Soulbury
Descendants of Richard Mead of Soulbury
Generation No. 1
1. RICHARD MEAD was born Abt. 1480 in Soulbury, Bucks, died about 1530.
Notes for RICHARD MEAD:
1522 Buckinghamshire musters. Richard Mede of Soulbury
1525 Lay subsidy. Richard Mede of Soulbury £4
Children of RICHARD MEAD are:
2. i. WILLIAM MEAD, b. Abt. 1500, Bragenham, Soulbury, Bucks.
3. ii. JAMES MEAD, b. Abt. 1500, Buckinghamshire; d. Great Brickhill, Bucks.
iii.RICHARD MEAD, b. Abt. 1510; d. 1567, Little Brickhill, Bucks; m. JOANE ?.
Notes for RICHARD MEAD:
"Richard of Brickhill" the brother of William Meade of Soulbuy in William's will of 1558.
Will of Richard Meade the Younger of Little Brickhill dated 1567.
Notes for JOANE ?:
Will of Jane Meade of Little Brickhill dated 1576.
iv.ROBERT MEAD, b. Abt. 1525.
Notes for ROBERT MEAD:
Mentioned in the will of "Richard Meade the Younger" of Little Brickhill, 1567.
Generation No. 2
2. WILLIAM MEAD (RICHARD) was born Abt. 1500 in Bragenham, Soulbury, Bucks. He married ELIZABETH ?.
Children of WILLIAM MEAD and ELIZABETH ? are:
4. i. RICHARD MEAD, b. Abt. 1540, Soulbury, Bucks.
ii. WALTER MEAD, b. Abt. 1543.
iii.AGNES MEAD, b. Abt. 1548.
iv.HENRY MEAD, b. Abt. 1550.
v. ALICE MEAD, b. Abt. 1552.
3. JAMES MEAD (RICHARD) was born Abt. 1500 in Buckinghamshire, and died in Great Brickhill, Bucks. He married JOAN ?.
Children of JAMES MEAD and JOAN ? are:
i. THOMAS MEAD, b. Abt. 1525, Stoke Hammond, Bucks. Married Joan Hull 1545 in Stoke Hammond.
ii. ANN MEAD, b. 1540, Stoke Hammond, Bucks; m. JOHN NORMAN.
iii.WILLIAM MEAD, b. Abt. 1541, Stoke Hammond, Bucks.
5. iv.RICHARD MEAD, b. 1542, Stoke Hammond, Bucks.
6. v. JAMES MEAD, b. 1544, Stoke Hammond, Bucks.
vi.MATTHEW MEAD, b. 1547, Stoke Hammond, Bucks.
vii.AGNES MEAD, b. 1547, Stoke Hammond, Bucks.
viii.JOHN MEAD, b. 1550, Stoke Hammond, Bucks.
7. ix. BARTHOLOMEW MEAD, b. 1552, Stoke Hammond, Bucks.
Generation No. 3
4. RICHARD MEAD (WILLIAM, RICHARD) was born Abt. 1540 in Soulbury, Bucks. He married ELIZABETH DEVERILL 1576 in Soulbury, Bucks.
Notes for ELIZABETH DEVERILL:
Possibly the Elizabeth Mead buried in Soulbury in Feb. 1634.
Child of RICHARD MEAD and ELIZABETH DEVERILL is:
8. i. RICHARD MEAD, b. Abt. 1578, Soulbury, Bucks; d. 1633, Soulbury.
5. RICHARD MEAD (JAMES, RICHARD) was born 1542 in Stoke Hammond, Bucks. He married JANE BRYCE 1568 in Stoke Hammond, Bucks.
Notes for JANE BRYCE:
Will of Jane Meade of Stoke Hammond dated 1592
Children of RICHARD MEAD and JANE BRYCE are:
i. THOMAS MEAD, b. 1570, Stoke Hammond, Bucks.
ii. THOMAS MEAD, b. 1572.
iii.ISABEL MEAD, b. 1574, Stoke Hammond, Bucks.
iv.WILLIAM MEAD, b. 1577, Stoke Hammond, Bucks.
v. ELIZABETH MEAD, b. 1579, Stoke Hammond, Bucks.
6. JAMES MEAD (JAMES, RICHARD) was born 1544 in Stoke Hammond, Bucks. He married AGNES BOLLAND 1566 in Ivinghoe.
Children of JAMES MEAD and AGNES BOLLAND are:
i. MARGARET MEAD, b. 1567, Ivinghoe.
ii. AGNES MEAD, b. 1569, Ivinghoe; m. WILLIAM CARTER, 1601, Ivinghoe.
iii.ELIZABETH MEAD, b. 1571, Ivinghoe; m. THOMAS CARTER, 1590, Ivinghoe.
iv.HENRY MEAD, b. 1574, Ivinghoe.
v. JOHN MEAD, b. 1576, Ivinghoe.
vi.URSULA MEAD, b. 1579, Ivinghoe.
vii.JUDITH MEAD, b. 1584, Ivinghoe.
7. BARTHOLOMEW MEAD (JAMES, RICHARD) was born 1552 in Stoke Hammond, Bucks. He married MARY CLOBBER 1585 in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire.
Children of BARTHOLOMEW MEAD and MARY CLOBBER are:
i. MARGARET MEAD, b. 1591.
ii. JOHN MEAD, b. 1597.
Generation No. 4
8. RICHARD MEAD (RICHARD, WILLIAM, RICHARD) was born Abt. 1578 in Soulbury, Bucks, and died 1633 in Soulbury. Chancery case, C78, 1631: Richard Meade the elder and Richard Meade the younger, of Bragnam.
Children of RICHARD MEAD are:
9. i. RICHARD MEAD, b. Abt. 1600, Bragenham, Soulbury, Bucks; d. 1643, Soulbury, Bucks.
ii. DOROTHY MEAD, b. Abt. 1607; m. RICHARD PALMER.
Generation No. 5
9. RICHARD MEAD (RICHARD, RICHARD, WILLIAM, RICHARD) was born Abt. 1600 in Bragenham, Soulbury, Bucks, and died 1643 in Soulbury, Bucks. He married JOANE ?.
Notes for RICHARD MEAD:
Assignment of Lease 29 Nov 1624
(i) John Barbor alias Grigg of Streatley, Beds. yeoman;
(ii) Richard Meade the younger of Bragenham, Soulbury [Buckinghamshire]. yeoman
(a) messuage in which William Markham dwells
(b) cottage in which H.Willyams dwells
Children of RICHARD MEAD and JOANE ? are:
i. ELIZABETH MEAD, b. 1623, Soulbury, Bucks..
10. ii. RICHARD MEAD, b. 1626, Soulbury, Bucks.; d. 1690, Mursley, Bucks..
11. iii.WILLIAM MEAD, b. 1627, Soulbury, Bucks.; d. 1713, Goosehays, Romford, Essex.
12. iv.MATTHEW MEAD, b. 1629, Soulbury, Bucks..
v. JOHN MEAD, b. 1632, Soulbury, Bucks..
vi.THOMAS MEAD, b. 1633, Soulbury, Bucks..
vii.SAMUEL MEAD, b. 1634, Soulbury, Bucks..
viii.REBECCA MEAD, b. 1637, Soulbury, Bucks..
ix. JOANE MEAD, b. 1639, Soulbury, Bucks..
x. SARAH MEAD, b. 1641, Soulbury, Bucks..
Generation No. 6
10. RICHARD MEAD (RICHARD, RICHARD, RICHARD, WILLIAM, RICHARD) was born 1626 in Soulbury, Bucks., and died 1690 in Mursley, Bucks.. He married JOANE ?.
Children of RICHARD MEAD and JOANE ? are:
i. JOANE MEAD, b. 1650.
ii. JOHN MEAD, b. Abt. 1653.
iii.SARAH MEAD, b. Abt. 1655.
iv.SAMUEL MEAD, b. Abt. 1658.
v. MATTHEW MEAD, b. Abt. 1660.
vi.WILLIAM MEAD, b. Abt. 1663; d. 1723, Soulbury, Bucks..
vii.ROBERT MEAD, b. 1666; d. 1725, Aylesbury; m. ANN ?.
viii.FRANCIS MEAD, b. 1668; d. 1732, Aylesbury.
ix. REBECCA MEAD, b. 1671.
x. MARY MEAD, b. 1672.
11. WILLIAM MEAD (RICHARD, RICHARD, RICHARD, WILLIAM, RICHARD) was born 1627 in Soulbury, Bucks., and died 1713 in Goosehays, Romford, Essex. He married (1) SARAH FELL, daughter of THOMAS FELL and MARGARET ASKEW. He married (2) MARY LAWRENCE.
Notes for WILLIAM MEAD:
A leading Quaker. He was arrested and tried with William Penn in 1670 for preaching the Quaker faith in London. The jury refused to find them guilty and were locked up. They were in jail for several days, but refused to change their verdict
Child of WILLIAM MEAD and SARAH FELL is:
i. SIR NATHANIEL MEAD, b. 1684; d. 1760, Litchfield Street, London; m. MARTHA SCAWEN, 1714.
Child of WILLIAM MEAD and MARY LAWRENCE is:
ii. JONATHAN MEAD, b. 1679; d. 1680.
12. MATTHEW MEAD (RICHARD, RICHARD, RICHARD, WILLIAM, RICHARD) was born 1629 in Soulbury, Bucks.. He married ELIZABETH WALTON 1654 in St. Mary Woolnoth, London.
Notes for MATTHEW MEAD:
In 1648 he was elected scholar and on 6th August 1649 admitted a fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He resigned in 1651. He then became morning lecturer at St. Dunstan's Church, Stepney. He resided in Gracechurch Street. In 1656 he became a member of the Congregational church formed at Stepney by Greenhill in 1644. In 1658 he was appointed by Cromwell to the "new chapel" at Shadwell (St.Paul's). From Shadwell, as from his lecturership, he was displaced by the Restoration, but obtained a lecturership at St.Sepulchre's, Holborn, from which he was ejected by the Uniformity Act of 1662. In 1663 he was living at Worcester House, Stepney. Either the Conventicle Act or the Five Miles Act, which came into operation in 1666, drove him to Holland. He seems to have been in London during the great plague of 1665. In 1669 he became assistant to Greenhill in Stepney and after Greenhill's death succeeded him as pastor. In 1674 a meeting house was built for Mead at Stepney.
Children of MATTHEW MEAD and ELIZABETH WALTON are:
i. MATTHEW MEAD, b. 1655.
ii. ANNA MEAD, b. Abt. 1656; m. JAMES ROLLESTON, 1676.
iii.WILLIAM MEAD, b. 1658, Stepney, London; d. 1729, London.
iv.SAMUEL MEAD, b. 1660; d. 1733, Lincolns Inn, London.
v. REBECCA MEAD, b. 1662, Stepney, London; d. 1734; m. EPAPHRAS SHRIMPTON.
vi.ROBERT MEAD, b. Abt. 1664; d. 1762; m. MARY GIDEON.
vii.JOHN MEAD, b. Abt. 1668.
viii.RICHARD MEAD, b. 1673, Stepney, London; d. 1754; m. (1) RUTH MARSH; m. (2) ANNE ALSTON.
Notes for RICHARD MEAD:
Physician to His Majesty, George II. Buried in Middle Temple, Temple Church with his brothers. There is a memorial to him, with a bust, in Westminster Abbey. On the memorial is his Coat of Arms: the Mead Coat of Arms (a chevron between three pelicans) flanked by the Coats of Arms of his two wives.
ix. JAMES MEAD, b. 1675, Stepney, London; d. 1763, Middle Temple, London.
x. ELIZABETH MEAD, b. 1679, Stepney, London.