Wife of George Monck, 1st Lord Albemarle (q.v.). Said to have beenoriginally his seamstress. Clarendon described her as ' a woman of the lowest extraction, the least wit, and less beauty'.∼Anne, reputed dau. of John Clarges (or Clargis, as the name is written in his will), a farrier in the Savoy, by his wife Anne Leaver. She married, first, at St. Laurence- Pountney, London. 28 Feb. 1632-3, Thomas Radford (or Bedford, as the name is written in her father's will), also said to have been a farrier, but afterwards a servant to Prince Charles, residing in the Mews, in St. Martin in the Fields, Midx., from whom she separated in 1649, but of whose death before her second marriage no evidence appears to have been obtained. (It was probably his father who, as " Thomas Redford, farrier, servant to Prince Charles," was buried at St. Martin in the Fields 20 Nov. 1624.) She married, secondly, 23 Jan. 1652-3, at St. George's, Southwark, co. Surrey, General George Monk, afterwards created Duke of Albemarle (see his burial 29 Apl. 1 670). She died 29 Jan., more than three weeks after her husband (although he was not buried until three months later), said to be aged 54. (Her father, whose will was dated 20 Dec. 1648 and proved 1 Jan. following, left her £30, and made her joint executrix with her brother Thomas, who was after wards knighted.)
Source: The marriage, baptismal, and burial registers of the collegiate church or abbey of St. Peter, Westminster, edited by Joseph Lemuel Chester, London, 1876
Source: The marriage, baptismal, and burial registers of the collegiate church or abbey of St. Peter, Westminster, edited by Joseph Lemuel Chester, London, 1876
Wife of George Monck, 1st Lord Albemarle (q.v.). Said to have beenoriginally his seamstress. Clarendon described her as ' a woman of the lowest extraction, the least wit, and less beauty'.∼Anne, reputed dau. of John Clarges (or Clargis, as the name is written in his will), a farrier in the Savoy, by his wife Anne Leaver. She married, first, at St. Laurence- Pountney, London. 28 Feb. 1632-3, Thomas Radford (or Bedford, as the name is written in her father's will), also said to have been a farrier, but afterwards a servant to Prince Charles, residing in the Mews, in St. Martin in the Fields, Midx., from whom she separated in 1649, but of whose death before her second marriage no evidence appears to have been obtained. (It was probably his father who, as " Thomas Redford, farrier, servant to Prince Charles," was buried at St. Martin in the Fields 20 Nov. 1624.) She married, secondly, 23 Jan. 1652-3, at St. George's, Southwark, co. Surrey, General George Monk, afterwards created Duke of Albemarle (see his burial 29 Apl. 1 670). She died 29 Jan., more than three weeks after her husband (although he was not buried until three months later), said to be aged 54. (Her father, whose will was dated 20 Dec. 1648 and proved 1 Jan. following, left her £30, and made her joint executrix with her brother Thomas, who was after wards knighted.)
Source: The marriage, baptismal, and burial registers of the collegiate church or abbey of St. Peter, Westminster, edited by Joseph Lemuel Chester, London, 1876
Source: The marriage, baptismal, and burial registers of the collegiate church or abbey of St. Peter, Westminster, edited by Joseph Lemuel Chester, London, 1876
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