Anne Browne
Second wife of Adam Winthrop of Groton Manor, Suffolk, whom she married in 1579/80, and probably the mother of Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts Bay and of Anne (Winthrop) Fones, through whom the Frosts descend. Probably a daughter of Henry Browne, a clothier of Edwardstone, she died in 1629, six years after her husband.
Life
- 1579Married Adam Winthrop20 Feb 1579/80
- 1629Died19 Apr 1629
"Anne died April 19, 1629" (Frost Genealogy, p. 347).
Family
- Father
- Henry Browne
"Henry Browne of Edwardstone, who was a clothier and who had wife Agnes" (Frost Genealogy, p. 347).
- Spouse
1 child
Pedigree
Notes
Second wife of Adam Winthrop of Groton Manor, Suffolk, married on 20 February 1579/80; mother of Governor John Winthrop and of Anne (Winthrop) Fones, through whom the Frosts descend. She was the daughter of Henry Browne, a clothier of Edwardstone, near Groton (source, p. 347).
She outlived her husband by six years and died on 19 April 1629, a few days after her son-in-law Thomas Fones, and six days before her granddaughter Elizabeth Fones married her grandson Henry Winthrop. A year later her son John sailed for New England.
Research: research/mcmillan/Frost_Underhill_Bowne_Feake.md.
Connections
- Famous kin
- Gov. John Winthrop
Leader of the Puritan migration of 1630 and governor of Massachusetts Bay for most of its first twenty years
Gov. John Winthrop is the 9x great-granduncle of the centre of this tree: the brother of her 9x great-grandmother, Anne Winthrop. - John Winthrop the Younger
Physician, alchemist and Fellow of the Royal Society; founder of Ipswich and New London, and governor of Connecticut, for which he won the royal charter
John Winthrop the Younger is the first cousin, ten times removed, of the centre of this tree. - Sir George Downing
Diplomat and Treasury reformer under Cromwell and Charles II, in Harvard's first graduating class; Downing Street is named after him
Sir George Downing is the first cousin, ten times removed, of the centre of this tree. - Wait Still Winthrop
Chief Justice of Massachusetts, and one of the judges of the Court of Oyer and Terminer at the Salem witch trials of 1692
Wait Still Winthrop is the second cousin, nine times removed, of the centre of this tree. - Prof. John Winthrop
Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard, who observed the transits of Venus of 1761 and 1769
Prof. John Winthrop is the fourth cousin, seven times removed, of the centre of this tree. - Robert C. Winthrop
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1847-1849, and senator from Massachusetts
Robert C. Winthrop is the sixth cousin, five times removed, of the centre of this tree. - John Kerry
Secretary of State, 2013-2017, senator for Massachusetts and the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004
John Kerry is the tenth cousin, once removed, of the centre of this tree.
- Gov. John Winthrop