Fulk Fitz Warin

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

Family/Spouse: Oliver de Tracy. Oliver was born in of Barnstaple, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Constable of Exeter Castle. Baron of the Exchequer. Allied with the baronial rebellions against both John and Henry III.

Henry married Maud de Briouze before May 1220. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Guy de Bryan. Guy was born in of Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales; died after 1267. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married Nicholas Fitz Martin before 1257. Nicholas (son of Nicholas Fitz Martin and Isabel) was born about 1236 in of Kemes, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died about 1260. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married Geoffrey de Camville about 1268. Geoffrey (son of William de Camville and Lucy) was born before 1240 in of Clifton-Campville, Staffordshire, England; died before 21 Sep 1308. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Between 1257 and 1258, of Barnstaple, Devon, England

Notes:

He was summoned to Parliament from 24 June 1295 to 24 September 1324, by writs directed Willelmo Martyn. He joined in the barons' letter to the Pope in February 1301 as D'n's de Camesio (Lord of Kemeys). In 1304 he was one of the commissioners appointed to treat with the Scots. He was summoned to attend at the coronation of Edward II in 1308, and was later one of the chief barons to complain over the king's favoritism toward Piers Gavaston. Justice of West and South Wales, 19 Jul 1315 - 24 Jun 1316.

William married Eleanor fitz Reynold before 1 Jan 1282. Eleanor (daughter of Reynold fitz Peter and Alice de Stanford) died after Mar 1306. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Summoned to Parliament by writs, 4 Mar 1309 and 16 Jul 1311.

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

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 27 Oct 1322

Notes:

Countess of Lincoln by virtue of her first marriage, to Henry de Lacy, 3rd Earl of Lincoln.

Joan married Nicholas de Audley before 6 Jun 1313. Nicholas (son of Nicholas de Audley and Katherine Giffard) was born on 11 Nov 1289 in of Heleigh in Audley, Staffordshire, England; died on 28 Nov 1316. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married Richard de Vernon before 1309. Richard (son of Richard de Vernon) was born in of Haddon, Bakewell, Derbyshire, England; died before 3 Feb 1333. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Hugh de Meinell between 31 Jul 1337 and 1340. Hugh (son of Hugh de Meinell and Joan de la Warde) was born about 1302 in of Langley Meynell, Derbyshire, England; died on 2 May 1363. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Summoned to Parliament by writs from 25 Jan 1330 to 8 Aug 1386.

Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls (citation details below), page 49, has a pedigree for James De Audeleye, from a suit in 17 Ed. 3 (25 Jan 1343 - 24 Jan 1344):



It will be seen that the top pedigree omits a generation; in actuality it was this:

Henry Tracy
Eve de Tracy = Guy de Bryan
Maud de Bryan = Nicholas Fitz Martin
William Martin = Eleanor fitz Reynold
Joan Martin = Nicholas de Audley
James de Audley

James married Joan de Mortimer before 13 Jun 1330. Joan (daughter of Roger de Mortimer and Joan de Geneville) died after 1337. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married Richard de Stafford before 16 Mar 1339. Richard (son of Edmund de Stafford and Margaret Basset) was born about 1305 in of Pipe, Staffordshire, England; died on 13 Aug 1380. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Family/Spouse: Thomas de Shirley. Thomas (son of Ralph Shirley and Margaret de Waldershef) was born in of Lower Ettington, Warwickshire, England; died in 1362; was buried in Collegiate Church of Newark, Leicester, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Tuchet. John (son of Thomas Tuchet and Joan) was born on 25 Jul 1327 in of Markeaton, Derbyshire, England; died before 10 Jan 1362. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas de Arderne. Thomas (son of John de Arderne and Ellen de Wasteneys) was born in 1328 in of Elford, Staffordshire, England; died before 1 Jul 1391. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Julian de Pembridge. Julian (daughter of Robert de Pembridge and Juliane) was born about 1349; died before 9 Jul 1410. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Master of the Hawks to Henry IV. Grand Falconer of Ireland. Knighted before June 1392. Killed fighting for the king at Shrewsbury.

Hugh married Beatrice Brewes before 1383. Beatrice (daughter of Peter de Brewes and Joan Howard) was born about 1366; died on 20 Apr 1440. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Slain in the naval Battle of La Rochelle.

John married Maud before 1371. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Margaret Pilkington before 1396. Margaret (daughter of Roger Pilkington) died in 1423. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Joan Griffith on 20 May 1380. Joan (daughter of Rhys ap Griffith and Isabel de Stackpole) was born about 1371; died between 14 Oct 1437 and 12 May 1439. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robert Newmarch. Robert (son of Ralph Newmarch and Elizabeth Newmarch) was born in of Womersley, Yorkshire, England; died before 1428. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married John Cokayne before 1422. John (son of Edmund Cokayne and Elizabeth de Herthill) was born in of Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England; died on 7 Jun 1438 in Pooley in Polesworth, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1390

Notes:

Also known as Ralph Basset. Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, 1420-22. Knight of the shire for Leicestershire. He served as a young man in the French campaigns of Henry V. He was present at the siege of Harfleur, but was prevented by illness from taking command of his retinue at Agincourt.

Family/Spouse: Joan Basset. Joan (daughter of Thomas Basset and Margery Mering) died on 14 May 1419; was buried in Collegiate Church of Newark, Leicester, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Summoned to Parliament by writs from 20 Oct 1403 to 26 Aug 1407.

John married Elizabeth Stafford before 1398. Elizabeth (daughter of Humphrey Stafford and Alice Grenville) died between 1446 and 1447. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married Thomas Stanley before 1 May 1413. Thomas (son of John Stanley, Titular King of Man and Isabel Lathom) was born in of Elford, Staffordshire, England; died on 13 May 1463; was buried in Elford, Staffordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Baldwin Montfort. Baldwin (son of William Montfort and Margaret Pecche) was born about 1412 in of Avon Dassett, Warwickshire, England; died before 10 Feb 1475. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Bennet Ludlow before 25 Nov 1410. Bennet (daughter of John Ludlow and Isabel Lingen) was buried in Tong, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Neville. John (son of Ralph Neville and Mary Ferrers) was born about 1418 in of Oversley, Alcester, Warwickshire, England; died on 17 Mar 1482. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 22 Aug 1504 and 21 Aug 1505

Family/Spouse: Agnes Vernon. Agnes (daughter of Richard Vernon and Bennet Ludlow) was buried in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Brome. John (son of John Brome and Jane Rody) was born before Aug 1406 in of Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire, England; died about 5 Nov 1468 in London, England; was buried in Whitefriars, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Anne married John Gresley before 1455. John (son of John Gresley and Elizabeth Clarell) was born about 1418 in of Drakelow, Derbyshire, England; died on 30 Jan 1487. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Notes:

Also called Anne Vernon.

Family/Spouse: John Cokayne. John (son of John Cokayne and Isabel Shirley) was born about 1422 in of Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England; died in 1504; was buried in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Jane.

Family/Spouse: William Gascoigne. William (son of William Gascoigne and Margaret Clarell) was born in of Gawthorpe, Yorkshire, England; died after 15 Jul 1461. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Family/Spouse: Philip Purefoy. Philip (son of William Purefoy and Margery Moton) was born in 1442; died on 16 Sep 1468. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married John Denton before 1472. John (son of Thomas Denton and Alice Dauntsey) was born in of Wytham, Oxfordshire, England; died between 6 Sep 1493 and 17 Nov 1497. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1450, of Brome, Warwickshire, England
• Alternate death: 10 Oct 1517

Notes:

Also called Nicholas Brown. Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire, 1504-05.

See the entry for his father for his part in a revenge tragedy.

Nicholas married Dorothy Arundell about 20 Sep 1473. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nicholas married Katherine Lampeck after Jul 1496. Katherine died after Jan 1507. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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

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

Family/Spouse: Thomas Darell. Thomas (son of John Darell and Florence Chichele) was born in 1422. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Katherine married George Booth before Jan 1473. George (son of William Booth and Maud Dutton) was born about 1445 in of Dunham Massey, Bucklow, Cheshire, England; died on 21 Mar 1484. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Justice of the Peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire. Knighted by Richard, Duke of Gloucester (afterwards King Richard III) on campaign near Berwick in 1481. He was at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.

William Gascoigne (d. 1487) = Margaret Percy
Margaret Gascoigne = Ralph Ogle (d. 1513)
Anne Ogle (b. 1509) = John Delaval (1512-1572)
Robert Delaval (1542-1607) = Dorothy Grey (1554-1591)
John Delaval (1590-1652) = Elizabeth Selby
George Delaval (1613-1694) = Margaret Grey (d. 1709)
Edward Delaval (1664-1744) = Mary Blake (1664-1711)
Anne Delaval (1692-1765) = Ralph Milbanke (d. 1745)
Sir Ralph Milbanke (1725-1793) = Elizabeth Hedworth (1726-1767)
Ralph Milbanke (1748-1825) = Judith Noel (1751-1822)
Anne Isabella Milbanke (1792-1860) = George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)

William Gascoigne (d. 1487) = Margaret Percy
Agnes Gascoigne = Thomas Fairfax
Nicholas Fairfax = Jane Palmes
Mary Fairfax = Henry Curwen
Agnes Curwen = James Bellingham
Mary Bellingham = Christopher Crackenthorpe
Richard Crackenthorpe = Mary Dalston
Thomas Crackenthorpe = Mary Threlkeld
Richard Crackenthorpe = Dorothy Crew
Dorothy Crackenthorpe = William Cookson
Anne Cookson = John Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

William married Margaret Percy before 1469. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Barbara Fitzherbert. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Nicholas Purefoy before 1494. Nicholas (son of John Purefoy) was born after 1470 in of Daventry, Northamptonshire, England; died on 18 Feb 1547 in Shalstone, Buckinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Edward Greville. Edward (son of John Greville and Jane Forster) was born in of Milcote-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England; died on 22 Jun 1528. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Constance married Edward Ferrers between 1 Oct 1497 and 17 Oct 1503. Edward (son of Henry Ferrers and Margaret Hexstall) was born in 1468 in Peckham, Kent, England; died on 29 Aug 1535 in Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire, England; was buried in Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Thomas Hawes in 1527. Thomas (son of Thomas Hawes and Joan Rainsford) was born in of Edlicote, Warwickshire, England; died before 12 Jun 1574; was buried on 12 Jun 1574 in St. Clement's, Solihull, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset 1488-89.

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

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

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

Family/Spouse: Simon Harcourt. Simon (son of Christopher Harcourt and Joan Stapleton) was born about 1473 in of Witham, Berkshire, England; died on 16 Jan 1547; was buried in Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 11 Nov 1519

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

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]

Family/Spouse: Vincent Lowe. Vincent (son of Humphrey Lowe and Margaret) was born in of Denby, Derbyshire, England; died after 6 Mar 1557. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Anne Fettiplace. Anne (daughter of Richard Fettiplace and Elizabeth Bessiles) was born on 16 Jul 1496 in Shelford Parva, Cambridgeshire, England; died on 3 Aug 1568. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Beauchamp's Court, Warwickshire, England

Fulk married Elizabeth Willoughby before 11 Apr 1526. Elizabeth (daughter of Edward Willoughby and Margaret Neville) was born about 1512; died before 15 Nov 1562; was buried on 15 Nov 1562 in Alcester, Warwickshire, 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]

Constance married Thomas Sheppard before 1545. Thomas (son of William Sheppard and Alice) was born about 1515 in of Maulden, Bedfordshire, England; died between 20 Jan 1562 and 4 Mar 1564. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Notes:

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

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

Notes:

Also called Jane Booth.

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

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]

Family/Spouse: Dorothy Sacheverell. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Thomas Dorne alias Thorne on 28 Oct 1540 in Shalstone, Buckinghamshire, England. Thomas (son of William Thorne and Alice Stotesbury) died before 9 Nov 1588 in Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, England; was buried on 9 Nov 1588 in Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

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

Thomas married Amphyllis Chamberlain alias Spicer on 7 Oct 1577 in Maulden, Bedfordshire, England. Amphyllis (daughter of William Chamberlain alias Spicer and Jane Neville) died before 17 Jan 1611; was buried on 17 Jan 1611 in Maulden, Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Notes:

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]

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

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]

Family/Spouse: Jane Harpur. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Susanna Thorne.

Susanna married Capt. Roger Dudley on 8 Jun 1575 in Lidlington, Bedfordshire, England. Roger died before 29 Oct 1588. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

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]

Constance married Edmund Bressey on 29 Dec 1595 in Maulden, Bedfordshire, England. Edmund (son of Edmund Bressey and Lucretia Anderson) was born before 16 Dec 1568; was christened on 16 Dec 1568 in St. Dionis Backchurch, Langbourn, London, England; died before 4 Nov 1617; was buried on 4 Nov 1617 in Wootton, Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

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:

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

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

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

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

Notes:

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

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

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

From the 1885-1900 Dictionary of National Biography:

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

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

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]

Vincent married Anne Cavendish before 1614. Anne (daughter of Henry Cavendish and (Unknown mistress of Henry Cavendish)) died after 1638. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

JMF's one proven "gateway ancestor" (not counting Alexander Magruder, who is very probable), and one of JTS's eleven.

From Wikipedia:

Thomas Dudley was a colonial magistrate who served several terms as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Dudley was the chief founder of Newtowne, later Cambridge, Massachusetts, and built the town's first home. He provided land and funds to establish the Roxbury Latin School, and signed Harvard College's new charter during his 1650 term as governor. Dudley was a devout Puritan who was opposed to religious views not conforming with his. In this he was more rigid than other early Massachusetts leaders like John Winthrop, but less confrontational than John Endecott.

The son of a military man who died when he was young, Dudley saw military service himself during the French Wars of Religion, and then acquired some legal training before entering the service of his likely kinsman the Earl of Lincoln. Along with other Puritans in Lincoln's circle, Dudley helped organize the establishment of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, sailing with Winthrop in 1630. Although he served only four one-year terms as governor of the colony, he was regularly in other positions of authority.

Dudley's descendants include his daughter Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672), the prominent early American poet, and many famous Americans. One of the gates of Harvard Yard, which existed from 1915 to 1947, was named in his honor, and Harvard's Dudley House is named for the family.

Thomas married Dorothy Yorke on 25 Apr 1603 in Hardingstone, Northamptonshire, England. Dorothy (daughter of Edmund Yorke and Katherine Robins) was born before 14 Jun 1583; was christened on 14 Jun 1583 in Hardingstone, Northamptonshire, England; died on 27 Dec 1643 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Katherine Deighton on 4 Apr 1644 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Katherine (daughter of John Deighton and Jane Bassett) was born before 16 Jan 1615; was christened on 16 Jan 1615 in St. Nicholas, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England; died on 20 Aug 1671. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

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

Notes:

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

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

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

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

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]

Other Events and Attributes:

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

Notes:

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

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

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

Other Events and Attributes:

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

Notes:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Herman Melville (1819-1891), novelist

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

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

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), playwright

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

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

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

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

Tuesday Weld (1943- ), American actress

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

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]

Other Events and Attributes:

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

Notes:

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

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

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

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

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

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]

Family/Spouse: Henry Sewall. Henry (son of Richard Sewall and Mary Dugdale) was born in of Charles County, Maryland; died between 25 Apr 1664 and 17 Apr 1665 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane married Charles Calvert, Governor of Maryland about 1666. Charles (son of Cecilius Calvert and Anne Arundell) was born on 27 Aug 1637; died on 21 Feb 1715; was buried in St. Pancras, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Benjamin Keayne before 1639, and was divorced in 1647. Benjamin (son of Robert Keayne and Anne Mansfield) was born before 14 May 1618; was christened on 14 May 1618 in St. Michael Cornhill, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Mary Winthrop before 1632. Mary (daughter of John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Mary Forth) was born in 1612; died on 12 Apr 1643. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Better known as Anne Bradstreet, the first published writer in English-speaking North America.

Anne married Simon Bradstreet, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony before 1630. Simon (son of Rev. Simon Bradstreet and Margaret) was born before 18 Mar 1604; was christened on 18 Mar 1604 in Horbling, Lincolnshire, England; died on 27 Mar 1697 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Patience married Daniel Denison on 18 Oct 1632 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Daniel (son of William Denison and Margaret Chandler) was born before 18 Oct 1612; was christened on 18 Oct 1612 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England; died on 20 Sep 1682 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts; was buried on 22 Sep 1682 in Highland Cemetery, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mercy married Rev. John Woodbridge before 1640. John (son of Rev. John Woodbridge and Sarah Parker) was born about 1613; died on 17 Mar 1695 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts; was buried on 19 Mar 1695 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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

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

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

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

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

Notes:

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

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

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

Notes:

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

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

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

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

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

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 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]

Family/Spouse: John Baldwin. John was born in of Milford, New Haven, Connecticut; died before 21 Jun 1681; was buried on 21 Jun 1681 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut. [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]

Mary married Col. George Brent on 27 Mar 1687. George (son of George Brent and Anne Peyton) was born about 1640 in of Woodstock, Stafford, Virginia; died between 1694 and 1700 in Woodstock, Stafford, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dorothy married Rev. Seaborn Cotton on 14 Jun 1654 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts. Seaborn (son of Rev. John Cotton and Sarah Hawkredd) was born on 12 Aug 1633 in At sea; died on 20 Apr 1686 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dudley married Anne Wood on 12 Nov 1673 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Sarah Perkins on 11 Jun 1677 in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of Rev. William Perkins and Elizabeth Wooton) was born on 2 Mar 1657 in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts; died in Apr 1745. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Graduated Harvard 1664; began preaching at Killingworth, Connecticut in 1666 and was ordained minister there 7 Apr 1669.

John married Abigail Leete on 26 Oct 1671 in Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut. Abigail (daughter of William Leete, Governor of the New Haven Colony; Governor of Connecticut and Anna Payne) was born about 1650; died on 9 Apr 1710 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1645

Notes:

"Rev. Benjamin Woodbridge [...] was invited to preach at Windsor, Ct., by a minority of the church, about the end of the year 1667; ordained over a church formed by the withdrawal of dissatisfied members from the old church, March 18, 1669-70. He remained there, in the midst of many dissensions, until May, 1681. Married, June 3, 1672, Mary, dau. of Rev. John Ward, of Haverhill. She died Oct. 11, 1685. He preached at Bristol, R. I., 1681-6; and at Kittery, Me., in 1688. In 1691 he resided at Portsmouth, N. H., and in 1694 at Newcastle. He was called, in 1698, to Medford, where he was the minister for about ten years. Married second, at Hingham, Aug. 81, 1686, Deborah, widow of Henry Tarlton, and dau. of Daniel Cushing, who survived him. She was born Nov. 18, 1651. He d. at Medford, Jan. 15, 1709-10." ["Genealogy of the Woodbridge Family," citation details below]

Benjamin married Mary Ward on 13 Jun 1672. Mary (daughter of Rev. John Ward and Alice) was born on 24 Jun 1649; died on 11 Oct 1685 in Bristol, Bristol, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut

Notes:

Graduatyed Harvard 1675; became minister of the first church in Hartford, 1682; ordained pastor there 18 Nov 1685. His predecessor as pastor was his wife Mehitable Wyllys's previous husband, the Rev. Isaac Foster.

Family/Spouse: Mehitable Wyllys. Mehitable (daughter of Samuel Wyllys and Ruth Haynes) was born about 1658; died on 21 Dec 1698 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1679, Calvert County, Maryland
• Alternate death: Aft 1749

Sarah married Thomas Blandford on 20 Jun 1698. Thomas was born about 1678. [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]

Family/Spouse: Hannah White. Hannah (daughter of Daniel White and Sarah Crow) was born in Sep 1679 in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 10 Sep 1654

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

Notes:

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

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