Armigel Wade, M.P.

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Family and Education b. by 1518. educ. (?Magdalen), Oxf. BA 23 Jan. 1532. m. (1) Alice, da. of Richard Patten alias Wainfleet of London, wid. of Thomas Searle (d.1540/41) of London, 17ch. inc. Thomas† and Sir William†; (2) Anne, da of Thomas Marbury of London, wid. of Edward Bradley (d. Aug./Oct. 1558) of London, 3ch.1

Offices Held

Servant of Henry, Lord Mautravers, by 1540; clerk of the council, Calais 26 Nov. 1540-24 Sept. 1546; collector and receiver of customs and tolls, Newnham bridge, Calais 17 Apr. 1545; clerk of the Privy Council June 1547-?July 1553; j.p. Mdx. 1561-d.; commr. benevolence for St. Paul’s cathedral 1564, sewers, Kent and Suss. 1564.2

Biography According to the inscription on his tombstone in Hampstead church composed by his son William, Armagil Waad came of a Yorkshire family; the fact that he was to be granted arms shows that his forbears were of humbler stock. It is said that his mother’s maiden name was Comyn and his birthplace Kilnsey in the East Riding. The records of Magdalen College do not bear out Anthony Wood’s version of his period at Oxford, and if he attended an inn of court its identity is unknown: it could have been the Middle Temple during the period for which the records are missing, or Gray’s Inn where he was later to build a chamber to which his descendants were admitted from 1565 onwards. A childhood on the Holderness peninsula may have given Waad a taste for the sea which led him to join Hore’s voyage to North America from April to October 1536. From his connexion with this expedition, but without other foundation, Waad was later to be called ‘the English Columbus’. Although he was to pursue a public career, he remained closely connected through both his marriages with the merchant community of London; the merchant brothers John and Otwell Johnson called him their ‘old and assured friend’ and his brother-in-law William Patten published Waad’s ‘epigram made upon the citizens’ receiving of his grace’ the Protector Somerset in his Expedicion into Scotland.3

Waad’s introduction to court perhaps came through Sir Richard Gresham, who acquired land in Kilnsey at the Dissolution, and his progress may have been influenced by his knowledge of languages, including Spanish. He was in the service of Lord Mautravers, deputy governor of Calais, when in November 1540 Mautravers sought leave for him to compound for the vacant clerkship of the council there, and it was again Mautravers who in September 1543 recommended him for the French secretaryship at Calais after his two years’ experience as assistant in that office. Waad’s clerkship was granted to another from 25 Sept. 1546 and a month later he returned to London, where he at once reported his arrival to Sir William Paget.4

By the following summer Waad had become third clerk of the Privy Council, although during his first year of office he did not receive a regular fee. His election to the ensuing Parliament was a by-product of his appointment, his three fellows in the clerkship, Thomas Chaloner, William Honing and Thomas Smith I, all finding seats in it. The choice of Chipping Wycombe may have been determined by either Sir John Russell, Baron Russell or Sir Edmund Peckham, both of them influential in Buckinghamshire. Waad’s fellow-Member Thomas Fisher was secretary to the Protector Somerset.5

In April 1548, when the clerks, now reduced to three, had their fees reviewed. Waad was granted 50 marks a year from the previous 24 June. Under Edward VI he was twice confirmed in office, rising in the process to the first clerkship, and in 1550 he was given an annuity of 200 marks for services to the present and former King. On four occasions during 1550 and 1551, as deputy to the clerk of the Parliaments Sir John Mason, Waad read out the commission for the prorogation. He appears to have remained clerk of the Privy Council until the death of Edward VI, the last reference to him in its minutes being dated 13 June 1553. If he sat in the Parliament of March 1553, as did his fellow-clerk William Thomas, it must have been for a constituency for which the names are lost.6

It was probably on religious grounds that Waad, who was later to be considered a favourer of the Elizabethan settlement, lost his office and was given no other employment under Mary. He sued out a general pardon on 3 Nov. 1553 as of London and Soulbury, Buckinghamshire, and he continued to receive an annuity of £100. Granted Milton Grange, Bedfordshire, in October 1554, by 1559 he had leased property in Belsize, near Hampstead, Middlesex, which then became his home. Soon after Elizabeth’s accession Waad addressed to Cecil a long discourse on ‘the distresses of the Commonwealth and the means to remedy them’. His activities from that time reflected his varied interests. In April 1559 he was sent on a mission to the Duke of Holstein to treat for increased facilities for English merchants and to offer Elizabeth’s aid against the free cities of the duchy. Three years later he was in Rye, Sussex, mustering 600 men for service at Dieppe and looking into the possibilities of support for the Huguenots. His commission to survey watercourses near Rye harbour resulted in his request, with others, for a grant of neighbouring salt marshes. In 1565 he obtained with William Herle a 30 years’ monopoly for making sulphur and growing plants for oil for use in the cloth industry, and in the following year he was appointed to interrogate Cornelius de Lannoy, an alchemist, in connexion with the manufacture of gold.7

Waad died on 20 June 1568, and was buried in Hampstead church, in the chancel near the tomb of his first wife. By a will made some seven years earlier he left to a younger son Thomas his chamber in Gray’s Inn and tenements in Golding Lane. He named his eldest son William executor and among the overseers were John Southcote II and Thomas Wilbraham†. The will was proved on 5 Feb. 1569.8

Ref Volumes: 1509-1558 Author: M. K. Dale Notes 1. Date of birth estimated from education. Emden, Biog. Reg. Univ. Oxf. 1501-40, p. 598. DNB; PCC 6 Lyon, 20 Alenger, 34 Pynnyng, 59 Noodes; C1/1085/4. 2. LP Hen. VIII, xvi, xx, xxi; P. T. J. Morgan, ‘The gov. of Calais 1485-1558’ (Oxf. Univ. D.Phil. thesis, 1966), 304; Rep. R. Comm. of 1552 (Archs. of Brit. Hist. and Culture iii), 19; APC, ii-iv; CPR, 1563-6, pp. 24, 38, 126. 3. PCC 6 Lyon; G.I. Adm. 34, 42, 117; Fuller, Worthies, iii. 418; D. E. Hoak, The King’s Council in the Reign of Edw. VI, 163; Tudor Tracts ed. Pollard, 63. 4. LP Hen. VIII, xviii, xxi. 5. APC, ii-iv passim. 6. CPR, 1547-8, p. 381; 1548-9, p. 3; 1549-51, pp. 188, 306; 1550-3, p. 285; E405/117, ff. 13v, 38, 40; Add. 30198, f. 10; Stowe 571, f. 21; LJ, i. 390-3; Hoak, 271-2. 7. Cam. Misc. ix(3), 60; Fac. Off. Reg. 1534-49 ed. Chambers, 309; PCC 6 Lyon; Lansd. 156(28), f. 96; CPR, 1553-4, p. 452; 1554-5, p. 311; 1558-60, p. 158; 1560-3, pp. 410, 505, 581; 1563-6, pp. 110, 235-6; E405/121, ff. 12v, 73; SP12/1/66; CSP Dom. 1547-70 passim; 1601-3, Add. 1547-65, p. 529; CSP For. 1558-9, nos. 531, 541, 1099; 1561-2, no. 346; 1562 passim. 8. PCC 6 Lyon.

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know as The earlier Columbus

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See "The Wades The History of a Family....of Zachary and Mary Hatton Wade....in Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, So Carolina, No Carolina, and other states." by Zada Wade Beadles. At University of Wisconsin https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062512942&view=1up&seq=18

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Armagil Wade (Waad) was an Elizabethan v ===
Armagil Wade (Waad) was an Elizabethan voyger tp Newfoundland in 1536 on "The Minion" recorded in Hakluyt's Voyages snd was lisyed by Fuller among the "Worthies of Yorkshire". He was a purchaser of former monastic lands. This may have given him and his son a vested interest to protect, thus making him a prudent advisor to Elizabeth at he accession to the throne. Indeed Armagil recommended thepursuit of a "via media" in religious matters in a paper entitled "On Distresses of the Commonwealth with the Means to remedy them." Armagil was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford (BA 23 Jan 1531/2). His first government post wasClerk of the Council at Calais (1540). He started as third clerk and became Chief Clerk to the Privy Council in 1552. He was elected to the Parliament in 1547. Armagil and later his son , had reputations of espionage on behalf of the Crown. Armagil arrested Jean Ribauld before he could escape to France in 1547. Healso examined the Countess of Sussex in the Tower of London in 1552. Later heprocured Paget's signature to the article against him. He lost his offices onthe accession of Queen Mary, but Queen Elizabeth restored him to favor as the principal liason officual with the French Huguenots in 1562 when he mustered 600men for service at Le Havre. All of his children by his first wife and eleven of seventeen by his second wife predeceased him. Apart from his monastic purchases, he was also granted the Milton Grange by the Crown, He bought and enclosed the salty marshes near Lydd and leased Belsize, which became the family "seat" from the Dean and Chapter of St. Pauls. Marriage 1 Spouse Unknown Children William Wade b: 1546 Other NOTE: NOTE: Armagil Wade (Waad) was anElizabethan voyger tp Newfoundland in1536 on "The Minion" recorded in Hakluyt's Voyages snd was lisyed byFuller among the "Worthies of Yorkshire". He was a purchaser offormer monastic lands. This may have given him and his son a vestedinterest to protect, thus making him a prudent advisor t o Elizabethat he accession to the throne. Indeed Armagil recommended thepursuit of a "via media" in religious matters in a paper entitled "OnDistresses of the Commonwealth with theMeans to remedy them." Armagil was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford (BA 23Jan 1531/2). His first government post was Clerk of the Council at Calais (1540).He started as third clerk and became Chief Clerk to the Privy Councilin 1552. He was elected to the Parliament in 1547. Armagil and laterhis son , had reputations of espionage on behalf of the Crown.Armagil arrested Jean Ribauld before he could escape to France in1547. He also examined the Countess of Sussexin the Tower of London in 1552. Later he procured Paget's signature to the article againsthim. He lost his offices on the accession of Queen Mary, but QueenElizabeth restored him to favor as the principal liason officual withthe FrenchHuguenots in 1562 when he mustered 600 men for service atLe Havre. All of his children by his first wife and eleven of seventeen by hissecond wife predeceased him. Apart from his monastic purchases, hewas also granted the Milton Grange by the Crown, He bought and enclosed the salty marshes near Lydd and leased Belsize, which becamethe family "seat" from the Dean and Chapter of St. Pauls. 1 Birth: ABT 1514 in Yorkshire County, England Children William W. WADEb: 1546 Sources: Abbrev: Imported GEDCOM file Title: GEDCOM file importedon 8 Jan 2000.

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Armagil Waad and wives ===
"The earliest Wade listed in a widely distributed record is Armagil Waad (d. 1568) of an ancient Yorkshire family who is thought to be the first to be granted a coat of arms. He is said to have been born in 1511 at Kilnsey, near Coniston. His mother was a daughter of Comyn and sister of Alured Comyn, Prior of St. Oswald Noslbzaker. He was one of the adventurers in Hore's voyage to North America in 1536, sailing with Oliver Daubeney and others in the 'Minion' from Gravesend. They reached Cape Breton, Canada, in about two months and also stopped at Newfoundland and Penguin Islland. His son, Sir William Waad, described him as the first English explorer of America because of this voyage ... paraphrased into the 'English Columbus' ... is equally applicable to all who sailed with him. Armagil Waad, born 1511, died at Belsize, June 20m 1568, and was buried in Hampstead Church.... (**) Armagil was twice married, His first wife was Anne, daughter of Thomas Marbury (Merbury), a merchant of London. His second wife was Alice, daughter of Richard Patten (d. 1536). Alice was the widow of Thomas Searle of Essex and sister of Wm Patten. By her, Armagil had 17 children. His 3 children by his first wife and 11 of the 17 by his second wife all died before his own death. The eldest surviving son was Sir William Waad; another was Thomas (1547-1594)." [this source also records that Alice died in 1568 as well]

See "The Wades The History of a Family....of Zachary and Mary Hatton Wade....in Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, So Carolina, No Carolina, and other states." by Zada Wade Beadles. At University of Wisconsin https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062512942&view=1up&seq=18
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(**) According to his Bio in the History of Parliament, he had 17 children by his first wife, Alice Patten Searle, and 3 children by his second wife, Anne Marbury Bradley. Of these 20 children, all 3 by his second wife pre-deceased him, and 11 of the 17 from his 1st wife. Of his 20 children, 6 survived their father, the oldest being Sir William Waad and a younger son Thomas named in Armagil's will (drawn 1561). It is therefore reasonble to presume that the Edward Wade I and Armiger Wade, who claimed to be descended from Armagil Waad I WERE NOT descended from Sir William, but from the other surviving son of Armagil's, Thomas.

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Her maiden name is Alice Patten, daughter of Richard Patten (d. 1536). Alice was the widow of Thomas Searle of Essex and sister of Wm Patten. She was Armagil Waad's second wife and bore him 17 children. 11 of the 17 all died before Armagil's own death. Their eldest surviving son was William Waad; another was Thomas (1547-1594)

See "The Wades The History of a Family....of Zachary and Mary Hatton Wade....in Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, So Carolina, No Carolina, and other states." by Zada Wade Beadles. At University of Wisconsin https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062512942&view=1up&seq=18
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"And to Alice Patten, who bore to her husband seventeen children, of whom two sons and three daughters at present survive, who having lived her life most chastely and piously, returned her soul to her creator in the year of our Lord 1568." Stated by her son, Sir Wm Wade on the memorial to her husband and his father, Armagil Wade. THIS statement tells us that Alice Patten was the SECOND wife, not the first wife, and that she died same year as her husband, 1568.

See pg. 98 in "The Wade genealogy : being some account of the origin of the name, and of the lost folkstory of the famous hero, Wada, particulars and pedigrees of famous Englishmen of the name : and genealogies of the families of Wade of Massachusetts and New Jersey, to which are added many miscellaneous pedigrees" in sources.

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Armagil and children ===
Armagil was buried in Hampstead Church (now destroyed) with a monument, the memorial plaque of which was written in Latin. According to early 20th century genealogist Stuart Charles Wade, it translated as:

"Sacred to the memory of Armigel Waad, the best and most kind of parents, a descendant of an ancient Yorkshire family, Secretary of the Privy Council of Henry VIII and Edward VI, and a justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex, who--proficient in very many of the most important arts, excellently versed in civil jurisprudence, very familiar with many languages--discharged divers most honorable embassies and was the first English explorer of the Indies of America. By his two wives, Alice Patten and Anne Marbury, (d) he gave to the world twenty children, and after a life honorably and most conscientiously passed, died in the spring of the year 1568, when on the 20th day of June he placidly fell asleep in the Lord... William Waad, the eldest son and heir, and also Secretary of the Lady Elizabeth's Privy Council, has erected this monument."

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Surviving Children & their descendants ===
In the entry for Sir William Waad in the History of the Parliament (see sources) it is disclosed that according to Sir William's will, which was drawn up 1 April 1618, Sir William had only 1 surviving son, which had to have been the only son of his second wife, Anne (Browne), James Wade. Sir William's first son, Armagil Wade II, son by his first wife, Anne Waller, had to have pre-deceased him. At the time the will was drawn, April1, 1618, his only surviving son was still a minor - so it could not have been Armagil, who in 1618 would have been 29 years old had he been alive, so he was deceased before 1618. Sir Wm's will also discloses that 8 daughters were born to him by his 2nd wife.

It is known that Armagil Wade I, father of Sir William Wade, fathered 20 children. Here some variations in the records occurs. According to his Bio in the Histpry of Parliament, he had 17 children by his first wife, Alice Patten Searle, and 3 children by his second wife, Anee Marbury Bradley. Of these 20 children, all 3 by his second wife pre-deceased him, and 11 of the 17 from his 1st wife. Of his 20 children, 6 survived their father, the oldest being Sir William Waad and a younger son Thomas named in Armagil's will (drawn 1561). It is therefore reasonble to presume that the Edward Wade I and Armiger Wade, who claimed to be descended from Armagil Waad I WERE NOT descended from Sir William, but from another surviving son of Armagil's, Thomas.

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Armagil Wade (Waad) was an Elizabethan v ===
Armagil Wade (Waad) was an Elizabethan voyger tp Newfoundland in 1536 on "The Minion" recorded in Hakluyt's Voyages snd was lisyed by Fuller among the "Worthies of Yorkshire". He was a purchaser of former monastic lands. This may have given him and his son a vested interest to protect, thus making him a prudent advisor to Elizabeth at he accession to the throne. Indeed Armagil recommended the pursuit of a "via media" in religious matters in a paper entitled "On Distresses of the Commonwealth with the Means to remedy them." Armagil was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford (BA 23 Jan 1531/2). His first government post was Clerk of the Council at Calais (1540). He started as third clerk and became Chief Clerk to the Privy Council in 1552. He was elected to the Parliament in 1547. Armagil and later his son , had reputations of espionage on behalf of the Crown. Armagil arrested Jean Ribauld before he could escape to France in 1547. He also examined the Countess of Sussex in the Tower of London in 1552. Later he procured Paget's signature to the article against him. He lost his offices on the accession of Queen Mary, but Queen Elizabeth restored him to favor as the principal liason officual with the French Huguenots in 1562 when he mustered 600 men for service at Le Havre. All of his children by his first wife and eleven of seventeen by his second wife predeceased him. Apart from his monastic purchases, he was also granted the Milton Grange by the Crown, He bought and enclosed the salty marshes near Lydd and leased Belsize, which became the family "seat" from the Dean and Chapter of St. Pauls.

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My Researcher's Opinion ===
I AM OF THE OPINION after looking at the evidence of these two wives and their prior marriages, that Alice Patten Searle, who was widowed when her first husband died, married Armagil Wade in 1541, as a record exists that states so. She bore 17 children, 3 girls and 14 boys, 11 of the children pre-deceased their father who died in 1568. Only 2 of the 14 boys survived, Sir William, the oldest, (b. 1546/d. 1623) and his younger brother, Thomas (b. 1547/d. 1594). Alice MUST have died sometime soon after birth of last child (?) as Armagil definitely married again, and married Anne Marbury Bradley, who was widowed in 1558 when her first husband, Edward Bradley died. SO she and Armagil married no sooner than 1558/1559 and they had 3 children together who all died before 1568. 2 children she bore to her first husband still survived, Anne and Judith Bradley, who were named in Armagil's will in 1561. The translated statement by Sir William Wade (Waad) on the memorial to his father must be in error when it gives a death date for Alice as 1568. Maybe she died in 1558 the same year Anne was widowed and free to marry Armagil who was by then also a widower.

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(21) dead

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Life Sketch ===
"The earliest Wade listed in a widely distributed record is Armagil Waad (d. 1568) of an ancient Yorkshire family who is thought to be the first to be granted a coat oof arms. He is said to have been born in 1511 at Kilnsey, near Coniston. His mother was a daughter of Comyn and sister of Alured Comyn, Prior of St. Oswald Noslbzaker. He was one of the adventurers in Hore's voyage to North America in 1536, sailing with Oliver Daubeney and others in the 'Minion' from Gravesend. They reached Cape Breton, Canada, in about two months and also stopped at Newfoundland and Penguin Islland. His son, Sir William Waad, described him as the first English explorer of America because of this voyage ... paraphrased into the 'English Columbus' ... is equally applicable to all who sailed with him. Armagil Waad, born 1511, died at Belsize, June 20m 1568, and was buried in Hampstead Church.... Armagil was twice married,(**) His first wife was Anne, daughter of Thomas Marbury (Merbury), a merchant of London. His second wife was Alice, daughter of Richard Patten (d. 1536). Alice was the widow of Thomas Searle of Essex and sister of Wm Patten. By her, Armagil had 17 children. His 3 children by his first wife and 11 of the 17 by his second wife all died before his own death. The eldest surviving son was Sir William Waad; another was Thomas (1547-1594)." [this source also records tha Alice died in 1568 as well]

See "The Wades The History of a Family....of Zachary and Mary Hatton Wade....in Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, So Carolina, No Carolina, and other states." by Zada Wade Beadles. At University of Wisconsin https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062512942&view=1up&seq=18
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(**) According to his Bio in the History of Parliament, he had 17 children by his FIRST wife, Alice Patten Searle, and 3 children by his SECOND wife, Anne Marbury Bradley. Of these 20 children, all 3 by his second wife pre-deceased him, and 11 of the 17 from his 1st wife. Of his 20 children, 6 survived their father, the oldest being Sir William Waad and a younger son Thomas named in Armagil's will (drawn 1561). It is therefore reasonble to presume that the Edward Wade I and Armiger Wade, who claimed to be descended from Armagil Waad I WERE NOT descended from Sir William, but from the other surviving son of Armagil's, Thomas.
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(**) Another history records: "And to Alice Patten, who bore to her husband seventeen children, of whom two sons and three daughters at present survive, who having lived her life most chastely and piously, returned her soul to her creator in the year of our Lord 1568." Stated by her son, Sir Wm Wade on the memorial to her husband and his father, Armagil Wade. THIS statement tells us that Alice Patten was the SECOND wife, not the first wife, and that she died same year as her husband, 1568.

See pg. 98 in "The Wade genealogy : being some account of the origin of the name, and of the lost folkstory of the famous hero, Wada, particulars and pedigrees of famous Englishmen of the name : and genealogies of the families of Wade of Massachusetts and New Jersey, to which are added many miscellaneous pedigrees" in sources.
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Armagil was buried in Hampstead Church (now destroyed) with a monument, the memorial plaque of which was written in Latin. According to early 20th century genealogist Stuart Charles Wade, it translated as:

"Sacred to the memory of Armigel Waad, the best and most kind of parents, a descendant of an ancient Yorkshire family, Secretary of the Privy Council of Henry VIII and Edward VI, and a justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex, who--proficient in very many of the most important arts, excellently versed in civil jurisprudence, very familiar with many languages--discharged divers most honorable embassies and was the first English explorer of the Indies of America. By his two wives, Alice Patten and Anne Marbury, (d) he gave to the world twenty children, and after a life honorably and most conscientiously passed, died in the spring of the year 1568, when on the 20th day of June he placidly fell asleep in the Lord... William Waad, the eldest son and heir, and also Secretary of the Lady Elizabeth's Privy Council, has erected this monument."

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I AM OF THE OPINION after looking at the evidence of these two wives and their prior marriages, that Alice Patten Searle, who was widowed when her first husband died, married Armagil Wade in 1541, as a record exists that states so. She bore 17 children, 3 girls and 14 boys, 11 of the children pre-deceased their father who died in 1568. Only 2 of the 14 boys survived, Sir William, the oldest, (b. 1546/d. 1623) and his younger brother, Thomas (b. 1547/d. 1594). Alice MUST have died sometime after birth of last child (?) as Armagil definitely married again, and married Anne Marbury Bradley, who was widowed in 1558 when her first husband, Edward Bradley died. SO she and Armagil married no sooner than 1558/1559 and they had 3 children together who all died before 1568. 2 children she bore to her first husband still survived, Anne and Judith Bradley, who were named in Armagil's will in 1561. The translated statement by Sir William Wade (Waad) on the memorial to his father must be in error when it gives a death date for Alice as 1568. Maybe she died in 1558 the same year Anne was widowed and free to marry Armagil who was by then also a widower.

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Working on Wade Line ===
Greetings to All Family Researchers on the Wade (Waad) families. I am Bonnie Harris, a professional historian and researcher. I am a direct descendant of the Hamptons of Virginia and have been researching how the Hampton and the Wade families in early Colonial Virginia connect. I can positively say that I am a direct descendant of Margaret Wade, daughter of a James Wade but from there back it gets murky, with existing attempts to connect this Wade line to Edward Wade I who was the first to come over to Virginia on the ship “Paule” in July 1635. And then there are attempts to connect him to Sir William Wade (Waad), stockholder in the Virginia Company and a very famous guy. PROBLEM with that, is that Sir William only had ONE surviving son of his two marriages, and that was a James Wade, not to be confused with the James Wade mentioned above. SSOoooo… Edward cannot be the son of Sir William Wade. He COULD be the son of Sir William’s ONLY surviving brother, Thomas Wade (b. 1547, d. 1594) as I have found no information for Thomas regarding a family. Or Edward could be descended from an Arthur Wade in England, b. about 1550-70, who had a son Christopher Wade, a line that looks to be unrelated to the Sir William Wade family. OR Edward could somehow be related to Armagil Wade extended family members, Armagil being the father of Sir William Wade. Descendants of Edward Wade claim that he maintained he was descended from Armagil Wade. THENnnnnn…. there is ANOTHER Wade that shows up in Virginia Clerk and Court records in the 1640s, an Armiger Wade, who will become a Burgess in Virginia Colonial Government in 1656. I have no idea yet where he is supposed to belong, except that he too is claimed to be descended from Armagil Wade, father of Sir William Wade, BUT he cannot be the son of William Wade either. I’M WORKING ON IT. So consequently, I have been into lots of great old genealogy records for Armagil and William and working on the Wade line. Be patient with me as I edit and merge duplications and erroneous connections. The Wade Immigrants to British Colonies in America 1. Following Names, Dates, Ships, and destinations of departure taken from The Original Lists of Persons…1600-1700 by John Camden Hotten. a. Passengers out of London, 1635: i. Robert Wade, age 35, boards the “Paul” April 3 to St. Christophers (West Indies). pg. 50. ii. Nic[olas] Wade, age 19, boards the “Faulcon” April 13 to Barbados (West Indies). pg. 63. iii. George Wade, age 16, boards the “Mathew” May 21 to St Christophers (West Indies). pg. 82. iv. Edward Wade, age 24, boards the “Paul” July 6 to Virginia. pg. 103. v. George Wade, age 19, boards the “Primrose” July 27 to Virginia. pg. 115. vi. John Wade, age 21, boards the “Constance” October 24 to Virginia. pg. 136. b. Passengers by the Commissions and Soldiers According to the Statute, Christmas 1631 to Christmas 1632 i. Jonathan Wade, 22 June 1632, transported to New England. [no age, no ship named]. pg. 150. ii. William Wade, of Bodmin, age 33, 1634, Passengers in the “Robert Bonaventure” for St. Christophers (West Indies). pg. 153. c. Bound for New England, 20 March 1635 i. Richard Wade of Simstuly [sic ~ probably Simsbury, abbrev. for Symondsbury], 60 yrs. old. cooper. pg. 300. ii. Elizabeth Wade, his wife, 6? yrs old iii. Dinah Wade, his daughter, 22 yrs old d. Parish Registers ~ Burials i. Hannah, wife of John Wade, 22 April 1678 2. Following excerpt from The Wade Genealogy : being some account of the origin of the name, and of the lost folkstory of the famous hero, Wada, particulars and pedigrees of famous Englishmen of the name : and genealogies of the families of Wade of Massachusetts and New Jersey, to which are added many miscellaneous pedigrees. by Wade, Stuart C. (Stuart Charles), d. 1904. a. “The was the age of Colonization in Virginia, New England, and New Jersey. It was but natural that the namesakes of ‘the English Columbus’ Armigel Wade, should have considerable part in this great emigration. Accordingly we find, in Virginia, form 1646 or earlier, the names of Wades, some even bearing the peculiar Christian name of Armiger, and so undoubted descendants of the explorer. In New England, the record dates from 1632, when Jonathan, Nathaniel, and Nicolas Wade, wealthy yeomen of the English county of Norfolk, settled around the present site of Boston, Massachusetts. In New Jersey, the family honor was sustained by Benjamin Wade, a clothier, who was for a while in Jamaica, Long Island, proceeding thence to Elizabethtown, in New Jersey, where he was one of the earliest settlers.” pg. 61 b. “in 1624, Willian Wade was supplying water-casks to ships bound for Surat [Barbery Coast, Africa], and on October 16. 1624, Robert Wade died on the Charles River in Virginia, accidently shot in the arm.” pg. 57. c. “Let us look at the facts at Yorktown in Virginia …. In the county records a Henry Wade appears as early as 1646. There is a will of Armiger Wade who lived in York county in 1644, and was burgess in 1657, and the Clerk of the Cunty and Circuit Courts reports the frequent occurrence of the names of Armiger Wade, Edward Wade, Thomas Wade, William Wade, John Wade, Richard Wade, James Wade, Joseph Wade, and Mildred Wade. These, as surely as human speculation can be correct, were descendants of that worthy Armigel Wade of England, who was no inconsiderable figure in the history of his own land.” pg. 84. d. “Sir William Waad, subscribed £75 to the funds of the Virginia Company, and actually paid £144, 10s. He was one of those who purchased the Somers Island (the modern Bermudas) from the Virginia Company on November 25, 1612, and resigned them to the Crown of England, November 23, 1614. How important a factor he was in the early colonization of Virginia fully appears from a perusal of Alexander Brown’s Genesis of the United States, and the Calendar of the State Papers. We find that Zuniga, the Spanish Ambassador at the English Court, seldom forwarded a report to his master, without referring to the acts or sayings “of the Knight Wed,” as he styled Sir William Waad, who was a Member of Council for Virginia in 1606, and a member of Council for the Virginia Company in 1609.” pg. 113. e. “Considering and dealing with the various families of Wade, we now reach the notable and numerous family of Wade in New Jersey, and afterwards, Ohio. This branch dates, so far as any researches in American records can disclose, from Benjamin Wade, born in 1646, who came from Jamaica in Long Island, New York, about 1675, and settled at Wade’s Farms or Connecticut Farms … an early ancestor, Robert Wade, born before 1727, who is said to have been captured by the French in the colonial wars, and died, a prisoner of war, in a fortress of sunny France, while Annias Wade was also a soldier in the French and Indian War, 1759 … From the New Jersey records, … a list of no less than twenty-one members of the family … fighting for freedom and all that liberty implied. They range in rank from Major Nehemiah Wade, who died in the service from exposure, to the simple private soldier who … served in the New Jersey line until Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown. … Major William Wade was a prominent officer in the United States Army in the War of 1812. … Then the pleasant places of Ohio began to attract the Wades … Columbia, in Hamilton County, Ohio, commemorates on a centennial inscription, Thomas C. Wade, of this family, one of the first boatload of pioneers, landing there in 1788, and founding the Baptist Church, the first Protestant place of worship organized in the then, new North West.” pg. 228. 3. From “History of Parliament” online at www.historyofparliamentonline.org: a. In the entry for Sir William Waad in the History of the Parliament (see sources) it is disclosed that according to Sir William's will, which was drawn up 1 April 1618, Sir William had only 1 surviving son, which had to have been the only son of his second wife, Anne (Browne), James Wade. Sir William's first son, Armagil Wade II, son by his first wife, Anne Waller, had to have pre-deceased him. At the time the will was drawn, April 1, 1618, his only surviving son was still a minor - so it could not have been Armagil II, who in 1618 would have been 29 years old had he been alive, so he was deceased before 1618. Sir Wm's will also discloses that 8 daughters were born to him by his 2nd wife. b. According to Bio of Armagil Waad I in the History of Parliament, he had 17 children by his first wife, Alice Patten Searle, and 3 children by his second wife, Anne Marbury Bradley. Of these 20 children, all 3 by his second wife pre-deceased him, and 11 of the 17 from his 1st wife. Of his 20 children, 6 survived their father, the oldest being Sir William Waad and a younger son Thomas named in Armagil's will (drawn 1561). It is therefore reasonable to presume that the Edward Wade I and Armiger Wade, who claimed to be descended from Armagil Waad I WERE NOT descended from Sir William, but from the other surviving son of Armagil's, Thomas. 4. National Archives Ships List – American Genealogical Research Society. Edward Wade Immigrated from England on board the ship Paule in July , 1635 a. “Will of Edward Wade, pages 11-13, 9 Nov 1675. Proved 24, Apr 1677 at Court for York County, Edward Wade of Hampton Parish in New York CO. TO be buried in the orchard I now live by my family. To may son, William Wade, 100 acres of land in Hampton Parish. To my grandson, Samuel Bond, 150 acres at the head of Ware Creek in New Kent County, but if he should die without issue, then to my daughter Jane the wife of Jeremiah Laundy. To my wife Jane, two servants, William Greystoke and Anne Elmore, and my old grey gelding. To William Wade, my son, furniture and one servant, John Constant. To my grandchild Edward Wade, one mare foal, my mare Rose. To my daughter Dorothy, the wife of Thomas Huncocke [sic] the first mare foal that my old mare shall bring forth. To my son Edward Wade one cow between

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