Etheldreda (Coker) Spencer (abt. 1510 - bef. 1560)

Born about 1510 in Mappowder, Dorset, England

Died before 1560 before about age 50 in Blunham, Bedfordshire, England

Biography

Etheldreda was the daughter of Robert or Thomas Coker of Mappowder, Dorset, born c 1510.^[1]

She married Richard Watkyns Vaughan before 1531 and had three sons and two daughters with him.^[2] Her eldest son was Polydore, aged 18 at his father's death in Apr 1550. ^[3]

Richard Watkins Vaughan was living in 1546 when he received a grant and quit claim of property and rents at Temple Cloud formerly belonging to Buckland Priory, ^[4] but died in Apr 1550.^[5]

Etheldreda, widow of Richard Watkyns Vaughan, married John Spencer at some between Apr 1550 when her first husband died, and 1551^[6] when he and Ethelrede were plaintiffs in a Chancery Court case (C 1/1270/83), date 1544-1551:

Plaintiffs: John SPENCER and Etheldrede his wife, executrix and late the wife of Richard Watkyns Vaughan of London, prothonotary.

Etheldreda could not have been the mother of John's children (who were born ca 1530) who had their own children in 1560.

The will of John Spencer late of Southmylles dated 20 Dec 1560 requested that he be buried in Blunham next to the body of his late wife Etheldrede.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ "The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558", ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982 https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/watkins-richard-1507-50
2. ↑ "The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558"
3. ↑ "The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558"
4. ↑ The National Archives online catalogue. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/8cafd297-7460-4547-8ba3-5272ed56856d
5. ↑ "The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558"
6. ↑ The National Archives online catalogue. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7500552
7. ↑ The National Archives; Kew, England; Prerogative Court of Canterbury and Related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 50

• "The 7 John Spencer's of Blunham, Bedfordshire: A most difficult de-tangling!" GEN-MEDIEVAL-L Archives. Rootsweb.[1]. But see also soc.genealogy.medieval "More than unproven, demonstrably false: Examining the claims of "The 7 John Spencer's of Blunham, Bedfordshire - A most difficult de-tangling!" [2]