Matthew Bradbury, Esq.

Matthew Bradbury, Lord of the manor of Wicken Hill, in the parich of Wicken Bonhunt, which manor he acquired by purchase in 1557. He purchased the manor of Grange in Thaxted, county Essex, in 1551, and sold it the next year. He is mentioned in the wills of his brother William and his nephew Robert. He died June 19, 1585, and an inquistion post mortem was held Oct 26, 1587. His son William was appointed administrator of his estate June 30, 1585. He married Margaret, daughter of ___ Rowse of the city of Cambridge.

Notes

From The Bradbury Memorial:  A Note pertaining to William Bradbury, b. 1480, m. Joan (Fitzwilliams) Bendish also The Ancestry of Thomas Bradbury ... p. 37,63 

"We have followed the Herald's Visitation here, but there is evidently a serious mistake in their reckoning. Thomas Bendish died about 1477, and his wife Joan or Jane had deceased prior to May 4, 1490, at which date her inquisition post mortem was held, when it was found that Richard Bendish, grandson of Thomas, aged five years, was heir to her estate. She evidently belonged to a generation back of William Bradbury, and if she married a Bradbury, as she is reported, it must have been his father Robert. (Robert is consistent with the Genealogy of Ralph Waldo Emerson). When Symonds made his collection of epitaphs in Essex in 1639, there was in the church at Clavering a stone bearing the inscription in Latin: "Pray for the souls of William Bradbury, Esq. and Wife Elisabeth," which Elisabeth died August 13, 1536. William Bradbury died later, after his removal to Littlebury, and was buried there. This would show that his wife's name was Elisabeth. The Herald's Visitation do not give the name of the wife of Robert Bradbury, and unfortunately he left no will, and there was no inquisition post mortem to solve the mystery. In some of the pedigrees he is said to have married Anne Wyant, and we have followed it, but with this explanation. His son having been assigned a wife that belonged to the generation of the father, it is quite probable that the Visitation has made a mistake of one generation, and that Jane (Fitzwilliam) Bendish was the mother and not the wife of William Bradbury."
 

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