Robert Reynere (abt. 1525 - bef. 1571)

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Biography

[Note: see sources listed below for link to a complete transcription of Robert Reynere's Will]

...the will of Edward Raynor ... was probated in Elmset, England on July 7, 1621.

After mentioning his "son Thurston" three times in the will, Mr. Raynor bequested sums of money to others, including "Ann, Marie, John, Edward and Robert, sons and daughters of my late son Edward Raynor, deceased."

Mr. Matthews kindly shared a copy of the will. He also shared a copy of a will written by an earlier ancestor, Robert Reynere of Wickham Market, County of Suffolk, England, on October 4, 1571. Robert Reynere's great-grandson Edward sailed to Massachusetts with his uncle Thurston. The boy's mother had died in England before his father. Orphaned, Edward joined the children of his uncle Thurston and aunt Elizabeth on their voyage to the "new world." Thurston ultimately settled in Southampton.

Mr. Matthews quotes Donald Linus Jacobus, editor-in-chief for many years of the American Genealogist, on the origin of the Raynor family in England. Jacobus' statement, summarized briefly follows: The Raynors derived from Robert Reynere of Wickham Market, Suffolk, who died testate between October 4 and December 5, 1571. His son Edward Raynor of Elmsett in the same county, made a will on March 22, 1620, proved July 7, 1621, which names his sons Edward, Richard, John, Samuel, Thurston and Robert, and daughter Anne, wife of Robert Lewes of Great Bricet, Suffolk, as well as a son-in-law Henry Pinson until the grand-children's 18th birthday.^[1]

Children of Edward Reynere and (unknown):

1. Edward.
2. John, m. and was the father of children in 1571.
3. Dorothy, unmarried in 1571.
4. Rose, unmarried in 1571

Sources

1. ↑ Suffolk County Historical Society Museum, Riverhead, on Long Island: Letters of George W. Matthews of Cutchogue.

• English Origins of New England Families, Vol. 1 [database online]. Includes a transcription of Robert Raynere's complete Will. https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/48555/EnglishOrigins1Vol1-000420-182
• RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project:Our Kingdom Come ID:I74614

https://longislandgenealogy.com/Surname_Pages/raynor.htm#google_vignette

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Dale Burdick for starting this profile. Click the Changes tab for the details of contributions by Dale and others.