Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameRichard BRACKETT 355
Birth Dateabt 1550-4
Birth PlaceSudbury, Suffolk, England
Burial Date26 May 1626
Burial PlaceLong Melford, England
FatherWilliam BRACKETT (~1515-)
Misc. Notes
According to Threlfall’s GMC50356, “RICHARD BRACKETT (William, William) was probably born about 1550-1554 at Sudbury, Suffolk, England, where his family had lived for several generations. On 25 September, 1589, at All Saints Church, Sudbury, he married Alice Harper. This must have been a second marriage for him, for it was too late for the births of Richard, Rose, Peter and Tobias, who must have been his children, and certainly for Margerie, whose baptism is recorded. By Alice he had one or two children. Then she died and was buried on 17 May 1595 at Saint Peter’s in Sudbury. He then married for a third time, on 4 February 1601/2 at Long Melford, the widow Greengrasse. Long Melford is the next town to the north of Sudbury.

“He and his son, Richard, junior, were on a jury in Long Melford in 1609 and again on 8 June 1612. On 16 June 1617, Richard Brackett surrendered a tenement, which he had taken on 20 June 1614, so that it might be regranted to himself and his wife, Elizabeth. This amounted to a renewel of a farm lease. It would imply that Elizabeth was the former widow Greengrasse. Richard Bracket, senior, was buried on 26 May 1626 at Long Melford.” An account of Richard’s eight children follows. Threlfall’s sources are given as “Parish Registers; Bishop’s Transcripts; Probate Records at Bury Saint Edmunds.”357
Spouses
Death Datebef 25 Sep 1589
Misc. Notes
Threlfall358 was unable to determine the name of Richard Brackett’s first wife.
ChildrenRichard (~1582-)
 Tobias? (~1587-)
 Peter (~1582-)
 Margerie (bp. 1583-)
Burial Date17 May 1595
Burial PlaceSudbury, Suffolk, England
Marr Date25 Sep 1589
Marr PlaceSudbury, Suffolk, England
ChildrenRobert (bp. 1593-)
Marr Date4 Feb 1601/2
Marr PlaceLong Melford, Suffolk, England
ChildrenEdward (bp. 1603-)
Last Modified 10 Jul 1999Created 1 Dec 2017 using Reunion for Macintosh
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