EDGOOSE:
In search of Ancestry
MARCHE, Richarde
- 1540 Has no ancestors but 10 descendants in this family tree.
- 1578-
Name MARCHE, Richarde Gender Male Death 1540 Limehouse, Greater London, England 
Person ID I274 Edgoose Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
Family EDGOOSE, Elizabeth d. 1578, Limehouse, Greater London, England Marriage UNKNOWN Children 1. MARCHE, Margaret d. Yes, date unknown [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 2. MARCHE, Katherine d. Yes, date unknown [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 3. MARCHE, Thomas The Younger d. Yes, date unknown 4. MARCHE, John The Younger d. Yes, date unknown 5. MARCHE, Justinian d. Yes, date unknown 6. MARCHE, John The Elder d. Yes, date unknown 7. MARCHE, Anne d. Yes, date unknown 8. MARCHE, Thomas The Elder d. Yes, date unknown Family ID F167 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
-
Notes
RICHARD MARCHE ( -1540)
Reference to a "strong reformist core of the manufacturing and merchant classes, families like the IVIEs, MARCHEs and POYNTELLs, underpinned by an increasing number of poor landless folk."
(From Jane COX's 'London's East End' [ISBN 978 0 7509 5291 0] page 127)
The Will of RICHARD MARCHE (????-1540) of Limehouse, Middlesex:
(surnames capitalised and abbreviations expanded)
"IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN The iiijthe daye of the moneth of Novembr in the yere of our lorde god a Thousand fyve hundred and fourty Richard MARCHE of lymehouse in the Countie of Midd being sicke but of good mynde and memory made his will and Testtament Nuncupative in maner folowing First he gave his soule to Almighty god. ITem he bequeathed to his brother John MARCHE xls And to evy one of his servants as well men as women xijd apece And the Residue of his goods he willed to be devydd in two parts wherof thone pte he gave to and amongest all his childern. And ev'y of them to be others heires And thother pte he gave and bequeatherd to Elizabeth his wyfe whome he made his sole Executrice. And John EDGOOSE his father in lawe Ov'seer of his Testament and last wyll. Being present the said John EDGOOSE & Willm IVIE"
(PCC 19 Allenger 1540).
(PROB. 11/28/339 14 December 1540)
© Crown Copyright Image reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, London, England.
www.NationalArchives.gov.uk & www.TheGenealogist.co.uk
An Index to the Will of Richard MARCHE (died 1540) of Limehouse, Middlesex. The Will was made on 4 November 1540. Probate was granted on 14 December 1540.
01*Richard MARCHE, the Testator
02 John MARCHE, brother of the Testator
00 The unnamed servants of the Testator
00 The unnamed children of the Testator
03 Elizabeth MARCHE, wife of the Testator, executrix
04 Jhn EDGOOSE, father-in-law of the Testator, overseer, witness
(Prerogative Court of Canterbury Will PROB 11/28/339)
NOTES & QUERIES:
William IVIE [the witness] was an anchorsmith and shipowner of some wealth, as indicated by his will: he had silver and silver guilt plate. He owned ships, a stock of anchors, coals and a herd of cattle. His witnesses and overseers were his friends, the limeman DRYVER and the Limehouse baker Thomas POYNTELL. In the will of John HALL he is described as a smith.
(taken from Old East Enders by Jane Cox, page 153. ISBN 978 0 7509 5291 0)
(revised 19.06.2015)