When Audrey Saunders was born in 1550, in Harrington, Northamptonshire, England, her father, William Saunders, was 31 and her mother, Frances de la Zouche, was 31. She married Sir George Villiers in 1565, in Brooksby, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 1 May 1588, in Goadby Marwood, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 38.
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The Royal Exchange was organized in January 1571 by Sir Thomas Gresham. Gresham is known as the father of English banking.
English (Surrey and Kent): variant of Sander , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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