of Morley, Norfolk, England; died about 1609; was buried on 10 Feb 1610 in St. Peter's Chapel, Morley, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Created a baronet by James I on 22 May 1611.

John married Alice Osborne on 29 Jun 1580 in St. Dionis Backchurch, Langbourn, London, England. Alice (daughter of Edward Osborne, Lord Mayor of London and Anne Hewitt) was born before 4 Mar 1563; was christened on 4 Mar 1563 in St. Dionis Backchurch, Langbourn, London, England; died between 29 Jan 1626 and 6 Dec 1626. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1569

Family/Spouse: William Thornton. William (son of Oliver Thornton and Parnell Bugge) was born about 1535 in of Downham, Norfolk, England; died on 24 Sep 1570. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Thomas Stoughton on 27 Feb 1553. Thomas (son of Lawrence Stoughton and Anne Combes) was born on 25 Mar 1521 in of Stoke in Stoughton, Surrey, England; died on 26 Mar 1578 in London, England; was buried in St. Clement Danes, Westminster, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dorothy married John Kaye on 21 Jan 1543 in Bardsey, Yorkshire, England. John (son of Arthur Kaye and Beatrice Wentworth) was born about 1528 in of Woodsome, Yorkshire, England; died before 28 Jul 1594 in Almondbury, Yorkshire, England; was buried on 28 Jul 1594 in Almondbury, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1607

Notes:

"Even though Frances Dymoke survived her husband Thomas Windebanck, and died testate around 1612, they must have been divorced or separated 'in some manner' as we have instances of Mary, widow of Edward Hunte, called, or calling herself, the 'wife' of Thomas Windebank, clerk of the Signet, at least between the years 1591-1600. The will of Thomas Windebank, around 1607/8, does not name a wife, and only mentions the known children by Frances." [John C. Brandon, citation details below]

Frances married Thomas Windebank on 19 Aug 1566 in Scrivelsby, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England. Thomas (son of Richard Windebank and Margaret ferch Griffith) was born about 1550 in of St. Martin in the Fields, London, England; died on 24 Oct 1607; was buried in St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, 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:

• Baptised: 23 Sep 1602

Notes:

One of TWK's twelve proven "gateway ancestors."

"Because in all probability no other seventeenth-century English emigrant to America had so many close kinsmen of high rank as Anne possessed, they are partially listed here, at the risk of repetition. Through her great-aunt Bridget Baynton, Anne was the second cousin of the Countess of Suffolk, the Countess of Lincoln and the Countess of Rutland, and the second cousin, once removed, of the Duchess of Buckingham. Through her great-grandfather Sir William Cavendish, she was a great-niece of the Earl of Devonshire, the Countess of Shrewsbury and the Countess of Lennox, and the first cousin, once removed, of Lady Arabella Stuart, the Duke of Newcastle and the Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull. This constitutes an outstanding example of the fluidity of English society, a fluidity which would have been almost impossible in the caste systems of the European continent." [Walter Goodwin Davis, citation details below.]

Davis is probably right that "no other seventeenth-century English emigrant to America had so many close kinsmen of high rank as Anne possessed", although Mary Launce (ancestor of AP) was probably competitive. Meanwhile, gateway ancestor Elizabeth St. John (ancestor of JTS) was probably the emigrant most closely related to contemporary English royalty, being a half fifth cousin once removed to Charles I. Anne Baynton was a sixth cousin once removed to that particular monarch, through common ancestors Richard Wydevill and Joan Bittlesgate.

"In 1664 [...] Anne, wrote Lord Clarendon in England requesting help restoring a wine license formerly granted to her father." [Royal Ancestry, citation details below]

Anne married Christopher Batt on 12 Oct 1629 in St. Edmund's, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. Christopher (son of Thomas Batt and Joane Byley) was born before 6 Jul 1601; was christened on 6 Jul 1601 in St. Edmund's, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England; died on 9 Aug 1661 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Known to history as Lady Jane Grey, the "Nine Days Queen."

Jane married Guildford Dudley on 21 May 1553 in Durham House, London, England. Guildford (son of John Dudley and Jane Guildford) died on 12 Feb 1554 in Tower Hill, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Katherine married Henry Herbert on 21 May 1553. Henry (son of William Herbert and Ann Parr) was born after 1537; died on 19 Jan 1601 in Wilton, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was previously married to a man named Gastrell.

Jane married Peregrine Gastrell on 21 Mar 1632 in Fawsley, Northamptonshire, England. Peregrine was born in of East Garston, Berkshire, England; died before Oct 1644. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane married Rev. John Tompson on 1 Oct 1644 in Fawsley, Northamptonshire, England. John (son of John Tompson and Sarah Mills) was born on 1 Oct 1611; died before 27 Jun 1667; was buried on 27 Jun 1667 in Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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

From Wikipedia:

Jeremy Clarke (also known as Jeremiah Clarke) was an early colonial settler and President of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Born into a prominent family in England, he was a merchant who came to New England with his wife, Frances Latham, and four stepchildren, settling first at Portsmouth in 1638, but the following year joining William Coddington and others in establishing the town of Newport. Here he held a variety of civic positions until 1648 when Coddington's election as President of the colony was disputed, and Clarke was chosen to serve in that office instead. He was the father of Walter Clarke, another colonial governor of Rhode Island, and also had family connections with several other future governors of the colony.

Jeremy married Frances Latham about 1637 in England. Frances (daughter of Lewis Latham and Elizabeth) was born before 15 Feb 1610 in Kempston, Bedfordshire, England; was christened on 15 Feb 1610 in Kempston, Bedfordshire, England; died in Sep 1677 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island; was buried in Common Burying Ground, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Walrond. Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas Walrond and Alice Prater) died after 1627. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Muriel married Brampton Gurdon on 8 Jul 1606 in St. Peter's, Morley, Norfolk, England. Brampton (son of John Gurdon and Amy Brampton) was born in 1566 in of Assington, Suffolk, England; died before 2 Apr 1650; was buried on 2 Apr 1650 in Assington, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married John Peyton on 25 Nov 1602 in Isleham, Cambridgeshire, England. John (son of John Peyton and Dorothy Beaupré) was born about 1579 in of Doddington, Cambridgeshire, England; died between 24 Feb 1635 and 22 Apr 1635. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Downham, Norfolk, England

Family/Spouse: Anne Smith. Anne (daughter of Giles Smith) was born about 1565; died after 21 Apr 1624. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Burgess (M.P.) for Guilford in 1572, 1584, 1586, and 1593.

Lawrence married Rose Ive on 23 Apr 1575. Rose (daughter of Richard Ive and Elizabeth Agmondesham) was born about 1555; died on 1 Nov 1632. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Robert Keaye. Justice of the Peace, and Treasurer for Lame Soldiers under Elizabeth I.

Family/Spouse: Anne Flower. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 17 Jun 1624

Notes:

Her funeral monument in St. Barnabas Church, Faccombe, reads:

HERE LYES THE BODY OF ANNE READE, Y^E DEARE WIFE OF HENRY READE ESQ^R: ONE OF Y^E DAUGHTERS OF S^R THO: WINDEBANKE K^T: CLARKE OF THE SIGNET TO THE LATE QUEENE ELIZAB: & TO K: IAMES THAT NOW IS, SHE WAS BEGOTTEN ON Y^E BODY OF FRANCIS DYMMOCKE HIS WIFE, ONE OF Y^E DAUGHTERS OF S^R EDW: DYMMOCKE OF SKEERLSBY IN Y^E COVNTY OF LINCOLNE K^T: CHAMPION TO Y^E SAID QUEENE ELIZA: & HER SVCCESSO^RS BY THE TENVRE OF HIS LANDES

SHE DEBTED THIS WORLD TO REST WITH HER SAVIOR CHRIST Y^E 7^TH DAY OF IVNE 1624 IN Y^E 53 YEARE OF HER AGE & LEFT BEHIND HER ISSVES OF HER BODY LIVING, 2 SONNES FRANCIS & ROBT. & 3 DAV: MARGARET MILDRED & ANN

Note that John Bennett Bodie's transcription of this inscription gives her death date as 7 Jun 1624, whereas John Meredith Reade's transcription says 17 June of the same year. From images posted online, it would appear thatg Bodie is correct.

Anne married Henry Reade on 3 Sep 1592 in St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, England. Henry (son of Andrew Reade and Alice Cooke) was born in 1566; died on 12 Apr 1647; was buried in Faccombe, Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Secretary of State under Charles I.

"Francis Windebank matriculated on 18 May 1599 from St John's College, Oxford, where William Laud, who by 1608 had become his 'dear friend', may have been his tutor. He graduated BA on 26 January 1602 and entered the Middle Temple on 4 February 1603. In February 1605 he was granted a clerkship of the signet in reversion after Levinus Monck and Francis Gall before leaving on an extended tour through France, Germany, and Italy. On his return to England in February 1608 he took up work in the signet office, now able to write letters in both French and Italian, adding by 1616 a reading knowledge of Spanish. In July 1608 he married Edith Jackson, of obscure origins and, as he later hinted, limited means." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below]

Multiple accounts of his escape to France in 1640 (see below) mention that he was accompanied by his secretary and nephew Robert Reade. This was the Robert Reade who was a brother of Col. George Reade of Virginia, both of them sons of Francis Windebank's sister Mildred by her husband Robert Reade. (See John Meredith Read, "The English Ancestry of Washington," The Atheneum number 3465, 24 Mar 1894.)

From Wikipedia (accessed 8 Nov 2021):

After a few years of continental travel (1605–1608), he settled at Haines Hill at Hurst in Berkshire and was employed for many years in minor public offices, eventually becoming clerk of the council.

In June 1632, he was appointed by King Charles I as Secretary of State in succession to Lord Dorchester, his senior colleague being Sir John Coke, and he was knighted. His appointment was mainly due to his Spanish and Roman Catholic sympathies. The first Earl of Portland, Francis, Lord Cottington, and Windebank formed an inner group in the council, and with their aid the king carried on various secret negotiations, especially with Spain.

In December 1634 Windebank was appointed to discuss with the papal agent Gregorio Panzani the possibility of a union between the Anglican and Roman Churches, and expressed the opinion that the Puritan opposition might be crippled by sending their leaders to the war in the Netherlands.

Windebank's efforts as treasury commissioner in 1635 to shield some of those guilty of corruption led to a breach with Archbishop Laud. In the same year Windebank was one of the promoters of the Courteen association, and the next year he was for a time disgraced for issuing an order for the conveyance of Spanish money to pay the Spanish troops in the Netherlands.

In July 1638 he urged the king to make war with the Scots, and in 1640, when trouble was breaking out in England, he sent an appeal from Queen Henrietta Maria to the pope for money and men. He was elected in March 1640 to the Short Parliament, as member for Oxford University, and he entered the Long Parliament in October as member for Corfe Castle. In December the House learnt that he had signed letters of grace to recusant priests and Jesuits, and summoned him to answer the charge, but the king allowed him to escape to France. From Calais, he wrote to Christopher Hatton, defending his integrity, and affirming his belief that the Church of England was the purest and nearest the primitive Church. He remained in Paris until his death, shortly after he had been received into the Roman communion.

Windebank married and had a large family. William Laud referred in 1630 to his "many sons". He had five at least, and four survived him:

Thomas (born c. 1612), was M.P. for Wootton Bassett and supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. He was made a baronet in 1645. He was Clerk of the Signet from 1641 until 1645 and again (after the Interregnum) from 1660 to 1674.

Francis (died 1645) supported the Royalist cause during the English Civil War. He was court-martialled and shot for failing to defend Bletchingdon House, near Oxford.

Christopher (born 1615) was an Englishman who lived in Madrid and worked as guide and interpreter for English ambassadors.

John (1618–1704), a physician who was admitted an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1680 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

Of Windebank's daughters:

Margaret married Thomas Turner (1591–1672), and was mother of Thomas Turner (1645–1714), president of Corpus Christi, Oxford, and of Francis Turner, bishop of Ely, one of the seven Bishops who, refusing to accept James II's Declaration of Indulgence, were imprisoned in the Tower of London.

Frances married Sir Edward Hales on 12 July 1669.

One other died unmarried at Paris about 1650.

Two others became nuns of the Calvary at the Église Sainte-Marie-des-Anges, Paris.

Francis married Edith Jackson in Jul 1608. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 6 Aug 1630 and 31 Dec 1630
• Alternate death: Aft 6 Aug 1630
• Alternate death: Aft 15 Aug 1630

Mildred married Robert Reade on 31 Jul 1600 in St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, England. Robert (son of Andrew Reade and Alice Cooke) was born about 1568 in of Faccombe, Hampshire, England; died before 20 Mar 1627; was buried on 20 Mar 1627 in Linkenholt, Hampshire, England. [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]

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]

Walter married Hannah Scott in Feb 1667. Hannah (daughter of Richard Scott and Katherine Marbury) was born in 1642; died on 24 Jul 1681. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to a Fulham genealogy quoted by Douglas Richardson, "Edward Goddard...was once very wealthy but afterwards much reduced by oppression during the civil war. He belonged to the Parliament side, his house was beset and demolished by a company of cavaliers, who also plundered his substance. He escaped through the midst of them in disguise but died soon after."

Edward married Priscilla Doyley on 13 Aug 1612 in Stadhampton, Oxfordshire, England. Priscilla (daughter of John Doyley and Ursula Cope) was born before 11 Aug 1594 in Stadhampton, Oxfordshire, England; was christened on 11 Aug 1594 in Stadhampton, Oxfordshire, England; died before 15 Jun 1681 in Box, Wiltshire, England; was buried on 15 Jun 1681 in Box, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 22 Apr 1688, Hulme, Lancashire, England
• Alternate death: Bef 25 Apr 1688

Notes:

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

She went to New England with he husband in 1635, but by 1643 it was evident that colonial life was taking a serious toll on her health. On 10 May 1643 Richard Saltonstall was granted permission to leave the Massachusetts General Court due to her illness. They returned to England late in 1645; he then went immediately back to New England.

"There is no evidence that Muriel Saltonstall was ever in New England again. Henry Newcome saw the Saltonstalls at Hulme in Lancashire on 19 June 1667, and reported that she was very weak. She died in 1688. Newcome preached her funeral sermon at Didsbury. Muriel Saltonstall's dislike of New England apparently extended to a desire that her portrait should not be sent to Massachusetts after her death." [Abandoning America, citation details below.]

Muriel married Maj. Richard Saltonstall on 4 Jul 1633 in All Hallows, Honey Lane, London, England. Richard (son of Richard Saltonstall and Grace Kaye) was born before 1 Oct 1610; was christened on 1 Oct 1610 in All Hallows', Almondbury, Yorkshire, England; died on 29 Apr 1694 in Hulme, Lancaster, England; was buried on 2 May 1694 in St. James', Didsbury, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married George Brent after 1635. George (son of Richard Brent and Elizabeth Reade) was born in 1602 in of Defford, Worcestershire, England; died in 1671. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 18 Jun 1627

Mary married John Haynes, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony; Governor of Connecticut on 11 Apr 1616 in Hingham, Norfolk, England. John (son of John Haynes and Mary Mitchell) was born on 1 May 1594 in Messing, Essex, England; was christened in Messing, Essex, England; died before 9 Jan 1654 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Staughton, or Stoughton, is in Stoke, near Guildford.

Family/Spouse: Agnes Pierce. Agnes (daughter of Robert Pierce) died on 15 Mar 1639. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptised: 8 Aug 1579, All Hallows', Almondbury, Yorkshire, England´

Grace married Richard Saltonstall on 28 Nov 1609 in Almondbury, Yorkshire, England. Richard (son of Samuel Saltonstall and Anne Ramsden) was born before 4 Apr 1586; was christened on 4 Apr 1586 in Rookes Hall, Highcliffe in Hipperholme, Halifax, Yorkshire, England; died before 25 Oct 1661 in Crayford, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1606, Linkenholt, Hampshire, England

Notes:

"A noted Royalist. [...] He was admitted scholar of New College, December 10th, 1624; Fellow, January 15th, 1626; LL.D., 1638; Advocate of Arches Court; Principal of Magdalen Hall, 1643; resigned his Fellowship, September 21st, 1645, and Edward Farmer, of the parish of St. Helen's, Abingdon, was admitted in his place. He had a king's letter in his favour, dated March 31st, 1624; and in 1642 trailed a pike for King Charles in the university, and served his Majesty in the army, but on the decline of the king's cause changed his religion and became a secular priest; esteemed a good scholar and civilian." [John Meredith Read, citation details below]

According to John Bennett Bodie (citation details below), the Linkenholt parish register says he was baptized 18 Oct 1604, earlier than the 1606 birth year given by other sources.

Notes:

He was secretary to his uncle, Sir Francis Windebank, Secretary of State under Charles I, and accompanied him on his escape to Paris in 1640. We do not know the dates of his birth or death, but he is mentioned in the nuncupative will of his brother Dr. Thomas Reade dated 7 Mar 1668.

In a letter from Paris to his cousin Thomas Windebank, 19 Mar 1641, he mentions a trunk that had been left behind in his chamber at Whitehall, and regrets its loss, "for there were many good things in it which I had gathered together, and such as had no relation to the State."

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 25 Oct 1608
• Alternate death: 1671, Virginia

Notes:

"George Reade, born 25 Oct. 1608, son of Robert and Mildred (Windebank) Reade, who had come to Virginia in Sir John Harvey's party upon his return as governor of Virginia, 1637. On 27 Aug. 1640 George Reade was appointed by the King 'to the place of Secretary [of the Colony] in the absence of Richard Kemp who has lately arrived in England.' Reade was clerk of the Council, 1648, burgess for James City, 1649, and for York, 1656, and was appointed to the Council in 1658, holding that office until his death." [Adventurers of Purse and Person, citation details below]

He is a "gateway ancestor" for PNH's sister-in-law, a descendant of Edward III and over five thousand other medieval people. A daughter of Edward III's son John of Gaunt, Joan Beaufort, was married twice; through her second marriage, to Ralph de Neville, George Reade is an 8X-great grandson of Edward III. Through her second marriage, to Robert Ferrers, Reade is a 9X-great grandson of the same king, and also a 9X-great grandson through another of Edward's sons, Lionel of Antwerp.

He and his wife Elizabeth Martiau were great-great grandparents of George Washington:

George Reade = Elizabeth Martiau
Mildred Reade = Col. Augustine Warner
Mildred Warner = Lawrence Washington
Augustine Washington = Mary Ball
George Washington

It has been suggested that George Washington was named George after this particular great-great-grandfather. It does appear that George Reade represents the most recent, and possibly the only, previous instance of a George in Washington's ancestry.

George Reade and Elizabeth Martiau were also ancestors of Queen Elizabeth II:

George Reade = Elizabeth Martiau
Mildred Reade = Col. Augustine Warner
Mary Warner = Col. John Smith
Mildred Smith = Robert Porteous
Robert Porteous = Judith Cockayne
Mildred Porteous = Robert Hodgson
Rev. Robert Hodgson = Mary Tucker
Henrietta Mildred Hodgson = Oswald Smith
Frances Dora Smith = Claude Bowes-Lyon
Claude George Bowes-Lyon = Cecilia Nina Cavendish-Bentinck
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon = King George VI
Queen Elizabeth II

And of Meriwether Lewis:

George Reade = Elizabeth Martiau
Mildred Reade = Col. Augustine Warner
Elizabeth Warner = Col. John Lewis
Col. Robert Lewis = Jane Meriwether
William Lewis = Lucy Meriwether
Meriwether Lewis

And of General George S. Patton:

Thomas Reade = Lucy Gwynne
Mildred Reade = Philip Rootes
Elizabeth Rootes = Rev. John Thompson
Philip Rootes Thompson = Anna Davenport
Eleanor Thompson = William Thorton
Susanna Thompson Thorton = Andrew Glassell
Susan Thornton Glassell = George Smith Patton
George Smith Patton = Ruth Wilson
General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

George married Elizabeth Martiau about 1641 in Yorktown, York, Virginia. Elizabeth (daughter of Capt. Nicholas Martiau and (Unknown first wife of Nicholas Martieu)) was born in 1625; died between 10 Feb 1686 and 24 Jan 1687 in Virginia; was buried in Grace Episcopal Churchyard, Yorktown, York, Virginia. [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]

Elizabeth married Jonathan Pierpont on 29 Oct 1691. Jonathan (son of Robert Pierpont) died on 2 Jun 1709 in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Abigail Wigglesworth on 23 Dec 1700 in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Abigail (daughter of Rev. Michael Wigglesworth and Martha Mudge) was born on 20 Mar 1681 in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 28 Jan 1771 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married Thomas Rodman on 26 Nov 1691. Thomas (son of John Rodman and Elizabeth) was born on 26 Dec 1640 in Barbados; died on 11 Jan 1728 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

One of JTSs eleven proven "gateway ancestors."

Citizen and grocer of London. He came to New England in 1665 with power-of-attorney of his mother-in-law, to collect on a debt owed her by her brother Ephraim Child, who had died in New England in 1662. He was disappointed in this mission, finding nothing to his uncle's estate but further debt. According to a written-out memoir left by William Goddard's son Edward (b. 1675 in Watertown), "his contracted circumstances and the plague then raging in London...was probably the occasion of his continuing to tarry here and sending for his wife and children who came over in 1666."

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Miles. Elizabeth (daughter of Benjamin Miles and Elizabeth Child) was born about 1631; died on 8 Feb 1698 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nathaniel married Elizabeth Ward on 28 Dec 1663 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Rev. John Ward and Alice) was born on 1 Apr 1647 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 29 Apr 1741 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts. [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]

Elizabeth married Joseph Cooke before 1643. Joseph (son of Thomas Cooke and Grace Upcher) was born about 1608 in of Great Yeldham, Essex, England; died before 19 May 1699 in Stanway, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rose married Richard Otis about 1651. Richard (son of Stephen Otis and Elizabeth) was born in Glastonbury, Somerset, England; died on 28 Jun 1689 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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

He went to New England with his father in 1630, the first of at least eight Atlantic crossings in his lifetime. He was a man of many interests and offices, both in New England and during England's commonwealth period. Notably, back in New England after the Restoration, Richard Saltonstall donated £50 to support the fugitive regicides William Goffe and Edward Whalley, and he was one of the few people who knew where in New England they were hiding. He was also on several occasions embroiled in political conflict with the Winthrop/Dudley government of colonial Boston.

Richard married Muriel Gurdon on 4 Jul 1633 in All Hallows, Honey Lane, London, England. Muriel (daughter of Brampton Gurdon and Muriel Sedley) was born about 1613; died on 21 Apr 1688 in Hulme, Lancashire, England; was buried on 25 Apr 1688 in St. James' Church, Didsbury, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 4 Jan 1694

Mildred married Augustine Warner before 1671. Augustine (son of Col. Augustine Warner and Mary Towneley) was born on 3 Jun 1642 in York County, Virginia; died on 19 Jun 1681. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Capt. Thomas Chisman. Thomas (son of Edmund Chisman and Mary) was born about 1652; died between 25 Jan 1710 and 18 Jul 1715. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Mary Symmes on 26 Dec 1700 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Capt. William Symmes and Mercy Chickering) was born about 1678 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets; died on 14 Feb 1758 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Enoch Sawyer. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 28 Feb 1720, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts

Notes:

Also spelled Toppan. Graduated Harvard in 1742, taught school in Haverhill, and was ordained and installed as pastor over the Congregational Church in Manchester in December of 1745, a position he held until his death forty-five years later.

Benjamin married Elizabeth Marsh on 5 Oct 1746. Elizabeth (daughter of David Marsh and Mary Moody) was born on 29 Jun 1723 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 24 Sep 1807 in Manchester, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Elected Justice of the Peace of Newport, Rhode Island, May 1739.

Samuel married Mary Willett on 16 May 1723 in Flushing, Long Island, New York. Mary (daughter of Col. Thomas Willett) was born about 1710; died on 21 May 1756. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Josiah Goddard (d. 1720) = Rachel Davis (1672-1740)
Rachel Goddard (b. 1699) = Obadiah Coolidge (b. 1695)
Josiah Coolidge (1718-1780) = Mary Jones
John Coolidge (1756-1822) = Hannah Priest (1751-1829)
Calvin Coolidge (178-1853) = Sarah Thompson (1789-1856)
Calvin Galusha Coolidge (1815-1878) = Sarah Almeda Brewer (1823-1906)
John Calvin Coolidge (1845-1926) = Victoria Josephine Moor (1846-1885)
(John) Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)

Josiah married Rachel Davis on 28 Jan 1696. Rachel (daughter of William Davis) was born on 26 Aug 1672 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 23 Apr 1740. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Rev. Rowland Cotton in Sep 1692 in z. Rowland (son of Rev. John Cotton and Joanna Rossiter) was born on 27 Dec 1667 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony; died on 18 Mar 1722 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Roswell Neale. Roswell (son of Anthony Neale and Elizabeth Roswell) died between 24 Mar 1751 and 1 May 1751. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Lt. Col. John Talcott on 9 Nov 1676. John (son of John Talcott and Dorothy Mott) was born about 1625 in Braintree, Essex, England; died on 23 Jul 1688 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 28 Jun 1689

Notes:

Called in some records Hotesse.

Steven married Mary Pitman on 16 Apr 1674 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nathaniel married Elizabeth Ward on 28 Dec 1663 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Rev. John Ward and Alice) was born on 1 Apr 1647 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 29 Apr 1741 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 26 Mar 1701
• Buried: 26 Mar 1701, Whitehaven, Cumberland, England

Mildred married Lawrence Washington about 1690. Lawrence (son of Col. John Washington and Anne Pope) was born in Sep 1659 in Westmoreland County, Virginia; died between 11 Mar 1698 and 30 Apr 1698. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Notes:

Ann Torrey and her husband James Humphrey were half second cousins, being both descended from William Torrey (d. 1690) but by different wives of his.

Ann married Maj. James Humphrey on 5 Dec 1734 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. James (son of James Humphrey and Margaret Torrey) was born on 22 Jun 1711 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 2 May 1798 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]