Barb-can you give me Tera's e-mail address, it did not come through the list
mailing. Thanks.
Melissa T. Alexander
mada(a)cmc.net
Edmonds, WA USA
-----Original Message-----
From: barbfitz [mailto:barbfitz@home.com]
Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 5:18 AM
To: Cecil Mailing List
Subject: {not a subscriber} Fw: cecil family stuff...
----- Original Message -----
From: Minks
To: bcf855(a)nwws.com
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 11:22 PM
Subject: cecil family stuff...
Hi! My name is Tera Minks, and for about a month I've been messing around
looking for members of the Cecil family that might be my relatives. I've
been trying to find the connection from England to Baltimore, Maryland. My
grandmother, Margaret Cecile McGinness (now 92), who was named in honor of
the Cecil family, has always told me about her great-great-great-etc grandma
who was a decendent of a wealthy Cecil family of England. As the story
goes, my grandmother's great-etc grandma (whom she believes to be named
Mary) was sole heir to a sizable estate when she was in her early teens and
her uncle (who I believe was a Cecil) thought HE should be the heir, so he
had young grandma Mary kidnapped and shipped to Baltimore.
My grandma says she has documentation of much of this, but it's in storage
and it'll take a bit of time and energy to obtain it. I'm not fortune
seeking, I just thought it was an interesting story and would like to
validate it, or just know what really happened. On my father's side of the
family, we had a reunion last summer and I found out that one of my long,
lost relatives axe murdered his wife and 2 daughters, and then tried to kill
his 2 sons but was stopped before it was done -- he was the first person in
recorded history to have "gotten off" with the insanity plea. It seems that
he had just found out his land was going to be taken in some sort of
bankrupcy deal. You just wouldn't believe how proud I am of that story --
NOT! At any rate, I am interested in finding out the truth about grandma
Mary.
Also, in some of the research I was doing, I noticed some contradictions in
your family tree and my collection of, so far, useless data.
I believe it was in your 12th generation that I saw where you'd written
about Thomas Cecil who was born 12-30-1578. Most of my research has been
done on
www.familysearch.com, and I don't know how accurate it is, but I'll
give you what I came up with, for what it's worth.
Sir Thomas Cecil born 5-5-1542 died 2-7-1622, son of William Baron Burghley
Cecil and Mary Cheeke. Thomas (1542) Married Dorothy Neville Countess of
Exeter and had the following children: William 1566-7/6/1640 Catherine
born 4/15/1567 Mildred born 6/11/1573 Richard born 12/7/1570 died
9/4/1633 Edward 1571-1638 Mary born 7/15/1573 died 3/27/1638
Susan born 9/22/1574 died 8/9/1575 Elizabeth born 1574
Christopher born 5/4/1576 Dorothy born 8/1577 died 11/10/1613
Thomas born 12/30/1578 died 12/3/1662 Frances born 2/28/1580 died
10/1/1614 Lucy born 3/7/1567/8 died 9/15/1621. Then according to
the familysearch database, Thomas (1542) married Frances Brydges and had one
child, Anne Sophia Cecil born 7/13/1616 died 9/15/1621. The main
discrepancy I found between your research and my quasi-research is Thomas
(1579). According to what I found, Thomas married Anne Lee (wife #2) in
1605 and had 6 c!
hildren Benjamin born 1606, Charles born 1608, Dorothy born 1610, Anne
born 1612, Frances born 1614 and Isaac born 1616. Wife #1 was Susan
Oxenbridge, but I only saw that they had one son, John born in 1604(maybe
this was a type-O) and died in 1698. He (John) was born in England and died
in St. Mary's Co., Maryland. I'm not, by any means, saying that your
information is incorrect, but I just thought I'd let you know what I found
and where I found it.
Thank you for posting your site -- I found it very interesting and intend to
look at it some more when I have time to do so.
Tera Minks
P.S. If you go to
www.familysearch.com, I found it to be most helpful to
stick with searches that say "Ancestral File" and not IGI or International
Genealogical Index--it gets too complicated and doesn't show near the
helpful information. "Ancestral File" allows you to see 4 generation
pedigrees, and if you click on "family" out to the right of the person's
name, it'll show their parents, spouse(s) and children (unless there is more
than one spouse -- then you have to click "familiy" out beside the spouse's
name).
Good Luck! and once again, Thank You.