Wase and Cole family wives, other pinnacles of my ancestry!

Now I'm following the Brinley ancestors of Anne Wase Brinley (@1600-1687) wife of Thomas Reeves Brinley (1591-1661) her father was William Wase ((1580-1642) whose line we followed yesterday.

Her mother was Anne Cole Wase (1582-1607). She was a 9th great grandmother. The date of her baptism was 14 April 1579 in Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England...or 1582 in another area  of England.  Some of these documents give a name of Ann Wade, as if all the transcriptions were wrong. The dates and places are on wonderful old illegible documents. I think Anne Cole's father was Thomas Cole (1530-1611), and her mother may have been Anne Hanbey Cole (1540-1586).

These 10th great grandparents, the Coles, have very few documents, and dates that prompt me to have raised eyebrows.  Did they marry when she was 13, and not have their daughter until she was 39?

The other 10th great grandmother would have been William Wase's mother, Christiana Budd Wase.  We know little about her except she was probably born in 1556 in Sussex, England.  Her father was mentioned as being Richarduss Budd, in old documents talking about the auditors of the English Kings.  (Note that makes him an 11th great grandfather.) He had been one of about 7 auditors before having an apprentice named William Wase, who had an apprentice named Thomas Reeves Brinley. (See my posts about him earlier this week.)

Next post will be about the ancestors of the American colonial immigrants, Griselle Wase Brinley Sylvester's husband, Captain Nathaniel Gascoigne Sylvester. I wonder how far back I'll find pinnacle ancestors along the Sylvesters.

The pinnacles of my ancestry

I think of these as the highest mountains, the ancestors who lived furthest back in records, at least as far back as I know.
So today I'm considering my 10 times great grandparents...

LAWRENCE BRINLEY

1530–1574

BIRTH 1530 • Willenhall, Staffordshire, England

DEATH 1574 • Staffordshire, England

and his wife:

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.

Henry VIII of England

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...