Ancestry of
Bob Taft

67th Governor of Ohio

Robert de Umfreville

View famous kin of Robert de Umfreville

• • 15th Great-grandfather of Bob Taft — 18th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 160512 
  • Father:
  • Thomas de Umfreville 
  • Mother:
  • Joan de Roddam   
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  • 27 Jan 1436/1437 
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  • Newminster Abbey, Northumberland, England 
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  • Child:

  (probable) William Umfreville (Ahnentafel No:80256 )

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  • Deputy Admiral of England

    Sir Robert de Umfreville is said to have moved to Missenden, Buckinghamshire, where he became a monk at Missenden Abbey. He is said to have left his illegitimate son William with the abbot of Missenden.

• Additional marriages for Robert de Umfreville

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  • Spouse:
  • Isabel - - - - - -

• Sources for Robert de Umfreville

  • ¹ Harwood, H. W. Forsyth, ed., The Genealogist: A Quarterly Magazine of Genealogical, Antiquarian, Topographical and Heraldic Research, Volume 26, London: George Bell and Sons (1910), 208-209.
  • ² Mackenzie, E., An Historical, Topographical, and Descriptive View of the County of Northumberland, and of . . ., Vol. 2, Newcastle upon Tyne: Mackenzie and Dent (1825), 367.
  • ³ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. IV, p. 17.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 530.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 405.