BRAY FAMILY
Born: 1178
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Children:
Born: 1204
Father: William De BRAY
Mother: ¿?
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Children:
Born: 1230
Father: Ralph De BRAY
Mother: ¿?
Married: ¿?
Children:
Born: 1254
Father: William De BRAY
Mother: ¿?
Married: ¿?
Children:
Born: 1280
Father: Robert De BRAY
Mother: ¿?
Married: ¿?
Children:
Born: 1304
Father: James De BRAY
Mother: ¿?
Married: ¿?
Children:
Born: 1328
Father: Anselm De BRAY
Mother: ¿?
Married: ¿?
Children:
Born: 1354
Father: William De BRAY
Mother: ¿?
Married: Dau. BRAXBY
Children:
Born: 1380
Father: Thomas De BRAY
Mother: Dau. BRAXBY
Married: ¿?
Children:
Born: 1404, Furnace Fells, Lancashire, England
Father: William De BRAY
Mother: ¿?
Married: ¿?
Children:
1. Richard BRAY
Born: 1430, Furnace Fells, Lancashire, England
Buried: Worcester Cathedral
Notes: Is said by some to have been of the privy council to Henry VI; by others he is called the King's Physician; the former is the more probable, as he was buried in Worcester cathedral. He had two wives; by the first, Margaret, dau. of John Sandys, esq. of Furnes Felles, in Lancashire, he had an only son.
Father: Edmund De BRAY
Mother: ¿?
Married 1: Margaret SANDYS
Children:
Married 2: Joan TROUGHTON
Children:
3. John BRAY
Died: 5 Aug 1503
Buried: Bray Chapel, Windsor Castle, England
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: Richard BRAY
Mother: Joan TROUGHTON
Married: Catherine HUSSEY
Father: Richard BRAY
Mother: Margaret SANDYS
Married: ¿?
Children:
Father: John BRAY (Sir)
Mother: ¿?
Married: William SANDYS (1º B. Sandys of the Vine)
Children:
1. Mary SANDYS
3. Thomas SANDYS (2º B. Sandys of the Vine)
4. Alice SANDYS
Acceded: Eaton Braye, Bedford
Buried: Chelsea Church
Notes: In 1542 John Sackville sold to John Selwyn of Friston, Sussex, for 6.13.4, the wardship and marriage of the heir of John Bray of Westdean, Sussex, and the custody of the manor of Westdean which was held of the elder Sackville by knight's service. It would appear that the John Bray referred to would be this John Bray, as his son Edward, "of Henfield and Selmeston, Suss. & Vachery, Surr." was active in the immediate area of Westdean, Sussex. Selmeston, Sussex lies just North of Westdean. He was also Member of Parliament for Lewes which lies to the West. Henfield lies further to the West.
Father: Richard BRAY
Mother: Joan TROUGHTON
Married: ¿?
Children:
2. Edward BRAY of Vachery Park (Sir Knight)
Born: ABT 1490
Father: John BRAY
Mother: ¿?
Married: John NORREYS of Yattendon (Sir)
Born: ABT 1509, Barrington, Northamptonshire, England
Died: Deceased in Steane, Northamptonshire, England
Notes: The three eldest sons died without issue. The fifth and youngest, Reginald Bray, had the estate at Steyne and Hinton settled on him.
Father: John BRAY
Mother: ¿?
Married: Anne MONINGTON
Children:
1. Edmund BRAY
Born: ABT 1542 / 1 May 1555, Steane, Northamptonshire, England
Notes: of Steane and Hinton, Warwickshire. He wedded Anne, daughter of Thomas, Lord Vaux, and left six daughters, his co-heirs.
Father: Reginald BRAY
Mother: Anne MONINGTON
Married: Anne VAUX ABT 1578, Harrowden, Northamptonshire, England
Children:
1. Dau. BRAY
2. Dau. BRAY
3. Dau. BRAY
5. Dau. BRAY
6. Dau. BRAY
Born: BEF 6 Nov 1580, Steane, Northamptonshire, England
Died: 25 Oct 1619, Steane, Northamptonshire, England
Buried: 28 Oct 1619, Hinton, England
Notes: wedded Sir Thomas Crewe, serjeant-at-law, and had a son, John Crewe, created Lord Crewe, who purchasing the shares of the other co-heirs, obtained the whole of the estate at Stene and Hinton, which passed with his lordship's grand-daughter, in marriage, to Henry Grey, Duke of Kent, and was eventually sold to Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough.
Father: Reginald BRAY
Mother: Anne VAUX
Married: Thomas CREWE (Sir) (son of John Crewe and Alice Mainwaring) ABT 1599, Steane, Northamptonshire, England
Children:
1. John CREWE (1º B. Crewe) (m. Jermina Waldegrave)
2. Anne CREWE
3. Thomas CREWE
4. Nathaniel CREWE
5. Patience CREWE
6. Temperance CREWE
7. Silence CREWE
8. Salathiel CREWE
9. Prudence CREWE
Father: Reginald BRAY
Mother: Anne MONINGTON
Married: Agnes HARMON (dau. of Edmund Harmond of Taynton)
Children:
1. Edmund BRAY
2. Silvester BRAY of Fifield
3. John BRAY of Fifield
Father: Edmund BRAY
Mother: Agnes HARMON
Married: Dorothy TRACY (dau. of Sir John Tracy of Todington and Anne Throckmorton) (m.2 Edward Conway, 1º V. Conway)
Children:
1. Giles BRAY of Barrington (Sir Knight) (b. 1585 - d. 1641 (m. Anne Chetwood)
Edward BRAY of Vachery Park (Sir Knight)
Born: BEF 1492, Henfield and Selmeston, Suss. & Vachery, Surr.
Died: 1 Dec 1558
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: John BRAY
Mother: ¿?
Married 1: Elizabeth LOVELL
Married 2: Beatrix SHIRLEY (dau. of Ralph Shirley of Wiston and Jane Bellingham) (w. of Edward Elrington)
Children:
2. Owen BRAY
3. Beatrix BRAY
Married 3: Jane BROWNE BEF May 1539
Father: Edward BRAY of Vachery Park (Sir Knight)
Mother: Beatrix SHIRLEY
Married: Thomas ELRINGTON (b. ABT 1520 - d. 1566)(See his biography) BEF 1549Children:
1. Edward ELRINGTON
2. Son ELRINGTON
3. Dau. ELRINGTON
4. Dau. ELRINGTON
5. Dau. ELRINGTON
Father: Edward BRAY of Vachery Park (Sir Knight)
Mother: Beatrix SHIRLEY
Married: Anne DANISTER
Children:
1. John BRAY
2. Edward BRAY
Father: Owen BRAY
Mother: Anne DANISTER
Married: Susan DOYLEY
Children:
1. Owen BRAY
Born: ABT 1519
Died: 7 May 1581, Shere, Surrey, England
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: Edward BRAY of Vachery Park (Sir Knight)
Mother: Beatrix SHIRLEY
Married 1: Mary ELRINGTON (d. BEF Jun 1547) (dau. of Simon Elrington) BEF Oct 1542
Children:
1. Reginald BRAY
Married 2: Elizabeth ROPER (d. 1560) (dau. of William Roper of Eltham and Margaret More)
Children:
2. Edward BRAY
5. William BRAY
Married 3: Magdalene COTTON (d. 1563) (dau. of Sir Thomas Cotton of Oxenhoath)
Married 4: Mary ?
Children:
6. Magdalen BRAY
7. Frances BRAY
Father: Edward BRAY (Sir Knight)
Mother: Elizabeth ROPER
Married: George CHOWNE
Born: ABT 2 Apr 1566
Buried: 10 Sep 1621, Biddie Waterville, Durham, England
Father: Edward BRAY (Sir Knight)
Mother: Mary ?
Married: George BOWES of Biddie Waterville (d. BEF 1606) (son of George Bowes of Streatlam and Dorothy Mallory) ABT 1590, Durham, England
Children:
1. George BOWES of Bradley (m. Mary Delaval)
Father: Edward BRAY (Sir Knight)
Mother: Elizabeth ROPER
Married: Elizabeth COVERT (dau. of Richard Covert of Hascombe)
Children:1. Edward BRAY
2. Francis BRAY3. Richard BRAY (b. Aug 1588)
4. Anne BRAY
Father: Reginald BRAY
Mother: Elizabeth COVERT
Married: Son CORNEWALL
Children:
1. Son CORNEWALL2. Son CORNEWALL
3. Son CORNEWALLFather: Reginald BRAY
Mother: Elizabeth COVERT
Married 1: Jane COVERT (d. 1618) (dau. of Edward Covert)
Children:
1. Edward BRAY2. Elizabeth BRAY
3. Timothea BRAY
4. Magdalene BRAY
5. Robert BRAY
6. Jane BRAY
Married 2: Dau. COMBER
Children:
7. Grace BRAY
Father: Reginald BRAY
Mother: Elizabeth COVERT
Married: Alice BRAMPTONChildren:
1. Edmund BRAY (b. 1624 - d. 1667) (m. Tryphena Risley)
Born: 1484, Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, England
Acceded: 4 Dec 1529
Died: 18 Oct 1539
Buried: Chelsea Church
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: John BRAY
Mother: ¿?
Married: Jane HALLIGHWELL (b. ABT 1480 - d. 24 Oct 1558) ( dau. of Richard Halywell of Harberton, Esq., and Anne Norbury) (m.2 Sir Urian Brereton) ABT 1499, Holwell, Bedfordshire, England
Children:
4. Dorothy BRAY (B. Chandos of Sudeley)
5. Mary BRAY
7. Frances BRAY (b. 1522 - d. 27 May 1592)
8. Dau. BRAY
9. Dau. BRAY
10. Dau. BRAY
11. Dau. BRAY
Born: 1513
Died: 1573 Father: Edmund BRAY (1º B. Bray) Mother: Jane HALLIGHWELL Married 1: Ralph VERNEY (Sir) 1528/9, Hertford, England Children: 3. Anne VERNEY 4. Frances VERNEY (b. ABT 1529 - d. 1543) |
5. John VERNEY
6. Jane VERNEY 8. Ralph VERNEY9. Urian VERNEY
10. Richard VERNEYMarried 2: Richard CATESBY (Sir) AFT 1536 / ABT 1548, Eaton, Bedfordshire, England
Children:
1. Anne CATESBY
Married 3: William CLARCK
Married 4: Henry PHILLIPS
Born: ABT 1500, Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, England
Died: 1 Nov 1558, Cobham, Kent, England
Notes: around 1517, well before her father was created a baron in 1529, she married George Brooke. Barbara Harris in her work names Anne, Lady Cobham as one of Anne Boleyn’s first accusers but M. St. Clare Byrne argues that Lady Lisle’s man in London, John Husee, would not have referred to a noblewoman as “Nan Cobham” and therefore he must have meant some other person, probably someone lower on the social ladder. Lady Cobham was one of Queen Jane Seymour's ladies. In late 1545 she journeyed to Calais to join her husband, living there in the Lord Deputy's house for the next five years. There is an effigy on her tomb in Cobham Church, dated 1561. The Latin inscription put there by her oldest son, William, translates, in part, as follows: "Here Anna lies, a lady chaste and fair, Blest with her children's love and husband's care. . . .'Twas in the last sad year of Mary's reign That first the husband, then the wife, was ta'en.".
Father: Edmund BRAY (1º B. Bray)
Mother: Jane HALLIGHWELL
Married: George BROOKE (4° B. Cobham) ABT 1517
Children:
1. Elizabeth BROOKE (M. Northampton)
2. William BROOKE (5° B. Cobham)
7. Mary BROOKE (B. Abergavenny)
8. Dorothy BROOKE (b. 1518)
9. Anne BROOKE
10. John BROOKE (b. 1535 - d. 1594)
11. Edmund BROOKE (b. 1540)
Dorothy BRAY (B. Chandos of Sudeley)
Born: 1530, Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, England Died: 31 Oct 1605, Minety, Wiltshire, England Buried: Rotherfield Greys, Oxon Notes: was either the youngest daughter or the fifth of six daughters of Edmund, 1st baron Bray. She was at court as a maid of honor to Anne of Cleves in 1540 and then served Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr. She embarked upon a brief, passionate love affair with William Parr, brother of the future queen c.1541, but it was well over by 1543, when his interest had shifted to Dorothy’s niece, her sister Anne’s daughter Elizabeth Brooke. Dorothy married Edmund Brydges, 2nd baron Chandos. In 1574, Queen Elizabeth visited Lady Chandos at Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire. In 1588 she was living in Essex House in London and had 220 books in her bedchamber there. Dorothy’s second husband was a younger man, Sir William Knollys. She was known among courtiers as “old lady Chandos” and at the time her husband fell in love with one of the Queen's maids of honor, Mary Fitton, Dorothy was living with him in a house adjoining the royal tilt yard. Dorothy's daughters, Eleanor and Catherine, and her granddaughters, Frances and Elizabeth Brydges, were also maids of honor. The portrait “Duchess of Chandos” attributed to John Bettes the Younger, 1578, could be Dorothy Bray, although the sitter looks very young for someone who would be around fifty-four years old at the time. Dorothy's effigy appears with her second husband in the church at Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire. Father: Edmund BRAY (1º B. Bray) Mother: Jane HALLIGHWELL |
“Duchess of Chandos” attributed to John Bettes the Younger, 1578 |
Married: Edmund BRYDGES (2° B. Chandos of Sudeley) ABT 1544, Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, England
Children:
2. Giles BRYDGES (3° B. Chandos of Sudeley)
3. William BRYDGES (4º B. Chandos of Sudeley)
4. Catherine BRYDGES (B. Sandys of the Vyne)
7. Henry BRYDGES (b. ABT 1557)
9. Cecily BRYDGES (b. ABT 1560)
Married 2: William KNOLLYS (1º E. Banbury) AFT Mar 1573
Born: 1518
Died: 1569
Father: Edmund BRAY (1º B. Bray)
Mother: Jane HALLIGHWELL
Married: Robert PECKHAM (MP) (See his Biography) (son of Edmund Peckham and Anne Cheney)
Born: 1516
Father: Edmund BRAY (1º B. Bray)
Mother: Jane HALLIGHWELL
Married: Percival HART (Sir) (See his Biography) (b. ABT 1496 - d. 21 May 1580) (son of John Hart and Elizabeth Peache) BEF 1531, Lullingstone, Kent, England
Children:
1. Henry HART (b. BEF 29 May 1531) (m. Cecily Bowes)
2. George HART (b. ABT 1533) (m. Elizabeth Bowes)
3. Catherine HART (b. ABT 1536) (m. Thomas Willoughby)
4. Jane HART (b. ABT 1542) (m. Eustace Clavell)
5. Anne HART (b. ABT 1544) (m.1 Augustine Dyke - m.2 Edward Hall)
6. Francis HART (b. ABT 1545) (m. Johanna Sybell)
Born: ABT 1520
Died: 18 Nov 1557
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: Edmund BRAY (1º B. Bray)
Mother: Jane HALLIGHWELL
Married: Anne TALBOT (B. Bray / B. Wharton) Jun 1542
Died: 1559, Ewell, Surrey, England
Married: Joan SAUNDERSChildren:
1. John BRAY
2. Saunders BRAY
Born: 4 Aug 1534, London, England
Died: 6 Dec 1615, London, England
Father: Richard BRAY
Mother: Joan SAUNDERS
Married 1: Joan JENYNS
Children:
1. Anna BRAY
Married 2: Margaret HASLONDE
Children:
2. Mary BRAY
3. Thomas BRAY
4. Margaret BRAY
5. Lawrence BRAY
6. Joan BRAY
7. Henry BRAY
8. John BRAY
Born: 1556, Hareby, Lincolnshire, England
Father: John BRAY
Mother: Joan JENYNS
Married: John WIGHT of Hareby
Children:
1. Robert WIGHT (b. ABT 1578)
Born: 24 Dec 1564, London, England
Father: John BRAY
Mother: Margaret HASLONDE
Married: Thomas WHITNEY (b. 14 Jul 1560 - d. 14 Apr 1637) (son of Robert Whitney and Elizabeth Morgan) 12 May 1583, St Margaret, Westminster, Middlesex, England
Children:
1. Margaret WHITNEY
2. Thomas WHITNEY
3. Henry WHITNEY
4. Arnwaye WHITNEY
5. John WHITNEY (b. 1589) (m. Eleanor Bray)
6. Nowell WHITNEY
7. Francis WHITNEY
8. Mary WHITNEY
9. Robert WHITNEY
Born: 1575
Father: John BRAY
Mother: Margaret HASLONDE
Married:
Children:
1. Eleanor BRAY (b. 1603 - d. 11 May 1659) (m. John Whitney)
Died: ABT 1580
Father: Edmund BRAY
Mother: ¿?
Married: Thomas FETTIPLACE ABT 1565
Children:1. Robert FETTIPLACE (b. ABT 1566)
2. Charles FETTIPLACE (b. ABT 1568) 4. Mary FETTIPLACEBorn: ABT 1590
Married: John FETTIPLACE (Sir)
Children:1. Giles FETTIPLACE (b. ABT 1632 - d. 13 Nov 1702) (m. Mary Purnell)
2. Anne FETTIPLACE (b. ABT 1636)
3. Edmund FETTIPLACE (b. ABT 1638)
4. George FETTIPLACE (b. ABT 1634) (m. Rebecca ?)