Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
Catherin Berry
1586 --
Name Catherin Berry Christened 27 Aug 1586 Lydd, Kent, England Gender Female Person ID I4961 Petersen-de Lanskoy Last Modified 27 May 2021
Father Jeffrey Berry, b. Abt 1564, of Midley, Kent, England , d. 1587, Lydd, Kent, England (Age ~ 23 years) Married Abt 1585 , Kent, England Family ID F2232 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Jeffry Berry is mentioned by name as the father on his daughter Joane's tomb in Horsmonden, which states Joane was born 14 Feb 1565 in Midley (next door to Lydd) and married in Lydd. Midley parish records no longer exist except for a couple pages of the Bishop's Transcripts. The Lydd parish records begin about 1570 and have the following entries:
- The 1584 marriage of Johan Berey to John Austen.
- A 27 Aug 1586 christening of Catherin -- dau. of Geffrey Berry.
- Jefery Berry chr. 24 Nov 1611 -- son of John Berry.
- John Berye chr 23 Nov 1595 -- son of John Berye.
Since we know Joane was born 1565 to Jeffry Berry, the 1586 christening of Catherin seems too late to be Joane's sister -- indeed we find the probate of a different Jeffrey Berry in 1587 in which only one daughter is named: Catherin. This would indicate that there were two sequential generations of Jeffreys with perhaps one being the father of the other.
John Berry is probably related since the name Jefery is used a generation later.
The next Berry records in Lydd are marriages in the mid-1750s.
2. Website http://www.genealogycrank.co.uk/pdfs/will_transcripts_kent.pdf accessed 23 May 2017:
"Jeffrey Berrye; Lydd; 1587: PRC 32/36/71b
"Memorandum that I Geoffrie Berrye of perfect mynde and Memorye thanks be to almighty God .... and ordain my last will and testament. Item I commend my soul into the hands of the almighty. And concerning my debts and legacies. Item I will and ordain my uncle Berry sole executor my sole executor and will that an inventory be thereof
taken and that he shall have the profits thereof and keep them to the use of my child until she come unto the age of 16 years or her day of marriage or first that shall happen for the bringing up of my daughter Catherine. By me Geoffrie Berry. Wit Robert Prynne, William Plummer, John Branden"
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