Mary de la Chambre

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Burial: 20 September 1552.

Place of Burial: Preston, Sussex, England (St Peter’s).

The burial is given by the Sussex Family History Group’s transcription of the parish registers (“relicta Richardi Scras de Blatch”).

Relationships

Father: John de la Chambre (died about 1503).

Mother: Agnes (died after 2 November 1542).

These relationships are given by Comber (3:90). The inquisition post mortem of Mary’s brother, Thomas, gives his mother as Agnes, and states that she was still alive 2 Nov. 34 Hen. VIII (Attree p. 50).

Spouse: Richard Scrase (died 1549).

This relationship is given by Renshaw (p. 221), noting that Thomas de la Chambre made “my brother, Richard Scrase, of Bletchington” an overseer of his will. Richard mentions his wife, Mary, in his will.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Edward Scrase (buried 10 May 1576 in Preston) married Agnes.

Richard Scrase (died about 1573).

Jane Scrase.

Cicely Scrase.

References

Attree, F. W. T. Notes of post mortem inquisitions taken in Sussex: 1 Henry VII to 1649 and after, [1485-1649]. (London: Sussex Record Society, 1912).

England. Sussex. Genealogies of Families Living in Sussex. A database extraction of John Comber’s Sussex Genealogies (Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons, 1931 -). Mary de la Chambre.

Renshaw, Walter Charles. “Notes on the Scrase Family of Co Sussex”, in The Genealogist (New Series) Volume XX, pages 217 to 221, 1904.

Sussex Burials, transcribed by the Sussex Family History Group, available on Findmypast.co.uk (accessed 18 April 2014).