On Monday, May 2, 2016 at 11:35:00 AM UTC-4, lste...@charter.net wrote: > In her will, Katherine refers to her "Neece" Ann Fenner, "Daughter of Thomas Reade gentleman late of Wisbiche deceassed". Since she is very careful about distinguishing her relatives from those of her husband, it seems clear that Thomas was her brother and that her maiden name was Reade, but I have been unable to identify her parents. > > Her will indicates that she had considerable wealth, and thus one would suspect that she came from a prominent family. > > Does anyone have information about the Reade ancestors of this lady? Have you consulted this will? Richard Reede of Wisbech 1540: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D949658

On Tuesday, May 3, 2016 at 7:06:59 AM UTC-4, joe...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, May 2, 2016 at 11:35:00 AM UTC-4, lste...@charter.net wrote: > > > In her will, Katherine refers to her "Neece" Ann Fenner, "Daughter of Thomas Reade gentleman late of Wisbiche deceassed". Since she is very careful about distinguishing her relatives from those of her husband, it seems clear that Thomas was her brother and that her maiden name was Reade, but I have been unable to identify her parents. > > > > Her will indicates that she had considerable wealth, and thus one would suspect that she came from a prominent family. > > > > Does anyone have information about the Reade ancestors of this lady? > > Have you consulted this will? > Richard Reede of Wisbech 1540: > http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D949658 It looks like from a very quick reading that his primary beneficiaries were his "sonne Thomas", son John, and daughter (Kathryn?) --Joe Cook

Thanks, Joe. This looks very likely to be the lead I needed Going through the wills in the archives yesterday, I managed to try every possible spelling except "Reede", so I missed Richard. I haven't studied the document yet, but did note the references to daughter Katryn and Thomas Payn.