Anne (Speke) Trenchard (1558 - 1589)

Born 27 Jan 1558 in Whitelackington, Somerset, England

Ancestors

Wife of George Trenchard M.P. — married 30 Aug 1573 in Charminster, Dorset, England

Descendants

Died 1589 at about age 30 in Charminster, Dorset, England

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Biography

Marriage

She married George Trenchard on 30th August 1573 at Charminster Parish Church^[1]

Anne died in January 1588/9 and was buried at Charminster on the 27th January ^[2]

Research Notes

George TRENCHARD Bap 1575 Charminster Bur 1630 Charminster m Elizabeth/Anne SPEKE (not the Ann Speke who married Lord North, the Prime Minister who lost the USA colonies, different generation, same family)b 27 Jan 1558 Whitelackington SOM; ours is the daughter of Sir George Speke of Whitelackington and Elizabeth Luttrell.

George Speke (died 1584) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Speke arms: Argent, two bars azure over all an eagle with two heads displayed gules. The Speke canting crest is: A porcupine proper (French: porc-é(s)pic, ("spiky-pig")) Sir George Speke (c.1530-1584) of Whitelackington in Somerset was Sheriff of Somerset in 1562–63 and was Member of Parliament for Somerset 1572-83.

He was the eldest son and heir of Sir Thomas Speke (1507-1551) of Whitelackington, MP for Somerset in 1545, twice Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset in 1540 and 1550, and a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to King Edward VI. His mother (his father's 1st wife) was Alice Berkeley, daughter of Richard Berkeley and sister of Sir Maurice Berkeley.

He succeeded his father in 1551 and was knighted in 1559. He was a Justice of the Peace for Somerset from 1559 and was appointed High Sheriff of Somerset for 1562–63. He was elected a Member of Parliament for Somerset in 1572.

He married twice: Firstly to Elizabeth Luttrell, widow of Richard Mallet of Currypool, the daughter of Sir Andrew Luttrell (1484–1538), feudal baron of Dunster, of Dunster Castle in Somerset, Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset in 1528 by his wife Margaret Wyndham (d.1580), a daughter of Sir Thomas Wyndham (d.1521) of Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk,[3] by his first wife Eleanor Scrope, daughter and heiress of Richard Scrope of Upsall Castle, Yorkshire. By Elizabeth he had a son and two daughters: Sir George Speke, of Whitelackington, eldest son and heir, who married Phillippa Rosewell, daughter of William Rosewell of Ford, Devon. Barbara Speke, wife of William Thornhill of Thornhill. Anne Speke, wife of Sir George Trenchard of Wolverton. Secondly he married Dorothy Gilbert (d.1589), the daughter of Edward Gilbert of London, by whom he also had a son and two daughters: Hugh Speke (born 1567), who married Elizabeth Beche, daughter and heiress of Henry Beche of Hartley Court, Berkshire. Dorothy Speke, wife of Sir Edward Gorges of Charlton. Elizabeth Speke, wife firstly of John Chudleigh (1565-1589) of Ashton, Devon, and mother of Sir George Chudleigh, 1st Baronet (c.1578-1658); secondly to Sir John Clifton; thirdly (as his 2nd wife) to Sir Hugh II Pollard of King's Nympton, Devon, father (by his 1st wife) of Sir Lewis Pollard, 1st Baronet (c.1578–c.1645).

He was succeeded by his eldest son Sir George Speke, of Whitelackington, who married Phillippa Rosewell, daughter of William Rosewell of Ford, Devon.

"SPEAKE (SPEKE), Sir George (c.1530-84), of White Lackington, Som.". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 28 May 2013.

SPEAKE (SPEKE), Sir George (c.1530-84), of White Lackington, Som. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981 Available from Boydell and Brewer

Family and Education b. c.1530, s. and h. of Sir Thomas Speke† by his 1st w. Anne, da. of Sir Richard Berkeley of Stoke. m. (1) Elizabeth, da. of Sir Andrew Luttrell of Dunster, wid. of Richard Mallet of Currypool, 1s. 2da.; (2) Dorothy, da. of Edward Gilbert of London, 1s. 2da. suc. fa. 1551. KB Jan. 1559.

Offices Held J.p. Som. 1559, q. 1577, sheriff 1562-3; commr. oyer and terminer, Cornw., Devon, Dorset, Hants, Som., Wilts. 1564; commr. piracy, Som. 1577, musters by 1588.

Biography The Speakes had been settled in Somerset since the time of Henry II, acquiring their estates by judicious marriages and benefiting from the dissolution of the monasteries. The earliest reference found to Speake himself is his summons before Lord Chief Justice Portman in 1555 for misdemeanours in Neroche forest, but after this youthful escapade he settled down to the usual administrative and judicial functions of a country gentleman in his shire.

Speake was connected with William, 1st Earl of Pembroke, at whose funeral in 1570 he acted as one of the four assistants of the body. In the previous year, Pembroke had been examined by the Privy Council on suspicion of complicity in the scheme to marry Mary Queen of Scots to the Duke of Norfolk, and Speake was one of those he called as a witness for the defence. Speake’s return at a by-election in 1576, occasioned by the death of Sir Hugh Paulet, probably owed nothing to this connexion. Sir Maurice Berkeley I, the other knight of the shire, was Speake’s uncle and the two families were sufficiently influential to secure him a turn as knight of the shire. Several of his friends and relations were already sitting: his wife’s nephew George Luttrell for Minehead; George Trenchard, his son-in-law, for Dorchester; and John Popham, one of the ‘trusty kinsmen and friends’ who acted as overseers of his will. Speake sat on the committees which drafted the subsidy bills on to Feb. 1576 and 25 Jan. 1581. His other committees concerned ports (13 Feb. 1576), cloth (16 Feb. 1576 and 4 and 13 Feb. 1581) and the referring of legal actions back to the county of origin (16 Jan. 1581).

Speake died in 1584. To his ‘well beloved wife Dorothy’ he left furniture at White Lackington ‘as long as she lives there without absenting herself above 40 weeks in one year, and shall live sole and unmarried’. To Dorothy also he left the tithes of Ilminster, ‘the stone jug covered with silver, late the Countess of Pembroke’s’, wood for her household at White Lackington and 20 kine, a bull and a plough of eight oxen. There were small bequests to his daughters and younger sons, and the residue of the estate went to the eldest son. son, who was sole executor.

Sources

1. ↑ Dorset History Centre, Charminster Parish Register PE :CMR RE1/1 viewable also on ancestry.co.uk
2. ↑ Dorset History Centre, Charminster Parish Register PE :CMR RE1/1 viewable also on ancestry.co.uk

   The xxvijth of Januarij was buried Mrs Anne Trenchard the wife of George Trenchard of Wolveton

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