William Playters (1547 - 1584)

Born 23 Sep 1547 in Sotterley, Suffolk, England

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Timperly) Playters — married about 1565 in Suffolk, England

Husband of Thomasine (Tyrell) Playters — married after 1568 in England

Husband of Mary (Drake) Playters — married about 1580 in England

Descendants

Died 6 Jun 1584 at age 36 in Sotterley, Suffolk, England

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Biography

He is mentioned in the IPM of his father.

There is a brass plaque for him in the church at Sotterley, Suffolk, which lists his four wives. Photo of it along with information on the wives on the flickr website. The wives as inscribed on his plaque were: ^[1]

• 1 - Thomasine, daughter of George Duke of Frennes (Frenze) esquire and Ann, daughter of Thomas Blennerhasset, by whom he had issue one son which died without issue.

• 2 - Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Tymperley of Hentysham (Hintlesham) esquire (by Audrey Hare), by whom he had issue two daughters and one son.

• 3 - Thomasen, one of the daughters and heirs of Edmund Turell (Tyrell) of Beches in the county of Essex esquire & Susan Cooke; by whom he had issue one daughter (Susan).

• 4 - Mary daughter of William Drake of Yardley in the county of Norff esquire by whom he had issue one daughter & two sons.

William's will of 1584 mentions his late wife, Thomasine, whose late husband was William Tyrrell. (Thomasine & William were both Tyrrell - and were distant cousins); His last " well-beloved" wife was Mary. He mentioned daughters; Elizabeth, Jane and Susan (all under 21 years old), and son, William, (preferred name "Drake"). Mary (Drake) was the mother of "Drake", Alice and a child (male) not yet born at the time of the will. ^[2]

William Playters of Sotterley also mentioned, by name, his brothers, John, Henry and Thomas; his widowed mother, Elizabeth - and his sons, Thomas Playters and William/"Drake" - future husband of Katherine Tollemache (Playters-10).

The will also mentioned "son-in-law" Thomas Tyrrell, son of his third wife, Thomasine, who is suggested by William as a husband for either of his eldest daughter, Elizabeth Playters, or her sister, Jane Playters.

Information from Ipswich Record Office informs us that Thomasine, wife of William Playters of Sotterley, died 8 May 1578 and that she was one of the daughters and co-heirs of Edmund Tyrell of Beeches, Essex.

Inquisition Post Mortem

By an inquisition post mortem, taken on the 20th of October, in the twenty-sixth of Queen Elizabeth, William Playters, Esq., was found to die seized, inter alia, of the manors and advowsons of Sotterley, Uggeshall, and Ellough, and the reversion of the lordship of Brusyard. He died on the 6th of June in the previous year, and Thomas was found to be his son and heir, aged 18 years. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/10207759706/
2. ↑ http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PROB_11-67-251.pdf
3. ↑ https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/suffolk-history-antiquities/vol1/pp81-96

• 1584 will of William Playters of Sotterley, Suffolk
• http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PROB_11-67-251.pdf
• Bernard Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History[1]
• http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=54402614&pid=483
• Complete Baronetage Page 220: Playters
• British History online: The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk: Volume 1. Sotterley
• Visitation of Suffolk Page 56: Playter of Sotterly
• Visitation of Suffolk Page 26: Duke of Brampton