Thomas Rede, of Barton Court

Not the son of Thomas Reade and Dorothy Rede. See notes below.

(I) Thomas Reed, progenitor, according to the genealogy, was living in Berkshire, England at Barton Court. He married Ann, the daughter of Thomas Hoo, of the Hoo, county Hertford.

From page 7 of A Record of the Redes of Barton Court, Berks: With a Short Precis of Other ...By Compton Reade, R. Reade Macmullen

THOMAS REDE, or Reade*, stands first in the Harleian and other MSS. as founder of the Barton Court line.

Thomas Rede was buried 27th April, 1556, in the Rede Aisle, St Helen's Church Abingdon, Berks. (St. Helen's Parish Registers). His initials t were on the south porch. His wife survived him 19 years, dying in 1575. The published Pedigrees have hitherto stated that Thorn 1s Rede was living in 1575, whereas it was his widow who did not die until the close of that year. As she was styled " Lord of Dunstew " the error is easily explained.

By Anne Hoo, Thomas Rede had issue one son, Thomas, of whom presently, and four daughters, Katheryn, Elizabeth, Alice, and Marie.

origins

“The published pedigrees affirm that he was father of Thomas Rede, of Barton Court (Vide Chapter I.), and Edmonston, Wotton, Betham, and others, assigned him for w1fe Dorothy, daughter of Nicholas Beaumont, of Cole Orton. Inasmuch as Nicholas was not born until after the decease.of this Wyllyam, and Dorothy his daughter married a William Rede, of Barton-on-Humber, this allegation is transparently erroneous. Burke has altered Dorothy to the daughter of John Beaumont, of Orton on-the-Hill, but if John had a daughter Dorothy, there is no evidence to show that she married this Wyllyam, or that he was father of Thomas Rede."

The name of Reed is found not REED only in England where it has been common from the time surnames came into use and as a clan name before that time, but in Ireland, Scotland and various countries on the continent of Europe. The name at present is spelled generally in three ways: ”Reed, Reid and Reade. The genealogy of the Read family of Kent, England, dates back to 1139 to Brianus de Rede, of Morpeth on the Wensback river in the north of England.

(I) Thomas Reed, progeniter, according to the genealogy, was living in Berkshire, England, in 1575 [SIC] at Barton Court. He married Ann, the dau. of Thomas Hoo, of the Hoo, county Hertford.

(II) Thomas (2) Reed or Read, the son of Thomas (I) Reed, also lived in Barton. He married Mary Stonehouse, of Little Peckham, county Kent, and lived at Redley. He was clerk of the Green Cloth.