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Howard Hughes

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Howard Hughes

American Business Tycoon


    Ursula Bysshe

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    • 7th Great-grandmother of Howard Hughes — 10th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 983 
    • Birth Date:
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    • Birth Location:
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    • Christening Date:
    • 12 Apr 1621 
    • Christening Location:
    • Worth, Sussex, England 
    • Death Date:
    • BY 1702 
    • Death Location:
    • prob. Northumberland County, Virginia 
    • Burial Date:
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    • Marriage Date:
    • BEF 24 Jun 1641 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Maryland 
    • Notes: 
    • Ursula Bysshe's maiden name is also seen as Bish.

      Ursula Bysshe's parents have been claimed by some to be William Bysshe and Margaret James. Other sources claim her father was Philip Bish, a merchant of Bristol, England. Evidence is needed to support either of these claims.

  • Additional marriages for Ursula Bysshe


    • Spouse:
    • John Mottrom
    • Marriage Date:
    • ABT 1647

    • Spouse:
    • George Colclough
    • Marriage Date:
    • 25 Feb 1655/1656

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  • Sources for Ursula Bysshe

    • 2 Genealogies of Virginia Families: From Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted for Clearfield Company by Genealogical Publishing Company (2007), Vol. 3, p. 72.
    • 4 Barnes, Robert W., British Roots of Maryland Families II, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (2002), 41.
    • 5 Berry, William, County Genealogies: Pedigrees of the Families in the County of Sussex, London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper (1830), 199.
    • 6 Dorman, John Frederick, ed., The Virginia Genealogist, 1988, Vol. 32, p. 87.
    • 7 Rust, Ellsworth Marshall, Rust of Virginia: Genealogical and Biographical Sketches of the Descendants of William Rust, 1654-1940, Baltimore: Waverly Press, Inc. (1940), 424.
    • 8 Tucker, Norma, Colonial Virginians and Their Maryland Relatives: A Genealogy of the Tucker Family and Also the Families of Allen . . ., Baltimore, Maryland: Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1997), 181.