Lady Thomasine Thomas

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mildmay-13

Thomasin Mildmay was daughter of Thomas Mildmay of Chelmsford, and his wife, Anne Reade. [1] By 1541 she was the wife of Anthony Bourchier, son of Maurice Bourchier. [1]Together they had three sons and a daughter. Anthony died 13 July 1551 at the manor of Barnsley in Gloucestershire, the family home. [2]

By 1553 Thomasin was married again, to one William Thomas MP whose origins are uncertain. She bore her second husband one daughter. It was Thomasin's misfortune that her husband became involved in the plotting to prevent the Queen's Spanish marriage. He went on the run. William was captured on 20th February 1554 and committed to the Tower. He was tried at Guildhall on 9th May and on the 18th was dragged from the Tower to Tyburn where he was hanged and dismembered. His head was set on London Bridge, his quarters on Cripplegate. [3]

Queen Mary was not vindictive. On 13 December 1554 she granted Thomasin all her husband's goods and the Manor of Garway.

References

• “Sir Walter Mildmay and Tudor Government.” Stanford E. Lehmberg. GoogleBooks - not listed.
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Reade-94
• Visitation of Essex 1612 Page 251: Mildmay Archive.Org
• http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/bo...
• http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/th...
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86037910/thomasine-bourchier
• The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States: who were themselves notable or left descendants notable in American history, with a 2008 Addendum, Coda, and Final Additions. Baltimore, MD: Gen Pub Co, 2008. NYPL APK 08-4216. Author, Gary Boyd Roberts
• https://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/mm4fz/mildmay1.php
• “Records of the Anglo-Norman House of Glanville from A.D. 1050 to 1880 ...” By William Urmston Searle Glanville-Richards. Page 169. GoogleBooks “Atkyn's 'Hist. of Gloucestershire,' p. 130, says Ralph Johnson and Dorothy his wife, who had livery of the manor of Barnesley in 16 Henry VIII. (1525), sold it to William Bourchier, Esq., son of Anthony Bourchier, and of Thomasine, sister of Sir Walter Mildmay, and daughter of Sir Miles Mildmay.”