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| Name |
Parker, Margaret |
| Gender |
Female |
| Buried |
26 Apr 1552 |
Cornhill, London, England  |
| Person ID |
I08525 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
12 Jun 2015 |
| Family |
Lodge, Thomas, b. Abt 1505, Of West Ham, Essex, England , bur. 28 Feb 1583/84, St Mary Aldermary, London, England (Age ~ 79 years) |
| Family ID |
F02593 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- According to the 1623 pedigree he married first Anne Luddington,
and secondly " Margaretta fil . . . Parker de Wrotisley."
Margaret Parker, however, was his second wife and Anne his third.
This is proved conclusively by an agreement recorded in 1550
between Sir John Port and " Thomas Lodge, and Margaret, his
wife,"6 and still further by an indenture made September 16, 1549,
between Thomas Lodge and Margaret Parker concerning their
intended marriage.7 This indenture places the date of the marriage
between September 16, 1549, and December 20, 1549, when Sarah
Lodge, their firet child, was christened, and throws some light on
what must have been to Sir Thomas a somewhat galling alliance.
The indenture, made between Thomas Lodge, citizen and grocer of London, and Margaret Parker, " Syngelwoman and raayde of the
saide Citie,"
witnesses that the said Margaret Parker " of long tyme past" has well
and truly served the said Thomas Lodge in his house " in the state of a
mayden sarvant " and that the honesty, truth, fidelity, diligence and other
good qualities," wherwith almightie god hathe endued the saide Margaret
Parker," have by long trial and experience moved the said Thomas to
take her as his wife- Wherunto the saide Margaret Parker most humble
and thanckefully accordeth." But the said Thomas being possessed of
manors, lands, tenements and good riches and the said Margaret
considering herself to be a woman of no lands nor substance, and confessing
her lowliness and bounden duty to the said Thomas, " she being in her
pure 8ympleneB (fi maydenhed at lybertye francke and free from the
boundes of espousage or mariage," agreed that if the said Thomas should
die before her she would not claim any jointure other than what he should
please to leave her. For which promise Thomas bound himself to make
over to her by will or deed a life interest in sufficient land as should amount
to the clear yearly value of £10 and money, jewels, plate and other goods
to the value of £300.*
Thus the grateful Margaret, " rendring her most hartie and humble
thanckes to almyghty god hauyng prouyded of his godlye wyadom
and bounty so honest aduauncement for hur humble condicion,"
from a maid in Sir Thomas' house in Cornhill became its mistress,
but she did not live long to enjoy her change of fortune, for it is
undoubtedly her burial that is recorded in the register of St. Michael's
on April 26, 15S2.2 Of the two children by this marriage Sara,
christened December 20,1549,3 married Edward White the stationer,
December 16, 1576,4 and died in 1615,6 and Susan, christened
October 11, 1551,3 married Thomas Leicester of Worleston and
Poole.o
• Register of St. Michael't, Cornhill (Harleian Society), London, 188a. The
Churchwardens' Accounts record that in 155a 6». &d. was paid by " Mr. Lodge for
brekyng the grounde for hys wyfes grave (v. The Accounts of the Churchwardens
of Saint Michael, Cornhill (ed. W. HTOverall), London, [1871], p. 103, and Sisson,
P- 13)-
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Sir Thomas seems to have taken thought for the future of her two daughter*
while they were still at a very tender age, for in a series of indentures and bonds of
1534-1558 between Thomas Lodge and Richard Hussey of " Abryght Hussey,
co. Salop, Esq." Hussey sold to Lodge
the custody and marriage of Edward Hussey, son and heir apparent of Richard
Hussey aforesaid, committing to him the governance and tuition of Edward
until his age of twenty-one . . . agreeing that Edward shall take to wife Sara
Lodge . . . the said Edward and Sara consenting and if Sara die then Edward
to marry Susan Lodge . . . and if Edward die then Richard's next son if any
such be to marry as above.
Hussey and Lodge entered into bonds of 1,000 marks to keep this indenture,
but in June 1558 all agreements concerning the marriage were cancelled (P.R.O.,
Close Rolls, 05^/508, C54/509 and C54/523).
• That Sir Thomas' third wife was the widow of William Lane was pointed
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