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A Reade Family Line

  
 

Materials compiled by Ann Woodlief. E-mail me at awoodlief@yahoo.com if you have additions or corrections.

Andrew Reade (-1623) of Linkenholt, Hampshire & --Cooke of Kent County

Children: Henry, Robert, John, George, Andrew, four sisters

Robert Reade (--by 12/1626) & Mildred Windebank

Mildred was Robert's third wife, married 31/7/1600. "Robert Reade married (third), in 1600, at St. Martins-in-the-field, London, Mildred Windebank, daughter of Sir Thomas Windebank, of Haines Hall, Parish of Hurst, Berkshire, who was clerk of the signet to Queen Elizabeth and King James I. Sir Thomas Windebank married Lady Frances Dymoke, daughter of Sir Edward Dymoke, of Scrivelsby Court, Lincolnshire, Hereditary Championn of England, and his wife, Lady Anne Talbois. Lady Frances Dymoke was of most distinguished lineage, as she was descended in three ways from King Edward I: from the Percys, Earls of Northumberland; the de Veres of Runnymede fame; and from Robert Marmyun, Lord of Castle Fontenaye in Normandy. Robert Marmyun accompanied William the Conquerer to England and was the Champion in full armor at the coronation of William and Matilda. He received the lands and Manor of Scrivelsby as a gift from William on the special condition that he and his heirs should perform the office of Champions to Sovereigns of England, a custom which was followed until the last two coronations. The Marmyun line died out with Lady Joan, but her daughter, Margaret Ludlow, married Sir John Dymoke, and this office continued in the Dymokke family. There are still extant a number of autographed letters from the Sovereigns of England to these Champions. Scrivelsby Court itself has a distinction, as it is the "Locksley Hall" of Tennyson's poems."

Children:

Andrew, D. D. of Lurgershall, Wiltshire
William
Rev. Thomas, (1606-1643), Fellow of Oxford in 1626; Doctor of Laws, 1638; Principal of Magdalen Hall, Oxford University, 1643
Robert, secretary to uncle, Sir Thomas Windebanke, Secretary of State during the reign of Charles I
George (see below)
Benjamin (?), came to America

Col. George Reade (25/10/1608 Linkenholt Manor-10/1674) & Elizabeth Martiau (ca. 1625-1686)

A handwritten genealogy in the William and Mary Collection gives his dates as 1600 and 1671, citing his will probated in 1671.
Col Read(e) arrived in 1634 or 1637 with Governor Harvey (and 5 or 6 brothers) and lived in his family for some years. He married Elizabeth Martiau around 1641. He served as Deputy-Secretary of the colony 1640-42; Burgess for James City County, 1649; Burgess for Charles County, 1656, and was appointed to the Council in 1658 for the rest of his life. He was one of the 12 Councilors joining the Governor in dissolving the Assembly. He acquired 2000 acres on the Piankatank River, vacating the Chiskiack Indians.
Their remains are now buried at the Grace Colonial Episcopal Church at Yorktown.

Children:

  • George (d. before 1686)
  • Mildred (born at plantation at Williamsburg), m. Augustine Warner II, 1670
  • Elizabeth (m. Capt. Thomas Cheeseman/Chisman): Thomas [:Edmund, John]; Mildred (m. Col. Lawrence Smith who later married her cousin Mildred Read Goodwin); Elizabeth (m. Lucus); John (m. Elinor Howard); Jane; George: Sarah; Anna
  • Robert (m. Mary Lilly): John, Margaret m. Thomas Nelson, Robert, Thomas, George, Samuel, Mildred m. James Goodwin & Col. Lawrence Smith
  • Francis (m. Jane Cheeseman, Anne)
  • Thomas (m. Lucy Gwynn): Thomas (1697-1739), John, Lucy (m. John Dixon), Mildred (m. Philip Roots), Mary (m. Mordica Trockmorton), Clement
  • Benjamin (m. Miss Gwyn): Gwyn, Robert,
  • 5 other children unnamed in his will

    • Will of Elizabeth Martiau Reade:

    ....Imprimis I give and bequeath unto my sonn Robert Reade, one Negro man named Peter and Brigitt his wife, and one mollotta boy named Dick, one negro woman named Tony, one ffrench Nickolice Morell, and one woman servant named Mary Jane Tisso, the Said neegroes I give unto my said sonn Robert with their increase.
    Item. I give and bequeath unto my sonn Ffrancis Reade, one negro man named Sandy one negro woman named Bess, one negro boy named Peter with their increase.
    Item. I give and bequeath unto my sonn Benjamine Reade one negro man named Will and Jane his wife with their increase.
    Item. I give and bequeath unto my sonn Thomas Reade one negro man named Jeffry Nimino his wife with her child, a Boy named Tom, and one negro boy named Will also one negro man named Jack my said son Thomas Reade Shipping Tobacco for England until he hath paid the full summ of twenty five pounds unto my Executor after named, provided itt be not paid before my decease, the said negroes I give unto my said sonn Thomas with their increase.
    Item. I give and bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth Chisman one negro Woman named Kate, one negro woman named Pegg with her child a Mollatta Girle named Dina with their Increase.
    Item. I give and bequeath unto my granddaughter Mildred Chisman one negro Girls named Murriah with her Increase.
    Item. I give and bequeath unto my granddaughter Eliz. Chisman one negro Girls named Hannah with her increase.
    Item. I give and bequeath unto my sonn Benjamin the ffeather bed I lye on with the furniture belonging to itt three pairs of sheets three silver spoons three peuter Dishes and one Iron pott.
    Item. I give and bequeath unto my Daughters Elizabeth Chissman and Mary Reade all my wearing Apparill to be Equally Divided between them.
    Item. I give and bequeath unto my son Benjamin one young mare of three or fouer years old.
    Item. I give and bequeath unto my sonn Thomas one young mare of three or fouer years old.
    Item. I give unto my son Benjamin two cows of ffouer years old and one heafer with his pportion of the stock of Cattle which belonged unto his Brother George Reade Dece’d according to ye Division already man.
    Item. I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Mildred Warner the mourning Ring I usually ware.
    [the rest has to do with cattle, etc.]. 

    Lineage of George Reade.

  • Robert Reade (son of Andrew Reade of Linkenholt) m. Mildred Windebank 31/7/1600(-1630), daughter of:
  • Frances Dymoke, m. 20/8/1566 Sir Thomas Windebank (1607), Clerk of the Signet to Queen Elizabeth and King James, son of Sir Richard Windbank of Berkshire. Daughter of:
  • Anne Talbois, m. Sir Edward Dymoke of Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire, Heredity Champion of England, died 1566, a direct descendent of Edward I, King of England, by his second wife. Daughter of:
  • Elizabeth Gascoigne, m Sir George Talbois, Knight, son of Robert Talbois, died 1538. Daughter of:
  • Margaret Percy, m. Sir William Gascoigne, son of Sir William Gascoigne and Joane de Neville. Daughter of:
  • Sir Henry Percy, third Earl of Northumberland, 1421-1461, m. Eleanor, daughter of Sir Richard Poynings. Son of:
  • Sir Henry Percy, second Earl of Northumberland, 1394-1455, slain in battle of St. Albans, m. Eleanor Neville, daughter of Ralph Neville, first Lord of Westmoreland, and Joane de Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt. Son of:
  • Elizabeth Mortimer, b. 1371, m. Sir Henry Percy "Hotspur," born 1366, slain at Shrewsbury, son of Sir Henry Percy, first Earl of Northumberland, and Margaret, daughter of Lord Neville of Raby. Sir Henry "Hotspur" was grandson of Henry, third Lord Percy and Mary Plantagenet, great granddaughter of Henry III, King of England
  • Edmund Mortimer, third Earl of March, and Philippa Plantagenet. Daughter of
  • Lionel Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence (1338-1368) and Philippa de Burgh, daughter of William de Burgh, Earl of Ulster and Maud Plantagenet; son of
  • Edward III, King of England, 1312-1377, and Philippa, daughter of William, Count of Holland. Son of:
  • Edward II, King of England, 1284-1327 and Isabella, daughter of Philip IV, King of France and Jane, queen of Navarre. Son of:
  • Edward I, King of England, 1239-1307, and Eleanor, daughter of Ferdinand III of Castile and Leon, Son of:
  • Henry III, King of England, 1216-1273 and Eleanor of Provence, daughter of Raymond, Count of Berenger. Son of:
  • John "Lackland" King of England (1199-1216) and Isabella of Angouleme, daughter of Aymer de Taillifer and Alice de Courtney, daughter of Peter de Courtenay, son of Louis VI, King of France. Son of:
  • Henry II, King of England, 1154-1189, and Eleanor, Duchess of Guienne and Countess of Poitou and Aquitaine, Son of:
  • Maud (1104-1167) and Geoffrey Plantagenet, son of Fulke, King of Jerusalem and Count of Anjou, Daughter of
  • Matilda, Queen of England (-1118) and Henry I, King of England (-11135), son of William the Conquer and Matilda. Daughter of
  • Matilda or Margaret Atheling and Malcolm III, King of Scots, 1053-1093, son of Duncan, King of Scots. Daughter of
  • Edward Atheline "The Exile", and Agatha, Son of:
  • Edmund "Ironsides" King of England 1016 and Sigiferth, Son of:
  • Ethelred II, King of England, 970-1016, m. Emma, daughter of Richard I, Duke of Normany and Gunnor....

    • It gets rather confusing. All this comes from "My Ancestors" by Martinette Witherspoon and goes right on to Alfred the Great. I have a copy.... Another source is Lewis of Warner Hall: The History of a Family.

    Lineage traced to Charlemagne

    from Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, Volume II. Aileen Lewers Langston and J. Orton Buck, Jr. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Col, 1988. pp, 221-224.

    Charlemagne Line--Follow to Sir. Robert de Beaumont,II.

    Robert de Beaumont, III, 3rd Earl of Leicester, Steward of England, and Normandy, Crusader 1179, b. bef. 1135; d. at Durazzo, Greece, 1190; m. ca. 1155, Petronilla (Pernel) de Grantmesnil, d. April 1, 1212,

    Margaret de Beaumont, d. Jan 12, 1235/6; m. bef. 1173, Saire de Quincy, 2st Earl of Winchester, Justiciar, Magna Charta Surety, Crusader, b. 1155; d. in the Holy Land, Nov. 3, 1219,

    Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, Constable of Scotland, d. April 25, 1264;, m. (his first wife) Helen of Galloway, dau. of Alan, Lord of Alloway, Constable of Scotland,

    Elizabeth (Isabel) de Quincy, d. after April 1282; m. Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan, Constable of Scotland, d. bef. April 16, 1290; son and her of William Comyn,

    Elizabeth Comyn, d. before Feb. 17, 1328/9; m. Gilbert de Umfreville, Earl of Angus, Lord Umfreville, Governor of Angus, etc., b. ca. 1244; d. before Oct 13, 1307, son of Gilbert de Umfreville, and his wife Maud, Countess of Angus,

    Robert de Umfreville, Earl of Angus, Lord Unfreville, b. bef. 1277, d. March 1325; m. before Sept. 20, 1303 (his first wife), Lucy Kyme, dau of Sir. Philip de Kyme, 1st Lord Kyme by his wife Joan, dau. of Sir Hugh Bigod,

    Elizabeth de Umfreville, m. ca. 1340, Gilbert de Boroughton (Borrowden), Sheriff of Northumberland 1323-24, and 1339-41; d. after 1341,

    Eleanor de Boroughton (Borrowden), Baroness Kyme, b. bef. 1340/41; d. after 1381; m. Henry Tailboys, d. Feb. 23, 1368/9, son of William Tailboys,

    Sir. Walter Tailboys, Lord Kyme, Sheriff of Lincoln, b. ca. 1351; d. Sept 20-21, 1417; m. Margaret 0,

    Walter Tailboys, Lord Kyme, Sheriff of Lincoln, b. ca. 1391; d. April 13, 1444; m. ca. 1432, Alice (Stafford) Cheyney, d. bef. April 24, 1448, widow of Sir Henry Cheyney, Knt, and dau. of Sir Humphrey Stafford, Knt,

    Sir. William Tailboys, Knt. of Kyme and of Redesdale, MP, Lord Kyme, b. ca. 1451; d. Jan 30, 1484/5; m. Elizabeth Heron, dau. of Sir John Heron, d. ca. 1494/5,

    Sir George Tailboys, Lord Kyme of C Lincoln, d. Sept 21, 1538; m. bef. April 1493, Elizabeth Gascoigne, d. 1559, dau of Sir William Gascoine,

    Anne Tailboys of Kyme, Co. Lincoln, m. ca. 1536, Sir Edward Dymoke of Scrivelsby, d. ca. 1556; Champion of Queen Elizabeth,

    Frances Dymoke, m. Sir Thomas Windebank, Knt, of Haynes Hall, Hurst Parish, Berkshire; d. 1607,

    Mildred Windebank, d. 1630; m. in London, England, July 31, 1600, Robert Reade of Linkenholt Manor, Linkenholt, Hants.,

    Col George Reade.