DUDLEY, Governor Thomas

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: The Great Migration;Winthrop; Immigrant; Royal gateway ancestor; 3rd Governor of MA Bay Colony
• Great Migration: https://www.americanancestors.org/DB393/rd/12107/581/235178649
• Historical Importance: Massachusetts, USA; 3X Goveror of Massachusetts Bay Colony; signed charter founding Harvard; Gateway Ancestor
• Web Address: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dudley
• Web Address: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Thorne-41#Magna_Carta_Trails
• Residence: Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA
• Occupation: Bef 1616; Page for William, Lord Compton (later Earl of Northampton
• Occupation: 1616; Steward for Thomas, Lord Clinton
• _MILT: Abt 1620; Raised company of soldiers to join forces sent by Queen Elizabeth to aid King Henry iV of France and to serve at the siege of Amiens
• Departure: 1630
• Residence: 1644, Roxbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
• Education: 30 May 1650; Signed Charter forming Harvard College

Notes:

From Collections, Topographical, Historical, and Biographical New Hampshire, Vol 1 (1822) Pgs 156-157
Edward Dudley was a lawyer and privy counsellor to Henry VII and Speaker of the House of Commons 1505. Henry the VIII sent Dudley to the scaffold (text doesn't explain why). John, Edward's son was in the reign of Edward VI and made Earl of Warwick and in 1551 Duke of Northumberland. He tried to raise lady Jane Grey his daughter-in-law to the throne as successor of Edward and was beheaded by order of Queen Mary on 23 Feb 1554. Sir Robert Dudley, sone of Duke of Northumberland, and in 1564 was made Baron of Denhigh and Earl of Leicester by Queen Elizabeth. He died in 1588. According to tradition Governor Thomas Dudley was the great grandson of the Duke of Northumberland.

Mr. Dudley was governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony 3 times and continued in the magistry until his death on 31 July 1653 when he was 77. Dr. Cotton Mather described him as "a gentleman whose natural and acquired abilities joined with his excellent moral qualities, entitled him to all great respects with which his country on all opportunities treated him."

Governor Thomas Dudley, Gateway Ancestor, is the direct descendant of 13 of the 25 Magna Carta Surety Barons.

Thomas married YORKE, Dorothy on 25 Apr 1603 in Hardingstone, Northamptonshire, England. Dorothy (daughter of YORKE, Edmund and FAIRFIELD, Katherine Mary) was born on 25 Apr 1582 in Cotton End, Northamptonshire, England; died on 27 Dec 1643 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. DUDLEY, Sarah was born on 23 Jul 1620; died in 1659 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA.
2. DUDLEY, Patience was born in Feb 1618 in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England; died on 8 Feb 1690 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA.
3. DUDLEY, Thomas was born in 1605 in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England; died in Apr 1630.
4. DUDLEY, Dorothy was born in 1622 in Ashley, Cheshire, England; died on 27 Feb 1643.
5. DUDLEY, Mercy was born on 27 Sep 1621; died on 1 Jul 1691 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA.
6. DUDLEY, Rev. Samuel was born on 30 Nov 1608 in Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire, England; was christened on 30 Nov 1608 in Northamptonshire, England; died on 10 Feb 1683 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; was buried in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.
7. DUDLEY, Anne was born on 20 Mar 1612 in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England; died on 16 Sep 1672 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in North Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA.

Notes:

While the paternal ancestry of Thomas Dudley has long been questioned, after a careful reading of the following documents attached to this record, for our family tree I have accepted the lineage hypothesized and detailed by Marshall Kirk in 1993. This is the most accepted lineage of all the hypotheses put forth and H. Allen Curtis' extensive research and docuentation seems to confirm this beyond any reasonable doubt. For more details, please read the following PDFs attached to this record:

Roger Dudley's Father Proved to be Captain Henry Dudley
The Mystery of Thomas Dudley's Paternal Ancestors
Marshall Kirk on Thomas Dudley's Paternal Line

More notes on Roger Dudley:

Capt. Roger Dudley: Roger Dudley (born between 1535 and 1545 -1586?/1590) was an English soldier.

Dudley was born in London, England, but some[who?] say that he was baptised in Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire. However Dudley's parentage has never been satisfactorily established. Genealogist and researcher Marshall Kirk in 1993 published the results of his exhaustive survey of the Dudley families, and came to the conclusion that he was the son of Henry Sutton Dudley.

Roger may be the Roger Dudley who was matriculated as pensioner at Christ Church College, Cambridge, in 1566, but left without a degree. It is believed that he married, on June 8, 1575, at Lidlington, Bedfordshire, Susannah (Thorne), herself recorded as having been born on March 5, 1559/60 in Northamptonshire, and baptised at Yardley Hastings, the daughter of Thomas Thorne and Mary Purefoy.

He is reported to have been a Captain in (the Earl of Leicester)'s militia, fighting with a commission from Elizabeth I, and under the banner of Henry of Navarre. He is thought to have died at the Battle of Ivry, France in 1590. Yet in 1586, four years earlier, the Reverend Cotton Mather of Boston wrote: "Thomas Dudley's father was Captain Roger Dudley, -- slain in the wars, when -- his son, and one only daughter were very young". The will of Thomas Dorne (Thorne) of Yardley Hastings, Gent., dated 29 Oct 1588, bequeathed "to the children of Susan Dudley, my Daughter, widow, to be equally divided". (S1,S11). Therefore, he was apparently dead by the time of the will of his father-in-law, which was written in 1588, which eliminates the time of the Battle of Ivry as a possibility for his death.

It is most probable that he died at the Siege of Zutphen in 1586, having followed a relative, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, who was a principal figure in that battle. Marshall K. Kirk suggests that Roger made his home after his father's death with Peter Grey, a "Queen's servant", whose manor of Segenhoe was two miles from Lidlington, (Bedfordshire), where Roger was later married. Roger and Susannah Dudley raised at least five children, listed as: Thomas Dudley (second governor of Massachusetts) Mary Dudley Richard Dudley (b. 1583 – d. 20 Aug 1603) Dorothy Dudley. David Dudley.

Died:
Possibly killed in battle at Siege of Zutphen

Captain married THORNE, Susanna on 8 Jun 1575 in Lidlington, Bedfordshire, England. Susanna (daughter of THORNE, Thomas and PUREFOY, Mary) was born on 5 Mar 1559 in Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, England; was christened on 18 Oct 1560 in Rye, Sussex, England; died on 29 Oct 1588 in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

While the paternal ancestry of Thomas Dudley has long been questioned, after a careful reading of the following documents attached to this record, for our family tree I have accepted the lineage hypothesized and detailed by Marshall Kirk in 1993. This is the most accepted lineage of all the hypotheses put forth and H. Allen Curtis' extensive research and docuentation seems to confirm this beyond any reasonable doubt. For more details, please read the following PDFs attached to this record:

Roger Dudley's Father Proved to be Captain Henry Dudley
The Mystery of Thomas Dudley's Paternal Ancestors
Marshall Kirk on Thomas Dudley's Paternal Line


Birth:
Dudley, Straffordshire, England

Henry married ASHTON, Elizabeth in 1545 in Fyfield, Berkshire, England. Elizabeth was born in 1525 in Fyfield, Berkshire, England; died before Nov 1556. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Hastings, Northamptonshire, England

Thomas married PUREFOY, Mary in 1549 in Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, England. Mary (daughter of PUREFOY, Edward and FETTIPLACE, Anne) was born in 1533 in Shalston, Bucks, England; died on 9 May 1579 in Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: 3rd Baron Dudley
• Name: John VII

Notes:

While the paternal ancestry of Thomas Dudley has long been questioned, after a careful reading of the following documents attached to this record, for our family tree I have accepted the lineage hypothesized and detailed by Marshall Kirk in 1993. This is the most accepted lineage of all the hypotheses put forth and H. Allen Curtis' extensive research and docuentation seems to confirm this beyond any reasonable doubt. For more details, please read the following PDFs attached to this record:

Roger Dudley's Father Proved to be Captain Henry Dudley
The Mystery of Thomas Dudley's Paternal Ancestors
Marshall Kirk on Thomas Dudley's Paternal Line


Birth:
Dudley Castle

John + GREY, Cecily. Cecily (daughter of GREY, 1st Marquess of Dorset; 1st Earl of Huntingdon; 7th Baron Ferrers of Groby Thomas and BONVILLE, 7th Baroness Harington of Aldingham; 2nd Baroness Bonville Cecily) was born in 1488 in Denbigh, Denbighshire, Wales; died on 28 Apr 1554 in Westminster, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married DENTON, Alice on 8 Mar 1517 in Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, England. Alice was born in 1500 in Caversfield, Buckinghamshire, England; died in Mar 1537 in Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward + FETTIPLACE, Anne. Anne (daughter of FETTIPLACE, Richard Sir and BESSILES, Elizabeth) was born on 16 Jul 1496 in Shelford Parva, Cambridgeshire, England; died on 16 Aug 1568; was buried in Shalstone, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: USA