♀Anne (surname unknown)

Anne (about 1527 – buried 27 June 1586) was a mother of eight in the London parish of St Peter upon Cornhill^W, married to the baker Gilbert Satchfield, whom she outlived by eight years. A week before her burial she made a will naming her children and leaving her youngest daughter, Katherine, fifty pounds. She was the twelfth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her daughter Katherine Satchfield (1569–1627).

Family

She and Gilbert had eight known children. The two eldest, Margaret and Elizabeth, are said to have been baptized at St Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street^W, in 1549 and 1550/1; Mary, John, William, Richard and Thomas were baptized at St Peter upon Cornhill between 1555 and 1566, and Katherine, the youngest, on 27 May 1569.

Widowhood and death

Gilbert was buried at St Peter upon Cornhill on 3 January 1577/8, entered in the register as “Mr Gilbert Satchfeld Baker”; his will, spoken rather than written, was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury^W on 6 January. Anne made her will on 20 June 1586, leaving “Katherine Satchfield my daughter” fifty pounds and a long list of household goods, and was buried at St Peter upon Cornhill on 27 June, entered as “Mrs Anne Satchfeeld widow of Mr Gilbert Satchfeld Baker. Yeares 59”. Their son William, a bachelor and, like his father, a baker, was buried there on 1 September 1586.

Notes

Her name and age

Her maiden name is not known. The register gives her age at burial as 59, so she was born about 1527.

Sources

Her burial is in the parish register of St Peter upon Cornhill, printed by the Harleian Society (page 134). Her will, dated 20 June 1586, is among the wills of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury; Robert Charles Anderson summarized it in “The Conant Connection: Part One”, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume 147 (1993), pages 234–239, as having “named all children, including a bequest to ‘Katherine Satchfield my daughter’ of £50 and a long list of household goods”.

The two eldest daughters

The baptisms of Margaret (July 1549) and Elizabeth (10 January 1550/1) at St Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street, come from Boyd’s Inhabitants of London as cited in online family trees, not from the parish register itself.