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Susan Caesar (Ryder)

Also Known As: "1st wife"
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Death: June 1590
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Daughter of Sir William Ryder, Lord Mayor of London and Elizabeth Ryder
Wife of Sir Thomas Caesar MP
Mother of Thomas Caesar and Alice Rodney (Caesar)
Sister of Mary Lake and Ferdinando Ryther

Managed by: Woodman Mark Lowes Dickinson, OBE
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About Susan Caesar

Thomas Caesar m. (1) Susan (d. June 1590; her mother’s name was Chapman), 1s. 2da., all d.v.p.;


Sir William Caesar married thrice. His first wife died in 1590, leaving three children, who all died in infancy. His second wife was Anne, daughter of George Lynn of Southwick, Northamptonshire, and widow of Nicholas Beeston of Lincolnshire; she died without issue. By his third wife, Susan, daughter of Sir William Ryder, Lord Mayor of London in 1600, whom he married on 18 Jan. 1592–3, he had eight children, three sons and five daughters, who all survived him.

Ryder's will, dated November 1610, was proved on 2 Dec. 1614 (Lawe 119). He left bequests to ‘Christe Churche Hospitall,’ to the prisoners in Ludgate, Newgate, and each of the compters, for the benefit of Drayton school in Shropshire, and to the poor of Low Leyton and of Mucklestone, where he was born. Among his estates he enumerates lands in Greenwich, Stepney, Leyton, Great Dunmow, and Eythorne Manor in Kent. The daughters disputed the terms of the will; though Sir William had obviously in- tended to divide his property equally, ‘as if there went but a payer of cheers betwene them.’ [DNB]


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