The Ancestry of Susannah Moore, My Great (X8
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The Ancestry of Susannah Moore, my Great (x8) Grandmother (born Susannah Drew in 1676 at Bishop's Cannings, Wiltshire) By Mark Wareham Last updated 20th January 2014 The information contained in these spreadsheets is gathered from several sources. I have tried to use recognised source material where it is available such as Visitation reports of the Harleian Society of the 16th and 17th centuries, wills, county histories or other reference books. There is some information from the internet such as Wikipedia Or some independent study and where that is the case I have tried to point that out as it is generally less reliable. For maternal ancestral branches refer to the worksheets arranged in alphabetical order according to family name. Family arms from those quartered with Mompesson in the 1623 Visitations of Wiltshire (left), middle from heraldry.ws, right from Burke's 'Geneological & Heraldic History .. Drew(e) family Susannah Drew m 14/4/1703 Erlestoke, Wilts John Moore b 16/1/1676 Bishop's Cannings, Wilts b 14/5/1677 West Lavington, Wilts d 9/11/1735 Seend d 13/4/1733 Seend I Henry Drew m c 1666 (3rd) Marie ? two prior marriages - see below b 5/9/1640 Bishop's Cannings b bf 1660 d 9/6/1715 Bishop's Cannings d 8/4/1705 Bishop's Cannings I John Drew m 1632 Avebury, Wiltshire Alice Turner b 15/3/1607 Bishop's Cannings b bf 1614 d 4/5/1682 Bishop's Cannings d 22/12/1680 Bishop's Cannings I Henry Drew m 11/10/1606 Bishop's Cannings Annes (Alice) Burden b bf 1588 not B Cannings or Devizes b bf 1585 d 6/6/1679 Bishops Cannings d aft 1618 not B Cannings I John Drew m bf 1588 Elinor Cooke b c 1540 Southbroom, Wilts b bf 1555 Lacock, Wiltshire d 16/8/1614 St John, Devizes, Wilts d 4/5/1586 Southbroom, Wilts I Robert Drew m bf 1540 Joan Read b 1512 b bf 1525 Yate, Gloucester d 1564 d aft 1572 I John Drew, junior m 1508 (2nd) Maud Cuffe m 1499 (1st) ? Cobham b c 1480 Devon * b bf 1495 Devizes, Wilts b bf 1485 d 1521 Devizes, Wilts d aft 1521 d bf 1508 I William Drew, junior m Eleanor ? b bf 1465 Kene, Devon b d 22/6/1548 Devon d I William Drew, Esquire m Joan Prideaux b bf 1450 Sharpham, Devon b bf 1450 Orcheston, Devon d d 1703 marriage both 'of Seend' (note that there is no reference to Susannah Drew of Cannings marrying anyone else in Cannings or dying an infant or spinster). Henry Drew (1640 - 1715) Henry was listed as being a shepherd on the burial of 3rd wife Mary in 1705 and when he was buried in 1715 as being a 'poor shepherd'. Wives and children of Henry Drew - 1) Katherine (buried 16/12/1661 at Bishops Cannings) - 1661 John (to Henry of Bourton) buried 1661 2) Marie (buried 16/6/1665 at Bishops Cannings) - 1662 Mary (to Henry of Bourton) m 1698 Robert Woodroffe 3) Marie (buried 8/4/1705 at Bishops Cannings) - 1666 Robert, 1669 Denise *, 1672 Jane, 1676 Susannah *, 1678 Elizabeth, 1679 Henry, 1685 Anne * to Henry and Mary Drew John Drew (1607 - 1682) 1683 administration of John Drew of Bishops Cannings Of Horton. Administration by John Drew, lawful son of John Drew of Horton, Bishops Cannings, intestate. 1670 will of Thomas Drew Shepherd of Horton. Made 1669. refers to father John Drew and Alice, son Thomas (under 15 years), brothers Edward, Henry (and his son Robert), John and sister Anne Kaines. Wife Joane. Children of John and Alice – 1633 George (bu 1633), 1635 Thomas, 1637 Anne (m Mr Kaines), 1640 Henry, bf 1644 Marie bu 1643, 1644 Marie, 1648 Edward, 1652 Jane bu 1655 and ? John Henry Drew (1584 - 1679) Alumni Oxoniensis: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714 by University of Oxford, Joseph Foster (1891), page 424. DREW, Henry, BA from Corpus Christi Cou. 4 Feb, 1607-8, of the Middle Temple 1608, as 4th son of John, of Devizes, Wilts. See Foster's Inns of Court, Reg. Children of Henry and Alice Drew at BC – 1607 John *, 1609 Thomas, 1615 William, 1618 Anthoney * to Henry of Horton. Note that Henry, John and Thomas are all names common to the Drews of Devizes and Southbroome. 1607 marriage at Bishops Cannings of Henry Drew and Annes Burden Ancestral connection - I had some doubts about whether Henry Drew was connected to John Drew of Southbroome below. However the discovery that Annes (or Alice) Burden's possible elder brother went to Oxford at about the same time as Henry's possible elder brother John seems to have made this link more likely than not. In favour of the connection - * Henry's marriage to Annes (or Alice) Burden - the Burden family were landowners in the Bishops Cannings area. * Link between the Burden family at Oxford and Henry and his brother John, at the same time. * Annes Burden was probably baptised just two miles from Bishops Cannings at Stanton St Bernard. * Henry used the names Thomas and John which, along with his name, were ones used in the Drew of Southbroome family. * The dates, places and ages link. * Henry settled just four miles from Southbroome and I can find no evidence of any other Drew family in the area other than those of Devizes. * There is no alternative lineage for Henry son of John Drew of Southbroome that I have discovered. * There was some wealth in Henry's line as is evidenced from the fact that his son and grandson's property was administered or inherited through a will. Doubts about the connection - * Henry's wife was recovered as 'Annes' rather than Alice. But she was not Anne and this may be a transcription or recording error. * John said in his will of 1614 that his son Henry would inherit, as would his wife if he dies, when he 'hereafter marries'. However Henry Drew of Horton married in 1606. * The fact that Henry Drew matriculated in 1608, a few months after his wife had their first child and just over a year after he married. However this is not impossible. On balance and despite the continuing questions I believe that this lineage is more likely than not and so have published this history on that basis and until otherwise proven wrong by new facts. John Drew (1540-1614) 1614 will of John Drewe Made 25th June 1614. Of Southbroome in Parish of Bishops Cannings, gentleman. To be buried in the parish church of Saint John the Baptist within the Borough of Devizes. Bequeths - To son Michael the white greloing 'which I latelie bought of hym'. To each of his children £10 a piece. To son John one ? chamber in my nowe mansion house with food drink bedding and lodging within the same and also his ? and washing with his brother Robert in the same house freelie … he shall like to live abide and contynewe… aloso annuity of £20 or yearlie rent of £20 … out of all those my landes tenements and hereditaments which I hold in fee… within the borough of Devizes Yatebury Seend Rowde or elsewhere within the realm of England. .. He shall like to live abide and contynewe in my saide house with his said brother Robert. And if he shall depart from my sayed son Robert and desire to live elsewhere then ' previous annuity ceases and a new one will commence - described in the will. Reference to bequest if he marries and for his wife should he die. To son Henry "and unto the suche woman as hereafter by the grace of God he shall happen to marry and take to wife" an annuity of £20 during his natural life and when he dies it passes to his widow, should she still be alive, for the rest of her widowhood. First payment after John's decease. Also some reference to a tenement and lease rents in Littleton Samuell (?) in Wiltshire held by John's brother in law Tydderley (see below). Reference to his brother-in-law Christopher Tidderley and his wife Elizabeth. He later calls Xtopher (or Christopher) Tydderley his ‘wellbeloved brother-in-law’. Daughters of his son Robert £50 when married or when eighteen one years old. Servant Matthew Page - lodging for him at his mansion house for his natural life. Cousin …. Drewe of Marlborough Poor of the borough To son Robert made executor to his will who receives all other goods, chattels and landes no otherwise mentioned his his will. Loving friend John Lent, gent, and Xtopher Tydderley made overseers of the will. Proved in London. 1607 will of John Drewe (alias Trewe) John was buried 18/7/1616 at Marlborough St Peter Refers to - Daughter Margaret Davies. Brother Tristram Drewe 'who nows dwells at Devizes' and his son, unnamed (and his sons). Tristram's daughter, who now is or late was wife of 'Streate' of Devizes. Son Thomas Drewe, deceased, and his widow Margaret. His sons John and Thomas and daughter Margaret. Robert Drewe, gentleman, is referred to as one of four in a bond in reference to the administration of his will and decease of daughter-in-law Margaret and Joh's widow Agnes. One of the overseers of John's will is - 'my cozen Robert Drewe of Southbroome, near Devizes, gent …'. Alumni Oxoniensis: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714 by University of Oxford, Joseph Foster (1891), page 424. Three sons of John and Elinor attended Oxford University - DREWE, Robert, of Wilts, arm.