'Rudge1'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Rudge of Evesham, Rugge of Seysdon, Rudge (Rugge) of Trysull
[this page was reivewed & expanded on 02.03.25 using Crisp. After that, what had been the lower section below was moved to Rudge2.]

                               
John de Rugge of Seysdon, Staffordshire (a 1324)
1. Richard de Rugge (a 1335, 1384)
  A. Roger de Rugge (a 1415)
  m. Joan Wilkins (dau of William Wilkins of Bridgenorth)
  i. Thomas de Rugge of Seysdon (a 1448, 1463)
  m. Anne Shenton (dau of Thomas Shenton)
  a. John Rugge (a 1485)
  (1) John Rugge ('of Trysull, Worcestershire') of Seysdon (bur 09.01.1587)
  John is the first mentioned by Visitation (Dugdale (King 1992), Staffordshire, 1664-68, 'Rudge') which then partly supports the line of his son William but does mention the other sons including Thomas, shown as father of William & Edward, Sheriff of London.
  m. Joyce
  (A) Richard Rugge (dsp)
  m. _ Wollaston of Trecot Grange
  (B) William Rugge of Seysdon 'of Trysull' (d 1604)
  m1. _ Moseley of Whittingdon
m2. Frances Barnsley (dau of Thomas Barnsley of Seysdon)
  Not clear which wife was mother of ...
  (i) Thomas Rugge (dsp)
  (ii) William Rugge of Seysdon (bpt 09.01.1592, d 1672)
  m. Katharine Mompas (dau/heir of Thomas Mompas by Anne, dau of Thomas Barnsley)
  (a) Ambrose Rugge or Rudge 'of Trenall' (bpt 03.02.1616, d 1685)
  m. Winifred Powys (dau of Thomas Powys, sister of Thomas (father of Sir Littleton & Sir Thomas))
((1)) William Rugge of Trysull (bpt 01.02.1647, a 1698, of Lincoln's (or Clement's) Inn) had issue
  Commoners reports that William's issue "lived at Trysull until 1753".
  ((2))+ 7 others
  (iii) Joan Rugge
  m. Thomas Codsall of Staffordshire
  (C) Thomas Rugge or Rudge of Evesham, Worcestershire alternative parentage below
  m. (23.01.1588) Alice Haye of Evesham
  (D) John Rugge or Rudge (bur 02.1648)
  (i) John Rugge or Rudge
  The following is shown here so as to avoid losing data provided by Crisp who shows the Thomas who married Alice Haye as son of the following Thomas rather than son of John of Seysdon (as above). Commoners shows the ancestry of that Thomas as above. BLG1886 ('Rudge of Evesham') starts with that Thomas except for identifying him as 3rd son of the John Rugge of Seysdon who d 1587. Crisp starts with ...
  (2) Thomas Rudge of Evesham (bur 31.07.1599) possibly of this generation
  m1. (25.06.1556) Katherine Roberts
  (A) Arthur Rudge (bur 22.07.1557)
  (B) Thomas Rudge of Bengeworth & Evesham (bpt 25.08.1562, d c05.1623) alternative parentage above
  m. (23.01.1587/8) Alice Haye (bur 08.04.1615)
  (C) Margaret Rudge (bpt 07.04.1561)
  m. (20.11.1591) John Darke
  (D) Joyce Rudge (bpt 02.12.1563, a 1621)
  m. (18.02.1589/90) John Marshall of Littleton
  (E) Margery Rudge (bpt 22.0.1565/6)
  m. (23.11.1587) Thomas Adams
  m2. Anne (bur 07.05.1622)
  (F) James Rudge (bpt 24.04.1585, d before 11.07.1621, youngest son)
  m. Mary (a 1621)
  (G) Elizabeth Rudge (bpt 05.10.1580, a 1622)
  m. Richard Haye
  (H) Mary Rudge (bpt 02.02.1582/3, a 1627)
  m. (26.10.1607) John Harborne of Marston (d before 05.10.1627)
  (I)+ other issue - John (bpt 06.12.1569, d infant?), John of Evesham (bpt 07.07.1571, bur 03.02.1648/9, had issue), Arthur (bpt 12.03.1573/4, 1621, had issue), Ralph (bpt 30.08.1576), George (bpt 30.04.1578, a 1621, had issue)
2. William de Rugge (a 1335)
3. Alice de Rugge
  m. William de Gatacre

Main source(s): Commoners (vol 4, 'Rudge of Evesham', p197+) with input as reported above from Visitation (Frederick Arthur Crisp, England & Wales, Notes, vol 12 (1917), 'Pedigree of Rudge', p35+)
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