On Tuesday, May 3, 2016 at 8:58:07 AM UTC-4, al...@mindspring.com wrote: > One hypothesis to investigate would be that son Thomas is the Thomas Reade of Wisbech who m. Anne Yelverton and had a daughter Katherine married to Thomas Hatcher (Metcalfe, Visitation of Lincolnshire, 1562/4, p 61.) > > Just an idea.. > > Doug Smith Isn't this couple ancestral to Col. George Reade, the emigrant to Virginia and ancestor of George Washington? If I recall correctly, then at least Col. George's ancestors came from Norfolk. -Matt A

On Tuesday, May 3, 2016 at 9:52:32 AM UTC-4, Matt A wrote: > On Tuesday, May 3, 2016 at 8:58:07 AM UTC-4, al...@mindspring.com wrote: > > One hypothesis to investigate would be that son Thomas is the Thomas Reade of Wisbech who m. Anne Yelverton and had a daughter Katherine married to Thomas Hatcher (Metcalfe, Visitation of Lincolnshire, 1562/4, p 61.) > > > > Just an idea.. > > > > Doug Smith > > Isn't this couple ancestral to Col. George Reade, the emigrant to Virginia and ancestor of George Washington? If I recall correctly, then at least Col. George's ancestors came from Norfolk. > > -Matt A As far as i know that George Reade is from a Hampshire family, ref: AAP, p 274. Leo van de Pas at http://www.genealogics.org. TAG 51 (1975): 167-171. Meyer & Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person (1987): 417-431. FMG Vol. V, pps 65-76. 'Parishes: Linkenholt', A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 4 (1911), pp. 324-325. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=56820 Date accessed: 14 June 2013. Doug Smith