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INFORMATION
ABOUT THE STEWARDS OF ENGLAND AND EARLY-DAY VIRGINIA
The following is based on
articles kindly sent to me by Peggy Givens who lives in America
and has undertaken extensive search itno the family name Steward.
The earliest records of the name in England are those of Martin
Steuhard, who was living in Norfolk County in 1273; Adam le Stiuuard
of Gloucestershire in 1273; Hugh Stiward of Norfolk in the same
year; Nicholas Staward of Somerset in 1327; and Willelmus or William
Stuard of Yorkshire in 1379.
The greater part of the
family of the name in Norfolk is believed, however, to be descended
from the ancient Scottish line. Sir John Steward, son of John,
the "Scot-Angle" married a daughter of Sir Thomas Kiriel
and a daughter of Sir John Hamerton. His children were Richard,
who married the daughter and heir of John Burley; Thomas; and
Galfrid. Richard's sons were Nicol, a lawyer of the Middle Temple
who married Cecilia, daughter of John Baskerville; and Thomas.
Nicol or Nicholas' children were William; Richard; Robert, the
prior, Simon, Nicol, and others. Of this family, Nicholas, son
of Richard Stywart, was resident about the beginning of the sixteenth
century at Wells in Norfolk.
His sons were Richard, Robert,
Nicholas, and Symon. Of these, Richard married Elizabeth Cossyn,
(Comyn)? by whom he was the father of Jeffrey, Richard, Thomas,
and William; Nicholas left issue by his wife, Elizabeth Lucas,
of Sir William Steward, of the Isle of Ely, who was the father
of Sir Thomas Steward, High Sheriff of Cambridge and Huntingdon;
and Symon was the father of Robert, Edward, Marcus, John, Thomas,
Augustine, and Nicholas Styward or Steward, whose descendants
were numerous in Norfolk, Suffolk, and the County of Cambridge.
The Stuarts of Hampshire,
England, trace their descent from Sir Alexander Stuart, a younger
son of the ancient Scottish family. Of this line, Nicholas Stuart
of Hartley, in Hampshire, was advanced to the dignity of Baronet
in 1660. He married Mary, daughter of Sir Miles Sandys, of Gloucestershire,
and was the father by her of Nicholas, Miles, Charles, and numerous
daughters.
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AUGUSTINE STEWARD, a member of the Virginia Company, was in the
Virginia Colony in 1611 and 1612. Augustine Steward, nephew of
Robert, prior of Ely cathedral in Cambridgeshire, England, married
Anne, aunt of Sir Samuel Argall.
Sir Samuel (c.1580-1626)
was an English administrator of Virginia, 1617-19: defeated Indians,
1612; French in Nova Scotia, 1613; and assisted in attack on Cadiz,
1625-26."
Sir Samuel Argall was granted
some of the "land of New England by lotts, Cape Cod, and
into the maine (high sea)" in a distribution made probably
about May 1622. He was an early voyager to America, 1609, 1613,
etc.
Augustine Steward owned
the site of Barking Abbey, in Essex.
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