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Robert E. Lee

Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War

Lawrence Townley

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Robert E. Lee — 6th Generation
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  • Lawrence Townley 
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  • Alice Calvert   
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  Alice Townley (Ahnentafel No:21 )

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  • Lawrence is possibly a nephew of Augustine Warner and Mary Townley making his wife Sarah his 1st cousin. (McCurdy 1969)

• Sources for Lawrence Townley

  • ¹ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1987, Vol. 4, p. 26.
  • ² Grimes, Emma Elizabeth, The Grimes Family, Minneapolis, MN: The Lund Press (1946), 1.
  • ³ McCurdy, Mary Burton Derrickson, "A Discovery Concerning the Townley and Warner Families of Virginia", The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 77, No. 4 (Oct 1969), 474.
  • ⁴ Pecdquet du Bellet, Louise, Some Prominent Virginia Families. Volume II, Lynchburg, VA: J. P. Bell Company (1907), 596.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 417.
  • ⁶ Tyler, Lyon G., ed., William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 09, Richmond, VA: Whittet & Shepperson (1901), 264.