Petronelle Thrale (Ellienor or Nell)

Other Events and Attributes:

• Employment: 1634; Servant to Mrs. Woodrow for six years and before that to Sir Martin Lumley for two years

Notes:

All the early Thrale entries in the Sandridge Parish Church Registers (Bishops Transcript, Hertford Transcript, Steele MSS, Sandridge Typescript) are easily identified except for Francis Thrale and a Nicholas Thrale, gentleman, who died in 1597. The Register tells us that these two men were brothers. Francis Thrale had six children baptised between 1586 and 1592 one of whom was Petronelle who was baptised in 1588, and Francis in 1587. It is apparent that these members of the family had come to Sandridge to join their kinsmen in Sandridge and then moved away again. Nicholas is a rarely used name in the Thrale family and it is intriguing to remark the sad baptism and burial record in the one year of 1601 of Edward, son of Nicholas Thrale, at Clophill, which is, of course, in the Hundred of Flitt!

Volume 93 (page 100) of The Publications of the Harleian Society records the union of Thomas Smethwick b 1619 to Mary Thrale (daughter of Francis Thrale of St Martin in the Fields). It also says that Thomas and Mary had a son William born 1646. It is, however, not clear as to whether the Francis Thrale on this website, and the Francis mention by The Publications of the Harleian Society, is the same person.