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From: Nathaniel Taylor< >
Subject: Re: Gov Thomas Dudley of MA
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 10:25:49 -0500


In article <77nkoe$13o$1@spitting-spider.aracnet.com>, "James C. Woodard"
< > wrote:

>ED MANN wrote in message < >...
>> +[1] Sir John Dudley aka: 7th Baron Dudley b: Abt. 1495 d: 1553
>>ref #: F92:3
>> 12 Capt. Henry Dudley b: Abt. 1517 ref #: F92:2
>> +? Ashton d: Bef. Nov 1556

>Is there some evidence, other than strong cicumstantial, that Henry and
>Roger are father and son?
>I am aware of all the descents you show here but they all seem to be
>dependant upon the relationship between Henry and Roger and while I use this
>ascent for the good Gov., I caveat it as unproven.

>> 13 Capt. Roger Dudley b: Abt. 1550 d: Bef. Oct 1588 ref #: F93:1
>> +Susanna Thorne b: Bef. 5 Mar 1559/60 d: Aft. 1587 ref #: W50-13
>> 14 Gov. Thomas Dudley b: Abt. 1576 d: 31 Jul 1653 ref #: F93:1i

The Dudley family was discussed at length in an (as yet) unpublished work
by Marshall Kirk of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, who
concludes (after reviewing the seven other proposed candidates for the
father of Capt. Roger Dudley), that this is the only scenario that fits
all the known circumstial evidence of Capt. Roger's apparent descent from
the baronial Sutton-Dudleys. Mr. Kirk's work is the basis of this line's
inclusion in Faris, though Faris didn't publish the discussion--just the
line. Thus while it remains unproven, it is a provisional line supported
by current scholarly analysis, though that analysis has not (yet) been
widely disseminated.

Nat Taylor

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