Re: Capt. Thomas Willoughby b. ca. 1600
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Re: Capt. Thomas Willoughby b. ca. 1600
Joan Norstedt 9/02/07
Joan, I'm to the point to where I don't know anything on the Willoughby's anymore.It seems that everyone who puts out a tree has different information, and some of these "experts" swear by their information and get very nasty when you question them on it.
All that I'm sure of is Thomas Willoughby b. 1600 was not the father of Alice Willoughby b. 1608 who supposely married Henry Sewell b. 1610. People can argue with me to doomsday on that, and I will not give in.An 8 yr old male was not her father.
Either Alice Willoughby was a sister of this Thomas Willoughby b. 1600, which makes much more sense, or else Alice Willoughby descended from another Thomas Willoughby, same family, just a different Thomas Willoughby.I have been given information that she was his step-sister.
There were a bunch of Thomas Willoughbys, not only here in the colonies but back in England.Seems every Willoughby family named a son "Thomas"!
Some Willoughbys I've been in contact with in England, states Alice was the daughter of Thomas Willoughby b. ca. 1571 (others have him born ca. 1660) and Elizabeth Middleton.I have more information, but have been asked not to share it online, which I will comply with.
Seems some of the England Willoughbys are tired of arguing with some of the American Willoughbys on this issue.
This Thomas Willoughby b. 1587 would not have been the one in Elizabeth City/Cittie, as records show that he was born about 1600.He would not have been old enough to be Thomas Willoughby's b. 1600 father.As he would only have been about 12-13 at the time.Not impossible but highly improbable.
Whether there were two Thomas Willoughbys in this area at the time and researchers have combined them into one person I don't know.But it does seem that some Willoughby men were traveling back and forth between the colonies, England and Barbadoes.These Willoughbys & their connections weren't "common folk" they were business men, merchants, church officials, government officials, held offices of sheriffs, etc.I believe one was even mentioned in a Shakespeare's play, from what I was told.Don't ask me, I didn't care for Shakespeare in high school.
So many of their castles, manors, etc, can be seen on the web.
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Re: Capt. Thomas Willoughby b. ca. 1600