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Thomas Petre

Birthdate:
Birthplace: West Horndon, Essex, England
Death: 1638 (28-37)
Immediate Family:

Son of William Petre, 2nd Baron Petre and Catherine Petre
Husband of Ursula Brooke
Father of Winifred Petre
Brother of Elizabeth Sheldon; Robert Petre, 3rd Baron Petre; Marie (Mary) Roper; William Petre, of Bellhouse; Edward Petre and 5 others

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About Thomas Petre

  • Thomas PETRE
  • Born: 1606
  • Father: William PETRE (2° B. Petre of Writtle)
  • Mother: Catherine SOMERSET (B. Petre of Writtle)
  • Married: Ursula BROOKE
  • Children:
    • 1. William PETRE
    • 2. Walter PETRE
    • 3. Francis PETRE
    • 4. Winifred PETRE
  • From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/PETRE.htm#Thomas PETRE1 ____________
  • A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and ... by John Burke
  • https://archive.org/details/agenealogicalan00goog
  • https://archive.org/stream/agenealogicalan00goog#page/n286/mode/1up
  • Pg.264
  • SIR WILLIAM PETRE, of Tor Brian, Devonshire, secretary of state to HENRY VIII. married, for his second wife, Anne, daughter of Sir William Browne, lord mayor of London in 1514, and was father of
  • SIR JOHN PETRE, who was elevated In the peerage as Lord Petre, Baron of Writtle, in 1603. His Iordship married Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Waldegrave, knt. of Barclay, in Essex, and was s. at his decease in 1637 by his son,
  • WILLIAM, second Lord Petre, of Writtle, who married Catherine, second daughter of Edward, fourth Earl of Worcester, and had
    • I. ROBERT, third Lord Petre.
    • II. William, ancestor of the Petres of Bellhouse.
    • lII. Thomas.
    • IV. JOHN, of whom presently.
    • V. Henry.
    • VI. George
    • I. Elizabeth, m. to William Sheldon, esq. of Beoley, in Worcestershire.
    • II. Mary, m. to John, Lord Teynham.
    • III. Catherine, m. to John Carrel, of Harting, in Sussex.
  • The fourth son,
  • THE HON. JOHN PETRE, waa of Fidlers, in Essex. He married thrice. By his first wife, Elizabeth (who d. in 1658), daughter of Thomas Pordage, esq. of Radmersham, he left, at his decease in 1696, a son and successor,
  • JOHN PETRE, esq. of Fidlers, who married Mary, daughter of Sir Francis Mannock, bart of Gifford's Hall, and was father of
  • JOSEPH PETRE, esq. of Fidlers, who m. Catherine, daughter of Sir William Andrews, bart. of Hildersham, in the county of Cambridge, and left at his decease, in 1721, a son and heir,
  • JOHN PETRE, esq. of Fidlers, who m. Anne, daughter of Sir Robert Throckmorton, bart of Weston, and had (with other issue, who d. s. p.) a daughter, MARY, who married FRANCIS CANNING, esq. of Foxcote, and was ultimately sole heir to the family of Petre of Fidlers. _________________

Third son of William Petre, 2nd Baron Petre of Writtle. Source: Burke, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain, vol. 3, p. 264.

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1605
1605
West Horndon, Essex, England
1638
1638
Age 33
1650
1650