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The Mead family of Buckinghamshire


Generation No. 4


4. RICHARD4 MEAD (RICHARD3, RICHARD2, WILLIAM1) was born 1626 in Soulbury, Bucks., and died 1690 in Mursley, Bucks.. He married JOANE ?.


      Children of R
ICHARD MEAD and JOANE ? are:
7. i.   JOHN5 MEAD.
  ii.   FRANCIS MEAD, b. 1663; d. 1732, Aylesbury.
  iii.   ROBERT MEAD, d. 1725, Aylesbury; m. ANN.
  iv.   WILLIAM MEAD, d. 1723, Soulbury, Bucks..
  Notes for WILLIAM MEAD:
William Mead was the High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1716. Buried at Soulbury.


  v.   MATTHEW MEAD.
  vi.   SAMUEL MEAD.
  vii.   JOANE MEAD.
  viii.   SARAH MEAD.
  ix.   REBECCA MEAD.
  x.   MARY MEAD.


5. WILLIAM4 MEAD (RICHARD3, RICHARD2, WILLIAM1) was born 1627 in Soulbury, Bucks., and died 1713 in Goosehays, Romford, Essex. He married (1) MARY LAWRENCE. He married (2) SARAH FELL, daughter of THOMAS FELL and MARGARET ?.

Notes for W
ILLIAM MEAD:
A leading Quaker. He was arrested and tried with William Penn in 1670 for preaching the Quaker faith in London. The jury refused to find them guilty and were locked up. They were in jail for several days, but refused to change their verdict.



      Child of W
ILLIAM MEAD and MARY LAWRENCE is:
  i.   JONATHAN5 MEAD, b. 1679; d. 1680.
      Child of WILLIAM MEAD and SARAH FELL is:
8. ii.   SIR NATHANIEL5 MEAD, b. 1684; d. 1760, Litchfield Street, London.


6. MATTHEW4 MEAD (RICHARD3, RICHARD2, WILLIAM1) was born 1629 in Soulbury, Bucks.. He married ELIZABETH WALTON 1654 in St. Mary Woolnoth, London.

Notes for M
ATTHEW MEAD:
The Revd. Matthew Mead, born in 1629 and baptized at Soulbury on 7th March of that year. In 1648 he was elected scholar and on 6th August 1649 admitted a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. He resigned in 1651. He then became morning lecturer at St. Dunstan’s Church, Stepney. He resided in Gracechurch Street. In 1656 he became a member of the Congregational church formed at Stepney by Greenhill in 1644. In 1658 he was appointed by Cromwell to the “new chapel” at Shadwell (St.Paul’s). From Shadwell, as from his lecturership, he was displaced by the Restoration, but obtained a lecturership at St.Sepulchre’s, Holborn, from which he was ejected by the Uniformity Act of 1662. In 1663 he was living at Worcester House, Stepney. Either the Conventicle Act or the Five Miles Act, which came into operation in 1666, drove him to Holland. He seems to have been in London during the great plague of 1665. In 1669 he became assistant to Greenhill in Stepney and after Greenhill’s death succeeded him as pastor. In 1674 a meeting house was built for Mead at Stepney.

There is a theory that Matthew (or possibly one of his brothers) was the father of the William Mead who emigrated to Pennsylvania and was the ancestor of the Quaker Meads of PA and Loudoun Co, VA. So far this is unproven.



      Children of M
ATTHEW MEAD and ELIZABETH WALTON are:
  i.   MATTHEW5 MEAD, b. 1655.
  ii.   SAMUEL MEAD, b. Abt. 1657; d. 1733.
  Notes for SAMUEL MEAD:
Councillor at Law, of Lincolns Inn. Buried in MiddleTemple, Temple Church.


  iii.   ROBERT MEAD, b. Abt. 1659; d. 1762; m. MARY GIDEON.
  Notes for ROBERT MEAD:
Commander of the Man of War Marlborough at the taking of Gibralter in 1704.


9. iv.   REBECCA MEAD, b. Abt. 1660; d. 1734.
  v.   JOHN MEAD, b. Abt. 1663.
10. vi.   ANNA MEAD, b. Abt. 1670.
  vii.   JAMES MEAD, b. Abt. 1671; d. 1763.
  Notes for JAMES MEAD:
Buried in Middle Temple with his brothers Samuel and Richard.


  viii.   RICHARD MEAD, b. 1673, Stepney, London.; d. 1754; m. (1) RUTH MARSH; m. (2) ANNE ALSTON.
  Notes for RICHARD MEAD:
Physician to His Majesty, George II. Buried in Middle Temple, Temple Church with his brothers. There is a memorial to him, with a bust, in Westminster Abbey. On the memorial is his Coat of Arms: the Mead Coat of Arms (a chevron between three pelicans) flanked by the Coats of Arms of his two wives.



  ix.   ELIZABETH MEAD, b. Abt. 1680.


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