Bridget Drury

• from "Suffolk manorial Families", Vol. 1, pt. 9, 1899 by Joseph James Muskett.
• http://www.genealogysource.com/muskett346.htm
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  • Drury of Thurston
• John Drury of Thurston, in Com. Suffolke, Esquier, sonne and heire tempre Kinge Edward first, 19, 1291. = Amabell daugh. of Thomas Newton, Esquier. Sables, too shanke bones in Salter argente.; ch: Sr Roger, Nicholas (m. Agnes Saxham) Drury.
• Nicholas Drury of Thurston in Com. Suffolke, esquier, sonne & heire, died 3rd 13 of Kinge Edw. 3d ao 1339; Will 7 Rich. 2, 1381, Cullum. = Agnes, sole daughter and heire of Sr Symond Saxham, Kt.Joane??, Joan in his will. Oullum.; ch: Sr Roger (m. Margarett Naunton), Nicholas (m. Joanne Heathe), John Drury.
• *Nicholas Drury of Saxham's in Thurston in Suffolke, 2d sonne, & of Hawsted, buried with his wife. Will, Gage, p. 428, Arch. Sudh., 4 Jan. 1454, proved 2 Sept. 1456. See note above. = Joanne, daugh. to Thomas Heathe, esquier, of Mildenhall. ch: DRURY OF HAWSTEAD.
  • *This Nicholas and Thom Heathe for love of John a Gaunte theire Captayne they tooke their voyage wt him into Spayne and theye have assumed to them Sellefs the Crosse Tawe in the Cheffe of there Armes ever since that tyme for the Howse of Hawsted. Whilste he Florished at Thurston in the Auweiente house of Saxhams, which lande wt others Came by his Mother beinge heire to her father to him allso did desende the Mannor of Hawsted wt others: he lyeth Buryed wt his wyfe in Thurston Church in a Chapell over aganst his fathers chap: where his Armes doeth appeare wt his Crosse Tuny. See below, Nicholas Drury.
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  • Drury of Hawstead.
• Nicholas Drury of Saxham's in Thurston, made will, Arch. Sudb., at Bury St. Edmunds, 4 Jan. 1454, proved 2 Sept. 1456. To be buried near his parents in Thurston church. Names Sir Roger Drury, his late brother; Felice, wife of his son, Roger Drury, &c. = Joan, dau. of Thomas Heath, Esq., of Mildenhall.; ch: Roger (m. Agnes _ & Felice Denston & Agnes Hanningfield), Elizabeth (m. _ Monk), Henry (m. Elizabeth Eaton) Drury.
• Roger Drury, Esq., bought Hawstead, 3 Edw. 4. Will, Cur. Ep. Norw., 20 Jan. 1493. Inq. p.m. 13 H. 7. Ob, 31 Jan. H. 7. = Agnes, named in husband's M.I. = Felice, dau. & heir of William Denston of Besthorpe, co. Norfolk.; ch: Felice (m. Jas. Andrews), John, Roger, William (m. Margaret Briggs), Sir Robert (m. Anne Calthorpe & Anne Jerningham), Katherine (m. Sir Henry L'Estrange & Sir Robert Ratcliff) Drury.
• Sir Robert Drury of Hawstead, of the Privy Council of King Henry VII. Will, P.C.C. 32 Hogan, 8 Feb. 1535. Inq. p.m. 27 H. 8, Altar tomb in St. Mary's, Bury. = Anne, 1st wife, dau. of Sir William Calthorpe of Burnham Thorpe, co. Norff., who made will, Cur. Ep. Norw., 1491. Harl. MS. 10.; ch: Bridget (m. Sir John Jernegan), Sir Wm. (m. Joan St. Maur & Elizabeth Sotehill), Anne (m. Sir George Waldegrave & Sir Thomas Jermyn), Elizabeth (m. Sir Philip Boteler), Sir Robert (m. Elizabeth Brudenell), Ursula (m. Sir Giles Allington) Drury.; = Anne, 2d wife, dau. of Edward Jerningham of Somerleyton; widow of Lord Edward Grey and of . . . Berkeley. She m. 4th Sir Edmund Walsingham of Scadbury. Her will, P.C.C. 17 Chaynay, is dated 1 Mar. 1568.
• Sir Wm. Drury of Hawstead, of the Privy Council of Queen Mary; aet. 36, 27 H. 8. Brass at Hawstead. Will, P.C.C. 26 Dec. 1557. = Joan, 1st wife, dau. and heir of Sir Wm. St. Maur; buried in Hawstead chancel; d. 1517.; = Elizabeth, dau. and coh. of Henry Sotehill of Stoke Faston, co. Leic. Ob. 19 May 1575. His Inq. p.m. 20 H. 7. His mother a coheir of Plompton. Her will, P.C.C. 42 Pyckering, proved 1575.; ch: Anne (m. Sir Christopher Haydon), Mary (m. Richd. Corbet & John Tyrrell), Robert (m. Audrey Rich), Henry (m. Elizabeth Isaac), Frances (m. James Hobart), Bridget (m. Henry Yelverton) Dorothy (m. Robert Rokewood), Elizabeth (m. Sir Robert Drury of Rougham) Drury.
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Sir Robert Drury MP
Born about 1455 in Hawstead,Suffolk,England
Ancestors ancestors
Son of Roger Drury and Felice (Denston) Drury
Brother of Katherine (Drury) le Strange, William Drury and Felice (Drury) Andrews
Husband of Anne (Calthorpe) Drury — married before 12 Sep 1482 [location unknown]
Husband of Anne (Jerningham) Walsingham — married before 1531 [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Father of Anne (Drury) Jermyn, Ursula (Drury) Alington, Bridget (Drury) Jerningham, Elizabeth (Drury) Boteler, William Drury MP and Robert Drury

Biography

Robert Drury was born before 1456 at Hawstead, Suffolk, the eldest of four sons of Roger Drury and his second wife, Felice Denston.

He was knighted by VII of England after the battle of Blackheath on june 17, 1497. He was Speaker of the House of Commons and Privy Councilor as well as barrister-at-law. His townhouse was in Drury Lane.

His first marriage before 12 September 1482[1] was to Anne Calthorpe, daughter of Sir William Calthorpe. They are the parents of two sons and four daughters:

   Sir William Drury

   Sir Robert Drury

   Anne Drury

   Elizabeth Drury m. Sir Philip Boteler

   Bridget Drury m. Sir John Jernegan

   Ursula Drury m. Sir Giles Allington 

After Anne's death, Drury married Anne Jerningham. It was her fourth marriage, and Drury and Jerningham had no children. After Drury's death, Jerningham married Sir Edmund Walsingham and d. 1558.

On May 1, 1531 Drury made his last will, requesting burial in the chancel of St. Mary's Church beside his first wife, Anne Calthorpe. He died on March 2, 1535 and Robert and Ann are buried under a stone monument at St. Mary's Church. A wooden palisade bears the inscription "Such as ye be, sometimes were we, such as we are, such shall ye be."[2] [3] See Wikipedia for more information (#Wikipedia).
Sources

   ↑ John Gage. The History And Antiquities of Suffolk: Thingoe Hundred. (London: S. Bentley, 1838), p. 429. Their marriage is recorded by Gage to be "nup. ante 12 Sept. 21 Edw. IV, being before 12 September in the 21st year of the reign of Edward IV, which was 1482.

   ↑ The Nat'l Archives http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PROB_11-25_ff_237-9.pdf

   ↑ St. Marys Church Bury St. Edmund's County Suffolk, Burial Tomb of Robert Drury http://www.anniebees.com/Drewry/St%20Marys%20Bury.htm

Source S23592

   Title: Memoirs of Chesters of Chicheley 

Wikipedia: Robert Drury

   Richardson, Douglas Plantagenet Ancestry p. 666

   DRURY, Sir Robert I (by 1456-1535), of Hawstead, Suff. and London. The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982

   Patricia Hyde, ‘Drury, Sir Robert (b. before 1456, d. 1535)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008

   Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, in 5 vols. (Salt Lake City, Utah, 2013), Vol. V. page 38.

   Visitation of Suffolk 1577 Page 91: Drury