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The Common Room / Re: Wilford, Wilforde, Wylford, Wilsford, Wyllesford, Willesford
« on: Wednesday 03 May 23 14:44 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for the very informative reply.  You can tell your wife that the full user name is "Lovely Cove" which is the name of the body of water that we live on.

It will take me a while to analyze the links and information that you sent but at first glance, the data agrees with some of what we have.  Since my post of several weeks ago, I believe that I have untangled the knot that had us stopped.  It was in the "Visitation of Kent 1619" where James (b. 1370)  was listed as Jacobus (Latin for James, which I did not know at the time). That thread eventually led to Thomas Williford 2nd (1618 - 1676) who died in Northumberland, Virginia.  From that person we have been able to track the American branch to my wife's grandmother (Ruth Williford) who spent most of her life in Texas.

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The Common Room / Re: Wilford, Wilforde, Wylford, Wilsford, Wyllesford, Willesford
« on: Tuesday 14 March 23 20:17 GMT (UK)  »
Yes, there is at least one other party researching this family.  My wife's grandmother's maiden name was Willford and we have traced her family tree from Texas to Mississippi to North Carolina to Kent, England.  We have found many of the same names in both Devon and Kent in the same time frames but with some differences.  Our sources have been some of the same that have been referenced in this thread but some additional ones, i.e., The Genealogist, vol. IV dated 1880 by George Marshall; The Visitation of Essex of 1612, and on-line lists of Mayors of Exeter and Sherriffs of London.We have tried source a copy of Pedigrees of the Families of the County of Kent here in the States but the closest library that has a copy is not convenient and we don't want to spend $460 to buy a copy.

We have run into some of the same tangles that you seem to have but we are reasonably comfortable with the information we have on the lineage of James Wilsford (c 1460-1499 and Elizabeth Bettenham (c 1463-1540). The tangle that we have is between William Wylford (c 1321) and James.

To answer a question earlier in the thread, the connection between Devon and Exeter seems to have occurred when William Wilsford Esq (c1365-1413) traveled to London on business for the city of Exeter and became an MP.

Ironically, we retired to Kent County in Maryland a couple of decades ago.  The county was settled in the late 1600s and the paternal branch of my wife's family settled in a nearby county in the 1660's when a yeoman from Middlesex purchased a "Hundred" and named it Bollenbrooke. A creek in the s area still retains the name

Would be interested in trading notes on the family ties between 1320 and 1460 or any other period.

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