John Dryden^[1]

Abt 1524 - 1584  (60 years)    Has 4 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	John Dryden
  Birth	Abt 1524	Canon's Ashby, Northamptonshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	30 Sep 1584	Canon's Ashby, Northamptonshire, England
  Burial	Canon's Ashby, Northamptonshire, England
  Siblings	5 Siblings
  + 1. John Dryden,   b. Abt 1524, Canon's Ashby, Northamptonshire, England d. 30 Sep 1584, Canon's Ashby, Northamptonshire, England  (Age 60 years) ▻ Elizabeth Cope,  m. 20 Dec 1553   2. Thomas Dryden,   b. Abt 1527, Staffe Hill, Cumberland, England d. Yes, date unknown   3. Anne Dryden,   b. Abt 1530, Staffe Hill, Cumberland, England d. Yes, date unknown   4. Isabel Dryden,   b. Abt 1532, Staffe Hill, Cumberland, England d. Yes, date unknown   5. Frances Dryden,   b. Abt 1534, Staffe Hill, Cumberland, England d. Yes, date unknown   6. Elizabeth Dryden,   b. Abt 1536, Staffe Hill, Cumberland, England d. Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I34531	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	1 Apr 2008

  
  

  Father	David Dryden,   b. Abt 1500, Staffe Hill, Walton, Cumberland, England d. Aft 1540 (Age 41 years)
  Mother	Isabel Nicholson,   b. Abt 1504, Staffe Hill, Cumberland, England d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	Abt 1522	Staffe Hill, Cumberland, England
  Family ID	F31341	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Cope,   b. Abt 1529, Canon's Ashby, Northamptonshire, England d. 30 Sep 1584, Canon's Ashby, Northamptonshire, England (Age 55 years)
  Marriage	20 Dec 1553	Canon's Ashby, Northamptonshire, England
  Children	+ 1. Bridget Dryden,   b. Abt 1563, Canon's Ashby, Northamptonshire, England d. 2 Apr 1645, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England (Age 82 years)   2. Anthony Dryden,   b. Abt 1551, Canon's Ashby, Northamptonshire, England d. 1574-1584 (Age 33 years) + 3. Erasmus Dryden,   b. 20 Dec 1553, Canon's Ashby, Northamptonshire, England d. 22 May 1632, Warwick, Warwickshire, England (Age 78 years)   4. Anthony Dryden,   b. Abt 1551, Canon's Ashby, Northamptonshire, England d. Between 1574 and 1584 (Age 23 years)   5. Mary Dryden,   b. Abt 1555-1556, Canon's Ashby, Northamptonshire, England d. 7 Dec 1617, Foxley, Northampton, England (Age 61 years)   6. Edward Dryden,   b. Abt 1556, Canon's Ashby, Northamptonshire, England d. Yes, date unknown   7. George Dryden,   b. Abt 1557, Canon's Ashby, Northamptonshire, England d. 1591 (Age 34 years)   8. John Dryden,   b. Abt 1559, Canon's Ashby, Northamptonshire, England d. Yes, date unknown   9. Elizabeth Dryden,   b. Abt 1561, Canon's Ashby, Northamptonshire, England d. Yes, date unknown   10. Thomas Dryden,   b. Abt 1563, Canon's Ashby, Northamptonshire, England   11. Stephen Dryden,   b. Abt 1567, Canon's Ashby, Northamptonshire, England   12. Emma Dryden,   b. Abt 1569, Canon's Ashby, Northamptonshire, England d. Yes, date unknown   13. Nicholas Dryden,   b. Abt 1571, Canon's Ashby, Northamptonshire, England d. 12 Jan 1608 (Age 37 years)
  Family ID	F14609	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Apr 2008

  
  

• Notes

  large estate owner in central England. First carried the name south, and acquired by marriage the estate of Canons Ashby. Is said to have known Erasmus, and to have been so proud of the great scholar"s friendship that he gave the name of Erasmus to his eldest son. Their descendants in the third and fourth generations included John Dryden, poet laureate, Jonathan Swift, and Anne (Marbury) Hutchinson; and Jane Cope whose daughter Elizabeth Boyle married Edmund Spenser, the Elizabethan poet

  
  

• Sources

  [S190] Peter Barns-Graham, British Pedigrees, (Stirnet), Dryden of Canon's Ashby.