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Bob Taft

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Bob Taft

67th Governor of Ohio


    William Umfreville

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    • 14th Great-grandfather of Bob Taft — 17th Generation
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    • William Umfreville is said to be the illegitimage son of Sir Robert de Umfeville. His father took him to Missenden, Buckinghamshire, where Sir Robert de Umfreville is said to have become a monk. William was eventually left with the abbott of Missenden and he is said to be the ancestor of the Umfrevilles of Farnham Royal.

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  • Sources for William 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), 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.