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From: Reedpcgen< >
Subject: Re: raleigh
Date: 2 Mar 1999 12:12:11 GMT

>I need help debunking a very persistent line that has made the rounds of the
various WHITE researchers I've met.

[snip]

>Can anyone give me some ammunition to fight this?

Yup.

>
>Thomas RALEIGH b. 1679, Antrim, Antrim Co., Northern Ireland
>
>Philip RALEIGH b. 1652, London, London, England, m. Frances GRENVILLE,
>b. 1655, Foscott, Bucks, England.

Vivian's Visitations of Devon 2:639 shows Philip Raleigh of Finchley Mere,
Surrey, as son of Carew Raleigh, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Charles I,
son of Sir Walter Raleigh.

Philip married Frances Grenville of Foscot, Bucks. They were married at St.
Martin-in-the-Fields 8 Feb. 1667/8.

They had four sons and three daughters:
1. Walter Raleigh, d. unm.
2. Bruduenell Raleigh, w. d. 9 June 1698, his father as executor (PCC 13 Noel
[1700]).
3. Grenville Raleigh, Capt. in Brigadier Grove's Regiment at Chester, bur.
there 1717, adm. PCC 16 June 1720 to relict Jane. Issue.
4. Carew Raeigh, an officer on the "Bredah," adm. granted to his father 25 May
1698, PCC.
1. Frances Raleigh.
2. Anne Raleigh.
3. Elizabeth Raleigh.

Note that there is no son named Thomas, and no evidence that Philip took his
family to Antrim. The name Thomas does not even occur in the preceding
generations.

I expect there must be some type of probate record for Philip, the alleged
father, who was alive in 1700. It would likely be in the PCC, but you have to
search the manuscript indexes on microfilm for that period.

There is a Raleigh entry in the Genealogical Office, Dublin, MS 183 Lords
Entries, v. 1, p. 12 (FHL #100,192), but I doubt it will help them. The
indexes and many records for the Northern Ireland Record Office are also
available on microfilm at the FHL.

pcr

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