Re: Overbey/Overbury's were NOBILITY
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Re: Overbey/Overbury's were NOBILITY
Kate Lund 4/25/03
Kate:I will not attempt to speak for N.M.; these are my thoughts.Whether or not you can read and write says little about your ancestros.But their, i.e., your ancestors, ability to read and write usually determines to a large degree whether good records were maintained.When you manage to reach back into landed gentry or into noble families in England there are likely to be more written records --not because they were better people, but because --given their possition and their economic status they are much more likely to have left records.
For the record, Sir Giles Overbury, father of Nicholas Overbey --the first Overbey to come to VA in 1654 or so-- married Anne Shurley.Her parents seems to have been of some relation, 4th, 5th, or so cousins.Sir Hugh Shirley, a common ancestor to both her parents married Beatrice De Braose, the last of the De Braose's.That line runs back to the Dukes of Normandy and into Denmark and then to Norway to about 800 according to one Pat Patterson, who has a website to which you can go.Neither Pat nor I warrent the record, but the fact that they were nobility and actually related to the rulers of Normandy and later England mean that better records were kept --and likely nothing more.
James V. Delk
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Re: Overbey/Overbury's were NOBILITY
Kate Lund 6/13/03
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Re: Overbey/Overbury's were NOBILITY
James V. Delk 6/13/03
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Re: Overbey/Overbury's were NOBILITY