Re: Confused about Lancelot Todd
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In reply to:
Confused about Lancelot Todd
5/20/00
This part is correct:Michael Dorsey married Ruth Todd, daughter of Lancelot Todd
(I will go back to Lancelot Todd's parents in another message)
( page 398 Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Cos. MD by JD Warfield published 1905)
says
"Michael Dorsey's wife, Ruth Todd, inherited from Lancelot Todd, her father,an adjoining tract "Altogether." There(meaning the Altogether tract) was located Lancelot Dorsey, of Michael(Dorsey) and Ruth (Todd) Dorsey, the heir of his grandfather,Lancelot
Todd.
This could get very confusing in one message . . but:
Lancelot Todd married Elizabeth Rockhold
children:
1.Sarah Todd married Edward Dorsey (JR?)
2.Ruth Todd married Michael Dorsey
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Michael Dorsey and Ruth(Todd) Dorsey
children
1. Michael Dorsey Jr. Youngest son marr Honor Howard***
2. Elizabeth Dorsey mar Capt. Joseph Burgess
3. Sarah marr Richard Berry
4. Ruth Dorsey marr her cousin Ely Dorsey
5. Honor Elder Dorsey(named after grandmother)
6. Ann Elder Dorsey
7. Lydia Talbott Dorsey (namesake of ?)
Page 398 still
"Michael Dorsey Jr., married the rich widow of three husbands, Honor Howard **,( Daughter of Henry (Howard?) and Sarah Dorsey)and lived upon her estate, at Elioak.His record will be found in the Dorsey's of Elioak.
Michael and Ruth (Todd) Dorsey had daughters enough to occupy awhole pew in the parish church.They were Elizabeth wife of Capt. Joseph Burgess; Sarah, wife of Richard Berry; Ruth, wife of Ely Dorsey(of Edward and Sarah Todd), her cousin; Honor Elder, Ann Elder, and Lydia Talbott."
Page 408 says about Honor Howard
**"bride of Rezin Warfield (of Alexander) as his widow with 3 children, she married after 1767 Rezin's rich cousin, ,John Davidge; as his widow in 1773, with 5 children, she became Mrs Joseph Wilkins,and then marring Michael Dorsey Jr. returned to her own inheritance"