Tessa Kenway
Tessa Kenway, née Stephenson-Oakley (unknown – 1747), was the second wife of Edward Kenway, the mother of Haytham Kenway, the grandmother of Ratonhnhaké:ton, and is an ancestor of Desmond Miles.
Tessa, Edward and Haytham, along with Edward's daughter Jenny from his first marriage, lived in a manor in Queen Anne's Square in London, which Tessa had assisted Edward in purchasing through her family connections. There, Tessa treated Haytham with unequivocal affection, until the night that she witnessed him kill an assailant in order to protect her when their home was broken into. As a result of this attack, Edward, an Assassin, was killed for a tome that he possessed, which contained encoded information about the First Civilization.
Following this, on seeing her son as a killer, as opposed to the innocent boy he had been prior to the assault, Tessa agreed to let Reginald Birch train Haytham in Europe. On this arrangement, she stayed behind in England to oversee the reconstruction of the Kenway home, but passed away some years later.