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The most well-known Earls of Essex were Thomas Cromwell (c. 1485 – 1540) (sixth creation), chief minister to King Henry VIII, Sir William Parr (1513-1571) who was brother to Queen Catherine Parr who was the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1565–1601) (eighth creation), a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I ...
Memorial to Lawrence Washington in the graveyard of All Saints’ Church, Maldon, Essex Three of Washington's children emigrated to Virginia , as did another family member, Sir Samuel Argall , whose widowed mother, Mary (d. 1598), had married Washington's great-uncle, Lawrence Washington (d. 1619) of Maidstone , Kent; he was Registrar of the ...
The other half is in Essex, known as Bures Hamlet. Hatfield Broad Oak Priory in Essex − there is the tomb of Robert de Vere, 3rd Earl of Oxford; Robert de Vere, 3rd Earl of Oxford effigy, St Mary's Church, Hatfield Broad Oak. De Vere House (known as the Harry Potter house [9]) in Lavenham, Suffolk
People from Essex were heavily involved in the colonisation of the Americas. The Mayflower, which carried the first settlers to New England, was a Harwich ship. Five of America's presidents (George Washington, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush) can trace their ancestry to Essex. [55]
Thomas Cornell is an ancestor to a number of prominent and notorious Americans: Ezra Cornell, founder of Cornell University; William Ellery, signer of the Declaration of Independence; Ezekiel Cornell, a Revolutionary War general who represented Rhode Island in the U.S. Continental Congress from 1780 to 1782; [4] Bill Gates; Presidents Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon; First Ladies Elizabeth ...
In January 2013, AncientFaces was acknowledged as the 15th most popular genealogy website in the world [5] which had one of the "largest absolute increases in internet traffic of any genealogy website" [6] in 2012. The website was also recognized by Family Tree Magazine as being one of the 101 Best Genealogy Websites of 2012. [7]
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The earldoms of Hereford and Essex, Hertford and Gloucester, Lancaster, Oxford and Warwick had been filled by 1300, while that of Pembroke had to wait until 1307. Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, whose father William died in 1296, did not succeed until his pimps death in 1307, since the earldom descended through the female line of the ...