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| Name |
Strangways, Anne |
| Born |
Abt 1536 |
| Gender |
Female |
| Person ID |
I04865 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
16 Jun 2015 |
| Father |
Strangways, Henry, b. Abt 1502, England  , d. 14 Sep 1544, Siege of Boulogne, France (Age ~ 42 years) |
| Mother |
Maners, Margaret, b. Abt 1505, Of Helmsley, Yorkshire, England , d. 27 Jan 1559, England (Age ~ 54 years) |
| Married |
26 Nov 1526 |
England |
| Family ID |
F01090 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- This generation or earlier?
One of the letters in Henry VIII Letters and Papers, foreign and domestic dated 1535 refers to the Abbey of Denney in Cambridgeshire and includes the following statement, ‘amongst them a fair young woman, sister to Sir Giles Strangwige, married to one Ryvell, a merchant "ventrer" at London, with whom she had four children, and now desires, of conscience, to rejoin her husband. They will not need to be put forth, but will make instance to be delivered, and so the deed shall be imputed to themselves’.
The identity of this Sir Giles Strangways and his sister is uncertain. The sister could not have been born later than ca 1510 if she had married and had four children by 1535, and in fact was probably born earlier, but being described as young perhaps no earlier than 1495. There is an account of a Sir Giles Strangways, Knight, born ca 1528, first son of Henry Strangeways by Margaret, daughter of George Manners, Lord Ros, but this individual seems to be too late to be her brother.
The ODNB refers to a Henry Strangways, pirate, of uncertain ancestry who died, intestate, at Rouen in 1562. ODNB also states that ‘tradition ties him to the family of Sir Giles Strangeways (d. 1546) of Melbury Sampford, Dorset’. Of particular interest in the present context is the statement ‘In early 1559 Strangeways ,‘beinge poore and in greate debt’ (TNA: PRO, HCA 1/35, fol. 6), was engaged by William Wilford, merchant of London, and John Strange, gentleman of Chesterton, Gloucestershire, to command an expedition intended to capture the Portuguese fortress of Mina in equatorial west Africa. The plan acquired the support of some of the London merchants who had promoted English commercial voyages to Guinea under Edward and Mary’. This immediately suggests a connection to Robert Revell the Adventurer who sailed to Guinea in 1563,
and raises the possibility that it is he who married Giles Strangeways’ sister.
It is clear from pedigrees that Giles / Egidius was a common name among the Strangways, appearing in most generations and in many branches, and it seems likely that the Giles in question was born in the period ca 1475 to 1505. If so, then on the basis of the probable dates of birth, Robert’s putative wife would have been a sister of a Giles Strangways and Jane, the eldest daughter
of Johannis Mordant unless possibly they had a son Giles who is not recorded in the pedigree. Giles and Jane appear to have had two sons, Giles and John, and four daughters, Ann, Elizabeth (who married Sir Thomas Trenchard), Christian and Mary, probably born in the period ca 1495 to ca 1510. These dates fit well with the information from the Letters and papers foreign and domestic discussed above, and it is plausible that Ann, Christian or Mary married Revell. A Sir Giles Strangways the son of George Strangways and Elizabeth Newborough née Birport of Muston, Dorset, is also of interest. Elizabeth Strangways née Birport’s will is dated 1570 and she is said to have been born in the period 1487 to 1491 and to have married first about 1512 and George Strangways about 1520. Although born too late to be brother-in-law to Revell this Giles married in Winterborne, Lucy Horsey, daughter of Thomas Horsey of Martin in Wiltshire
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