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    Bressey, Katherine

    Female Abt 1559 - 1613  (~ 54 years)


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    • Name Bressey, Katherine 
      Born Abt 1559  Of St Dionis Backchurch, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Gender Female 
      Buried 18 Nov 1613  St Dionis Backchurch, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Person ID I09202  My Genealogy
      Last Modified 22 Feb 2015 

      Family Woodward, John,   c. 17 Feb 1549, All Hallows Bread Street, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 13 Nov 1601, St Dionis Backchurch, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 52 years) 
      Married 01 Jun 1579  St Dionis Backchurch, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Children 
       1. Woodward, Thomas,   b. Of London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1601
       2. Woodward, Alice,   c. 22 Apr 1580, St Dionis Backchurch, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 24 Apr 1580, St Dionis Backchurch, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 0 years)
      +3. Woodward, Elizabeth,   c. 15 Oct 1583, St Dionis Backchurch, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 20 Dec 1638, St Dionis Backchurch, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 55 years)
       4. Woodward, Anne,   c. 9 Sep 1584, St Dionis Backchurch, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 17 Jul 1586, St Dionis Backchurch, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 1 years)
      +5. Woodward, Martha,   c. 10 Oct 1585, St Dionis Backchurch, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1615-1645, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 59 years)
      +6. Woodward, John,   c. 24 Aug 1587, St Dionis Backchurch, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1659, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 71 years)
      +7. Woodward, Sarah,   c. 14 Jun 1590, St Dionis Backchurch, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 27 Dec 1625, Stepney, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 35 years)
      Family ID F02842  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Notes 
      • Daughter of Thomas Bressey and Anne Ober.
        PROB 11/122 Will of Katherine Woodward, Widow of London 519 / 449
        Written 1608. Proved 1614. Mentions Brother Ralph and Henry Bressay, sister Garaway, sister Walmsley's five daughters, brother Farrar, my son Thomas Stile, his daughter Dorothy, cousin Parham, sister Wright, cousin barnes and his wife, brother Richard Woodward, my cousin John Wright, daughter Stiles son Thomas and daughter Katherine, son John Woodward, daughter Farrar,
        ?
        Check when will proved. Burial entry for Katherine Woodward in 1613 but the "Lady Woodward, wife of Sir John Woodward in 7th? June 1614? Father or son?
        16 iv. Anne Bressey. Her body was interred 10 October 1610 St. Dionis Backchurch in London, Middlesex, England. She married Ralph Egerton before 1561. His body was interred 12 December 1612 St. Dionis Backchurch in London, Middlesex, England. He made a will 17 November 1612. He appointed his wife's niece, Mrs. Katherine Woodward, one of his overseers. He was a mercer of London, who was mentioned in the 1561 will of Anne's uncle, James Bressey. Sir Richard Egerton, Kt., of Ridley, Cheshire, had many illegitimate children, at least ten of whom are listed in a copy of the visitation of Chester of 1613, with additions, apparently in the hand of Mr. Jacob Chaloner, now in the British Museum. Three of them left Cheshire for London--"Raffe Egerton of London Bridge, by Mald Dutton," "Thomas Egerton, Lord Chancellor (Viscount Brackley), and William Egerton of London Bridge by Ales Sparke." Ralph Egerton, Anne Bressey's husband, was probably a son of William "of London Bridge." Anne was a legatee in the wills of her brother Thomas Bressey, in 1591, and of her sister-in-law Anne Bressey, in 1596, and of her niece Mary (Bressey) Walmesley, in 1605. She and her husband Ralph first resided in the parish of St. Magnus Martyr, but later in the parish of St. Dionis Backchurch. Nine children were recorded at St. Magnus Martyr in London between 1562 and 1576.

        Thomas6 Bressey (Ralph5, Thomas4, Thomas3, William de2 Bresey, Hamon le1) was born in Bulkeley, Cheshire, England about 1527. His body was interred 10 Mary 1592 St. Dionis Backchurch in London, Middlesex, England.
        He married twice. He married Anne Ober 15 January 1553/4 in London, Middlesex, England. Thomas Brassye of St. Magnus parish was licensed to marry her in the church of St. Christopher-le-Stocks.
        Her body was interred 7 March 1568/9 St. Dionis Backchurch in London, Middlesex, England. He married Agnes Lawrence 29 July 1572 in London, Middlesex, England. She was a widow and they were licensed to marry at St. Christopher-le-Stocks. Anne (or Erne), as she was also called, had married at St. Christopher-le-Stocks on 13 September 1559 to Felix Lawrence, grocer, of London and Steventon, Bedfordshire, who was buried 21 January 1570/1.
        Her body was interred 27 October 1596 St. Dionis Backchurch in London, Middlesex, England. She made a will 4 October 1596 in London, Middlesex, England. The will of Anne Bressie of the City of London was proved 19 November 1596 and was very long. She was to be buried in the chapel of St. Dionis Backchurch, as nigh as possible to my husband Thomas Bressie. My executors at my funeral to have to dinner and supper all my neighbors of St. Dionis, as well poor as rich. To my brother, Edmund Bressie. To my brother Robert Fletton, grocer, and my sister Elizabeth, his wife. To my sister-in-law Christian Joanes. To my cousin Robert Carrell and Mary his wife, dwelling in Whittington College, London, and their children Anne, Thomas, John, Henry, Robert, and Clemence. To my son Woodward and my daughter his wife. To my son Garway and my daughter his wife. To my son Walmesley and my daughter his wife. To my sister Hyll (Alice Hill sister to Felix Lawrence my late husband) and her daughter Christian.To my cousin William Allen, draper. To cousin Elizabeth Allen. To cousin Staynes and his wife (William Staynes and Alice his wife). To cousin Amie Wrenne (daughter of Richard Bressey of Bulkley). To young Parrott that married my sister's daughter, and (later in document) Raufe Parrett's daughter by my cousin his first wife. To my daughter Katherine Woodward. To my daughter Anne Garway and her children, Ann, Thomas, Timothy, and Catherine. To my daughter Mary Walmisley and her daughter Anne. To Anne Edgerton, daughter of my sister Anne Edgerton. To cousin Judith Terrell and her daughters, Elizabeth and Ellen. To my sister Bressey, wife of Randolf Bressey, and their son Thomas. To Thomas and Anne Bressey, children of my son-in-law Raphe Bressey. to the Company of the Haberdashers £100 for a loan fund. To the parishes of Edmonton, Middlesex, St. Andrews Hertford, Hertfordshire, Haverhill, Suffolk, Southwark, St. Sepulchre's, St. Giles Cripplegate, St. Botolph Bishopsgate, St. Botolph Aldgate, St. Leonard Shoreditch, and Whitechapel (London). To Robert Fletton, John Woodward, Thomas Garway, John Maplesden (Archdeacon of Suffolk), William Charke, preacher, and Jeffrey Massey, £1300 to buy lands in trust for my kinsman Felix Maplesden with remainders to his sisters Mary Carrell and Ann Auncell in turn. Executors: Robert Carrell and Mary his wife. Overseers: Robert Fletton, Edmund Bressey, John Woodward, Thomas Garway, William Warmisley, William Staynes, Felix Maplesden, William Charke, and Jeffrey Massey. Witnesses: Robert Fletton, Michael Palmer, Jeffory Massie, Edward Massie, John Partridge, scriptor.
        He made a will 9 August 1591 in London, Middlesex, England. He was stated to be a citizen and haberdasher of London, and the will was proved 13 June 1592. He directed that he be buried in the church of St. Dionis, "in the chapel there under the pew where I sit," and that the cost of the funeral should not exceed £100. To my wife Anne, one-third of my estate. To Henry Bressey, my son, and my daughters, Catherine, Anne, and Mary equally, one-third of my estate. "I have paid with each of my daughters £400, not reckoning their apparel nor marriage dinners." "I have advanced my son Ralph Bressie and he is to claim no part of this third." For twenty godly sermons, 30 nobles. To the Haberdashers Company, £10 for a silver cup with my mark. To the marriages of thirty poor maids, 10s each, and another thirty at 6s.8d each. To eighty poor householders, married or widowed, £40. For redeeming honest and godly prisoners in the two Compters, Newgate, Ludgate, Marshalsea, and King's Bench, £20. To Christ's hospital, £10. To St. Bartholomew's, St. Thomas," Bridewell and Bedlam, 5 marks each. To Cambridge, 20 marks. To Oxford, 20 nobles. To my brother Edmund Bressey, £40, and to his two sons Edmund and Isaac, 5 marks each. To my brother Ralph Bressey, if he pay his debts to me, £20, and to his son and two daughters 5 marks each. To my brother Randoll Bressey, £150, he to pay his debts to me, and £50 among his children equally at the age of twenty-one. To my brother Edmund Bressey, £20 for the use of my sister Katherine Biddulphe, and to her husband 20 nobles, if he pay his debts to me, but, if he does not, a statute shall be sued for recovery, in which he was bound to Mr. Milwarde. To my sister Alice Wright, widow, £30, and to her children Roger and Margaret 20 nobles each and to her daughter Marger, 3 marks. To my sister Anne Edgerton, £40; to the marriage of her daughter Anne, 20 marks, and of her daughter Margaret £10; to her children Sarah and Ralph, 5 marks each. To my sister Alice Hill, for her good will to me and my wife £10. To my cousin Mary Carroll, £10, and to her son Thomas, £5; to her sister Anne Maplesden, £5. To Alice Marshe, widow, £10. To Willliam Milwarde, £20, and to his son Thomas, £5. To my servants William and Jeffrye Maises [Massey], £10 each, Thomas Maises 20 nobles, Edward Maises 40s, and I remit to William and Jeffrye a year of their apprenticeship. To my late servant Rowland Haywarde, £5. To my servant Katherine Frannces, 40s at the end of her years. To Mr. Thomas Church, £10. To my son-in-law John Woodwarde, £100. To my daughter Mary, wife of William Walmesley, my leaseholds in Bishopsgate Without. To each of my son Ralph's children, £15 at twenty-one or marriage. To the four children of my daughter Katherine Woodwarde, £15. To the two sons of my daughter Anne, wife of Thomas Garwaye, £15. To the two daughters of my daughter Mary Walmesley, £15. To my wife Anne, my best silver basin and ewer, my two best salts, one nest of best gilt goblets or bowls, one nest of gilt bowls she brought with her, twelve best gilt spoons, two stone pots garnished with silver (one gilt, the other white) and one little pot garnished with silver given her long since. Residue to my wife and sole executrix, for the use of my son Ralph. Overseers: sons-in-law John Woodwarde, Thomas Garwaye, William Walmesley, cousin Robert Carroll, and Mr. William Millwarde, to each of whom, 20 nobles. To my son Ralph and his heirs male, my tenements in Adstone, Leicestershire, bought of the Earl of Huntington, with remainder to my three daughters. Witnesses: Robert Bauckworthe, scriptor, Geoffrey Massie, Thomas Massie. He was sent up to London by his parents and apprenticed to his uncle Hamnet Bressey, through whom ("per Hamlett Bracey") he obtained the freedom of the Haberdasher's Company in 1548 and thereby became a citizen of London. As a city merchant he prospered and acquired considerable wealth. From 1561 until his death he lived in the parish of St. Dionis Backchurch.
        Many of Mr. Bressey's apprentices and servants seem to have been young members of his mother's family in Cheshire. In addition to the four named in his will there were Jane Massy and Mary Massy, "servants with Mr. Bracye," who were buried on successive days in 1563 at St. Dionis, probably victims of the plague.
        Thomas Bressey and Anne Ober had the following children:
        + 30 i. Ralph7 Bressey.
        31 ii. Katherine Bressey. Her body was interred 18 November 1613 St. Dionis Backchurch in London, Middlesex, England. She married John Woodward 1 June 1579 St. Dionis Backchurch in London, Middlesex, England. His body was interred 20 November 1601 St. Dionis Backchurch in London, Middlesex, England.
        She made a will 14 April 1608. It was proved by her son Sir John Woodward, Kt., on 26 November 1613. He six children were baptized at St. Dionis Backchurch between 1580 and 1590.
        + 32 iii. Henry Bressey was born about 1559.
        33 iv. Bridget Bressey. Her body was interred 15 April 1571 St. Dionis Backchurch in London, Middlesex, England. She was baptized 26 December 1561 St. Dionis Backchurch in London, Middlesex, England. She was mentioned with her older brother and sister in the will of her great uncle, Robert Barnes, in 1562.
        34 v. Anne Bressey. She married Thomas Garraway 1583 in Edmundton, Middlesex, England. Her name was given as Agnes. Thomas is the son of Walter Garraway and Katherine Hopton. Thomas Garraway was free of the Drapers' Company by patrimony on 8 July 1576, and, although there is a later note against his name "Deceived in the Country," a Thomas Garraway was warden of the company in 1605 and on the company's court as late as 1613. He was surely living in 1608 when he was mentioned in the will of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Woodward. He and Anne had six children.
        She was baptized 12 November 1564 St. Dionis Backchurch in London, Middlesex, England.
        35 vi. Margaret Bressey. Her body was interred 17 September 1567 St. Dionis Backchurch in London, Middlesex, England. She was baptized 29 June 1566 St. Dionis Backchurch in London, Middlesex, England.
        36 vii. Mary Bressey. She married William Walmysle 27 January 1588/9 St. Dionis Backchurch in London, Middlesex, England. William is the son of Thomas Walmsley and Margaret Leversedge. He made a will 29 March 1597. The will of William, citizen and draper, of London, was proved 1 August 1597. William was of the parish of St. Bennet Finke and son of Thomas Walmsley of Shelley, Lancashire, and brother of Sir Thomas Walmsley, Kt., Justice of the Common Pleas.
        She was baptized 30 August 1567 St. Dionis Backchurch in London, Middlesex, England. She made a will 17 February 1605. Marie Walmsley's will was proved 19 March 1605 and names her five daughters as her chief legatees. It mentioned several of her Bressey, Egerton, and Garraway relations.

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        Name: Dorothy Still Marriage Date: 15 Dec 1656 Parish: St Olave, Bermondsey County: Surrey Borough: Southwark Spouse: John Lee Record Type: Marriage