Rebecca STEELE

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From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Steele-51
Richard Steele II
Born 12 Apr 1549 in Fairstead, Essex, England
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Son of Richard Steele and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of Elizabeth (Graham) Steele ? married 10 Jan 1585 in Fairstead, Essex, England
DESCENDANTS
Father of George Steele, Richard Steele III, John Steele Sr, William Steele MP and George Steele
Died 12 Jan 1631 in Fairstead, Essex, England

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Biography
Richard Steele, son of Richard was baptized at Fairstead, Essex, 21 Apr 1549.[1][2]

He was buried at Fairstead, 12 Jan 1631, aged 82.[1]

Richard married Elizabeth ______ who was buried at Fairstead 4 Apr 1626.[1]

Children:

George Steele. George Steele called John Steele his brother in his will.[1]
Ric[hard] Steele bpt Fairstead 4 Feb 1588, s/o Ric.[3]
John Steele bpt Fairstead 12 Dec 1591. John Steele, son of Richard, married Rachel Talcott, at Fairstead 10 Oct 1622.[1][4]
Sources
? 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Jacobus Donald Lines. George Steele of Hartford and his son James. The American Genealogist 36:186 (1960) Link at AmericanAncestors ($)
? "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JWKS-9JF : 21 March 2020), Ric Steele, 1549.
? "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J7W4-7Y3 : 21 March 2020), Ric Steele, 1588.
? "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NRMQ-8ZW : 21 March 2020), John Steele, 1591.

Richard married Elizabeth GRAHAM on 10 Jan 1585 in Fairstead, Essex, England. Elizabeth (daughter of Richard GRAHAM and Rosannah DOBBINS) was born in 1565 in Fairstead, Essex, England; died on 4 Apr 1626 in Fairstead, Essex, England; was buried on 4 Apr 1626 in Fairstead, Braintree, Essex, England, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Elizabeth BARFLETE
• Name: Elizabeth TALCOTT

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Richard married Margaret in 1540 in Fairstead, Essex, England. Margaret was born in 1524 in Fairstead, Braintree District, Essex, England; died on 4 Apr 1626 in Fairstead, Braintree, Essex, England; was buried on 4 Apr 1626 in Fairsted, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Richard married Rosannah DOBBINS in 1564 in Essex, England. Rosannah (daughter of James DOBYNS and Elizabeth Ann SKILES) was born in 1551 in Fairstead, Essex, England; died in 1600 in Fairstead, Braintree District, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Robert married Lady Ann HELLER. Lady was born on 1 Jan 1503 in Fairstead, Essex, England, United Kingdom; died on 13 Oct 1551 in Fairstead, Essex, England, United Kingdom; was buried on 13 Oct 1551 in Fairstead, Braintree, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Cause of Death: ; At the Battle of Pinkie
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• MilitaryService: ; The Battle at Pinkie Cleugh
• Office: ; Member of the House of Lords
• TitleOfNobility: ; 4th Earl Of Bargany
• TitleOfNobility: ; Lord Chamberlain of Scotland
• TitleOfNobility: ; Sheriff of Dunbartonshire

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Graham was the eldest son and heir of William Graham, 1st Earl of Montrose by Annabel, a daughter of John Drummond, 1st Lord Drummond. The Grahams were a long-established family of Norman origin, who first rose to prominence in the reign of David I.

Montrose succeeded to the earldom as a minor, following the death of his father at the Battle of Flodden. In 1525, he was one of a number of lords selected to attend personally on the King and in June 1535 he was appointed an ambassador to France in connection with the King's marriage. On 29 August 1536, he was named as one of the Commission of Regency during the King's absence in France until the King returned in 1537 with Madeleine of Valois.

Montrose supported the King in his struggles with the pro-English faction led by Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus and was rewarded on 29 May 1542 with a grant in feu of the King's lands of Rathernes and Blacksaugh, in Strathearn. (He afterwards also acquired the neighbouring lands of Orchill and Garvock.)
Following the King's death, Montrose was present at the Parliament held at Edinburgh on 15 March 1543 and voted for the election of the Earl of Arran as regent for the infant Mary, Queen of Scots. However, when differences arose between the Regent and Cardinal Beaton, Montrose supported the latter.[1]

Montrose remained a leading member of the Regent's Council and was rewarded on 11 January 1546, for his personal attendance on the Queen, with a charter of many of the lands forfeited by the Earl of Lennox (at least until Lennox's restoration to favour in 1564). In November 1547, Montrose took part with the Regent in the unsuccessful siege of Broughty Castle, following its surrender to the English after the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh.[1]

Montrose was not present at the Reformation Parliament of 1560 and was the only nobleman to attend the Queen's first mass on her return from France in 1561. In 1563, the Bishop of Dunblane identified Montrose to Pope Pius IV as remaining true to the Catholic faith.

Although Montrose was made a member of the Privy Council on 6 September 1561, he is not recorded as having attended any of the Queen's Parliaments after her return from France. He favoured the Queen's marriage to Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, but steered a middle course during the tumultuous upheavals that followed. Thus, he dissented from the deposition of the Queen and her imprisonment at Loch Leven Castle between 1567 and 1568, and joined the Queen at Hamilton, following her escape; but he did not take the field in her support and his grandson and heir was on the other side.

Montrose died at Kincardine on 24 May 1571.

Family

In December 1515 Montrose married Janet Keith, daughter of William, 3rd Earl Marischal. She died between 27 August 1546 and 25 August 1547. They had numerous children:[1][2]

Robert Graham, Master of Graham, who was killed at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh on 10 September 1547. By his wife, Margaret Fleming, daughter of Malcolm Fleming, 3rd Lord Fleming, he had a posthumous son, John Graham, 3rd Earl of Montrose, who succeeded to the earldom on Montrose's death.
Alexander Graham of Wallaceston, who married Marion, the daughter of George Seton, 3rd Lord Seton and widow of Hugh Montgomerie, Earl of Eglinton.
William Graham, the Rector of Killearn, who died in about 1597
Mungo Graham of Rathernis, who married (contract 26 March 1571) Marjorie, daughter of Sir William Edmonstone of Duntreath, was Master of the Household to James VI for many years and died before 15 May 1590
Margaret Graham, who married (contract 17 February 1535) Robert, Master of Erskine
Elizabeth Graham, who married George Sinclair, 4th Earl of Caithness
Agnes Graham, who married (contract 15 April 1547) Sir William Murray of Tullibardine
Janet Graham, who married Sir Andrew Murray of Balvaird, their children included David Murray, 1st Viscount of Stormont and Patrick Murray
Christian Graham, who married Robert Graham of Knockdolian

William married Lady Janet KEITH, Countess of Montrose on 21 Dec 1515 in Montrose, Angus, Scotland, United Kingdom. Janet (daughter of Sir William KEITH, 2nd Lord Keith and Lady Elizabeth GORDON) was born in 1494 in Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland; died on 25 Aug 1547 in Montrose, Angus, Scotland, United Kingdom; was buried after 25 Aug 1547 in Auchterarder, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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James married Elizabeth Ann SKILES. Elizabeth was born about 1531 in Woodford, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom; died after 1589 in Fairstead, Braintree district, Essex, England, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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