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Author: RFillerup
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Jamie:
I am somewhat the "unofficial" monitor for the William & Elizabeth
Nodding Calvert line on the
CalvertGenealog.net website. I am a descendent of William
& Elizabeth Nodding Calvert through their youngest child - Jabez Calvert. I am a
trained genealogist as well as an attorney. I live some 45 miles south of Salt Lake City,
and over the last 40 years, I have spent hundreds if not thousands of hours trying to
determine the parents of William Calvert. I have also corresponded regularly with several
others who have likewise spent inordinate amounts of time trying to solve the puzzle of
William and Elizabeth's ancestry.
I can tell you with great assurance that notwithstanding what you may see on any
Internet site, at the present time the parents and ancestry of William Calvert remain
unknown. We still simply have no clue who they were. As far as I have observed, any
source that shows the ancestry of William Calvert [1757] is speculation. There is not a
single known reliable source that gives any hint of William's parentage. While you
state: "It is documented amongst most genealogical researchers, periodicals and
reference books that Elizabeth Calvert's line goes back to George Calvert, the first
Governor of Maryland, and beyond," I do not know of any researcher, periodical, or
reference book that gives any documentation or reliable sources for a lineage of Elizabeth
(i.e. William) back to George Calvert and beyond. If you have something that has been
overlooked, then by all means there are numerous descendants who would dearly love to have
a reliable source for such a connection.
As far as the parents of Elizabeth Nodding, I have created a "Nodding
Family" website where I have posted everything I know about them. You can find it
here:
www.code-co.com/rcf/ancestry/nodding.htm. The website is in need of a serious
update to include additional information I have, but the basic conclusions there remain
the same. We know the parents of Elizabeth were William Nodding and Mary ________?
Again, we know Elizabeth's father was William Nodding, and her mother's first name
was Mary, but beyond that, little else is "proven." We do know that Mary's
maiden name was NOT Brewster or Bruester, and that Mary was NOT the daughter of Thomas
Brewster. I explain all of this on my webpage.
We all wish we could cite to a reliable source showing William's ancestry. There
is much suspicion that he may have been connected to the "Deep Hole Farm" clan.
One DNA test has hinted so. But nothing definitive has yet been established. There is
certainly no source known that connects William [1757] with the Lords Baltimore [or
"George Calvert, the first Governor of Maryland"], nor with the Stones,
Harrisons, or Graves.
I have a rather extensive "work in progress" on William Calvert's life
which is similar to what I have done for William Nodding. I would be glad to send you a
copy directly if you will send me an email. It deals with his supposed (and in my opinion
misguided) claim of Revolutionary War service, as well as other facets of his life. my
email address is: rcf(a)code-co.com
As part of the Calvert DNA project, years ago I began compiling a database of every
known male descendant of William & Elizabeth. This eventually turned into a database
of every known descendant. I would very much like to know your lineage back to William and
Elizabeth so I can include it in my database. I am very sensitive to information on
living persons, and do not share such info with anyone.
Bob Fillerup
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