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From Sir Thomas 8th are the Gillingham, Warwick and Quidnesset Green's. Between Sir Thomas and Robert 11th of Gillingham are two generations. The name of the 9th is not preserved but there is ample proof of him. He was born 1420 and his son John 10th was born 1450. John was the next to the eldest and a man of prominence in his day. Richard III sent John 11th to the Tower of London with a message to Sir Robert Brackenbury to put the two imprisoned princes to death, but Sir Robert sent Sir John back again with a refusal. Richard III was slain in battle two years later. Henry VIII hated Yorkists and he had spite against the Greene family. Sir John escaped to Europe. He ventured back and passed as John Clark. He saw his family occasionally, a son of John the Fugitive was Robert Greene. He purchased an estate in Gillingham Dorsetshire which was called Bowridge sometimes called Porridge Hill. Most of the subsidy rolls of that century have been destroyed. In 1543 Robert was an elderly man. He had five children, Peter, Richard 12, John 12, Alice and Anne. Peter died without heirs and Richard inherited the estate. Additional information: Robert Greene, Gentleman. Re purchased an estate called Bowridge Hill, at Gillingham in Dorsetshire, the family seat of the three preceding generations. On the old records it is usually spoken of as Porridge Hill, the local pronunciation of its name. His wife's name is unknown. Whoever she was, it is believed that through her came that extraordinary mathematical ability that has made the majority of her descendants 'quick in figures', for every now and then since her day has there cropped out one of those phenomenal cases of instantaneous calculators. In the subsidy rolls of 1543, Robert Greene of Gillingham is listed as an elderly man with grandchildren. One of his daughter's name was Anne, a very popular name with the Gillingham Greenes, their diminutive for which, Welthian, was used in the family for several generations after the family came to America. Of Robert Greene's children, two sons were the forebears of the two families of Greenes who settled in America. Richard was the grandfather of John Greene who settled at Warwick, becoming the founder of the Warwick Greenes, and John was the great grandfather of the John Greene of Quidnessett Sir Robert "Lord of Bowridge Hill" Grene, gentleman, born in 1500. He married Elizabeth Worgg, born circa 1503. The were married around early 1520. Their 1st child listed as born during their 1st year of marriage. He re-purchased the estate of Bowridge Hall, at Gillingham in Dorsetshire, the family seat of the three preceding generations. He died in1558.
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