John married Elizabeth Cope 1551. Elizabeth (daughter of Sir John Cope, Knight and Lady Bridget Raleigh) was born 2 Aug 1523, Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire, England; died 30 Sep 1584, Canons Ashby Parish, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: David Dryden

Sir married Lady Isabel Nicholson. Lady was born 1504, Staffe Hill, Walton, Cumberland, England; died 1560, Staffe Hill, Walton, Cumberland, England. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

David Dryden, the son of William Dryden of Walton was recorded in Selkirk Scotland as late as 1536, together with his son Thomas confirmed as being 20 years old. David's marriage recorded in the Northamptonshire Visitation of 1564 lists his wife as Isabel Nicholson from Cumberland in England, who on these dates must more logically must have been from the Nicolson merchant family of Aberdeen and Edinburgh in Scotland. That is the same family whose heir acquired the Dryden estates near Edinburgh from the current John Sinclair of Dryden in 1591. It appears to be no accident that most of the border and English Drydens of the early 1500s also appear as merchants.

Sir married Lady Bridget Raleigh Lady (daughter of Sir Edward Raleigh, Knight and Anne Chamberlayne) was born 1506, Farnborough, Warwickshire, England; died 6 January 1558, canons ashby, Nottinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

When Lady Bridget Raleigh was born in 1506, in Farnborough, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Sir Edward Raleigh, was 33, and her mother, Anne Chamberlain, was 28. She married Sir John Cope in 1522, in Northamptonshire, England. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 22 January 1558, in Ashby St Ledgers, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 52, and was buried in Ashby St Ledgers, Northamptonshire, England.

habitational name from Raleigh (House) in Pilton (Devon), recorded as Radeleia in 1086 and Rawlegh in 1535. The placename probably derives from Old English rǣge ‘roe deer’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.

History: The English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh (1554–1618) was born in Hayes Barton, Devon, into a family of Devon gentry. He was related to most of the West Country's important families, including that of Sir Francis Drake. His half-brother was the explorer Sir Humphrey Gilbert. In 1578 Raleigh was granted a patent to explore and colonize “unknown lands” in America. In the 1580s he was granted extensive estates in Munster (Ireland), in reward for his suppression of the Desmond Rebellions.

Sir married Anne Chamberlayne. Anne was born Abt 1478, London, Middlesex, Kingdom of England; died 20 Jun 1530, Farnborough, Warwickshire, Kingdom of England. [Group Sheet]

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• Birth: Abt 1478, London, Middlesex, Kingdom of England
• Death: 20 Jun 1530, Farnborough, Warwickshire, Kingdom of England