Anne of Cleves Henry's last wife, Catherine Parr, by 9 years. She was not the longest-lived, however, since Catherine of Aragon was 50 at the time of her death. Anne is the subject of three biographies: Julia Hamilton's "Anne of Cleves" (1972), and Mary Saaler's "Anne of Cleves: Fourth Wife of Henry VIII" (1995), and Elizabeth Norton's "Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII's Discarded Bride" (2009). Retha Warnicke has written an academic study on Anne's marriage called "The Marrying of Anne of Cleves. Royal Protocol in Early Modern England" (2000). Anne of Cleves appears as a character in many historical novels about Henry's reign.
Anne Burras Anne Burras Anne Burras was an early English settler in Virginia and an Ancient Planter. She was the first English woman to marry in the New World, and her daughter Virginia Laydon was the first child of English colonists to be born in the Jamestown colony. Anne Burras arrived in Jamestown on September 30, 1608 on the "Mary and Margaret", the ship bringing the Second Supply. She came as a 14-year-old maid to Mrs. Thomas Forrest. In November or December 1608, Anne married John Laydon/Layton/Leyden. The Laydons had four daughters, Virginia, Alice, Katherine, and Margaret. All six members of the