Agnes Keyes

Thomas Keyes, born by 1524, was the son and heir of Richard Keyes, esquire, according to Richardson, Richard Keyes was of East Greenwich, Kent, while according to Bindoff, he was of St. Radegund's Abbey near Dover, who was twice married. His first wife was Agnes Saunders, daughter of Henry Saunders of Ewell, Surrey and according to Richardson, Thomas Keyes was the son of his father's first marriage.

From The Sergeant-Porter: Thomas KEYES.

Thomas Keyes was, according to BURKE ["Peerage & Baronetage," 1949, pp.1115-17], born in 1523. His mother was one of Richard's two wives, and probably the first - Agnes, daur of Sir William SAUNDERS, Treasurer of Calais & after Cofferer to Queen Mary (SIC: Henry Saunders & Joan Lepton). Richard re-married, before 1531, to Mildred, widow of John DIGGES or Berham, & daur of Sir John SCOTT of Scott's Hall, Smythe Parish, Co Kent.

Some historians have said that Thomas KEYES was a distant cousin of Queen Elizabeth; Richard KEYES' 2nd wife shared a common descent with Elizabeth from the WOODVILLEs; but BURKE [Op. Cit.] recorded Thomas as a son of the earlier marriage.

Among his siblings, some or all of whom may have been half-siblings, were:

• 1. William KEYES, the 2nd son, named in his father's will, 1546.
• 2. Sybell KEYES; named in her father's will.
• 3. Bennett KEYES; named in a Visitation pedigree, & in a 1914 pedigree by William Jackson PIGOTT of Dundrum, Co Down.
• 4. Edward KEYES; present at his brother's 2nd marriage in London, 1564.
• 5. Reginald KEYES; Lieutenant, Sandgate Castle, 1564; in the Army, 1588.

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• KEYS, Thomas (by 1524-71), of St. Radigund's, near Dover, Kent.
• http://powys.org/pl_tree/ps05/ps05_150.html "In her father's will he thought she was to marry Richard Keys, son of Thomas Keys of Estgrenewiche, Kent, gent."