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Anne Townsend (Brewes)

Also Known As: "Amy Brewse"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: East Raynham, Norfolk, England
Death: July 25, 1551 (75-76)
Norfolk, England
Immediate Family:

Daughter of William Brewes, Esq., of Stinton Hall and Elizabeth “Isabel” Brewes
Wife of Sir Roger Townshend, Jr., MP
Mother of Anne Castell; George Townshend; Thomas Townsend; Susan Wyndham; Giles Townshend and 5 others
Sister of Thomasine Hansard
Half sister of James Jermy; Edmund Jermy; John Jermy, IV; Elizabeth Jermy; Thomasine Brampton and 1 other

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About Anne Townsend

Sir Roger TOWNSHEND [Parents] was christened in St. Mary's Ch., Raynham, Norfolk, England. He died on 10 May 1552 in (will proved). He married Anne DE BREWSE.

[Notes]

Anne DE BREWSE [Parents] was christened in St. Mary's Ch., East Raynham, Norfolk, England. She died on 25 Jul 1551. She married Sir Roger TOWNSHEND.

They had the following children:

		M	i	 Sir Robert TOWNSEND
		M	ii	 John TOWNSEND
		M	iii	 George TOWNSEND
		M	iv	 Thomas TOWNSEND

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/DeBrewse-1

Anne is explicitly named as the second daughter of William Brewese, and wife of Sir Roger Towneshend (sic) in an Inquisition Post Morten held 19 October, 6 Henry VII (1490). She was aged 15 and more, which puts her birth about 1475.[1]

Daughter and co-heir of William Brewse of Wenham in Suffolk. [2] [3] [4]

She married Sir Roger Townshend Knt of Raynham, Norfolk. [3] [4]


http://home.worldonline.co.za/~townshend/history1.htm

Sir Roger Townsend married Anne Brewes, the daughter and co-heir of William Brewes of Stinton Hall in Norfolk. Anne's grandfather Sir Thomas Brewes had been High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1438 and 1442 and she was a descendant of the ancient Barons Braose of Bramber who settled in England with William the Conqueror.

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Anne Townsend's Timeline

1475
1475
East Raynham, Norfolk, England
1499
1499
1502
1502
1504
1504
Testerton, Norfolk, England
1504
Raynham, Norfolk, England
1508
1508
1508
1510
1510
Kavile, Raynham, Norfolk, England
1512
January 8, 1512
Ludlow, Shropshire, England (United Kingdom)