Ancestry of
Wallis (Warfield) Simpson

Duchess of Windsor, wife of former King Edward VIII

Joshua Dorsey

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Wallis (Warfield) Simpson — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 68 
  • Father:
  • Edward Dorsey Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Wyatt   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1686 
  • Birth Location:
  • Middle Neck Hundred, Anne Arundel, Maryland 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 14 NOV 1747 to 06 FEB 1747/1748 
  • Death Location:
  • Majors Choice, Baltimore (now Howard), Maryland 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Ann Ridgely
  • Marriage Date:
  • 16 May 1711 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Queen Caroline Parish, Howard County, Maryland 
  • Children:
  
  

  Henry Dorsey (Ahnentafel No:34 )

  Philemon Dorsey

  Elizabeth Dorsey

  • Notes: 
  • Parish records state that Joshua died on 08 NOV 1747, however his will was dated 14 NOV 1747.

• Sources for Joshua Dorsey

  • ¹ Dorsey, Maxwell J., et. al., The Dorsey Family: Descendants of Edward Darcy-Dorsey of Virginia and Maryland for Five Generations and Allied Families, Unknown: Unknown (1947), 36-38, 158.
  • ² Newman, Harry Wright, Anne Arundel Gentry: A Genealogical History of Twenty-Two Pioneers of Anne Arundel County, MD., and Their Descendants, Baltimore, Maryland: Lord Baltimore Press (1933), 23-24.