So today I'm considering my 10 times great grandparents...
LAWRENCE BRINLEY
1530–1574
BIRTH 1530 • Willenhall, Staffordshire, England
DEATH 1574 • Staffordshire, England
ANN FLETCHER Brinley
1529–1592
BIRTH 1529 • Stafordshire, England
DEATH 23 APR 1592 • Staffordshire, England
These English ancestors lived while Henry VIII was king of England (on the throne from 1509-1547) and Edward VI, Lady Jane Grey, and Mary I (Tudor), then while Elizabeth I was queen from 1558-1603.
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| Henry VIII of England |
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| Elizabeth I of England |
We only have a glimpse of my Brinley ancestors, by documents of churches and courts...Lawrence Brinley had a probate record indexed in Shropshire: Lichfield in 1574.
Ann Fletcher Brinley has had some Ancestry people (called Millennial records) thinking she was daughter of a man named Hawthorne, and thus was given further ancestry. But Fletcher is the maiden name that I've found in a Staffordshire Parish record of her death. Even that might not be correct.
What are other 10th great grandparents that I know of?
Lawrence and Ann Fletcher Brinley's son, Richard Brinley married twice, and his second wife was Joanne Reeves Brinley (mother of Thomas Reeves Brinley). Her father was another 10th grandfather.
His name was Richard Reeve, and I mentioned him in an earlier post, (HERE). Since I wrote that last post we now have a Church of England marriage record to H??? in Devizes, St John the Baptist, Wiltshire, England. It's beautiful writing but mostly illegible. The marriage took place on 2 Dec. 1564. Their daughter Joanne Reeves Brinley was born probably in 1563.
Joanne Reeves Brinley and Richard Brinley's son, Thomas Reeves Brinley's wife was Anna Wase Brinley, (we can follow her father's line to her father, William Wase (1580-1642), another 10th great grandfather. His burial is documented as being in the same churchyard as his son-on-law, Thomas Brinley, though he died a decade before. His tomb inscription (according to the L'Hommendieu Index) states "Here leith the body of the aforesaid William Ware* who died the 19 of September, 1642, aged 62 years and 5 months." (The * refers to Ware having been mistranscribed from Wase.)
This 10th great, William Wase (1580-1642) was son of William Wase (1554-1597) a 11th great grandfather! I have no documentation of his birth, but several with the general year but differing dates and places of his death.
Since his father (my 12th great grandfather) was also William Wase of Wollavington, (1520-unknown) there may have been some confusion as to some of these unrecorded birth and death dates.
There are still some records coming up for a William Henry Wase, and I don't know where he fits into the family yet.
I am considering how long most people lived in those days, and there may well have been another generation which isn't accounted for. The "12th great" sounds as if he didn't marry and have children till quite late in his life.
But until more primary documentation comes along, I'll leave my tree as it stands.
Now to look at the wives of the Wase family. Next time...
His name was Richard Reeve, and I mentioned him in an earlier post, (HERE). Since I wrote that last post we now have a Church of England marriage record to H??? in Devizes, St John the Baptist, Wiltshire, England. It's beautiful writing but mostly illegible. The marriage took place on 2 Dec. 1564. Their daughter Joanne Reeves Brinley was born probably in 1563.
Joanne Reeves Brinley and Richard Brinley's son, Thomas Reeves Brinley's wife was Anna Wase Brinley, (we can follow her father's line to her father, William Wase (1580-1642), another 10th great grandfather. His burial is documented as being in the same churchyard as his son-on-law, Thomas Brinley, though he died a decade before. His tomb inscription (according to the L'Hommendieu Index) states "Here leith the body of the aforesaid William Ware* who died the 19 of September, 1642, aged 62 years and 5 months." (The * refers to Ware having been mistranscribed from Wase.)
This 10th great, William Wase (1580-1642) was son of William Wase (1554-1597) a 11th great grandfather! I have no documentation of his birth, but several with the general year but differing dates and places of his death.
Since his father (my 12th great grandfather) was also William Wase of Wollavington, (1520-unknown) there may have been some confusion as to some of these unrecorded birth and death dates.
There are still some records coming up for a William Henry Wase, and I don't know where he fits into the family yet.
I am considering how long most people lived in those days, and there may well have been another generation which isn't accounted for. The "12th great" sounds as if he didn't marry and have children till quite late in his life.
But until more primary documentation comes along, I'll leave my tree as it stands.
Now to look at the wives of the Wase family. Next time...
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