Richard Rich Robert Drury of Hawstead Ann Drury Elizabeth Drury Robert Drury William Drury of Hawstead Henry Drury Of Ickworth Thomas Drury Dorothy Drury Winifred Drury Bridget Drury Susan Drury Mini tree diagram

Audrey Rich

Life History

 

Married Robert Drury of Hawstead

 

Born in Enfield, Middlesex

 

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.