A Maine Family's History - Davis / McDowell

Mennis

Menis, Mennis, Mennys, Mennes

Ann / Eliza MENIS / MENNIS / MENNYS [Elizabeth per Visitation of Kent - Ann per other sources]

Children: Matthew; William; Alice married Stephen Richardson / Richeson; Rebecca married Stephen Ruck

Rebecca MENIS / MENNIS / MENNYS his cousin

Children: Matthew married Alice Ward daughter of Andrew / Ambrosij; John knighted by King Charles I in 1641; Richard born 1577, married Joan Dale daughter of Ralph of London; Thomas; William of Cantuar; Lucy

The Visitation of Kent Taken in the Years 1619-1621: Will'mus Reade - Will'mus Reade married Eliza filia et haeres ... Men[n]is had children Matheus s.p., Will'mus Reade [de Folkeston de cantij] married Rebecca filia et coheir ... Menis [amita Mathei Menis Militis, Alicia vx' Stephani Richeson, Rebecca vx Stephani Ruck. William & Rebecca Menis had Matheus fil. p'mogenitus [de Folkeston com. Cangij. ob't circa an. 1625] married Alicia filia Ambrosij Ward, Joh'es 2 [obijt caelebs], Will'mus [Reade de Cantuar obijt circa ann. 1630 d3 Medio Templo 2 fil. superstes A 1634] married Lucca filia Michaelis Heneage, Ric'dus [de civitat London grocer 3 filius superstus A 1634 obijt circ. ann. 1657 aet. 8 (sir.) married Joanna filia .... Dale 4ta filia et cohaeres Milliemi Dale de London, grocer]. William Reade & Lucca Michelis Heneage had children Joh'es [Reade Gray's Inn obt caeleb.], Will'mus, Rebecca, Anna [nupta Thomae Hatton de Lond. mercatori], Children of Matthew Reade and Alice Ward: Will'mus [obitj caelebs], Ambrosus, Eliza [nupta Henrico Oxenden de Dean in com. Cantij], Benneta [nupta Johanni Michell de Richmond in com. Surray]. Children of William Reade & Lucca Heneage: Joh'es [Reade Gray's Inn obt. caeleb], Will'mus, Rebecca, Anna [nupta Thomae Hatton de London mercatori]. Children of Rec'dus Reade & Joanna Dale: Will'mus, [Richard Read de Whitlesey in Insula Eliens armiger aetat. 45 ann. 1684 unus Justitiarior ad Pacem Regis pro Insula Elicusi married married Margareta filia Henrici Atkinson de Whitlesey in Insul. Eliens, Rebecca uxor Johannis Ellis de Lond. Armigeri Draperi, Elizabethi. Children of Richard Reade and Margareta Atkinson: Henricus Read iam superstesinnuptus aet. 20, Ricardus aet. 8 annor., Johannis aet 5 anno 1684, Rebecca aetat. 18 ann. caelebs, Sara aet. 13 ann., Joanna aet. 11 ann., Anna aetat. 6 ann] Mennys. Andreus Mennis Children: Tho; fil. p'mus obijt

The Ancestry of Katherine Choate Paul: Brianus de Rede of Morpeth in the year 1139 had three sons to wit 1 Robert of Rede whose son of that name was bishop of Carlisle 2 William who was bishop of Chichester 3 Thomas of Redydale. William bishop of Chichester had a son Robert who had a son Galfrinus who had sons 1 William who m Margaret Glanville 2 Thomas of Redydale 3 Robert whose son held the manor of Hallbury in the seventh year of King Henry VI. Thomas of Redydale had one son Edmond who owned an estate at Heddington Oxon and another son Thomas living in 1429 who had himself a son Thomas who had an estate at Heddington married Christiana daughter of Robert James Lapole and sister of Michael De Lapole lord chancellor and had sons 1 John who was mayor of Norwich 2 Edmond who m Alice 3 Thomas who had estates in Wrangle Boston Burg or Bury Winthrop Bennington Leake and Lineston. John the mayor of Norwich had a son Edward who married Isiod Stanley and had himself sons 1 John who m Joan Ludlow and d Nov n 1502 2 Bartholomew who was mayor of London in 1502-3; Robert who m Margaret Alphew of Chiddingstone and became chief justice of the King's Bench; 4 William b about 1450 who was a professor of divinity. The last named William had a son Sir William who married Ann Menis and himself had a son William who married Rebecca the daughter and co heir of Menis and had children as follows 1 Matthew who married Alice Ward, 2 John who was knighted by King Charles I, 3 Richard who m Joan Dale of London lived there in 1657 aged eighty seven years and had besides Richard of Whittlesey in Kent and Rebecca, a son William believed to have been that William Reade who came to New England about 1635 settled at Weymouth Mass and removed thence to Boston 4 Thomas, 5 William, 6 Lucy. Matthew Reade who married Alice Ward had 1 William who m Lucy Henage, 2 Daughter who m Sir Henry Oxinden of Dene, 3 Elizabeth who m Morace Dixwell Esq of Broome in Kent. And William Reade who married Lucy Henage had sons 1 John believed to have been that John Reade b 1598 who came to New England in Winthrop's company lived at Weymouth, Dorchester, and Braintree and having settled finally at Rehoboth died there Sep 7 1685; 2 William believed to have been that William Reade b 1605 who settled at Weymouth Mass. 9069 WILLIAM READE of Weymouth Mass born in 1605 was a brother of John of Weymouth. Dorchester. Braintree and Rehoboth and having left Gravesend. England in the ship Assurance July 24 1635 settled at Weymouth became a freeman there Sep 2 1635, bought house and land there of Zachary Bicknels in 1636. and represented the town in general court in 1636 and 1638. His wife who came also from England was Avis Deacon. Their children born in Weymouth were 1 Margaret b 1636 m John Viningm 2 Hannah b 1637 8 m Nicholas Whitmarsh, 3 William b Oct 15 1639 m Esther Thompson, 4 Esther b May 8 1641, 5 Ruth b 1642 m John Whitman, 6 Thomas b 1645 m Sarah Bicknell, 7 Mary b 1647 d Apr 16 1655, 8 John b 1649 m first Bashua and second Bethiah Frye, 9 James m Susannah Richmond. 8069 HANNAH READE born in Weymouth about 1637 8 married there Apr 2 1658 Nicholas Whitmarsh 8006 of that place and resided and doubtless died there.

Facetiae, Musarum deliciae: Sir Matthew Mennis is in Aristis Garter's Observations introductory to an Historical Essay upon the Knighthood of the Bath erroneously called Sir Matthew Manins. The Mennis family bore gules a chevron vairy azure and or three leopards faces of the last and were mentioned in a visitation of Kent by the heralds in 1619. Hasted the Kentish historian had the MS but it was burnt. Ed