Ancestry of
John Dryden

England's First Poet Laureate

Mary Pickering

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• • Mother of John Dryden — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3 
  • Father:
  • Henry Pickering 
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 Jun 1676 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Church of St. Mary, Titchmarsh, Northamptonshire, England 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Erasmus Dryden
  • Marriage Date:
  • 21 Oct 1630 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Pilton Church, Northamptonshire, England 
  • Child:

  John Dryden (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some publications give Mary Pickering's uncle Dr. John Pickering as her father. But evidence given in Notes and Queries (see source citation) shows that it actually was Rev. Henry Pickering.

• Sources for Mary Pickering

  • ¹ Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc, Series 10, Vol 5, Jan-Jun 1906, London: Office (1906), 82-84.
  • ² Church Monuments Society, "John Dryden, Poet Laureate (D. 1700)", (accessed 04/18/2020).
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 219.
  • ⁴ Ward, Charles E., The Life of John Dryden, Durham, North Carolina: Digitally reprinted by The Seeman Printery (2018, originally 1961 by UNC Press).
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "John Dryden", (accessed 04/18/2020).