[Ancestor] Reade

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Husband [Ancestor] Reade

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1 M Thomas Reade ¹

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         Spouse: Mary [Unk] (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Reade

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The Reades were among the reigning princes of Northumberland, Kent, Wessex and Mercia, and all seem to have been of the same blood and allied politically. Withred was king of Kent in the seventh century. Their seat was at Rede in the hundred of Merdinnie, now Marden. Here many of the kinsfolk by name of Reade resided. Sir Walter Scott in "Rokeby" alludes to a slab in Elsden Church which describes the family as having been seated in Redesdale nine hundred years. The Redes of the Cragg of Redesdale descended from the elder branch of Redes of Trough-end Redesdale, and until recent years (1913) held lands granted by the crown prior to the conquest.
The original coat-of-arms of the Reades, described in heraldic terms, is "Azure; a griffin sergeant, or rampant, or clowed gules;" this emblem was of great antiquity and was borne by Cerdicus (Cedric), the Saxon, when he landed in Britain. The crest was an eagle sable, with wings extended, beak and claws gold-the heraldic motto, "Avi Numerantur Avorum." (Translated: "They exhibit a long line of ancestors.") Two Saxon ealdormen, Cedric and son Cynric, founded in 495 a settlement on the coast of what is now Hampshire. That settlement grew into the kingdom of England. Twenty-four years after their first landing the two Saxon ealdormen deemed their position strong enough and their conquests wide enough for them to assume the kingly title. Thus began the royal line of the West-Saxons, which became the royal line of England.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 228.