Dorcas Sydney

Abt 1553 - 1623  (70 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Dorcas Sydney
  Birth	Abt 1553	Oxford, Kent, England
  Gender	Female
  Death	23 Nov 1623
  Person ID	I282054	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	1 Apr 2008

  
  

  Father	William Sydney, Esq.,   b. Oxford, Kent, England d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F113815	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Alexander Cosby, Esq.,   b. Abt 1552, Stradbally Abbey, Queen's, Éire d. 19 May 1596, Stradbally Bridge, Queen's, Éire (Age 44 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1570	Stradbally, QueensÉire
  Children	+ 1. Capt. Francis Cosby,   b. 1 Jan 1571, Stradbally Abbey, Queen's, Éire d. 19 May 1596, Stradbally Bridge, Queen's, Éire (Age 25 years)   2. William Cosby,   b. 20 Jun 1573, Stradbally, Queens, Éire d. Yes, date unknown   3. John Cosby,   b. 23 Aug 1574, Stradbally Abbey, Queen's, Éire d. Yes, date unknown + 4. Capt. Richard Cosby,   b. 14 Jun 1576, Stradbally, Queens, Éire d. 5 Dec 1631 (Age 55 years)   5. NN Cosby,   b. Abt 1578, Stradbally, Queens, Éire d. Yes, date unknown   6. NN Cosby,   b. Abt 1580, Stradbally, Queens, Éire d. Abt 1581 (Age 1 year)   7. Humphrey Cosby,   b. 20 Sep 1581, Stradbally, Queens, Éire d. Yes, date unknown   8. Rose Cosby,   b. 20 Nov 1582, Queen's House, Oxford, Kent, England d. Yes, date unknown   9. Elizabeth Cosby,   b. 8 Sep 1584, Stradbally, Queens, Éire d. Yes, date unknown   10. Charles Cosby,   b. 12 Sep 1584-1585, Stradbally, Queens, Éire d. Yes, date unknown   11. Ann Cosby,   b. Abt 1587, Queen's, Éire d. Yes, date unknown   12. Edith Cosby,   b. 11 Aug 1588, Stradbally, Queens, Éire d. Yes, date unknown   13. John Cosby,   b. 11 Aug 1589, Stradbally Abbey, Queen's, Éire d. Yes, date unknown   14. Mary Cosby,   b. 16 Jul 1590, Stradbally, Queens, Éire d. Yes, date unknown   15. Arnold Cosby,   b. 20 Jun 1591, Stradbally, Queens, Éire d. Cavan, Éire   16. Mabel Cosby,   b. 12 Aug 1593, Stradbally, Queens, Éire d. 1632, Shrule, Queen's, Éire (Age 38 years)
  Family ID	F113805	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Aug 2001

  
  

  Family 2	Thomas Zouche   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	Abt 1595
  Family ID	F113806	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Aug 2001

  
  

• Notes

  Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth, England second cousin to Sir Henry Sydney, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and a cousin of Sir Philip Sydney. Through her influential connections at court obtained grants so extensive, at that period, that the family were the territorial lords of more than a moiety of Queens County. Dorcas Sydney bore Alexander Cosby fifteen children and after his death she married Sir Thomas Zouche. Dorcas Sydney evidently had a very high opinion of her own family, as in all grants of land made by hr as well as in her private writings she used the name Sydney instead of Cosby, and she entertained a deep-rooted antipathy to the Pigots. taking offence at the marraige of her son Richard to Elizabeth Pigot, she returned to England where she married her second husband, Sir Thomas Zouche, and left all her estates in Ireland, excepting Finshoe, to the Zouches, and leased Finshoe for a long term to Sir Thomas Loftus, son of Adam Loftus, who had become in 1615 the second husband of her daughter-in-law, Ellen Harpole Cosby, the widow of her son, Francis Cosby. The family of Sir Thomas Zouche obtained extensive grants of land in Virginia, and Sir John Zouche had a patent in 1623 and was appointed by the crown one of the commissioners to inquire into the condition of the colony, which he visited first in 1632.