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Grace Glascock was born in May 1579 in High Easter, Essex, England. She was the daughter of Rev. Henry Glascock and his wife Grace (Eumio) Glascock. Some family genealogies spell the name "Glasscock" but this was not the most-widely used spelling in the 1500-1600s.
Grace Glascock was of the landed-gentry social class and her father and brothers were all educated men (Cambridge University). On November 5, 1600, when she was 21 years old, Grace married "Lord John Wright," b: September 13, 1577, at Brook Hall, Kelvedon, Essex, England. John Wright was technically a "Gentleman," not a "Lord," although he descended from an illustrious landed-gentry aristocratic family in Essex that traced its roots back to "John Wryta of Bayeux," Normandy, France, a companion of King William I (aka "William the Conqueror") in 1066.
The John Wright (b: 1577) who married Grace Glascock in 1600 was the 2nd son of Thomas "of Brook Hall" Wright (1548-1617), who was the 2nd son of Robert Wright (1516-1587), himself the 2nd son of Sir John Wright (1485-1551), Lord of Kelvedon Hall, Essex, and his wife Olive (Hubbard) Wright (1488-1560). Thus he was of a junior branch but still a wealthy and educated local aristocrat. [1]
John and Grace (Glascock) Wright lived at Kelvedon Hatch (25 miles from the Kelvedon Hall of his ancestors) and had the following 12 children:[2]
John Wright died on May 30, 1640 in Dagenham, Essex, England at 62 years old. He is buried in St. Peter's Churchyard, South Weald, Brentwood Borough, Essex, England, plot #240.[3] His wife, Grace (Glascock) Wright survived his passing for another 13 years. She died shortly after writing her will on July 25, 1563 in Dagenham, Essex, England. She was 84 years old. Called "The Lady Wright of Dagenhams," she was buried next to her close friend, Mary Barrington, widow of John Barrington, with whom she spent her last years, in St. Peter's churchyard, South Weald, Brentwood Borough, Essex, England, plot #264.[4]
This bio seems to be mixed up with her husband's cousin, John Wright of Kelvedon Hatch. There's no explanation why he was living in Kelvedon Hatch instead of South Weald. That branch were not gentry. Also, this statement is false: "Sir John Wright (1488-1560) was a noted jurist who was knighted and made a Baron by King Henry VII. Not a lawyer, not knighted, not a Baron.
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