Agnes de Tony

Notes:

Founder of Aldeby Priory.

Family/Spouse: Hubert de Rye. Hubert (son of Hubert de Ryes) died before 1127. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Radulf de Belfou. Radulf was born in of Hockering, Norfolk, England; died between 1100 and 1105. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Family/Spouse: Margaret Fitz Roscelin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Aline married John le Marshal about 1200. John (son of John fitz Gilbert and Alice de Coleville) was born in of Chirton, Wiltshire, England; died before 27 Jun 1235. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Carew. William (son of Nicholas de Carew) was born in of Carew, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died before 21 Mar 1271. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Pernel del Ortiay. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Avice de Tuite. Avice (daughter of Richard de Tuite) died after 16 Aug 1286. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Hereditary Marshal of Ireland.

John married Hawise de Say after 1267. Hawise (daughter of William de Say and Sibyl) died after 1317. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1265, of Carew, Pembrokeshire, Wales

Notes:

Present at the siege of Caerlaverock. Summoned to Parliament by writ, 1300-01.

Family/Spouse: Amice Peverel. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Hereditary Marshal of Ireland. Present at the siege of Caerlaverock. Summoned to Parliament from 8 Jan 1309 to 26 Nov 1313. Killed at the battle of Bannockburn.

Family/Spouse: Christian de Burgh. Christian (daughter of Robert Fitz Walter and Devorguille de Burgh) died before 6 Dec 1315 in Holywell Priory, Shorewell, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Joan Talbot. Joan (daughter of Richard Talbot and Sarah de Beauchamp) died after 1349. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hawise married Robert de Morley before 20 Oct 1316. Robert (son of William de Morley and Cecily de Mohaut) was born in of Morley, Norfolk, England; died on 23 Mar 1360 in Burgundy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Guy de Bryan. Guy (son of Guy de Bryan) was born about 1309 in of Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales; died on 17 Aug 1390; was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 16 May 1363

Notes:

Sheriff of Cork. King's eschator in Ireland, 1349, 1352, 1355-56. Justiciar of Ireland 1349-50.

Family/Spouse: Margaret de Mohun. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

De jure Lord Marshal. Summoned to Parliament from 4 Dec 1364 to 16 Feb 1379.

William married Cecily Bardolf after 8 Dec 1326. Cecily (daughter of Thomas Bardolf and Agnes) died on 23 Nov 1386; was buried in Austin Friars, Norwich, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Robert Fitz Payn before 16 Oct 1354. Robert (son of Richard de Grey and Joan Fitz Payn) was born about 1321 in of Stogursey, Williton, Somerset, England; died on 21 May 1393. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

King's escheator and justiciar in Ireland.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Arundel. Elizabeth (daughter of Edmund Fitz Alan and Sybil Montagu) died between 29 Sep 1385 and Mar 1386. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1352

Notes:

Privy councillor. Hereditary Marshal of Ireland. Summoned to Parliament from 20 Oct 1379 to 3 Sep 1416. According to Walter Rye (citation details below), he was captain general of all English forces in France in the year of his death, 1416.

Thomas married Joan Hastings before 3 Apr 1374. Joan (daughter of Hugh de Hastings and Margaret de Everingham) died before Jun 1380; was buried in White Friars, Norwich, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Anne Despenser before 21 Oct 1390. Anne (daughter of Edward le Despenser and Elizabeth Burghersh) was born about 1363; died on 30 Oct 1426. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Richard de Poynings. Richard (son of Michael de Poynings and Joan) was born about 1355; died on 25 May 1387 in Villalpando, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

King's knight. Constable of Narberth Castle in Pembrokeshire. Captain of Harfleur.

He was a major figure in the wars against Owen Glendower. He was present at the 1407 siege of Aberystwyth. He appears to have been active in various maritime pursuits, including the capture of shipping from Gascony, Spain, and La Rochelle. In 1422 he was ambassador on a secret mission to negotiate with the king of Portugal.

Thomas married Elizabeth Bonville before 1395. Elizabeth (daughter of William Bonville and Margaret d'Aumarle) died before 1 Nov 1452. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1416

Notes:

Walter Rye (citation details below) places him as a son of Thomas Morley's second wife Anne Despenser, which is chronologically impossible.

Robert married Isabel Moleyns before Aug 1394. Isabel (daughter of William de Moleyns and Margery Bacon) died before Jun 1409. [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]

Family/Spouse: Joan Courtenay. Joan (daughter of Hugh Courtenay and Philippe l'Arcedekne) died before 3 Aug 1465. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Privy councillor. De jure Lord Marshal, Marshal of Ireland. Fought at Agincourt. Took part in the sieges of Rouen, Melun, and Meaux. Present at the death of Henry V and bore one of the banners at his funeral.

Summoned to Parliament from 15 Jul 1427 to 5 Jul 1435.

Thomas married Isabel de la Pole before 6 Feb 1403. Isabel (daughter of Michael de la Pole and Katherine Stafford) died on 8 Feb 1467. [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: Joan Carminow. Joan (daughter of Thomas Carminow and Joan Hill) died before 12 Apr 1502. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married John Arundell after 25 Apr 1446. John (son of John Arundell and Margaret Burghersh) was born on 9 Jun 1421 in Bideford, Devon, England; died on 12 Nov 1473. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married John Hastings about 21 Apr 1434. John (son of Edward Hastings and Muriel Dinham) was born about 1412 in of Fenwick, Yorkshire, England; died on 9 Apr 1477 in Elsing, Norfolk, England. [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]

Notes:

Sheriff of Devon, 1469-70.

Nicholas married Margaret Dinham after 26 Oct 1461. Margaret (daughter of John Dinham and Joan Arches) died on 13 Dec 1471; was buried in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married James Tyrrell after 23 Mar 1469. James (son of William Tyrrell and Margaret Darcy) was born about 1445 in of Gipping, Suffolk, England; died on 6 May 1502; was buried in Austin Friars, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Robert Hildyard before 8 Apr 1459. Robert (son of Robert Hildyard and Katherine de la Hay) was born about 1435 in of Winestead, Yorkshire, England; died on 21 May 1501. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Anne Gascoigne. Anne (daughter of William Gascoigne and Margaret Clarell) died after 7 Jun 1488. [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:

In 1497 he marched to the relief of Exeter when that city was besieged by the pretender Perkin Warbeck. He was killed by a cannonball while sitting in council at the Siege of Thérouanne, a stage in the Battle of the Spurs.

Edmund married Katherine Huddesfield before 16 Jan 1479. Katherine (daughter of William Huddesfield and Elizabeth Bozun) died after 9 Jun 1528. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was attainted with his father in 1502, pardoned in 1504, and restored to his estates in 1507. He attended the queen at the Field of Cloth of Gold in 1520.

Family/Spouse: Margaret Willoughby. Margaret (daughter of Christopher Willoughby and Margaret Jenney) died after 14 Nov 1526. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Piers Hildyard.

Peter married Jane de la See between 1480 and 1485. Jane (daughter of Martin de la See and Elizabeth Wentworth) died between 20 Jul 1527 and 7 Apr 1528. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Muriel married Ralph Eure on 18 Jan 1482. Ralph (son of William Eure and Margaret Constable) was born in of Ayton in Pickering Lythe, Yorkshire, England; died on 22 Oct 1539. [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:

Many sources, including the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, have her as a daughter of Philip Champernoun, but Brice Claggett (citation details below) and Neil P. Thompson argued convincingly that he has to have been, instead, her first husband, after whom she married John Astley.

As "Kat" Champernoun she was governess to the young Lady Elizabeth and, in the words of Brice Clagett (citation details below), "is credited with providing her with the foundation of her excellent education. On Elizabeth's accession in 1558 Kat, now Mrs. Astley, became chief gentlewoman of the privy chamber, and was one of the Queen's closest confidantes until her death in 1565."

Family/Spouse: Philip Champernoun. Philip (son of John Champernoun and Margaret Courtenay) was born about 1479; died on 2 Aug 1545 in Modbury, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Katherine married John Astley about 1545. John (son of Thomas Astley and Anne Wood) was born in of Norfolk, England; died about Jul 1595; was buried in All Saints, Maidstone, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married John Clere before 19 Aug 1529. John (son of Robert Clere and Alice Boleyn) was born about 1511 in of Ormesby St. Margaret, Norfolk, England; died on 21 Aug 1557 in At sea. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married Ralph Legard about 1520. Ralph (son of Robert Legard and Joan Haldenby) was born about 1490 in of Anlaby, Yorkshire, England; died on 30 Jun 1540. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Elizabeth Willoughby about 1503. Elizabeth (daughter of Christopher Willoughby and Margaret Jenney) was born about 1483. [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:

"She […] had a position in the households of queens Anne of Cleves and Katherine Parr, while her sister-in-law Lady Berkeley was governess to Princess Elizabeth. A committed protestant, with her sister Katherine Raleigh she is reported to have protected the persecuted reformers in Devon. In the summer of 1546 Lady Denny (and by extension her husband) was one of the court protestants whom religious conservatives tried to incriminate through accusations wrung from Anne Askew, a distant relative of Joan's uncle Sir Gawain Carew; Anne would admit only that Lady Denny's servant had brought her money, and Sir Anthony survived as a leading figure among Seymour's associates at the close of the reign." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below]

Joan married Anthony Denny about 4 Feb 1538. Anthony (son of Edmund Denny and Mary Coke) was born on 16 Jan 1501 in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England; died on 10 Sep 1549 in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England; was buried in St. Mary's, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Walter Ralegh. Walter was born in 1505 in of East Budleigh, Devon, England; died in 1581. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Joan, which has led to confusion with her sister who was definitely named Joan.

Jane married Robert Gamage before 1531. Robert (son of Thomas Gamage and Margaret St. John) was born in of Coety, Glamorgan, Wales; died between 27 Oct 1570 and 4 Jan 1571. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 3 Jun 1606, London, England

Notes:

Burgess for Thetford 1557-58, 1562-63. Burgess for Grampound 1571. Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk 1567-68. Sheriff of Norfolk 1580-81.

From the History of Parliament (citation details below):

Though a younger son, Clere succeeded to an extensive patrimony on the north-east coast of Norfolk, being licensed to enter his lands on 22 Feb. 1558. In May of that year he purchased further property at Wymondham, and in 1561, on the death of his great-uncle Sir James Boleyn he inherited Blickling, which he made his chief seat. On the death of his father-in-law (Sir) Richard Fulmerston in 1567, Clere and his wife came into possession of most of his extensive estates in and around Thetford as well as inheriting most of his personal property.

Thus, after 1567 Clere was one of the greatest landowners in Norfolk, appearing in 1588 on Lord Burghley’s list of ‘knights of great possessions’ able to support a peerage. He was a second cousin to the Queen and to Lord Hunsdon, and brother-in-law to Walter Haddon, the master of requests. His connexion with the Duke of Norfolk through his father-in-law Fulmerston, the Duke’s servant, caused him to be among those questioned on Norfolk’s arrest in October 1569, and in September 1571 he and others were ordered to take an inventory of the Duke’s goods at Kenninghall. In 1570 he was made collector in Norfolk of the forced loan. This inevitably made him unpopular with his fellow gentry, and gave rise to probably well-founded accusations of fraud and extortion. He was also in conflict with his manorial tenants, and at loggerheads with the Thetford corporation. He had to attend upon the Privy Council for a while after the forced loan episode, but he never lost the Council’s confidence. In 1578 he entertained the Queen during her Norfolk progress, ‘worthily feasted’ her retinue, and was knighted by the Queen at Norwich. In 1583 he signed a petition on behalf of certain puritan ministers and four years later was noted by the bishop of Norwich as a ‘favourer of religion’.

Clere’s election at Thetford to the Parliaments of 1558 and 1563 was due to the local influence of his father-in-law, Fulmerston. Clere succeeded to Fulmerston’s land in 1567 and what made him resort to Grampound for a seat in 1571 is not evident, nor is it clear who was his patron there. Possibly there was a court connexion with the 2nd Earl of Bedford. Clere’s committee work concerned the continuance of statutes (20 Mar. 1563), priests disguised as servants (1 May 1571), and tillage and the navy (25 May 1571). He spoke on the treasons bill (9 Apr. 1571), the anonymous diarist commenting, ‘Mr. Clere of Norfolk, a gentleman of great possessions, made hereupon a staggering speech: his conclusion I did not conceive’. Of another speech, again on a religious topic (11 Apr.), he wrote ‘such was my ill hap I could not understand what reason he made’. D’Ewes records Clere as speaking on the bill for Bristol, also on 11 Apr. In the discussion on Strickland’s case on 20 Apr., he defended the prerogative of the Crown.

In 1572 Clere decided to try for the county seat, Sir Thomas Cornwallis reporting just before the election that Clere ‘leaveth no stone untouched that may further his part’, and that ‘a great number of the shire’ were ‘evil affected towards him’. Unsuccessful, he wrote a series of letters to Richard Southwell, whom he had addressed as ‘loving cousin and friend’ when canvassing support beforehand, describing his ‘found falsehood’, and contrasting Southwell’s ‘overt action in so great an assembly’ with his ‘former pretended opinion’.

In October 1586 he and his fellow deputy lieutenant Sir William Heydon were ordered by the Privy Council to ensure that at the new election of knights of the shire ‘fit men may be chosen, known to be well affected to religion and the present estate’, and Clere wrote to his friend, Bassingbourne Gawdy, suggesting that he stand, adding that if he himself were not incapacitated by a rupture, he ‘should be willing to be with you there’. The Norfolk gentry at this time were divided. In the north of the county Clere and Sir William Heydon, after initial quarrels over the rights of Clere’s second wife to the Heydon manor of Saxlingham, had united against Nathaniel Bacon, the Knyvet and Wyndham families and others of their neighbours. Soon after the 1586 election they apparently persuaded the lord lieutenant, Hunsdon, to replace Sir Thomas Knyvet by their friend Sir Arthur Heveningham as a deputy lieutenant, and had several of their opponents turned off the commission of the peace. During the next few years Clere can generally be found on the side of Heveningham in the latter’s quarrels with the Bacon faction over such contentious matters as the organisation of county musters.

Clere’s eldest son Edward, already in 1585 ‘in peril divers ways of imprisonment and shame’, was accused in the next reign of sheltering a seminary priest and from 1606 spent much of his life in prison. Clere therefore did his best to keep his property out of his eldest son’s hands, though he could not break the entail on the Fulmerston estate. By various settlements and by his will, made in April 1605, he divided the rest between the younger sons, Sir Francis and Robert, and his grandson Henry. Most of the land eventually reverted to Henry, who became a baronet in 1620 and died s.p. in 1622. Clere’s will contained bequests to other relatives, and arranged for the foundation of a fellowship and scholarship at St. John’s, Cambridge. Most of the personal property was left to the widow, the sole executrix, who had a life interest in Blickling. One of the two supervisors was his ‘old well tried friend’ Dru Drury. Clere died in London on 3 June 1606, and was buried at Blickling.

Edward married Frances Fulmerston about 16 Dec 1554. Frances (daughter of Richard Fulmerston and Alice Lonzam) died on 20 Mar 1580 in Blickling, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Joan Ledgard.

Joan married Richard Skepper after 4 Feb 1551. Richard (son of Richard Skepper and Audrey Grynne) was born about 1495 in of East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, England; died after 26 May 1556. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was slain in the Battle of Ancrum Moor, part of the 1542-51 War of the Rough Wooing.

Ralph married Margery Bowes before 1529. Margery (daughter of Ralph Bowes and Elizabeth Clifford) died after 1566. [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]

Mary married Thomas Astley before 1563. Thomas (son of Thomas Astley and Ann Cruse) was born in of Writtle, Essex, England; died in 1595; was buried in Writtle, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The courtier, author, and explorer. The Walter Ralegh that you're thinking of.

Anne married William Gilbert on 23 Apr 1578 in Blickling, Norfolk, England. William died before 21 Feb 1608; was buried on 21 Feb 1608 in Mickleover, Derbyshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Okeover Crompton about 1610. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Mary Robinson on 11 Apr 1592 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England. Mary died after 1630. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Lancelot Mansfield. Lancelot was born about 1533 in of Skirpenbeck, Yorkshire, England; died after 20 Sep 1563. [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]

Family/Spouse: Edward Darcy. Edward (son of Arthur Darcy and Mary Carew) was born about 1543 in of Dartford, Kent, England; died on 28 Oct 1612 in Dartford, Kent, England; was buried in St. Botolph's, Aldgate, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her second husband was William Hopkins. Administration on the estate of Temperance Hopkins who died overseas was granted to him on 6 Nov 1648 by the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. For this reason it is believed that she emigrated to New England with her daughter.

Temperance married John Alsop on 1 May 1617 in Mickleover, Derbyshire, England. John (son of Anthony Alsop and Jane Smith) was born about 1596 in of Alsop-le-Dale, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England; died between 28 Mar 1631 and 8 Jun 1631. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 1640 and 1650

Notes:

Emigrated to New England in 1639. One of AP's two proven gateway ancestors.

He was admitted a pensioner at Sidney College, Cambridge, 8 Jul 1612. He matriculated 1614, B.A., 1617-18. He was Rector of Thorpe by Wainfleete (Thorpe-in-the-Marsh) in 1630, a parish next to Wainfleet All Saints where his elder sister Mary had married the rector in 1622. He left Thorpe-in-the-Marsh sometime before Dec 1638, when John Watts is recorded as the vicar there, and is next seen in Boston, Lincolnshire, where he married his second wife Sarah Fisher. The exact date of his emigration to New England is unknown but it appears to have taken place in 1639. He did not subsequently live long there, but he is recorded there as having arranged for certain monies to be provided to his four older children.

His descendants include Calvin Coolidge, Roy Rogers (the actor and singer, not the guitarist), Tuesday Weld, and John Kerry.

Rev. William Skepper = Jane (first wife)
Jane Skepper = Abraham Browne
Jane Browne = Henry Lunt
Jane Lunt = Nathaniel Drake
Abraham Drake = Martha Eaton
Martha Drake = John Smith
John Smith = Mary "Polly" Mudgett
Mary Hussey Smith = Jacob Lee Merrill
George David Merrill = Mary Bird
Gertrude May Merrill = Frederick George Sanders
Doris May Sanders = Gordon Arnold Markle
Thomas Wayne Markle = Doria L. Ragland
Rachel Megan Markle (1981- ) = Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex

William married Sarah Fisher on 17 Jan 1639 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of London, England

Notes:

Burgess (M.P.) for Beverley, Yorkshire. Queen's Surveyor. B.A., Peterhouse College, Cambridge, 1572-3.

He was described as a resident of London in 1582, but the 1587 pedigree attached to the grant of his father's crest called him "of Huton on Derwent", Yorkshire.

From Robert Charles Anderson, John C. Brandon, and Paul C. Reed, "The Ancestry of the Royally-Descended Mansfields of the Massachusetts Bay" (citation details below):

Cotton Mather, in his biography of the Rev. John Wilson, identifies the father of the immigrants as "Sir John Mansfield, master of the Minories, and the Queen's surveyor." This identification has always been troublesome, as it includes some inaccuracies. The immigrants' father was an "esquire," a step below the dignity of knighthood, but above gentleman. Evidence has been found, however, to confirm that John Mansfield was intimately involved with royal mining interests, and was Queen's surveyor -- at least in Yorkshire.

When Mather used the word "Minories," he must have intended the word "mineries," or mining operations. The 3rd Earl of Huntingdon held mines and lands in Dorsetshire, having purchased various mining interests from James, Lord Mountjoy. John Mansfield was the Earl's "servant, and at one stage his lessee of the Canford mines, near Poole, Dorset. Lord Mountjoy was heavily indebted to creditors, and various interrogatories were taken in May 1582 concerning his sale to Huntingdon. "John Mansfield, and W[illia]m Bird, all of London," were among men examined on behalf of the Earl on May 17, 21, 24, and 31, and June 1, 1582. "John Mansfield of London" was also examined on 14 or 15 June.

John Mansfeild, Clement Draper, and Richard Laycolte received lands, rents and liberties in Brownsea Island, Dorset, with the advowson, by permission of license dated 1 April 1581. John Mansfelde, Richard Laicolte, Clement Draper, and Edward Mead complained to the Privy Council on 4 January 1581 that Edward Lane [of Blackfriars, London, 1582], John Lane, and others had "wrongfullie dispossessed them of two their workehouses for allum and coppres, called Allam Chyne and Okemans in the countie of Dorset." The various examinations "touching matters in conroversie betwene John and Edward Lanes and John Mansfelde" were delivered to the servant of the Earl of Huntingdon on 27 May 1582. On 12 September 1592, Clement Draper wrote to the Queen, pleading that he had "been detained in prison 12 years against all right, by practice of the Earl of Huntingdon, John Mansfield, his deputy, and Richard Laycolt, who have taken away his goods, which, with other losses, amount to 10,000l; his good name, dearer to him than his life, is rooted out by their false reports." He further claimed that "Mansfield, for 4l., got a protection under the Great Seal to defraud him and others of their goods....The Earl, the better to defend his own quarrel against Lord Mountjoy, has got into his hands...the writer's [Draper's] deeds and writings concerning his estate in the mines, and detains them. The Earl, in May 1583, covenanted that the mines should be maintained and set to work." John Mansfeld/Mansfyeld, with Clement Draper, had brought suit against others in the Court of Star Chamber, but later John sued Clement Draper in Chancery.

John Mansfield's career in politics reached its pinacle in 1593, when he represented Beverley, Yorkshire, in Parliament. He is not known to have had personal connections at Beverley, so the seat was likely procured through the influence of his lord the Earl of Huntingdon or cousin Lord Eure. As one of the burgesses for Yorkshire boroughs, he was appointed to a committee on cloth 23 March and to another concerning weirs 28 March 1593. In 1597, by which time he was serving as a Justice of the Peace for the North Riding of Yorkshire, John Mansfield offered himself for election to Parliament at Scarborough, but though he was recommended to the bailiffs and burgesses by the Archbishop of York, and had the support of his prospective fellow burgess, Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby, his nomination was not accepted by the borough authorities.

Queen Elizabeth I on 8 February 1597/8 granted John Mansfield "the office of collector of the rents and revenues of the dissolved monastery of St. Mary's, York," and more importantly, "the surveyorship of the Queen's lands in the North Riding of Yorkshire." The Crown had extensive honours and holdings in Yorkshire. John Mansfield set about to prove his proficiency by making an unusually thorough and careful survey of the manor of Settington, Yorkshire, compiled between 17 and 21 March 1599/1600. Mansfield obviously took great pains in producing this detailed document, probably an attempt to demonstrate abilities superior to those of a rival who had received many benefits for little effort. John alluded to this in his plea to the Lord Treasurer in his introductory remarks to one copy of the survey:

It is my hard fortune whilest other men receyue great rewardes for small deserts I must hold my selfe happy not to be disgraced after good seruyce done. Good my Lord excuse me for thus writyng. I haue chosen to depend on your lordship onelye. When your lordship shall please to gyue me over I wilbegone as forsaken by all. I will equall my selfe to all in this[,] never any did nor shall performe more honest dutyes to your Lordship then I will.

The manor of Settrington had been granted to Matthew, Earl of Lenox, and his wife Margaret, in 1544, but was later returned to the Crown. John Mansfield, "Crown Surveyor," was ordered to make a survey of the manors of the late Margaret, Countess of Lennox. These documents are dated February 1600/1 to July 1601, when Mansfield died. He made the surveys as part of a northern tour, likely drawing up the results after his return to London.

Family/Spouse: Mary Hobson. Mary (daughter of William Hobson and Mary) died between 1587 and 3 Feb 1592. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Elizabeth before 3 Feb 1592. Elizabeth died before 10 Feb 1634; was buried on 10 Feb 1634 in St. Michael Cornhill, London, England. [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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1631

Family/Spouse: Grace Reddish. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1669, London, England

Notes:

Her second husband was the Rev. Sydrach Simpson, Master of Pembroke Hall at the University of Cambridge.

Isabella married John Launce about 1619. John (son of Robert Launce and Susan Tubb) was born about 1597 in of Penair in St. Clement, Cornwall, England; died before 25 Jun 1635; was buried on 25 Jun 1635 in St. Clement, Cornwall, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut

Notes:

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

Elizabeth married Richard Baldwin after 5 Feb 1643 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut. Richard (son of Sylvester Baldwin and Sarah) was born before 25 Aug 1622; was christened on 25 Aug 1622 in Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, England; died on 23 Jul 1665 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 18 Dec 1710, Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts

Notes:

Probably born in Lynn, Massachusetts.

Sarah married Walter Fairfield on 28 Dec 1654 in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Walter (son of John Fairfield and Elizabeth) was born in 1631 in England; died on 20 Jul 1723 in Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Gateway ancestor, one of LD's five (so far).

From Robert Charles Anderson, John C. Brandon, and Paul C. Reed, "The Ancestry of the Royally-Descended Mansfields of the Massachusetts Bay" (citation details below):

Of Elizabeth (Mansfield) Wilson, not much is known. She was very unwilling to come to New England; as Mather writes, she had to be "perswaded over into the difficulties of an American desart," arriving two years after her husband. In May 1631, Margaret (Tyndal) Winthrop told how Mr. Wilson "can not yet perswad his wife to goe, for all he hath taken this paynes to come and fetch hir. I maruiell [marvel] what mettell she is made on. shure she will yeald at last, or elce we shal want him excedingly in new england." Later the same month, Mrs. Winthrop again mentioned Elizabeth's distaste for the trip; she was "more auerce [averse] then euer she was." Mrs. Wilson finally arrived in Massachusetts in 1632. Her dislike of the voyage to New England, and her unhappiness at hearing of the death of her eldest son, whom she did not long survive, are almost all that we know of her character and life.

Elizabeth married Rev. John Wilson before 1617. Rev. (son of Rev. William Wilson and Elizabeth Woodhall) was born about 1591; died on 7 Aug 1667 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Robert Keayne on 18 Jun 1617. Robert (son of John Keayne) was born about 1594; died on 23 Mar 1656 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Newhall, Derbyshire, England

Edward married Elizabeth Stanhope after 1634. Elizabeth (daughter of Philip Stanhope) died about 1683. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

One of AP's two proven gateway ancestors.

Cotton Mather, in Magnalia Christi Americana, called Mary Launce, second wife of the Rev. John Sherman, a "young gentlewoman [...] a Person of good Education, and Reputation, and honorably descended," whose mother was "daughter to the Lord Darcy, who was Earl of Rivers." She certainly was not, and in his pioneering 1860-64 Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, James Savage took delight at exercising his well-known animus against Mather, who "tells of this wife calling her mother daughter of Darcy, Earl Rivers, one of the Popish Counsellors of Charles I who had no daughter that married a Launce." Savage continues: "If [Mary Launce Sherman] did give [her husband] these myths of her noble descent [...] either she was insane, which he had not sanity enough to discover, or she was irreverently playing on his bottomless credulity." It was left to the great Donald Lines Jacobus, founder of the twentieth-century "Jacobus School" of skeptical, fact-based genealogy, to point out, in a 1944 article, "The Family of Rev. John Sherman" (citation details below), that Mary Launce's mother really was a Darcy, albeit one of the Darcy family of Kent. Isabella Darcy of London, daughter of Sir Edward Darcy, a confidant and ally of Elizabeth I, first married John Launce of Cornwall and, secondly, the Rev. Sydrach Simpson, master of Pembroke Hall at Cambridge University. Her 1668 will names, with others, her sons James Launce and Darcy Launce, and her daughter Mary Sherman. In a subsequent article, "The Darcy Ancestry of Mrs. John Sherman" (citation details below), Jacobus put forth further proofs of Mary Launce's parentage, calling it a "perfect chain of evidence" and remarking that "Few English lines of early colonists are so thoroughly proved."

Descendants of the Rev. John Sherman and Mary Launce include Norman Rockwell, Declaration of Independence signer Robert Treat Paine, and the 68th governor of Massachusetts, William Weld.

Regarding the date of her death, the Early New England Families Study Project (citation details below) states only that she "[d]ied probably at Watertown between 15 October 1705 and 24 December 1712. She was living on 20 October 1704, when she acknowledged a deed." But Watertown records (citation details below) clearly state "m^s Mary Sherman (widow of mr. John Sherman Late: R^d: pastor of the church in watertown) deceas^t march : 9 : 1709/10".

Mary married Rev. John Sherman about 1647. John (son of Edmund Sherman and Grace Makin) was born on 26 Dec 1613 in Dedham, Essex, England; was christened on 4 Jan 1614 in Dedham, Essex, England; died on 8 Aug 1685 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in East Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 14 May 1714, Derby, New Haven, Connecticut

Sarah married Samuel Riggs on 14 Jun 1667 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut. Samuel (son of Edward Riggs and Elizabeth) was born about 1642; died in 1734 in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 24 Dec 1655, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Sarah married Thomas Abbe on 16 Dec 1683 in Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts. Thomas (son of John Abbe and Mary) was born between 1650 and 1656; died on 17 May 1728 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rev. married Sarah Hooker before 1649. Sarah (daughter of Rev. Thomas Hooker and Susannah Garbrand) was born before 21 Feb 1630; was christened on 21 Feb 1630 in Broomfield, Essex, England; died on 20 Aug 1725 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Rev. Samuel Danforth on 5 Nov 1651. Rev. (son of Nicholas Danforth and Elizabeth Barber) was born in Sep 1626 in Framlingham, Suffolk, England; was christened on 17 Oct 1626 in Framlingham, Suffolk, England; died on 19 Nov 1674 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to Robert Charles Anderson, John C. Brandon, and Paul C. Reed (citation details below), he and Sarah Dudley ultimately divorced "because of Sarah's increasing religious fanaticism".

From The Great Migration Begins (citation details below):

Some considerable pain entered Gov. Dudley's last years as his daughter Sarah and her husband Benjamin Keayne necessitated one of the colony's earliest divorces. Stephen Winthrop says "My she Cosin Keane is growne a great preacher" in a letter from London 27 March 1646. In a letter dated London 18 March 1646/7, Benjamin Keayne writes to Thomas Dudley:

Honored Sir, That you and myself are made sorry by your daughter's enormous and continued crimes, is the greatest cause of grief that ever befell me, and the more because her obstinate continuance in them is now to me by her own letter made as certain...I never gave her the least just cause or occasion to provoke her to them...she has not left me any room or way of reconciliation. And therefore as you desire, I do plainly declare my resolution never again to live with her as a husband. What maintenance yourself expects I know not. This I know (to my cost and danger) she has unwived herself and how she or you can expect a wife's maintenance is to me a wonder...

Ezekiel Rogers passed some of the gossip on to John Winthrop in a letter dated Rowley 8 November 1647:

...I thought myself bound to acquaint you that there is not a little discourse raised, and by some, offence taken, at the late divorce granted by the Court. How weighty a business that is, as I need not tell you, so I would humbly desire that some course may be taken so as to clear the court's proceeding, as that rumors might be stopped, and letters of mistake into England prevented...

The news from England in the words of Brampton Gurdon Sr. put another light on things, as he wrote from Assington 6 June 1649 to John Winthrop:

...Here goes some speech of a N.E. couple that lately came from thence the husband first, and then the wife followed after with what goods she could get together but we heat all her goods miscarried and she escaped only with her life. The man was Cane's son a cloak seller in Birching Lane, whose mother was Mr. Willson's sister. The woman is returned to N.E. and resolves there to take another husband. I hope your laws will not tolerate such wicked actions.

Benjamin married Sarah Dudley before 1639, and was divorced in 1647. [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]

Katherine married Erasmus Phillips about 1 Sep 1660. Erasmus (son of Richard Phillips and Elizabeth Dryden) was born in of Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died on 18 Jan 1697. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1645

Notes:

Minister at Sudbury, Massachusetts, Elizabethtown, New Jersey, and Salem, Massachusetts.

James married Mary Walker on 13 May 1680 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Thomas Walker and Mary Stone) was born on 9 Aug 1661 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died after 11 Mar 1709. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 13 Jan 1668, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut

Elizabeth married Robert Bassett about 1687. Robert (son of Robert Bassett and Mary) died on 5 Aug 1710 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Hannah Boardman. Hannah (daughter of Daniel Boardman and Hannah Wright) was born on 18 Dec 1693 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was ordained pastor of the Taunton church in 1688. He also practiced medicine and law.

Rev. married Hannah Allen on 4 Oct 1688. Hannah (daughter of Rev. James Allen and Elizabeth Houchin) was born on 22 Jul 1668; died on 3 Dec 1761; was buried in Riverview Cemetery, Groveland, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 7 Jul 1729

Notes:

Rose Otis was her birth name. Captured by the Abenaki in the same 1689 raid on Cochoco, New Hampshire in which her father Steven Otis and grandfather Richard Otis were killed, she was taken to Québec and baptized Françoise. Multiple French records call her François Rozotty. She became a naturalized citizen of New France in 1710.

Her precise identity was long in dispute -- was she a daughter of Richard Otis, and if so, by which of his three wives? Or was she a granddaughter? Two sons of Richard's son Steven, Stephen and Nathaniel, were known to have been taken captive and sent to Quebec, where they married and lived out their lives. (Nathaniel was rebaptized with the name Paul.) Could she have been their sister?

This was finally resolved in 1988 when Sister Annette Potvin, a nun in Alberta, Canada, obtained a copy of the marriage contract between Jean Poitevin and Françoise Rozotty. The document describes her as "françoise Rosotis, daughter of deceased STINODIS and the deceased MARY OTOS, her father and mother, of English birth in the environs of Boston." "Boston" was a common term among Quebecois for most of New England, and "Stinodis" is a very plausibly what a French scribe would write when hearing the name "Steven Otis."

This is all thoroughly documented in Roger W. Lawrence's 1989 "The Identity of Rose Otis" (citation details below), but somehow this information has never managed to make it across the border between Canadian and American genealogical scholarship. Richardson's 2013 Royal Ancestry still lists her as a child of Richard Otis and Rose Stoughton, who were really her grandparents. So does Gary Boyd Roberts's 2018 The Royal Descent of 900 Immigrants.

Rose married Jean Poitevin dit Laviolette on 29 Oct 1696 in Beauport, Québec. Jean (son of Jean Poitevin dit Laviolette and Madeleine Guillaudeau) was born on 14 Sep 1672; was christened on 14 Sep 1672 in Québec City, Québec; died on 3 Feb 1752; was buried on 4 Feb 1752 in Charlesbourg, Québec. [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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1694, Wakefield, Westmoreland, Virginia

Notes:

He was a partner in the Accakeek Fire Furnace.

Augustine married Jane Butler on 20 Apr 1715. Jane was born on 24 Dec 1699; died on 24 Nov 1729. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Augustine married Mary Ball on 6 Mar 1731. Mary (daughter of Col. Joseph Ball and Mary) was born about 1707 in Lancaster County, Virginia; died on 25 Aug 1789 in Fredericksburg, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 18 Aug 1735

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Chapman. Elizabeth (daughter of John Chapman and Elizabeth) was born on 28 Dec 1709; died between 2 Aug 1780 and 17 Jun 1782. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Shorter. John (son of John Shorter, Lord Mayor of London) was born in of Bybrook, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He and his wife Abigail Stone "settled in Springfield, Mass., where he was a schoolmaster and physician; but about 1722 they removed to the region which in 1731 became the town of Brimfield, where he was a physician, town clerk for thirty successive years, representative three years, and captain of militia." They were married for nearly seventy years.

John married Abigail Stone on 9 Nov 1703 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Abigail (daughter of Daniel Stone and Mary Moore) was born on 13 Feb 1681 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 9 Mar 1772 in Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Came to Derby in 1716-17 to occupy the farm given to him by his father. Held many responsible offices, but his death dates is unknown.

Samuel married Deborah Bennett on 5 Jan 1719 in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut. Deborah (daughter of Thomas Bennett and Mary Booth) was born on 28 Feb 1696; died in Jul 1773 in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married John Burroughs on 9 Jan 1740 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Sarah Leonard on 11 Jun 1730. Sarah (daughter of James Leonard and Hannah Walley) died on 22 May 1742. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Michel married Marie Françoise Tremblay on 14 Nov 1735 in Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Québec. Marie (daughter of Louis Tremblay and Françoise Morel) was born in 1710; died on 29 May 1778; was buried on 30 May 1778 in Baie Saint-Paul, Charlevoix, Québec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joanna married Rev. John Brown in 1719 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts. John (son of Ichabod Brown and Martha Woodbury) was born on 1 Nov 1696 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 2 Dec 1742 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Martha Dandridge on 6 Jan 1759 in New Kent County, Virginia. Martha was born on 2 Jun 1731; died on 22 May 1802 in Mount Vernon, Fairfax, Virginia; was buried in Mount Vernon, Fairfax, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 20 Jun 1803

John married Mary Buckner in 1763. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Catherine married Robert Walpole on 30 Jul 1700 in Knightsbridge Chapel, London, England. Robert (son of Robert Walpole and Mary Burwell) was born on 26 Aug 1676 in Houghton, Norfolk, England; died on 18 Mar 1745 in London, England; was buried on 25 Mar 1745 in Houghton, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 31 Mar 1703, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts

Bezaleel married Abigail Graves on 4 Feb 1732 in Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. Abigail (daughter of Ebenezer Graves and Mary Colton) was born on 18 Feb 1707 in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Benjamin married Molly Hinman on 29 Jul 1771 in Southbury, New Haven, Connecticut. Molly (daughter of Eleazer Hinman and Hannah Scovill) was born in 1744 in of Southbury, New Haven, Connecticut; was christened in 1744. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]