{84} Edward III Descents for siblings John Rolle (c.1649-1689) and Florence (née Rolle), Lady Wrey (1657-1724)

Rolle of Stevenstone Coat of Arms
[Or, on a fess dancette between three
billets azure, each charged with
a lion rampant of the field,
as many bezants]

When John Rolle, the heir to one of the largest landed families in the West Country (holding over forty manors in Devon alone), married Lady Christiana Bruce, daughter of the earl of Ailesbury, in 1677, it was the most prestigious match yet made by a Rolle. The family fortune was founded by John's great-great-grandfather George Rolle (by 1486-1552), who was likely of Dorset origin, but made his career in London, where he owned and leased property. A successful attorney, he had a clientele which included several monastic houses in Devon, and one of that county's leading peers, Arthur Plantagenet, Viscount Lisle, great-uncle to King Henry VIII. As Lisle's legal counsel, Rolle was prominent in the viscount's protracted dispute with Henry Daubeney during the 1530s over Lady Lisle's property. And it was in Devon where George Rolle built his own country house, at the manor of Stevenstone, in the parish of St Giles Wood, near Torrington, which he purchased in 1524.

George's great-grandson Sir Henry Rolle, the heir to Stevenstone House, was the first of the family to marry into the Edward I bloodline. His wife was Anne, the elder daughter and co-heir of Sir Thomas Denys of Holcombe Burnell in Devon. Among the several properties she brought with her to the Rolles was Bicton House, which became a favourite residence of the family. Sir Henry Rolle died in 1616, nine years before his father, who died at the age of 80 in 1625. The heir was Sir Henry's only surviving son, Dennis Rolle, then aged eleven-and-a-half. Dennis went on to become the youngest sheriff of Devon before his own untimely death at age 23 in 1638. He had married young, at age 15, and had fathered six children, but only one had been a son, which had died an infant in December 1636. Dennis's five daughters stood to inherit Bicton House and the other properties that had come to the Rolles through their grandmother Anne (née Denys), but the chief seat of Stevenstone House and most of the other Rolle properties were entailed, so they passed to Dennis's only surviving male first cousin. And when he died in 1647, with no son, they then passed to a 21-year-old distant cousin, John Rolle, a farmer at Marhayes, in the parish of Week St Mary, Cornwall, who was mowing hay when news was brought to him that he had inherited Stevenstone House. By that point, Florence, the eldest of Dennis Rolle's four surviving daughters, was aged 16, and John Rolle wisely married her, reuniting Bicton House and the other properties from the Denys inheritance, with Stevenstone House and the Rolle inheritance. John Rolle, the couple's eldest son and heir, was the one who made the prestigious marriage to Lady Christiana Bruce. The male line of George Rolle (by 1486-1552) went extinct in 1842 at the death of John and Lady Christiana Rolle's great-grandson John, who was elevated to the peerage as Baron Rolle of Stevenstone in 1796.

Stevenstone House, Devon

Of Sir John and Florence Rolle's five younger children, the only one to have issue was their younger daughter Florence, who married the 28-year-old Sir Bourchier Wrey, a baronet from Cornwall who had inherited through his mother the Devon estates of the Bourchier earls of Bath, chief of which was Tawstock House in Devon, just 8 miles from Stevenstone House.

JOHN ROLLE, Heir of Stevenstone House, St Giles in the Wood, Devon, b. c.1649 (aged 28 in 1677); bur. 22 Apr. 1689 St Mary Church, Bicton, Devon, son of Sir John Rolle of Stevenstone House (1626-1706) and Florence Rolle (1631-1705, descended from Edward III - see Generation A12 below); m. 9 June 1677 St Andrew Church, Ampthill, Bedfordshire, as her 1st husband, Lady CHRISTIANA BRUCE, b. c.1658 (age "about 19" in 1677)[*1]; d. 5 Apr. 1720, bur. 23 Apr. 1720 St Mary Church, Bicton, Devon, 4th surv. dau. of Robert Bruce, 1st Earl of Ailesbury (1626-1685, descended from Edward III) and Lady Diana Grey (c.1629-1689, descended from Edward III), and had issue, three sons and three daughters.

Issue of John and Lady Christiana (Bruce) Rolle:

Old St Mary Church, Bicton, Devon

1) ROBERT ROLLE of Stevenstone House, M.P. Callington 1701-02, Devon 1702-10; b. Houghton Park, Ampthill, bap. 16 Oct. 1678 St Andrew Church, Ampthill; d.s.p. 18 Aug. 1710 Exeter, Devon, bur. St Mary Church, Bicton; m. 19 Mar. 1705 St Michael Church, Otterton, Devon, ELIZABETH DUKE, bap. 23 Dec. 1679 St Martin in the Fields, London; d.s.p., bur. 29 Sept. 1716 St Mary Church, Bicton, dau. of Richard Duke of Otterton (1652-1733, descended from Edward I) and his 1st wife Isabella Yonge (d. 1705, descended from Edward III).

2) JOHN ROLLE of Stevenstone House, M.P. Saltash 1703-05, Devon 1710-13, 1727-30; b. Stevenstone House, bap. 8 Dec. 1679 St Giles Church, St Giles in the Wood; bur. there 23 May 1730; m. 24 June 1706 St Antholin Budge Row, London, his first cousin, ISABELLA CHARLOTTE WALTER, bap. 8 May 1687 St Paul Covent Garden, London; bur. 11 Oct. 1734 St Giles Church, St Giles in the Wood, dau. of Sir William Walter, 2nd Baronet of Sarsden (c.1635-1694, descended from Edward I) and Lady Mary Bruce (1657-1711, descended from Edward III), and had issue, four sons and seven daughters.

3) DENNIS ROLLE of Horwood, Devon, bap. 2 May 1682 St James Church, Clerkenwell, Middlesex; d. 20 Dec. 1714 Horwood, bur. 23 Dec. 1714 St Michael Church, Horwood; m. 1707 London, ANNE HERBERT[*2], and had issue, one daughter.

Issue of Dennis and Anne (Herbert) Rolle:

3A) ANNE ROLLE, b. 25 Aug. 1708 Horwood, bap. 19 Sept. 1708 St Michael Church, Horwood; bur. 1 Oct. 1742 St Peter Church, Roborough, Devon; m. 13 Oct. 1728 St Mary Church, Bideford, Devon, THOMAS STAFFORD [later WOLLACOMBE] of Coombe Barton, Roborough, b. Stafford Barton, Dolton, Devon, bap. 14 Sept. 1697 St Edmund Church, Dolton; bur. 17 Nov. 1756 St Peter Church, Roborough, yr son of John Stafford of Stafford Barton (1674-1721) and Mary Wollacombe (1666-1701), and had issue, three sons and five daughters.

St Giles Church, St Giles in the Wood, Devon

4) DIANA ROLLE, b. 25 June 1683 Stevenstone House, bap. 12 July 1683 St Giles Church, St Giles in the Wood; bur. there 22 Sept. 1683.

5) DIANA ROLLE, b. c.1685; d. after 1725?[*3]; m. 1st 17 Sept. 1706 St Giles Church, St Giles in the Wood, JOHN SPARK of Plymouth, Devon, M.P. Newport 1701-07, bap. 4 Feb. 1673 St Charles Church, Plymouth; d.s.p. 2 Jan. 1707, son of John Spark of Plymouth and Duglas Eliot; m. 2nd 17 Feb. 1708 St Peter Cornhill, London, her first cousin, Sir BOURCHIER WREY, 5th Baronet of Trebeigh, b. 15 July 1683 Stevenstone House, bap. 22 July 1683 St Giles Church, St Giles in the Wood; bur. 12 Nov. 1726 St Peter Church, Tawstock, son of Sir Bourchier Wrey, 4th Baronet of Trebeigh (c.1653-1696, descended from Edward III) and Florence Rolle (1657-1724, descended from Edward III), and had issue, five sons and five daughters.

6) CHRISTIANA ROLLE, bap. 1 Jan. 1689 St Giles Church, St Giles in the Wood; d. young or unm.

Lady Christiana (née Bruce) Rolle
(c.1658-1720)

[*1] From at least 1756, in the 3rd edition of The Peerage of England by Arthur Collins, Lady Christiana is listed as the third daughter of Robert Bruce, 1st Earl of Ailesbury, immediately after Lady Anne Bruce who married Sir William Rich, 2nd Baronet of Sunning, and immediately before Lady Mary Bruce, who married Sir William Walter, 2nd Baronet of Sarsden. Lady Christiana was indeed the third of Lord Ailesbury's daughters to marry. But we know from Lady Mary's baptism entry in the parish register of St James Church, Clerkenwell, that she was born on the last day of 1657. We also know that Thomas Bruce, the second earl of Ailesbury, was born the previous year, in September 1656. From her marriage licence, Lady Christiana was "about 19" in June 1677, so born about 1658-59. No baptism entry for her has been uncovered, but it seems she was actually a year or so younger than her sister Lady Mary, and so was the fourth, not the third, surviving daughter of the first earl of Ailesbury.

[*2] Lt-Col. John Lambrick Vivian, the Victorian-era genealogist who specialized in West Country families, has a pedigree of Rolle of Stevenstone in his 1897 Visitations of the County of Devon. He has Col. Dennis Rolle, a younger son of Sir John Rolle, K.B., as the Dennis Rolle who died at Horwood, Devon in 1714. It's clear from Dennis Rolle's M.I. in Horwood Church--"Here lyeth the body of Dennis Rolle, esq. of Horwood, the son of Jno Rolle, esq. the grand son of Sir Jno Rolle of Stevenstone, Knight of the Bth, who died ye 20th of September 1714"--that Vivian was incorrect, and that Dennis Rolle of Horwood was the younger son of John and Lady Christiana (Bruce) Rolle, and the grandson of Sir John Rolle, K.B. William Cooke, a genealogist in Ontario, Canada, has an online account of the Descendants of Sir John Rolle (1627-1706), and correctly has Dennis Rolle of Horwood as the youngest son of John and Lady Christiana Rolle. He has this Dennis Rolle's wife as Susan, daughter of Richard Lant. Susan, daughter of Richard Lant of London m. 1st, Sir Peter Lear, 1st Baronet of London (d. 1683), and m. 2nd, Dennis Rolle. But a lady married to a man who died in 1683 had to have been born in the 1660s, at the latest, and so it is chronologically impossible for her to have been the wife of a man born in 1682, and mother of his daughter born in 1708. It would appear that the second husband of Susan (Lant) Lear was instead Col. Dennis Rolle of Great Torrington, Devon, the younger son of Sir John Rolle, K.B., and uncle of Dennis Rolle of Horwood. Col. Dennis Rolle was buried 9 Feb. 1713 at St Giles Church, St Giles in the Wood. Per the baptism entry for Anne Rolle in the Horwood Parish Register, she was daughter of Dennis and Anne (not Susan) Rolle. Dennis Rolle married Anne Herbert in 1707 in London, per Boyd's marriage indexes, 1538-1850, and this fits perfectly with the baptism of Anne Rolle the following year.

St Michael Church, Horwood, Devon

[*3] Many genealogists, including Lt-Col. Vivian, and George Edward Cokayne in his Complete Baronetage, assume that Diana Rolle, wife of Sir Bourchier Wrey, 5th Baronet, was baptized at St Giles in the Wood on 12 July 1683. But it's clear from a M.I. in that church that the Diana Rolle baptized in July 1683 died an infant two months later in September 1683. No baptism entry for Diana (Rolle), Lady Wrey, has surfaced. Nor has a burial entry for Diana, Lady Wrey, been uncovered. There is no M.I. for her in St Peter Church, Tawstock, the burial place of the Wrey baronets, which is odd. The will of Diana Wrey of Tawstock, Devon, was proved in 1721, per the Devon Wills Index, 1163-1999. This would appear to be for Diana (née Rolle), Lady Wrey, except that baptism entries for children of the couple exist for Charles Wrey (15 June 1722 Tawstock), Anna Christiana Wrey (28 June 1723 Tawstock), and Catherine Wrey (4 July 1725 Barnstaple). So 1721 for the date Diana Wrey's will was proved must be a mistranscription?

M.I. of Florence (née Rolle), Lady Wrey

FLORENCE ROLLE, b. 26 Nov. 1657 Bicton House, Devon, bap. 29 Nov. 1657 St Mary Church, Bicton; d. 24 Aug. 1724, bur. St Peter Church, Tawstock, dau. of Sir John Rolle of Stevenstone House (1626-1706) and Florence Rolle (1631-1705, descended from Edward III - see Generation A12 below); m. 3 May 1681 St Giles Church, St Giles in the Wood, Sir BOURCHIER WREY, 4th Baronet of Trebeigh, b. c.1653; d. 28 July 1696, bur. 18 Aug. 1696 St Peter Church, Tawstock, Devon, est son of Sir Chichester Wrey, 3rd Baronet of Trebeigh (1628-1668, descended from Edward III) and Lady Anne Bourchier (1628-1662, descended from Edward III), and had issue, three sons and one daughter.

Issue of Florence (Rolle) and Sir Bourchier Wrey, 4th Baronet:

1) BOURCHIER WREY, b. Stevenstone House, bap. 28 Feb. 1682 St Giles Church, St Giles in the Wood; d. in infancy by 1683.

2) Sir BOURCHIER WREY, 5th Baronet of Trebeigh, b. 15 July 1683 Stevenstone House, bap. 22 July 1683 St Giles Church, St Giles in the Wood; bur. 12 Nov. 1726 St Peter Church, Tawstock; m. 17 Feb. 1708 St Peter Cornhill, London, as her 2nd husband, his first cousin, DIANA (ROLLE) SPARK, b. c.1685; d. aft. 1725, widow of John Spark of Plymouth, and dau. of John Rolle, Heir of Stevenstone House (c.1649-1689, descended from Edward III) and Lady Christiana Bruce (c.1658-1720, descended from Edward III), and had issue, five sons and five daughters.

Florence (née Wrey) Cole
(c.1684-1718)

3) FLORENCE WREY, b. c.1684; d. 30 Aug. 1718 Dublin, Ireland; m. 13 July 1707 St Clement Danes, London, as his 1st wife, JOHN COLE of Florence Court, co Fermanagh, Ireland, bap. 12 Apr. 1680 St Michan Church, Dublin; d. July 1726, est son of Sir Michael Cole of Enniskillen Castle (c.1642-1711) and his 2nd wife Elizabeth Cole (1657-1733, descended from Edward III), and had issue, five sons and three daughters.

4) Rev. CHICHESTER WREY, Rector of Tawstock 1710-56, b. c.1686 (aged 80 at death, per his M.I.); d. 13 Mar. 1756 Tawstock, bur. 20 Mar. 1756 St Peter Church, Tawstock; m. 1st 3 Oct. 1714 St Michael Church, Heavitree, Devon, MARGARET PYNE, b. c.1695; d. by 1735, dau. of Roger Pyne of East Wonford House, Heavitree, and had issue, one son and two daughters; m. 2nd 19 May 1735 St Peter Church, Tawstock, ELIZABETH LONG, bur. there 27 Sept. 1755, and had further issue, one son and four daughters.

John Rolle, Heir of Stevenstone House, and his sister Florence (née Rolle), Lady Wrey, have three lines of descent from Edward III. Below is the descent of Hon. Anne (née Palk) Baird from that monarch through those three lines.

Edward III had two sons A1 & D1 (see below)

1st Earl of Salisbury - see
Generation A3

A1) John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (1340-1399) m. 3) Katherine Roet (c.1350-1403), and had
A2) Lady Joan Beaufort (1377-1440) m. 2) Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland (1364-1425), and had
A3) Richard Neville, 1st Earl of Salisbury (c.1398-1460) m. Lady Alice Montagu (1406-1462, descended from Edward I), and had two daus A4 and C4 (see below)
A4) Lady Katherine Neville (c.1442-1504) m. 1) William Bonville, 6th Lord Harington (1442-1460, descended from Edward I), and had
A5) Cecily Bonville (1460-1529) m. 1) Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset (c.1456-1501, descended from Edward I), and had
A6) Lady Dorothy Grey (c.1485-1553) m. 1) Robert, 2nd Lord Willoughby of Broke (1472-1521), and had
A7) Elizabeth Willoughby (c.1510-by 1552) m. John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester (c.1510-1576, descended from Edward I), and had
A8) William Paulet, 3rd Marquess of Winchester (c.1532-1598) m. Agnes Howard (c.1534-1601, descended from Edward I), and had
A9) Lady Anne Paulet (d. aft.1613) m. Sir Thomas Denys of Holcombe Burnell (1559-1613), and had

A10) ANNE DENYS, b. c.1590; d. unknown; m. by 1611, Sir HENRY ROLLE, Heir of Stevenstone House, b. c.1585; bur. 12 May 1616 St Giles Church, St Giles in the Wood, son of Sir Henry Rolle of Stevenstone House (1545-1625) and Elizabeth Watts, and had

Dennis Rolle - see
Generation A11

A11) DENNIS ROLLE of Stevenstone House, b. 11 Dec. 1614; d. 11 June 1638 Bicton House, Devon, bur. 12 June 1638 St Mary Church, Bicton; m. by 1630, Hon. MARGARET POULETT (see C11 below), and had
A12) FLORENCE ROLLE, bap. 27 Feb. 1631 St Giles Church, St Giles in the Wood; d. 10 Aug. 1705 Tawstock House, bur. 14 Aug. 1705 St Peter Church, Tawstock; m. (lic. 28 Feb.) 1648, Sir JOHN ROLLE of Stevenstone House, K.B., b. Marhayes, Week St Mary, Cornwall, bap. 23 Sept. 1627 St Mary Church, Week St Mary; bur. 1 May 1706 St Giles Church, St Giles in the Wood, son of Andrew Rolle of Marhayes (c.1580-1628) and Grace Roberts, and had a son A13 and a dau B13 (see below)
A13) John Rolle, Heir of Stevenstone House (c.1649-1689 - see details above) m. Lady Christiana Bruce (c.1658-1720, descended from Edward III), and had
A14) Diana Rolle (c.1685-aft.1725 - see details above) m. 2) Sir Bourchier Wrey, 5th Baronet of Trebeigh (see B14 below), and had
A15) Sir BOURCHIER WREY, 6th Baronet of Trebeigh, b. 7 Jan. 1715 Westminster, London, bap. 13 Jan. 1715 St James Church, Westminster; d. 13 Apr. 1784, bur. 22 Apr. 1784 St Peter Church, Tawstock; m. 2nd 1 May 1755 St Bartholomew Church, Corsham, Wiltshire, ELLEN THRESHER, bap. 20 Aug. 1733 Holy Trinity Church, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire; d. 3 Dec. 1813 Bath, Somersetshire, bur. 13 Dec. 1813 St Peter Church, Tawstock, dau. of John Thresher of Bradford on Avon (1689-1741) and Ellen Long (1711-1753, descended from Edward III), and had
A16) Sir BOURCHIER WREY, 7th Baronet of Trebeigh, b. 22 Feb. 1757 Tawstock Court, Devon, bap. 23 Feb. 1757 St Peter Church, Tawstock; d. 20 Nov. 1826 Holne Chase House, Ashburton, Devon, bur. 2 Dec. 1826 St Peter Church, Tawstock; m. 1st 14 Mar. 1786 St John the Baptist Church, Shottesbrooke, Berkshire, ANNE PALK, bap. 3 Aug. 1764 Fort St George, Madras, India; d. 5 Sept. 1791 Tawstock Court, Devon, bur. 16 Sept. 1791 St Peter Church, Tawstock, dau. of Sir Robert Palk, 1st Baronet of Haldon House (1717-1798) and Anne Vansittart (1738-1788, descended from Henry IV), and had

Palk of Haldon Coat of Arms

A17) ANNA ELEANORA WREY, b. 12 Jan. 1787 Tawstock Court, bap. 18 Jan. 1787 St Peter Church, Tawstock; d. 25 Jan. 1846 Dieppe, Normandy, France; m. 2nd 9 Dec. 1815 St Peter Church, Tawstock, as his 1st wife, her first cousin, Sir LAWRENCE VAUGHAN PALK, 3rd Baronet of Haldon House, b. 25 Apr. 1793 Westminster, London, bap. 30 May 1793 St George Hanover Square; d. 16 May 1860 Haldon House, Kenn, Devon, bur. 23 May 1860 St Michael & All Angels Church, Dunchideock, Devon, son of Sir Lawrence Palk, 2nd Baronet of Haldon House (1766-1813, descended from Henry IV) and Lady Dorothy Elizabeth Vaughan (1764-1849, descended from Edward III), and had
A18) LAWRENCE PALK, 1st Baron Haldon of Haldon, b. 30 Jan. 1818 Marylebone, London, bap. 26 Feb. 1818 St Marylebone Parish Church; d. 22 Mar. 1883 Haldon House, bur. 29 Mar. 1883 St Andrew Churchyard, Kenn, Devon; m. 15 Nov. 1845 St Mary Church, Rufford, Lancashire, MARIA HARRIET HESKETH, bap. 26 Nov. 1826 St Mary Church, Rufford; d. 18 Dec. 1905 Eastfield House, Whitchurch-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, bur. 21 Dec. 1905 St Andrew Churchyard, Kenn, only dau. of Sir Thomas Henry Hesketh, 4th Baronet of Rufford (1799-1843, descended from Edward III) and Annette Maria Bomford (c.1799-1879, descended from Edward III), and had
A19) Hon. ANNETTE MARIA PALK (1851-1884) m. Sir Alexander Baird, 1st Baronet of Ury

B13) Florence Rolle (1657-1724 - see details above) m. Sir Bourchier Wrey, 4th Baronet of Trebeigh (c.1653-1696, descended from Edward III), and had
B14) Sir Bourchier Wrey, 5th Baronet of Trebeigh (1683-1726) m. Diana Rolle (see A14 above)

C4) Lady Alice Neville (c.1434-aft.1503) m. Henry, 6th Lord Fitzhugh (1429-1472), and had

1st Baron Norris - see
Generation C8

C5) Alice Fitzhugh (c.1452-1516) m. Sir John Fiennes, Heir of Dacre (c.1447-c.1482, descended from Edward I), and had
C6) Thomas Fiennes, 8th Lord Dacre (1472-1533) m. Anne Bourchier (see D5 below), and had
C7) Mary Fiennes (c.1497-1531) m. Sir Henry Norris of Bray (c.1491-1536, descended from Edward I), and had

C8) Henry, 1st Baron Norris of Bray (c.1525-1601) m. Margery Williams (d. 1599), and had
C9) Katherine Norris (c.1560-1602) m. Sir Anthony Paulet of Hinton St George (1562-1600), and had
C10) John, 1st Baron Poulett of Hinton St George (1586-1649) m. Elizabeth Kenn (1593-1663), and had
C11) Hon. MARGARET POULETT, b. c.1614; d. Jan. 1671; m. 1st by 1630, DENNIS ROLLE of Stevenstone House (see A11 above)[*4]

Monument to Dennis and Margaret
(née Poulett) Rolle in Bicton Church

[*4] Hon. Margaret (Poulett) Rolle m. 2nd Sir Richard Cholmley of Grosmont, d. Oct. 1644 Axminster, Devon, son of Sir Richard Cholmley of Whitby (1580-1631, descended from Edward III) and his 2nd wife Margaret Cobb; m. 3rd "during the mid 1650s", Col. Edward Cooke of Highnam Court, Gloucestershire, b. c.1622; d. 29 Jan. 1684 Highnam Court, bur. 2 Feb. 1684 Holy Innocents Church, Highnam, Gloucestershire, 2nd son of Sir Robert Cooke of Highnam Court (d. 1643, descended from Edward III) and his 1st wife Dorothy Fleetwood (descended from Edward I). For genealogical details on Col. Cooke and his family, including the death date of Hon. Margaret (Poulett) (Rolle) (Cholmley) Cooke, see the 1997 article by N.R.R. Fisher 'Colonel Edward Cooke of Highnam (c.1622-1684) and Henry Somerset, First Duke of Beaufort: Client and Patron' in Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Vol. 115.

D1) Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (1355-1397) m. Lady Eleanor de Bohun (1365-1399, descended from Edward I), and had
D2) Anne Plantagenet, Countess of Buckingham (1383-1438) m. 3) William Bourchier, 1st Count of Eu (c.1374-1420), and had
D3) John Bourchier, 1st Lord Berners (c.1411-1474) m. Margery Berners (1409-1475), and had
D4) Sir Humphrey Bourchier, Heir of Berners (1443-1471) m. Elizabeth Tilney (1446-1497), and had
D5) Anne Bourchier (1470-aft.1530) m. Thomas Fiennes, 8th Lord Dacre (see C6 above)

The next blogpost will explore the descent of Ellen Thresher, second wife of Sir Bourchier Wrey, 6th Baronet (see Generation A15 above), from Anne, Duchess of Exeter, sister of Edward IV and Richard III, which descent is an addition to Ruvigny's 1907 Exeter volume.

Cheers,                               -------Brad