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Robert Thrale (the elder)

Robert Thrale was victualler to the Monastery of St Albans in 1522 and died 1538. He was the first Thrale recorded in the Hertfordshire village of Sandridge. It is thought that all Thrale and derivative names like Thrall descend from this line, indeed Robert is the 13th great grandfather of this website's author.