Bridget Dryden was the daughter of John Dryden, Gent., of Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire, and Elizabeth Cope.[1][2][3] Her date of birth is unknown and is estimated at about 1563.[3]
Bridget was a legatee in the 1584 will of her father.[1][2]
Marriages and Children
Bridget married first about 1587 Rev. Francis Marbury (or Merbury), Gent., third son of William Marbury, Gent., and Agnes Lenton.[1][2][3] Bridget was Francis' second wife, and he brought two daughters to the marriage, Susan and Mary.[1][2]
Bridget and Francis Marbury had seven sons and eight daughters:
Anne Marbury, baptized at Alford, Lincolnshire 20 July 1591, died 1643; married in 1612 to William Hutchinson[5] and had issue; immigrated to New England aboard the Griffin and settled first in Massachusetts and then in Rhode Island[1][2]
Katherine Marbury, married in 1632 to Richard Scott and had issue; immigrated to New England and settled first in Massachusetts and then in Rhode Island; Katherine died 2 May 1687 in Rhode Island[1][2]
Rev. Francis Marbury died 12 February 1610/11, leaving a will dated 25 January 1610/11, proved 14 February 1610/11.[1][2]
Bridget married, secondly, about December 1620 (date if indenture before marriage), as his second wife, Rev. Thomas Newman.[1][2]
Death
Bridget's will was dated 12 February 1644/5 and administration was granted 2 April 1645.[1][2] Her husband was living at Berkhamstead, Hertford 5 December 1647,[1][2] which may be the place Bridget died, however, there is no source for her place of death.
Research Note
Removed unsourced son Thomas Marbury as a child of Bridget and Francis on 4 Aug 2020.
↑ 3.03.13.2 Weis, Frederick Lewis. The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1999. Descent from Gilbert de Clare. Line 34-16. Pg 45. $Free Ancestry Image
↑England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, database, FamilySearch: 23 March 2020), Johes Merberie, 1589.
↑ Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. Volume 3. G-H. (Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1996-2011). Online at Ancestry.com, page 479: Hutchinson
↑England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, database, FamilySearch: 21 March 2020), Bridgeta Merberi, 1593.
↑England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch: 23 March 2020), Franciscus M, 1594.
↑England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, database, FamilySearch: 23 March 2020), Em M, 1595.
↑England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, database, FamilySearch: 21 March 2020), Erasmus Merberi, 1597.
↑England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, database, FamilySearch: 23 March 2020), Anthonius M, 1598.
↑England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, database, FamilySearch: 21 March 2020), Bridgetta Merbury, 1599.
↑England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, database, FamilySearch: 21 March 2020), Jeremuth Merburie, 1600.
↑England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, database, FamilySearch: 21 March 2020), Daniel Merburie, 1602.
↑England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, database, FamilySearch: 21 March 2020), Elizabetha Merburie, 1605.
Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011. See also WikiTree's source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.
Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013. See also WikiTree's source page for Royal Ancestry.
Acknowledgements
Magna Carta Project
This profile was developed in July 2020 by A Pendleton and was reviewed and approved for the Magna Carta Project on 4 August 2020 by Thiessen-117.
Bridget (Dryden) Newman also appears in project-approved/badged trails (reviewed in 2014 by a Magna Carta project member) from the Marbury sisters through surety barons Saher de Quincy, Robert de Vere, Richard de Clare, Gilbert de Clare, and John de Lacy. These trails, set out below, were re-reviewed and updated in Aug/Sept 2020.
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".
Magna Carta Trails
Badged (2014) trail to Vere (documented by Richardson from Anne Chamberlain to Vere in MCA MCA I:409-411 CHAMBERLAIN):
Bridget is being added to the Magna Carta project. Updates coming shortly. Please feel free to shoot me or any of the Magna Carta project leaders a note with questions. Thanks for creating and looking after her profile!
Highly unlikely she would have a middle name.