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Personal data Lady Dorothy Button 


Household of Lady Dorothy Button

She is married to John Drake.

They got married


Child(ren):

  1. William Drake  ± 1596-1640 
  2. John Drake  1591-1636
  3. Mary Drake  ± 1594-< 1643


Notes about Lady Dorothy Button

==Biography==She was the daughter of William Button She married John Drake, son of Sir Bernard Drake and Gertrude Fortescue on the 2nd of March 1585http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/drake-john-1560-1628.She was buried on the 13 Dec. 1631.

== Sources ==
*Vivian, John Lambrick, The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Herald's Visitations of 1531, 1564, & 1620 (Exeter: H.S. Eland, 1895.), p. 297
*Drake, Louis Stoughton, The Drake Family in England and America, 1360-1895, and the Descendants of Thomas Drake of Weymouth, Mass., 1635-1691 (Boston: D. Clapp & Son, 1896.), pp. xii, xiii
*Thomas Westcote. A View of Devonshire in MDCXXX: With a Pedigree of Most of Its Gentry. Publisher W. Roberts, 1845. Pg. 467.[https://books.google.ca/books?id=WJGEAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA467&lpg=PA467&dq=Eleanor+Drake,+who+married+John+Button+of+Wiltshire&source=bl&ots=dHChOjdLKo&sig=_p0WsbIpu3h3qV1HCDb6uhIPt8U&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiPsb-szP_WAhUL5IMKHZfgAfYQ6AEIQDAI]
*Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association..., v. 20 (1888), p. 117

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Drake_(died_1628) (Husband)
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Ancestors (and descendant) of Dorothy Button

Dorothy Button
1562-1631


John Drake
± 1566-1628

William Drake
± 1596-1640
John Drake
1591-1636
Mary Drake
± 1594-< 1643

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Historical events

Day of death December 13, 1631

  • Stadhouder Prins Frederik Hendrik (Huis van Oranje) was from 1625 till 1647 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1631: Source: Wikipedia
    • May 18 » In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.
    • May 20 » The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War.
    • May 30 » Publication of Gazette de France, the first French newspaper.
    • June 20 » The Sack of Baltimore: The Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates.
    • September 17 » Sweden wins a major victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld against the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
    • October 10 » Thirty Years' War: An army of the Electorate of Saxony seizes Prague.


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