Dorothy (Drury) Barnes (abt. 1556 - 1599)

Born about 1556 in Hawstead, Suffolk, England

Ancestors

Wife of Edward Barnes Esq. — married 15 Aug 1577 in Hawstead, Suffolk, England

Descendants

Died 18 Feb 1599 at about age 43 in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England

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Biography

Origins

Dorothy (Drury) Barnes was probably born in 1556 or early 1557: the memorial to her in the Soham Church in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England says that she died at 42 years old on 18 February 1598 (which probably means 1598/9, or 1599 in modern reckoning).^[1] She was the daughter of Robert Drury and Audrey Ethelreda Rich.^[2][3]

Marriage and Children

She married Edward Barnes, Esq. on 26 August 1577 in Hawstead, Suffolk, England.^[2] They had children:

1. Anne Barnes, baptized 19 January 1579/80 in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England. She married by 14 June 1615 Torell Adam, son of Henry Adam and Elizabeth Randes.^[2][4]
2. William Barnes, baptized 12 May 1581 in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England.^[2]
3. Winifred Barnes, baptized 19 January 1582/3 in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England. She married by June 14 1615 an Unknown Hutton.^[2][5]
4. Robert Barnes, baptized 25 March 1585 in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England.^[2]
5. Edward Barnes, baptized 13 April 1586 in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England.^[2][6][7]
6. Edmund Barnes, baptized 1 June 1587 in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England.^[2][8]
7. Dorothy Barnes, baptized 22 January 1589/90 in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England.^[2][9] She married about March 1621/2 John Drury, son of Sir Robert Drury and Elizabeth Drury, her first cousin once removed.^[2]
8. Charles Barnes, baptized 11 June 1591 in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England.^[2][10]
9. Drury Barnes, baptized 10 October 1592 in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England.^[2][11]
10. Alice Barnes, baptized 119 June 1594 in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England.^[2][12] She married by 14 June 1615 an Unknown Meares.^[2]
11. Bestney Barnes, baptized 6 September 1595 in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England.^[2][13]
12. Mary Barnes, baptized January 1597/8 in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England.^[2][14]

Death and Memorial

She died 18 February 1598 (the memorial inscription probably means 1598/9) in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England.^{[1][2][15][16]} She was buried the next day, and the transcription of the parish register by the Cambridgeshire Family History Society gives the year as 1599 in modern reckoning.^[17]

Two monuments to both Edward and Dorothy (Drury) Barnes are present at the Soham Church in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England.

"On the east wall of this chapel is the oldest monument in the church. It bears the following inscription:

The monuments of Edward Bernes Esquier and Dorothie his wife, one of the daughters of Robert Drurye of Hawsted in the Countie of Suffolke, Esquier, who dyd bears unto hir said husbande, nyne sonnes and six daughters, and dyed in the 42nd yeare of her age, upon the 18 day of february, 1598. Ano regui Regine Elizabethe 41."^[1] The full coats of arms on the monument include "Barnes and Drury crests and Barnes, Bestney, Drury, Freysell, and Saxham"^[2]

The screens on the east wall include five shields, described as such:

"The shields undoubtedly belong to the Barnes family, a tablet on the east wall of the chapel ... recording the death of Dorothy, wife of Edward Barnes (or Bernes), Esq., daughter of Robert Drury, of Hawstead, co. Suff., Esq., who died 18 Feb., 1598 ... The bearings on the sinister of the first shield, quartered with Barnes on the third, are those of Bestney. The fourth shield, Drury impaling Rich, was borne by the father of Dorothy Barnes, who married Audrey, daughter of Richard, Lord Rich, Lord Chamberlain of England in the reign of Henry VIII."^[18] The full coats of arms on the screen include "Barnes impaling Bestney, Barnes impaling Themelthorpe, Barnes and Bestney quarterly, Drury impaling Rich, and Barnes impaling Drury.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Bernard Saunders, W. H., ed. Fenland Notes and Queries: A Quarterly Antiquarian Journal for the Fenland, in the Counties of Huntingdon, Cambridge, Lincoln, Northampton, Norfolk, and Suffolk. (G. C. Caster, 1891), vol. 1, p. 231
2. ↑ ^{2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18} Craig Stanley Ashley. "The Ancestry of Charles Barnes of East Hampton, Long Island, New York" in The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, Vol. 158, Oct 2004, pp. 319-329. Online at AmericanAncestors.org($)
3. ↑ Roberts, Gary Boyd. The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies of the United States, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2008), p. 203.
4. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5WK-8JW : 21 March 2020), An Barnes, 1580
5. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5WK-H2J : 21 March 2020), Winefryd Barnes, 1583
6. ↑ Cambridgeshire Baptisms, transcribed by Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Family History Society, FindMyPast ($)
7. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JMR9-KML : 21 March 2020), Edw. Barnes, 1586: wrongly gives the baptism date as 15 April 1586
8. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5WK-7K3 : 21 March 2020), Edmund Barns, 1587
9. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JWF7-4PX : 21 March 2020), Dorothy Barns, 1590
10. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JWF7-WHT : 21 March 2020), Charles Barns, 1591
11. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JWF7-4VR : 21 March 2020), Drurye Barns, 1592
12. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J3XM-XN1 : 21 March 2020), Alice Barns, 1594
13. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5WV-P2L : 21 March 2020), Bestny Barnes, 1595
14. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5WV-CQZ : 21 March 2020), Mary Barns, 1598
15. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #168598144
16. ↑ Palmer, W. M. Monumental inscriptions and coats of arms from Cambridgeshire : chiefly as recorded by John Layer about 1632 and William Cole between 1742 and 1782. (Cambridge: Bowes and Bowes, 1932), pp. 152-153.
17. ↑ Cambridgeshire Burials, transcription by Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Family History Society, FindMyPast ($)
18. ↑ Bernard Saunders, W. H., ed. Fenland Notes and Queries: A Quarterly Antiquarian Journal for the Fenland, in the Counties of Huntingdon, Cambridge, Lincoln, Northampton, Norfolk, and Suffolk. (G. C. Caster, 1906), vol. 6, pp. 261-263

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was developed for the Magna Carta project by Darrell Larocque in October 2021 and reviewed for the Project by Michael Cayley on 12 October 2021.

Dorothy appears in a badged trail from Gateway Ancestor Charles Barnes to Magna Carta Surety Baron John FitzRobert that was badged by the Magna Carta Project in December 2021. Dorothy also appears in a trail from Charles Barnes to Magna Carta Surety Barons Gilbert de Clare and Richard de Clare that was badged by the Project in July 2022. These trails can be viewed in the Magna Carta Trails section of the Gateway's profile.

See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".