Lady Anne Lechford

• ID: I051463
• Name: Anne Lusher
• Sex: F
• Birth: BET. 1535 - 1557
• Death: 1579
• Father: George Lusher b: BET. 1492 - 1515
• Mother: Alice b: BET. 1494 - 1533
• Marriage 1 Richard Lechford b: 1547

Children

• 2. Thomas Lechford
• 3. William Lechford

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Disputed children

Sir Richard Lechford, Kt ... married (1) say about 1558, Anne Lusher, born say abt 1535-40; who perhaps died after 9 Sept 1572 since the visitation of that date does not call her deceased; daughter of George Lusher of Oxenford, co. Surrey. The children are: Henry; Richard; John; Thomas; Elenor; Elizabeth."

• There is no daughter Mary known
• There is no daughter Sarah known.

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1. Thomas Lechford, Esq.; Edited by Edward Everett Hale, Jr. & others, Note-Book kept by Thomas Lechford, Esq. (Picton Press; Camden, Maine; 1988

" Introduction:

Sir Richard Lechford, Kt ... married (1) say about 1558, Anne Lusher, born say abt 1535-40; who perhaps died after 9 Sept 1572 since the visitation of that date does not call her deceased; daughter of George Lusher of Oxenford, co. Surrey. The children are: Henry; Richard; John; Thomas; Elenor; Elizabeth."

Sir Richard Lechford b.1547, and Ann Lusher 1551-1579, Ann Lushers family line leads back to Kings of England, Edward I Plantagenet

Source:

Here was my source at that time; I now have my own copy of this book.

1. Thomas Lechford, Esq.; Edited by Edward Everett Hale, Jr. & others, Note-Book kept by Thomas Lechford, Esq. (Picton Press; Camden, Maine; 1988

" Introduction:

Sir Richard Lechford, Kt ... married (1) say about 1558, Anne Lusher, born say abt 1535-40; who perhaps died after 9 Sept 1572 since the visitation of that date does not call her deceased; daughter of George Lusher of Oxenford, co. Surrey. The children are: Henry; Richard; John; Thomas; Elenor; Elizabeth."

"Fact 1. Sir Richard Lechford married Anna Lusher, dau. Of Georg Lusher of Oxenford. The Visitations of Surrey, 1530, 1572 and 1623.

Fact 2. As of September 9, 1572 there were 6 children of the marriage, the eldest Henry, brothers Richard, John and Thomas, and sisters Elenor and Elizabeth. No Sarah is listed. Op. Cit.

Fact 3. Anne Lusher Lechford was buried on May 16, 1579 in Leigh. Vital Records of Surrey – Leigh. I have found nothing to establish her DOB, but it is possible she was still of child-bearing age."
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Sir Richard Lechford, Kt ... married (1) say about 1558, Anne Lusher, born say abt 1535-40; who perhaps died after 9 Sept 1572 since the visitation of that date does not call her deceased; daughter of George Lusher of Oxenford, co. Surrey. The children are: Henry; Richard; John; Thomas; Elenor; Elizabeth."

References

1. Bannerman, W.B., ed. (1899). The Visitations of the County of Surrey made and taken in the years 1530 by Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux King of Arms; 1572 by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms; and 1623 by Samuel Thompson, Windsor Herald, and Augustin Vincent, Rouge Croix Pursuivant, marshals and deputies to William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms. Harleian Society, 1st ser. 43. London. “Lechford.” Page 43. < Archive.Org >
2. :(English Will Registry) 1. Archdeaconry of Surrey, Register Berry (1608-1614), folio 316.'The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 54. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1900 - New England. Vols. 37-52 (1883-98) include section: Genealogical gleanings in England, by H. F. Waters. https://books.google.com/books?id=HsYMAAAAYAAJ
   1. Page 215. https://books.google.com/books?id=HsYMAAAAYAAJ&vq=Lechford&pg=PA215... Archdeaconry of Surrey, Register Berry (1608-1614), folio 208. [These wills show the utter jumble of the Lechford pedigree in Manning Bray's "Surrey." Thomas Lechford of the Note Book was probably a grandson of Sir Richard, not a son, as often suggested.-L. W.] For an account of Sir Richard Lechford, his wife Eleanor Morgan, and the sons John and Thomas, children by his first wife Ann Lusher, see a sketch of the life of Thomas Lechford, prefixed to the publication of his diary and written by J. Hammond Trumbull, Esq. No proof has ever been presented to establish the identity of the diarist and the Thomas mentioned in Dame Lechford's will. WALTER K. WATKINS.]
3. Note-book Kept by Thomas Lechford, Esq., Lawyer: In Boston, Massachusetts ... By Thomas Lechford, p. vii < Archive.Org >
4. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lusher-8
   1. Marriage ; Arundel Castle Archives, vol II MD54, dated 21 September 1559 : "Settlement, with bond, on the marriage of Richard Lecheford (son of Henry Lecheford of Leigh, co. Surrey) and Anne daughter of George Lussher. Lands (no details) in Yorkshire and Surrey."
   2. Burial : St Bartholomew's parish register, Leigh, Surrey held at the Surrey History Centre in Woking, ref. 2869/1/1. Images available on Ancestry