Mary (Brooke) Saunders (abt. 1603)

Born about 1603 in London

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Mary Brooke was the eldest surviving child of Robert Brooke, a goldsmith and merchant of Soper Lane in the City of London,^[1] by his second wife Mary Duncombe.^[2]

She was baptised at St Pancras Soper Lane on 13 February 1603,^[3]

1603 Feb. 13 Marie Brooke d. Robert Brooke & his wife Marie. Thomas Brooke godfather, & Cecilia Duncombe, grandmother, with Anne Duncombe, daughter to Alderman Bennet, godmothers.

Her mother died in childbirth in 1610, her father in 1613.^[4]

She married Thomas Saunders of Beechwood in Hertfordshire.^[2][5]

The marriage probably occurred in about 1623, when Thomas and his family made a covenant of lands as part of the marriage settlement.^[6] Mary was represented as a co-party, with Sir Henry Rowe of Shacklewell, Middlesex, kt, (her uncle) and Richard Welby of London, merchant (a close associate of her grandfather, whose son Adlard would later marry her sister Elizabeth).^[6]

She and her husband had several children. Their eldest son, John was born in about 1624; by the time of the Visitation of 1634 they had four sons, and three daughters.^[5]

The will of her brother, William Brooke "of Muswell Hill, Hornsey, Middlesex, gentleman" was proved in London on 10 May 1645.^[7] In the will William left "my loving brother husband Thomas Saunders and my sister Mary Saunders his wife" the sum of two hundred pounds, subject to various debts owing to him being successfully realised; he also gave "their two sons Thomas and William my godchildren" the proceeds of a debt worth £150, to be shared equally between them".^[7]

Mary and her husband questioned the execution of the will in 1648.^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ See Brooke-647. He was a member of both the Goldsmith's Company and the Company of Merchant Adventurers, according to the memorial he set up to his parents at Whitchurch, Hampshire. He is identified as a goldsmith in the 1623 covenant, and as a merchant in the Visitation of 1634, as well as several times in the registers of St Pancras Soper Street, including the 1645 burial entry for her brother William.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Rylands, Harry W.(1913), Pedigrees from the Visitations of Hampshire, 1530, 1575, and 1622-34 (Harleian Society vol 44), s.v. Brooke (pp. 214-215).
3. ↑ W. Bruce Bannerman (1914) (ed.), The registers of St. Mary le Bowe, Cheapside, All Hallows, Honey lane, and of St. Pancras, Soper lane, London, vol 1, p. 145
4. ↑ Bannerman (1914), pp.296
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Metcalfe, Walter C. (1886) (ed.), The Visitations of Hertfordshire, (Harleian Society vol. 22) s.v. Saunders of Beechwood (pp 90-91)
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} "Covenant" (1 Oct 1623), Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies DE/FL/15723 (not examined).
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} "Will of William Brooke, Gentleman of Muswell Hill, Middlesex" (proved 10 May 1645), The National Archives, PROB 11/193/146.
8. ↑ "Questions to the witnesses in a case in Chancery" (21 March 1648), Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies DE/FL/18855, 18856 (not examined).

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This person was created through the import of Consolidated Coningsby.GED on 11 March 2011.

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