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RUDING, Richard
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Name RUDING, Richard Gender Male Death 8 Oct 1582 Burial St. Mary's Church, Leicester, Leicestershire
Person ID I1366 Edgoose Last Modified 2 Feb 2026
Father RUDING, John d. Yes, date unknown Mother [RUDING], Jone d. Yes, date unknown Family ID F818 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family MARCHE, Anne d. Yes, date unknown Marriage UNKNOWN Children 1. RUDING, Joane d. Yes, date unknown 2. RUDING, Jane d. Yes, date unknown [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] Family ID F817 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
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Notes
RICHARD RUDING 15??-1582
The Will of Elizabeth DRIVER late MARCHE formerly EDGOOSE (????-1578), made on the 12 day of August 1578. Probate was granted on 21 July 1579.
01*Elizabeth DRIVER, widow, the Testatrix
02 Richard DRYVER, gentleman of Limehouse, Middlesex, late husband of the Testatrix
03 John MARCHE the elder, son of the Testatrix
04 Justinian MARCHE, second son of the Testatrix
05 Thomas MARCHE the elder, son of the Testatrix
06 John MARCHE the younger, son of the Testatrix
07 Thomas MARCHE the younger, son of the Testatrix
08 Anne RUDING, daughter of the Testatrix
09*Richard RUDING, son-in-law of the Testatrix, husband of Anne RUDING
10 John MARCHE the younger's unnamed wife
11 Elizabeth BETT, niece of the Testatrix
12 Richard MARCHE, nephew of the Testatrix
13 John MARCHE, nephew of the Testatrix
14 Mary MARCHE, niece of the Testatrix, sister of Richard and John MARCHE
15 Anne MARCHE, niece of the Testatrix, sister of Mary MARCHE
16 Justinyan MARCHE's unnamed children
17 Richard RUDING's unnamed children
18 Jane RUDING, eldest daughter of Richard RUDING
19 Alice WOODFALL her maid
20 Mistress JONE RUDING
00 Unnamed children of the Testatrix's daughter Katherine
21 Goodwyffe BACCHUS
22 Katherine MALTSTER
23 Elizabeth MALTSTER
24 Anne MALTSTER
25 Joan TRAFFORD
26 Thomas GRENAM
27 Henry CHAPMAN's wife
28 Margaret MARCHE, daughter of the Testatrix
29 Reference to a bequest owing from the Testatrix's mother to her brother George DRIVER.
30 Richard RUDING, witness
31 Thomas MARCHE, witness
(PRO PROB 11/61/392)
Richard RUDING, 2d son, died Oct. 8 1582 = Anne, daughter of John DRIVER, of Limehouse, near London.
(Pedigree entitled "The RUDINGS of Westcotes, and those of Worcestershire" in The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, Volume 66 Part 1, page 218.)
(https://books.google.pt/books?i.d.=Va-BJAAYAAJ 1796)
There is a reference to arms cut on Richard RUDING's tombstone in St. Mary's Church, in Leicester. He died in 1582.
(ibid)
NOTE: Anne RUDING was the product of Elizabeth EDGOOSE's marriage to Richard MARCHE rather than that of her second marriage to Richard (sic) DRIVER.

![[RUDING], Jone](img/female.jpg)