Anne Brent (1611 - aft. 1687)

Born 10 Feb 1611 in Admington, Warwickshire, England

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Biography

1612 Birth and Parents

Anne Brent was one of seven daughters of Richard Brent and his wife Elizabeth Reade.^[1][2]

Her birth date and date of baptism can be found in the parish registers of Quinton, Gloucestershire. The entry reads Ann Brent, the daughter of Richard Brent of Admington, Esq was born 10 Feb and baptised 16 Feb next after following.^[3] It gives the year as 1611.

1653 Spinster in England

James Hughes ^[4] notes that "In the Royalist papers (State Papers, Domestic, G 72, pages 231, 276 and 285) appears the following:"

January 25, 1654-5. Order for search to be made in the old books as to the sequestration of the manor of Larkstoke, Co. Gloucester, for the Recusancy of Richard Brent the elder, deceased, or of Foulke Brent, Richard Brent the younger, Edward Brent, George Brent, Anne Brent and Jane Brent, children of said Richard Brent the elder...When the children were summoned to take the [loyalty] oath there appeared only Mrs Anne Brent and she refused to take it. The estate was therefore continued under sequestration, all of them being known papists. Dated at Gloucestor May 10, 1653.

Anne Brent's father Richard Brent ("the elder, deceased") having died and been buried 1 May 1652, it might be supposed that, the property already being under sequestration due to Richard's recusancy, and Richard being deceased, it was appropriate to see if the next generation justified continuing the sequestration. Anne having appeared in person and refused to take the oath, the sequestration was continued.

Death

Mike Marshall states that Anne Brent died in 1646 in St. Mary's County, Maryland. ^[5]. This is in error because Anne Brent was alive and well on May 10, 1653 when she appeared in Gloucester, England, response to a summons regarding her Catholic faith.

She was named in the will of her brother William Brent in 1687.^[6]

Research Notes

Did Anne Brent immigrate to Maryland?

A number of Anne's siblings immigrated to Maryland, notably her sister Margaret ^[7] as well as Giles and Mary.

However, there is no documentation that Anne Brent ever left England. She was in England in 1653.^[8]

Did Anne Brent marry Leonard Calvert?

Mike Marshall erroneously shows Anne married to Governor Leonard Calvert, born 21 November 1610 in London, England and the mother of his children. ^[5]

Anne is frequently shown as the wife of Leonard Calvert. However, not only is there no record of such a marriage, but Anne appeared as an unmarried spinster under her own name at the sequestration hearing in 1653. This year is a full decade after the birth of Leonard Calvert's children. ^[8]

Daniel French concurs in this observation. ^[9] He points out that Calvert's sons were born ten years prior to the supposed marriage.^[9]

None of the Brents showed any interest in the children of Leonard Calvert, by will or otherwise, as it seems natural they would have done, had the children been nephew and niece." ^[10]

Hastings notes that "The identity of Leonard Calvert's wife (now that it is known that Margaret Brent's sister Anne was a non-juring spinster in 1651, ten years after the birth of Leonard Calvert's children) is undiscovered, although she was quite possibly a member of the prolific Brent family." ^[10]

Sources

1. ↑ Douglas Richardson. 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, vol. I, pages 305-306 BRENT 17
2. ↑ Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), volume I, pages 519-520 BRENT 17
3. ↑ Ancestry.com. Warwickshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Warwickshire County Record Office; Warwick, England; Warwickshire Anglican Registers; Roll: Engl/2/1194; Document Reference: DR 328 Ancestry Record 2416 #3191545
4. ↑ James Hughes,The Brents cited by Mike Marshall.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1}
6. ↑ "England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858"
   The National Archives; Kew, Surrey, England; Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Series PROB 11; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 485
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry uk Record 5111 #824013 (accessed 20 February 2024)
   Will of Willimi Brent, granted probate on 22 Dec 1705. Died about 1705 in St Gray's Inn, Middlesex, England.
7. ↑ Wikipedia Contributors, Margaret Brent 25 September 2014, accessed October 13, 2014
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1}
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} Wikipedia Contributors, Margaret Brent (footnote) Citing Brent Family: the Carroll Families of Colonial Maryland. by Daniel M. French (Alexandria, Va 1981), accessed October 13, 2014
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1} Gleanings from English Wills by Mrs. Russel Hastings in Maryland Magazine, Vol. 22, p. 307, cited by Hamm.

See also:

• Joe Castlen, Grandpappy: Chronicles of a Daviess County Family, Utica, KY:McDowell Publications 2008, page 138.
• O'Gorman, Ella F., Descendants of Virginia Calverts 1947
• Maryland Historical Magazine Baltimore, Maryland: Kim Myers - Digital Library
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File, Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998
• W. B. Chilton. “The Brent Family (Continued).” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 14, no. 4, 1907, pp. 426–31. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4242837. Accessed 20 Feb. 2024.