Ann (Grey) Hussey (abt. 1490 - 1545)

Born about 1490 in Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 11 Feb 1545 at about age 55 in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England

Biography

Anne Grey was the the daughter of George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent and his second wife Catherine Herbert.

Anne and her step-brother Richard Grey (3rd Earl of Kent) married siblings. Anne married, as his second wife, John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford. Her step-brother Richard married Lord Hussey's sister Elizabeth Hussey.^[1]

Children

In her will dated March 1, 1544 she names herself "Anne, Lady Hussey, in the town of Ufford in the county of Northampton" and only mentions two unnamed daughters.^[1]

Nina Green identifies these daughters as:

Elizabeth Hussey who married (1), as his third wife, Walter Hungerford, Baron Hungerford of Heytesbury; married (2) Sir Robert Throckmorton of Coughton, Warwickshire^[1]; died January 23, 1571/2 and buried at Weston Underwood, co. Bucks^[2]. Lincolnshire Pedigrees gives the husbands name as "William, Lord Hugerford",

Bridget Hussey; born 1525/6, died 12 January 1601; married (1) Sir Richard Morison of Cassiobury, Hertfordshire; married (2) Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland; and married (3) in 1566 Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford.^[1][2]

Lincolnshire Pedigrees gives these additional children:

Sir Giles Hussey of Caythorpe, knighted by the Earl of Surrey at the Sacking Morlaix in France 1522; married Jane daughter and co-heir of Thomas Pigot of Clotheram, co. York^[2]

Gilbert Hussey; married ____ Jerningham ^[2]

Thomas Hussey, died without issue^[2]

Reginald Hussey, died without issue^[2]

Dorothy Hussey; married Edward Docwray^[2]

Mary Hussey; married Humphry Dymock of Warwick^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Green, Nina. The National Archive PROB 11/31, f.25
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7} Lincolnshire Pedigrees, vol 51 page 527

See also:

• Green, Nina. The National Archives PROB 11/31, f. 25
  Last will and testament, dated 1 March 1545, of Lady Anne Hussey, aunt of 'Mistress Crane' at whose manor of East Molesey the first of the Marprelate tracts was printed by Robert Waldegrave on a secret press in October 1588; Marprelate Tracts, Oxford Authorship Site

• Larken, Arthur Staunton. Lincolnshire Pedigrees volume 51. Publications of the Harleian Society, Lincolnshire England (1903). Google Books

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Andrea Powell for contributions to this profile