On Jul 4, 12:35 pm, jmt <jeanmarietur...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> If anyone can help me with the parents of Anne Heydon and Roger le
> Strange, as well as their children, I would appreciate it very much.
>
> What I am actually trying to straighten out is the ancestry of Thomas
> Gray, the Ancient Planter. Most seem to agree that his parents were
> Catherine le Strange and Edward Gray - it is Catherine's history that
> has me bogged down.
>
> Thank you!
Aside from the unreliable LDS files, what is the evidence that the
mother of Catherine le Strange was Anne Heydon? For that matter, what
evidence is there that her father Roger was of the family of Strange
of Hunstanton (as stated in a Grey pedigree in the [new] History of
Northumberland)?
There was in fact a Sir Roger le Strange of Hunstanton who mar. an
Anne (or Amy) Heydon (of the family of Baconsthorpe), and the parents
of this couple can be easily determined. But this Sir Roger d. 27 Oct
1506 and Anne/Amy d. in 1510 (will proved 16 Jan 1510 - probably
1510/1). They had one son John who died before his father. Aside
from the fact that she's not mentioned in either Heydon or Strange
pedigrees, it's highly unlikely from a chronological standpoint that
Catherine was their daughter, since she was married about 70 or 75
years after their deaths (before 6 Oct 1581).
[The above is based on Rev. G. H. Dashwood's edition of the 1563
Visitation of Norfolk]
I too would be interested if anyone can solve the conundrum of
Catherine's ancestry - but I don't think that the Heydon connection is
the right answer, and perhaps not even the Hunstanton connection.
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