Audrey Rich
Life History
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Married Robert Drury of Hawstead |
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Born in Enfield, Middlesex |
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Birth of daughter Susan Drury |
8th Jan 1545 |
Birth of daughter Ann Drury |
8th Feb 1547 |
Birth of daughter Elizabeth Drury |
1548 |
Birth of son Robert Drury |
3rd Mar 1550 |
Birth of son William Drury of Hawstead in Bobbing Court, Bobbing, Kent |
3rd Mar 1550 |
Birth of son Henry Drury Of Ickworth |
8th May 1551 |
Birth of son Thomas Drury |
1552 |
Birth of daughter Dorothy Drury in Salem, Cambridgeshire, England |
27th Aug 1552 |
Birth of daughter Winifred Drury |
about 1554 |
Birth of daughter Bridget Drury |
Dec 1557 |
Death of Robert Drury of Hawstead in Salem, Cambridgeshire, England |
Notes
daughter of Richard RICH and Elizabeth JENKES.
May also be called Ethelreda
[source]
From - The National Archives PROB 11/40, ff. 127-8
.. Audrey Rich, was one of the nine daughters of Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich (1496/7-1567), a member of the council of Oxford's grandfather, John de Vere (1482-1540), 15th Earl of Oxford, and later Lord Chancellor of England. The testator [Sir William Drury (c.1500-1558)] appoints Lord Rich as supervisor in his will ..
By his wife, Audrey Rich, Robert Drury (d.1557) is said to have had the following children:
his son and heir, Sir William Drury (1550-1590), who succeeded at Hawstead;
a second son, Thomas; two other sons, Henry and Robert, who died without issue;
and eight daughters,
1. Ann, wife of John Thornton of Soham, Cambridge;
2. Mary, wife of Robert Russell of West Rudham, Norfolk;
3. Elizabeth married first Thomas de Grey of Merton, Norfolk, and secondly, Nicholas Mynne of Walsingham, Norfolk;
4. Susan, wife of Robert Baspole;
5. Winifred, wife of Edmund Marchant of Colchester, Essex;
6. Bridget, wife of Richard Zouch of Pitton, Wiltshire;
7. Dorothy, wife of Edward Barnes of Soham, Cambridge.
However the will of their grandmother, Elizabeth (nee Sothill) Drury (d.1575), makes no mention of either Anne or Elizabeth, and mentions another daughter, Audrey.