Thomas Audley (abt. 1560 - bef. 1612)

Born about 1560 in Berechurch, Essex, England

Ancestors

Husband of Katherine (Knatchbull) Butler — married about 1600 (to before 16 Jan 1612) in England

Descendants

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Biography

Thomas was the son of Thomas Audley and Katherine Southwell

Thomas Audley of Attlebridge, Essex, married Katherine Knatchbull ^[1]

1599 Executor in the will of cousin John Audley

Abbreviated Will of Thomas Awdley

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Dated: 4 Jul 1611 Proved : 16 Jan 1612/13^[2]

I Thomas Awdley of Morton, Norfolk

Beneficiaries : Wife Katherine (The trust below and tenements called Fish and George in Attlebridge).

Wife to bring up my daughters Katherine and Anne

Other mentions : Indenture 9 Sept 1606 between John Darcey of Typtree, Anthony Ashe of Berechurch, Thomas Southwell of Morton and Robert Darcey. Of John Darcey on the one part and Sir John Drewrye, Katherine Awdley of Berechurch and her son Robert Awdley and Richard Wentworth of the other part, the manors of Deighton and Brodishe and a tenement in Attlebridge were assigned to SirJohn Drewrye, Katherine and Robert Awdley and Richard Wentworth in trust during the like of the testator and after to the uses of my will

Executors : Wife Katherine

Witnesses:None

Research Notes

and by her was the father of Anne Audley, who married Toby Butler of Callan Castle, co. Kilkenny. Toby Butler and his wife Anne Audley were the parents of Mary Jane Joseph Butler, a nun at Pontoise who died in 1723.

Sources

1. ↑ The history of Audley End. To which are appended notices of the town and parish of Saffron Walden in the county of Essex by Braybrooke, Richard Griffin, Baron, 1783-1858 Publication date 1836 Page 24 Audley Pedigree
2. ↑ National Archives PROB 11/121/28 D9044457 Will of Thomas Awdley of Morton, Norfolk