DUDLEY, Captain Roger
Abt 1550 - Bef 1588 (< 37 years)
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Name DUDLEY, Captain Roger [1, 2] Birth Abt 1550 London, England 
[3] Gender Male Death Bef 1588 Okley, Northhamptonshire, England [4] - Possibly killed in battle at Siege of Zutphen
Person ID I257 My Genealogy | Laviolette Ancestry, Laviolette Ancestry Last Modified 4 Feb 2024
Father DUDLEY, Henry, b. 1517, Dudley, Staffordshire, England d. 1568, England (Age 51 years) Relationship natural Mother ASHTON, Elizabeth, b. 1525, Fyfield, Berkshire, England d. Bef Nov 1556 (Age < 31 years) Relationship natural Marriage 1545 Fyfield, Berkshire, England Family ID F6988 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family THORNE, Susanna, b. 5 Mar 1559, Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, England d. 29 Oct 1588, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England (Age 29 years) Marriage 8 Jun 1575 Lidlington, Bedfordshire, England [4] Children 1. DUDLEY, David, b. 1579 d. 1646 (Age 67 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 2. DUDLEY, Mary, b. 16 Oct 1580, Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, England d. 1586, England (Age 5 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]3. DUDLEY, Richard, b. 1583, St Dunstan in the East, London, England d. 20 Aug 1603, London, England (Age 20 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]4. DUDLEY, Dorothy, b. 31 Mar 1585, St Dunstan in the East, London, England d. 1603, England (Age 17 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]+ 5. DUDLEY, Governor Thomas, b. 12 Oct 1576, Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, England d. 31 Jul 1653, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 76 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Photos 
At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld. At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld. Family ID F50 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 4 Feb 2024
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Birth - Abt 1550 - London, England 
Marriage - 8 Jun 1575 - Lidlington, Bedfordshire, England 
Death - Bef 1588 - Okley, Northhamptonshire, England = Link to Google Earth
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Photos At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld. At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld. Battle of Zutphen 1586
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Dudley Family
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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.
- 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:
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Sources - [S1798] WikiTree: Thomas Dudley.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dudley-129 - [S1797] Magna Carta Ancestry, (2011), Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), volume II, page 40, 97, [Gov.] Thomas Dudley, #18.
- [S2685] The Mystery of Thomas Dudley's Patenal Ancestors, by H. Allen Curtis.
The Mystery of Thomas Dudley's Paternal Ancestors - [S1408] Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry, Pgs 290 - 291.
At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld. At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
- [S1798] WikiTree: Thomas Dudley.