Susanna Dudley

Susan Thorne

• b. 5 March 1560, d. after 29 October 1588
• Father Thomas Thorne, Gent.b. c 1518
• Mother Mary Purefoy b. c 1521, d. a 9 Nov 1588

Susan Thorne was christened on 5 March 1560 at Yardley-Hastings, Northamptonshire, England.

She married Capt. Roger Dudley on 8 June 1575 at Lidlington, Bedfordshire, England;

Children

• Thomas Dudley baptized October 16, 1576 in Yardly Hastings, Northamptonshire. Gov. Thomas Dudley, Judge of the Common Pleas b. 12 Oct 1576, d. 31 Jul 1653.
• Mary Dudley baptized October 16, 1580 in London St. Dunstan. (?)
• Francis Dudley, gen, [well born], bp 10 June 1583, Hardwick, Northamptonshire

The will of Thomas Dorne (Thorne) of Yardley Hastings, Gent., dated 29 Oct 1588, bequeathed "to the children of Susan Dudley, my Daughter, widow, £10 to be equally divided". (S1, S11). Therefore, Roger was dead at the time of the will of his father-in-law, which, written in 1588, eliminates the Battle of Ivry as a possible date for his death. It is most probable that he died at the Siege of Zutphen in 1586, having followed his kinsman, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, who was a principal figure in that battle, which also claimed the life of Leicester's nephew Sir Philip Sidney.

References

• http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2992.htm#... cites
• [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 280-281. [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 600. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 97. [S6] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 57.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 476. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 96-97.
• *“Francis Dudley, an Unknown Brother of Gov. Thomas Dudley.” Barry E. Hinman. TAG Vol. 174, Fall 2020. Page 301-302. PDF
• http://www.jeaniesgenealogy.com/2016/04/governor-thomas-dudley-of-m... cites
• [1] "England Select Marriages, 1538-1973," database, Ancestry (https//:www.ancestry.com : accessed 24 April 2016) entry for the marriage of Roger Dudley and Susan Thorn on 8 June 1575 at Lidlington, Bedford.
• [2] Cotton Mather, The Life of Mr. Thomas Dudley, several times governor of the colony of Massachusetts, (Cambridge: Press of J. Wilson and Son, 1870), 5.
• [3] Mather, The Life of Thomas Dudley, 5
• [4] Author Unknown "Thomas Dudley and Dudley Family," The Harvard Computer Society (http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~dundergr/history.html : accessed 24 April 2016).
• [5] Robert Charles Anderson, The Winthrop Fleet, (Sabine, Michigan : McNaughton and Gunn, 2012) 285.
• [6] H. Allen Curtis, "Roger Dudley's Father Proved to be Captain Henry Dudley," Roger Covalt's Web Site (http://www.covalt.org : accessed 24 April 2016).