Richard Cherry (abt. 1538 - aft. 1588)

Born about 1538 in North Kilworth, Leicestershire, England

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Died after 1588 after about age 50 in Cassington, Oxfordshire, England

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Biography

He is mentioned in will of brother Thomas of London in 1588 (PCC). The pedigree by Charles Kerry suggests he died in 1578 s.p. which seems unlikely. Yet, the 1613 will of Richard of Cassington is probably that of his son, as several of the children are under 21 years and none are married. Richard would have married very late to achieve that. In 1574 Vincent Coventry sold 3½ yardlands at Cassington to Richard Cherry, whose descendants were prominent in Cassington throughout the 17th century.

Sources

• Pedigree of the Cherrys of Bray by H C Cherry in "The history and antiquities of the hundred of Bray, in the county of Berks." by Charles Kerry 1861
• Harris Cherry book (1935) by Fielder Bruce Harris/North Kilworth, Leicestershire, England
• A P Baggs, W J Blair, Eleanor Chance, Christina Colvin, Janet Cooper, C J Day, Nesta Selwyn and S C Townley, 'Cassington: Economic history', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 12, Wootton Hundred (South) Including Woodstock, ed. Alan Crossley and C R Elrington (London, 1990), pp. 44-48 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol12/pp44-48 [accessed 19 February 2016].