DUDLEY Family Summary

17-18C, Terling, Essex

7 Richard DUDLEY bc1665

m Mary BROMLEY 1709

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6 Richard DUDLEY 1718-1765

m Elizabeth OSBOURN 1748

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5 Elizabeth DUDLEY 1751-1824

m Samuel WENDON 1785

Richard DUDLEY married Mary BROMLEY at Terling in 1709 and founded an extensive DUDLEY family at in the parish. He was not a native of Terling however and his place of origin is not known. At least three of his sons remained in the parish and headed family trees of their own.

One of them, Richard, was a blacksmith who married Elizabeth OSBORN in 1748 and had three children in the parish. Their second daughter Elizabeth married a widower, Samuel WENDON in 1785. Although at one time, the overseers of the poor removed her and Samuel to Witham, she returned to Terling and was buried there in 1824.

There is a family legend that the DUDLEYs descended from an illegitimate child of the “Earl of Dudley”. Possibly this refers to Robert DUDLEY, Earl of Leicester favourite of Queen Elizabeth, since there is a tenuous connection between Terling and the Earl: chancellor Thomas AUDLEY (of Audley End 20 miles from Terling) had a daughter Mary baptised at Terling c1541; her sister Margaret, born c1540, married Henry DUDLEY, brother of the Earl when she was only 14. But this is all 150 years before the birth of Richard and it seems unlikely that an illegitimate child would take the DUDLEY surname! The curious similarity of DUDLEY and AUDLEY however might prove interesting.

INDEX OF MARRIAGES ON THE DUDLEY FAMILY TREES

SURNAME DATE/PLACE MARRIAGE TREE MARRIED TO:

BOICE (ROICE) Hannah 23Oct1821 Terling ESS DudlT6 DUDLEY Timothy

BRANN Martha Trigg 19Oct1841 Terling ESS DudlT6 DUDLEY Thomas

BROMLEY Mary 26Apr1709 Terling ESS DudlT0 DUDLEY Richard

COCKERTON Sarah 3Aug1802 Terling ESS DudlT6 DUDLEY William

DRAKE Sarah 13Aug1771 Terling ESS DudlT6 DUDLEY Thomas

GROUT Joseph 1833 Ashford KEN DudlT6 DUDLEY Sarah

HURRIL Mary wid 5Oct1745 Terling ESS DudlT0 DUDLEY Thomas

MINOTT Elizabeth wid 22Jan1790 Hatfield Peveril ESS DudlT6 DUDLEY William

OSBORN Elizabeth 1748 Boreham ESS DudlT0 DUDLEY Richard

RAMSEY Sarah 30Dec1805 Witham ESS DudlT6 DUDLEY Daniel

ROICE see BOICE Hannah

ROSE Sarah 26Mar1744 Terling ESS DudlT0 DUDLEY George

SAUNDERS Charles S T 1866 Hobart Australia DudlT6 DUDLEY Sarah Ann

SAUNDERS Em c1860 Australia DudlT6 DUDLEY George

TAYLOR Sarah 1Apr1766 Terling ESS DudlT6 DUDLEY George

THURGOOD Frances 10Mar1753 Terling ESS DudlT0 DUDLEY George

THURGOOD Joseph 30Dec1765 Terling ESS DudlT6 DUDLEY Sarah

TILBROOK Hannah 24Dec1776 Terling ESS DudlT6 DUDLEY John

VALENTINE Charles 22Apr1779 Terling ESS DudlT6 DUDLEY Hannah

WENDON Samuel 12Jul1785 Terling ESS DudlT0 DUDLEY Samuel

WOOD Susan 9Dec1831 Terling ESS DudlT6 DUDLEY William

WORM M c1860 Australia DudlT6 DUDLEY Robert

OUTSTANDING QUESTIONS

1) B7. Origin of Richard DUDLEY, born around 1680, married at Terling in 1709