FOURTEENTH GENERATION
9865. unknown (F)
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"This may already be familiar to you, but the pedigree of the Bevilles of Cornwall will be of interest to others among us inclined to explore further the hypothesis that William Buell, if he is of the Bevilles at all, is more likely to have come from that line than the lineage proposed by Welles. Here is one readily available source of information:
"'The Beville Family of Virginia, Georgia, and Florida, ns some allied families north and south,' by Agnes Beville Vaughn Teacastle, privately printed 1917. It is available in the Online Collections at BYU,
"http://patriot.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FamHist34&CISOPTR=18697&REC=2 [link doesn't work]
In Chapter II - The Bevill or Beville Family, she begins the saga with "de Beville, a Norman knight that accompanied <William> the Conqueror in his expedition to England, and was placed at Truro as Commander-in-Chief of the Western District."
"This de Beville was without doubt Humphrey, the brother of Guillamine (William) de Beville.
"Ms. Teacastle was tracing the roots of her ancestor Essex Beville, immigrant to the Virginia Colony, who first appears in the record there in a land patent of 1666. As Asselia S. Lichliter documented in her paradigm of genealogical research "700 Years of the Beville Family," 1976, Essex Beville was of the Huntindonshire branch of the family, of which Fulk Beville, a descendant of William de Beville, is the progenitor.
Though there is nothing to indicate that Ms. Lichliter even knew of William Buell at the time of her writing, her meticulous reseach incidentally, but very clearly, disproves the hypothesis put forth by Albert Welles in his "The Buell Family in England and America" 1881, that William Buell of Windsor "might have been a younger son of the Sir Robert Beville [1603-1640] of Chesterton, in Huntindonshire." Sir Robert did indeed have a younger son William [1605-1637]; Lichliter provides ample proof that he died in England in 1637/8 and is interred at St. Michaels Church, in that place."
-- Ian c/o http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?william,buell,chesterton::buell::1218.html
Mother: Jane Pyle d/o Thomas & Eliz. (Laugarish)
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