Dorothy (Browne) Lee (abt. 1575 - bef. 1653)

Born about 1575 in England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Edmund Lee Esq. — married about 1595 in England

Wife of Robert Wolverstone Gent. — married 1600 in London, England

Wife of William (Ayscue) Ascue — married after 1605 in England

Descendants

Died before 11 May 1653 before about age 78 in England [uncertain]

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Biography

Dorothy Browne was the daughter of Mary Dormer and her first husband, Anthony Browne.^[1][2][3] Dorothy's date and place of birth are unknown and are estimated.

Dorothy married three times. Her first husband was Edmund Lee,^[3] Esq., of Pitstone and Stantonbury, Buckinghamshire, son and heir of Edmund/Edward Lee and Avice Ashfield.^[1][4] They had two daughters:

• Dorothy, aged 2 at her father's death;^[5] married John Temple, Knt.^[6] and had issue; she died in 1625^[1]
• Mary, born after her father's death on 24 October 1599,^[5] wife of John Claver and Thomas Tyrrell^[1]

Edmund died 20 March 1598/9^[5] and Dorothy was granted administration of his estate on 31 March 1599.^[1][7] His Inquisition Post Mortem was ordered by writ dated 3 December 1599, naming his wife Dorothy, daughter Dorothy and daughter Mary.^[5] Edmund's daughters Dorothy and Mary eventually inherited the manor of Statonbury from his mother, Avice, after her death in August 1599.^[8]

Dorothy married second in 1600 at St. Dunstan's in the West, London to Robert Wolverstone (or Wolferstan), Gent.^[1][9] They had one son:

• John,^[1] baptized at St. James Clerkenwell, London 24 February 1603^[7]

Dorothy's husband, Robert, died before 3 June 1605, when Dorothy was named as his widow in a lawsuit.^[10]

Dorothy married third to William Ascue (or Ayscough, Ayscue), second son of Edward Ascue and Ursula Skipwith. They had no children.^[1] William died after 1616, when he was named in his father's will.^[11]

Dorothy was a legatee in the 1637 will of her mother.^[1]

Dorothy left a will dated 14 January 1652/3, proved 11 May 1653, and witnessed by William Tailor, John Pittman and Thomas Gage. In it she:^[12]

• requested burial in the church of St. Dunstan's in the West, London near her late husband, William Ascue.^[1]
• named:
  • her daughter Mary Tyrell wife of Mr Thomas Tyrell of Gipping Hall in Suffolk
  • her son John Wolverstone
  • her daughter Dorathie and her husband
  • her son in lawe Sir George Ascue, his brother William and his sister Anne late wife of Mr Francis Tompson
  • Mrs Mary Lattui? wife to Mr Thomas Lattui
  • John Wanie? citizen of London
  • her maid Elizabeth Hues
• appointed as sole executor her grandson Thomas Temple of St Martins in the Fields

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Vol. V. Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013, p. 138, TEMPLE 17.
2. ↑ Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd ed., Vol. III. Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011, p. 239-240, NELSON 16. Google Books.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Thomas Benolte, et al. The Visitations of the County of Sussex: 1530 and 1633-4. London: The Harleian Society, 1905. Vol LIII, p. 84. Archive.org.
4. ↑ Harvey, et al. Visitation of Oxford 1566, 1574, 1634 & 1574, H.S.P. 5. 1871, pp. 165–170. Google Books: Ashfield pedigree: “Edmundus Lee duxit Dorothea sororem Anthonii Browne, Vicecomitis Montacute.”
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3} J. Henry Lea. "Genealogical Notes on the Family of Lee of Quarrendon" in The Genealogist, Vol. 9, p. 31. Archive.org: IPM of Edmund Lee.
6. ↑ Frederick George Lee. The History, Description and Antiquities of the Prebendal Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Thame. London: Mitchell and Hughes, 1883, pp. 563-564. Archive.org
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} "Re: New vital dates for Dorothy (Browne) (Lee) (Wolverstone) Ayscue and Elizabeth (Bowes) Hutton" 2006 thread in soc.genealogy.medieval newsgroup. SGM
8. ↑ William Page, ed. "Parishes: Stantonbury" in A History of the County of Buckingham. Volume 4. London, 1927, pp. 462-466. British History Online.
9. ↑ Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, Volume 5. 1838, p. 216. Google Books.
10. ↑ The National Archives. Discovery. Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch: Blois Family Archives. Release of Sir Michael Stanhope, Sudborne, kt., by Sir Henry Glemham, Glemham, kt., and William Deeraugh, Gedgrave, Esq., from covenants contained in indenture concerning annuity of £50 to be paid to Dorothy Wolferston, widow of Robert Wolferston, Culpho, Esq. - ref. HA 30/312/353 - date: 3rd June, 1605
11. ↑ Arthur Roland Maddison. Lincolnshire Pedigrees, Vol. I. London: 1902, p. 62. Archive.org.
12. ↑ Will: "England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858"
    The National Archives; Kew, Surrey, England; Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Series PROB 11; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 231
    Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry uk Record 5111 #368374 (accessed 26 July 2023)
    Will of Dorothy Ascue, granted probate on 11 May 1653. Died about 1653.

• "Tidbit on Dorothy Browne d 1653 dau of Anthony Browne and Mary Dormer" 2007 thread in soc.genealogy.medieval newsgroup. SGM.

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed and updated for the Magna Carta Project on 30 July 2022 by Thiessen-117.

Dorothy (Browne) Lee appears in a trail that was identified and badged by the Magna Carta Project from Gateway Ancestors John Nelson and Margaret Nelson to Magna Carta Surety Baron Saher de Quincy in 2015. Other trails were later identified and badged from the Nelsons to surety barons John de Lacy, Gilbert de Clare, Richard de Clare, Hugh le Bigod, Roger le Bigod, Robert de Vere and John FitzRobert. All these trails were re-reviewed/updated/badged in July/August 2022. They can be viewed in the Magna Carta Trails section of John Nelson's profile.

See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".