'Crosse2'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Crosse of Leverington, Crosse of Wisbech

                               
Their coat of arms ('Quarterly gules and or, in the first quarter a cross-crosslet argent') suggest that the following family was probably connected to that shown on Crosse1.
John Crosse of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire (d before 28.07.1534)
m. Katherine
1. John Crosse of Wisbech (a 1569)
  m. Jacomyne Lynde (m2. Thomas Robinson of Wisbech)
  A. John Crosse of Outwell (d before 14.06.1630)
  m. Grace Fincham (dau of Edward (probably not Robert) Fincham of Outwell, m1. Peter Fuller of Outwell)
i. daughter
  m. Anthony Williamson of Tilney (d 1652?)
  B Joan Crosse
  m. (1564) William Drew
  C. Katherine Crosse
  m. (1566) Thomas Edwards of Wisbech
  D. Audrey Crosse
  m1. (1575-6) Bart(holomew) Edwards (d 1583)
  m2. Robert Best of Wisbech (d 1588?)
  m3. Thomas Parke of Wisbech (d 1630)
  E. Mary Crosse
m. (1564) William Skortred
2. Thomas Crosse of Wisbech (a 1565, bailiff)
  A. Thomas Crosse of Wisbech (d 06.1579)
  m. (1565) Joan Pell
  i. Thomas Crosse of Leverington, Cambridgeshire (b 1567-8, d 24.07.1633)
  m. Ann Tilney (d before 19.06.1651, dau of Richard Tilney of Wisbech & East Tuddenham by Lucy Crosse)
  a. Thomas Crosse of Leverington (d 08.1644)
  m. Mary Gurlyn (dau of Thomas Gurlyn of Lyyn, m2. John Stukeley)
  (1) Thomas Crosse
  m. Ann
  (A) Mary Crosse (bpt 1664)
m. (1682) Edward Amry
  (2) Ann Crosse
  m. (1656) Thomas Jessop
  (3) Franncis (Frances?) Crosse
  b. Edward Crosse of Wisbech (d before 11.06.1646, bailiff_)
  m. (1631) Katherine Swaine (dau of Thomas Swaine of Leverington)
  (1) Thomas Crosse of Wisbech
  m. Elizabeth Amy (dau of Erasmus Amy by Ann Crosse) @@ below
  (A) Elizabeth Crosse (b 1652)
  m. Thomas Swaine of Leverington (d 1728)
  (2) Katherine Crosse
  c. Elizabeth Crosse
m. (1624) William Steward of Barton
  d. Ann Crosse (b c1601)
  m. (c1626) Erasmus Amy of Moulton
(1) Elizabeth Amy
  m. Thomas Crosse of Wisbech @@ above
  B. John Crosse (d 21.05.1620, rector of Merton)
  m. Bridget
  i. Thomas Crosse (b c1580, d before 11.10.1640, rector of Merton)
  m. Elizabeth
  a.+ issue - Edward, Katherine, Elizabeth
  ii. Katherine Crosse
  m. William Cade
  C. Lucy Crosse
  m. (20/26.11.1576) Richard Tilney of Wisbech & East Tuddenham

Main source(s): 'East Anglian Pedigrees' (Arthur Campling, 1945, vol 2, 'Crosse of Wisbech, co. Cambridge')
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