Frank Barzillai Dubis
Sex: M
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Birth: 1932 - Chatham, Massachusetts
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Death: 6 May 2010 - Florida
Burial: in Peoples's Cemetery, Chatham
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1. *Margaret Ann Langton (1936 - 4 Oct 2010)
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Cape Cod Times obit, 7 Oct 2010
CHATHAM \emdash Frank Barzillai Dubis Sr., 78, of Chatham, and Summerfield, Fla., passed away May 6, 2010, at Lady Lakes Regional Hospital in Florida.
Wife of the late Margaret Ann (Langton) Dubis, and son of the late Joseph W. and Elizabeth (Tibby) Dubis Sr., he was a lifelong resident of Chatham where he was employed in the construction industry and worked for over 50 years for J. W. Dubis & Sons. For the past two years, he had resided in Summerfield, Fla., with his wife Margaret.
He is survived by his six children, Frank Dubis Jr. and his wife Patty of Natick, Thomas Dubis of Plymouth, Ruth (Dubis) Avellar of Plymouth, Margaret (Dubis) Eldredge and her husband Ralph of Summerfield, Fla., Elizabeth (Dubis) Scampoli and her husband Anthony of Plymouth, and Michael Dubis and his wife Leslie (Savor) Dubis of Citra, Fla., along with 14 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.
A private family service will be held at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Oct. 8, 2010, at Peoples Cemetery in Chatham.
Claudia U Dubois
Sex: F
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Birth: 1964
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Cape Cod Times, 7 Apt 2009
Orleans District Court
arraignment
DUBOIS, Claudia U., 45, 160 Steele Road, Eastham; assault and battery, Wednesday in Eastham. Pretrial hearing May 6.
Evangeline I Dubois
Sex: F
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Birth: Est 1920
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1. *Charles F Neddo (Cir 1915 - )
Marriage: 12 Sep 1942 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 1
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1. Phillip John Neddo (1944- )
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1942 of WellfleetMarriage Notes (Charles F Neddo)
of Provincetown, Mar 1944 - a son born to Sargeant and Mrs. Chales Neddo
of Wellfleet, May 1944 - son christened
Geanna M DuCharme
Sex: F
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Birth: 1911 - Lowell, Massachusetts
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1. *Elie A Richard (1908 - )
Marriage: 30 May 1932 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 2
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Jaqueline L DuCharme
Sex: F
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Birth: Est 1930
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1. *Captain Elmer Martin Costa (1929 - 13 Nov 2006)
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Anne Dudley
Sex: F
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Birth: 20 Mar 1612 - Northampton, England
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Death: 16 Sep 1672 - Andover, Massachusetts Bay
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Father: Governor Thomas Dudley (1676-1633)
Mother: Dorothy York (1582-1643)
Anne Gardiner Dudley
Sex: F
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Birth: Est 1570
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1. *Sir John Popham (1531 - 10 Jun 1607)
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David Tyler Dudley
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1 May 1876 - Grafton, Massachusetts 4
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Death: 1950
Burial: in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Wellfleet
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Spouses and Children
1. *Sarah A Gross (19 Nov 1874 - 1960) 3
Marriage: 23 Oct 1901 - Taunton, Massachusetts 5
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s/o Sumner A. & Susie H. Boyd DudleyMarriage Notes (Sarah A Gross)
1900, 1910, 1930 US census, Taunton
Dean Dudley
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1824 - Kingfield, Maine
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Death: 12 Feb 1907 - Wakefield, Massachusetts 6
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Father: Edmund Dudley (Est 1785-Bef 1856)
Mother: Rebecca Bangs (1785-1856)
Edmund Dudley
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1785 - Exeter, New Hampshire
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Death: Bef 1856
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1. *Rebecca Bangs (2 Jun 1785 - 20 Aug 1856)
Marriage: 27 Nov 1806 - Maine
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1. Julia O Dudley (1816-1864)
2. Eunice S Dudley (1823-1891)
3. Dean Dudley (1824-1907)
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Marriage Notes (Rebecca Bangs)
1850 US census, Salem
Joseph A Paine, 45, dry goods dealer, Ma
Julia O Paine, 34, Ma
Julia R Paine, 12, Ma
Mary Isabella Paine, 9, Ma
Joseph Addison Paine, 6, Ma
Rebecca Dudley, 63, Ma
Eunice S Dudley, 30, Me
Rebecca B Dudley, 23, Me
John Wesley Atkins, 20, clerk, Me
Mary Ann Gallon, 30, Ire
Emma A Dudley
Sex: F
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Birth: 1845 - Boston, Massachusetts
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Death: After 1910
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1. *Lyman Doane (12 Feb 1835 - 24 Jan 1917)
Marriage: 24 Dec 1863 - Boston, Massachusetts 7
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d/o George P & ElizabethMarriage Notes (Lyman Doane)
1870 US census, East Brookfield
Lyman Doane, 35, merchant, $2500
Emma A Doane, 25, keeping house
sharing building with Warren & Angelia Hicks
1880 US census, North Brookfiled Ma
Lyman Doane, 45, works in shoe factory
Emma A Doane, 35, keeping house, Ma, parents Me
Ione M Kenadall, 25, servant, Md
1910 US census, Wellfleet
Lyman Doane, 75, Ma
Emma A Doane, 65, Ma
Sarah J Libby, 74, wid, Ma
Eunice S Dudley
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1823 - Kingfield, Maine
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Death: 24 Feb 1891 - Salem, Massachusetts 8
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Father: Edmund Dudley (Est 1785-Bef 1856)
Mother: Rebecca Bangs (1785-1856)
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m William Reith, 17 Sep 1863, Salem
1891:
married
milliner
Governor Joseph Dudley
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 23 Sep 1647 - Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay
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Death: 2 Apr 1720 - Roxbury, Massachusetts
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Spouses and Children
1. *Rebecca Tyng (13 Jul 1651 - 21 Sep 1722)
Marriage: 1669
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1. Attorney General Paul Dudley F.R.S (1675-1751)
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http://www.mass.gov/statehouse/massgovs/jdudley.htmMarriage Notes (Rebecca Tyng)
Governors of Massachusetts
Joseph Dudley (1647-1720)
President, Dominion of New England
1686, 1702-1715
In May of 1686, the Massachusetts Bay Colony came to an end, as Joseph Dudley became President of New England under a commission of King James II. He established his authority later in New Hampshire and the King's Province (part of today's Rhode Island), maintaining this position until Sir Edmund Andros arrived to become the Royal Governor of the New England Dominion. Dudley continued on as a member of Governor Andros' council.
The Dominion was short-lived and both Andros and Dudley were sent back to England during its "Glorious Revolution" to answer for their actions. Dudley served the crown in New York and returned to England to become the Governor of the Isle of Wight. Years later in 1702, Dudley was again commissioned to govern Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Though it was sixteen years later, Massachusetts colonists remembered Dudley's support of the popularly hated Governor Andros. Governor Dudley began his administration in an air of mistrust, which he did little to overcome in the following years. He set about purging old political foes and by the end of his service in 1715, he had fostered a legacy of resentment and suspicion, which permanently attached itself to the Royal Governorship.
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Joseph Dudley studied theology and graduated from Harvard College in 1665. However, he did not pursue the ministry, instead followed a political career instead. Marston writes that "his subsequent official career was the most brillant that had been witnessed in the new world." Most of his children predeceased him as his will of 27 Oct 1719 mentions only two sons and bequeaths his body to be buried with his father. 1
Birth: 23 SEP 1647 in Roxbury, Suffolk, MA
Death: 1720
Father: Thomas DUDLEY b: 12 OCT 1576 in Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, England
Mother: Katherine DEIGHTON b: ABT JAN 1614 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
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Dudley, Joseph, 1647\endash 1720, colonial governor of Massachusetts, b. Roxbury, Mass.; son of Thomas Dudley. In 1682 he was one of the agents sent to England to protest against the threatened loss of the Massachusetts charter. Having found favor in England, Dudley was appointed head of the temporary government in the colony until Sir Edmund Andros arrived (1686) a few months later as governor of all of New England. Under Andros he held several prominent positions, but with Andros's fall (1689) Dudley was sent to England to answer charges brought against him by the colonists. Acquitted of the charges, he was appointed chief of the council of New York (1690\endash 92) and acted as chief justice during the trial of Jacob Leisler. Back in England again, he was elected to Parliament (1701), but soon returned as governor of Massachusetts (1702\endash 15). Dudley raised and directed military expeditions against Canada, but his administration was marked by dissension because of his earlier unpopularity in the colony and his uncompromising attitude.
See biography by E. Kimball (1911).
His son, Paul Dudley, 1675\endash 1751, b. Roxbury, Mass., rose to considerable prominence as a jurist in spite of his father's unpopularity and the hostility of the Mather faction. He was chief justice of Massachusetts (1745\endash 51) and was well known as a naturalist.
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http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~dav4is/people/DUDL426.htm
Dudley, Joseph, governor of Massachusetts, was born at Roxbury, Mass., Sept. 23, 1647; son of Governor Thomas Dudley. He was graduated from Harvard in 1665, taking his second degree in 1668. He was made freeman in 1672; was deputy, 1673-75; was engaged in the battle with the Narragansetts in 1675, and was a commissioner with Edward Hutchinson and others who made the treaty with the Indians, July 15, 1675. He was an assistant, 1676-85, and in 1682 was sent as an agent to England to obtain a renewal of the old charter, but was unsuccessful in his quest. In 1685 he was commissioned president of the part of New England included in Massachusetts Bay, New Hampshire, Maine and King's Province. In December, 1686, he was placed at the head of the council of Sir Edmund Andros, the newly appointed governor of New England. When the superior court was established in March, 1687, he was made chief justice and held the office for a year, when he was superseded by John Palmer and forced to accept a subordinate place on the bench. In 1689 he went a second time to England, having been arrested with Andros and sent thither with him. In 1690 he returned, having been appointed chief justice of New York. In 1693 he went a third time to England and received a commission from King William as lieutenant-governor of the Isle of Wight, where he continued eight years. He was a member of the House of commons for the borough of Newton up to the time of the death of King William. He received from King William his commission as governor of the province of Massachusetts which was renewed by Queen Anne, and he arrived in Boston, June 11, 1702, and continued in the government till November, 1715. He was married in 1669 to Rebecca, daughter of Edward Tyng, Esq., an early magistrate of Massachusetts, and of their thirteen children, seven lived to maturity. He died in Roxbury, Mass., April 2, 1720. [BDNA]
Children
Thomas DUDLEY b: 26 FEB 1669/70 in Boston
Edward DUDLEY b: 4 SEP 1671 in Roxbury
Joseph DUDLEY b: 8 NOV 1673 in Roxbury
Paul DUDLEY b: 3 SEP 1675 in Roxbury
Samuel DUDLEY b: 7 SEP 1677 in Roxbury
John DUDLEY b: ABT 1678/79 in Roxbury
Rebecca DUDLEY b: 16 MAY 1681 in Roxbury
Katherine DUDLEY b: 7 JAN 1682/83 in Roxbury
Ann DUDLEY b: 27 AUG 1684 in Roxbury
William DUDLEY b: 24 OCT 1686 in Roxbury
Daniel DUDLEY b: 4 FEB 1688/89 in Roxbury
Katherine DUDLEY b: 5 JAN 1689/90 in Roxbury
Mary DUDLEY b: 2 NOV 1692 in Roxbury
The deaths of both Joseph and Rebecca are given as 2 Apr 1720, which seems unlikely.
Julia O Dudley
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1816 - Hartford, Maine
Baptism:
Death: 17 Aug 1864 - Salem, Massachusetts 8
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Father: Edmund Dudley (Est 1785-Bef 1856)
Mother: Rebecca Bangs (1785-1856)
Spouses and Children
1. *Joseph A Paine (1812 - )
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Marriage Notes (Joseph A Paine)
1850 US census, Salem
joseph A Paine, 45, dry goods dealer, Ma
Julia O Paine, 34, Ma
Julia R Paine, 12, Ma
Mary Isabella Paine, 9, Ma
Joseph Addison Paine, 6, Ma
Rebecca Dudley, 63, Ma
Eunice S Dudley, 30, Me
Rebecca B Dudley, 23, Me
John Wesley Atkins, 20, clerk, Me
Mary Ann Gallon, 30, Ire
Mercy Dudley
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 27 Sep 1621 - Oakley, Northampton
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Death: 1 Jul 1691 - Newbury, Massachusetts
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Father: Governor Thomas Dudley (1676-1633)
Mother: Dorothy York (1582-1643)
Spouses and Children
1. *Rev John Woodbridge (Cir 1613 - 17 Mar 1694)
Marriage: 20 May 1639 - Northampton, England
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Children:
1. Rev Benjamin Woodbridge (1645-1710) 9
Patience Dudley
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Feb 1618 - Northampton, England
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Death: 8 Feb 1690 - Ipswich, Massachusetts
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Father: Governor Thomas Dudley (1676-1633)
Mother: Dorothy York (1582-1643)
Spouses and Children
1. *General Daniel Denison (18 Oct 1612 - 20 Sep 1682) 10
Marriage: 18 Oct 1632 - Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay
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1. John Denison (1640-1671)
2. Elizabeth Denison (1642-1723)
3. Mary Denison (Est 1644-Est 1644)
4. Deborah Denison (Est 1646-Est 1646)
Attorney General Paul Dudley F.R.S
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 3 Sep 1675 - Roxbury, Massachusetts
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Death: 25 Jan 1751 - Roxbury, Massachusetts
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Father: Governor Joseph Dudley (1647-1720)
Mother: Rebecca Tyng (1651-1722)
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After graduating at Harvard in 1690, he studied law at the Temple in London, and became attorney-general of Massachusetts (1702 to 1718). He was associate justice of the superior court of that province from 1718 to 1745, and chief justice from 1745 until his death in 1751.
He was a member of the Royal Society (London), to whose Transactions he contributed several valuable papers on the natural history of New England, as well as the founder of the Dudleian lectures on religion at Harvard University.
Wife: Lucy Wainwright, b 13 Dec 1684 Ipswich, m 15 Sep 1703 Ipswich, d 24 Oct 1756 Roxbury.
Hon. Paul Dudley and Lucy Wainwright had six children born in Boston between 1705 and 1710. All of them died young. They were Thomas, Lucy, Abigail, Joseph, Lucy and Lucy Dudley.
articles by Paul Dudley found at jstor.org:
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Title: An Account of a New Sort of Molosses Made of Apples; And of the Degenerating of Smelts.
Source: Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), Vol. 32. (1722 -1723), pp. 231-232.
2.
Title: An Account of the Rattlesnake.
Source: Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), Vol. 32. (1722 -1723), pp. 292-295.
3.
Title: An Account of an Extraordinary Cure by Sweating in Hot Turff; With a Description of the Indian Hot-Houses
Source: Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), Vol. 33. (1724 -1725), pp. 129-132.
4.
Title: Observations on Some of the Plants in New-England, with Remarkable Instances of the Nature and Power of Vegetation.
Source: Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), Vol. 33. (1724 -1725), pp. 194-200.
5.
Title: An Essay upon the Natural History of Whales, with a Particular Account of the Ambergris Found in the Sperma Ceti Whale.
Source: Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), Vol. 33. (1724 -1725), pp. 256-269.
6.
Title: An Account of a Stone Taken out of a Horse, at Boston in New England, in the Year 1724.
Source: Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), Vol. 34. (1726 -1727), pp. 261-262.
7.
Title: An Account of the Several Earthquakes Which Have Happen'd in New-England, since the First Settlement of the English in That Country, Especially of the Last, Which Happen'd on Octob. 29, 1727.
Source: Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), Vol. 39. (1735 -1736), pp. 63-73.
8.
Title: An Account of the Method of Making Sugar from the Juice of the Maple Tree in New England. By Paul Dudley, Esq; F. R.S. Communicated by John Chamberlayne, Esq.
Source: Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), Vol. 31. (1720 -1721), pp. 27-28.
9.
Title: An Account of the Poyson Wood Tree in New-England. By the Honourable Paul Dudley, Esq, F. R. S. Communicated by John Chamberlain, Esq
Source: Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), Vol. 31. (1720 -1721), pp. 145-146.
10.
Title: A Description of the Moose-Deer in America. By the Honourable Paul Dudley, Esq; F. R. S. Communicated by John Chamberlayne, Esq
Source: Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), Vol. 31. (1720 - 1721), pp. 165-168.
11.
Title: An Account of the Falls of the River Niagara, Taken at Albany, Octob. 10, 1721. from Monsieur Borassaw, a French Native of Canada. By the Honourable Paul Dudley, Esq; F. R. S.
Source: Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), Vol. 32. (1722 -1723), pp. 69-72.
Robert Dudley 1st Earl of Leicester
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 24 Jun 1532
Baptism:
Death: 4 Sep 1588 - Oxfordshire, England
Burial: in Beauchamp Chapel of the Collegiate Church, St. Mary in Warwick
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Spouses and Children
1. *Lettice Knollys Countess of Leicester (Abt 1540 - 25 Dec 1634)
Marriage: 1578
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2. Lady Douglass Howard (Cir 1545 - 11 Dec 1608)
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1. Robert Dudley Earl of Warwick (1574-1649)
3. Amy Robsart (Est 1535 - 1560)
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Wikipedia
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (24 June 1532 – 4 September 1588) was the long-standing favourite of Elizabeth I of England. He was born a younger son of the 1st Duke of Northumberland, who was executed in 1553 for his part in the attempt to put Lady Jane Grey on the throne of England. (Lady Jane was married to Robert's youngest brother, Guilford Dudley.) Robert Dudley was temporarily imprisoned, along with his father and brothers Guilford, John, Ambrose and Henry Dudley, in the Tower of London, where his stay coincided with the imprisonment of his childhood friend, Princess Elizabeth Tudor, who had been sent there on the orders of her estranged elder sister, Queen Mary I of England. By this time he was already married to Amy Robsart.
In a document titled "Leycester's Commonwealth", banned in England when published in Europe, the anonymous treatise proposes an elaborate conspiracy regarding Dudley. He is said to have poisoned his first wife Amy Robsart, then later poisoned the Earl of Essex in order to marry his widow. Several leading aristocrats becoming suspicious of his machinations, perceived as motivated to place him at the seat of power, move to thwart him. The Essex Rebellion of 1601 is thought to be a result of growing concern that Queen Elizabeth I consistently used poor judgement, demonstrated by allowing a suspected poisoner to become her advisor.
On Elizabeth's accession, Dudley was appointed Master of the Horse. Rumours about their relationship were rife, and when, in 1560, Dudley's wife died after falling down a flight of stairs in mysterious circumstances, it was widely believed that he had arranged her murder in order to free himself to marry the Queen. Some said that a secret marriage had taken place. Ironically, it would be Amy's death that would put an end to any such ambitions that Dudley may have had. Elizabeth, mindful of public opinion and also doubtful about the desirability of any marriage at all, never gave any cause to think that she intended to take the step of making her favourite into her husband. Historians today think Amy's murder, if it was a murder, was carried out either by someone who believed it would win him or her royal favour or, even more likely, by someone who wanted to prevent the Queen from marrying Dudley. It seems implausible that Elizabeth could have been foolish enough to involve herself in such a crime, even if Dudley were. It has also been suggested that Amy was mortally ill with breast cancer at the time, which would have made murder less likely than suicide or a fatal accident.
In fact, in 1563, Elizabeth put Dudley up as a candidate for marriage to the widowed Mary, Queen of Scots, whom she hoped to neutralise by marriage to a Protestant. The State Papers record how she hinted that this was to be a reward to Dudley, "whom, if it might lie in our power, we would make owner or heir of our own kingdom," for his loyal service. Mary, insulted by the idea of accepting Elizabeth's former "lover", rejected him. In the following year, Elizabeth bestowed on him the earldom of Leicester.
Dudley was always a ladies' man. He is thought to have secretly married the widowed Lady Douglas Sheffield in 1573. He later deserted her in favour of Lettice Knollys, widow of Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex and maternal cousin of Queen Elizabeth. Lettice was daughter of Catherine Carey, daughter of Lady Mary Boleyn and niece of Anne Boleyn. The marriage offended the Queen mightily, so she banished him from court. It was hardly to be expected by anyone other than Elizabeth, at least, that Leicester's devotion to the Queen should have caused him to lead an entirely celibate life during the 19 years that had elapsed since the death of his first wife.
In 1573 it was observed that not only the widowed Lady Douglas Sheffield, but also her sister, Frances Howard, who was unmarried, were "very far in love with him" and also that the Queen "thinketh not well of them, and not the better of him" for encouraging their attentions. Nevertheless, before long a son was borne by Lady Sheffield, and was to be named Robert Dudley, in 1573/4 (later created Duke of Northumberland). The true descent of the rights of this line of the Elizabethan Earl of Leicester were diverted away from their rightful heir, this son, by the deeds of his own father. Other than Elizabeth's threats to incarcerate Leicester, the reason for his deception may have been to protect his wife, the Lady Douglas Sheffield, and their son from his debts (and intrigues) with the Queen.
Leicester's only surviving brother, Ambrose, was childless, and unless he fathered some legitimate offspring, his family line would perish. "You must think it is some marvellous course, and toucheth my present state very near, that forceth me thus to be cause almost of the ruin of my own house," he observed in a letter to Lady Sheffield, explaining that he was uniquely situated, and unable to take a wife without causing "mine utter overthrow". The secrecy of Leicester's second marriage to Lady Sheffield may well have been a matter of great consideration, given that he did not wish to upset his close association with his childhood companion, Elizabeth. Thus he was to later proclaim the marriage illegal so that he could marry a third time, to Lady Lettice Knollys. Elizabeth herself, feeling betrayed by the later discovery of the marriage to Knollys, reminded Leicester of the rumours that he had been pre-contracted to Lady Sheffield; if these proved to be true, he could be sent to rot in the Tower. It is therefore not surprising that he should have denied the rumours.
In the 19th century, the question of the Sidneys' legal claim over the Dudley estates was raised when Sir John Shelly-Sidney laid claim to the titles of De L'Isle and Dudley, to which he clearly would have had no claim, had the first Robert Dudley been honest and forthright about his son's origins. The House of Lords duly investigated the matter, concluding that Sir John Shelley had not in fact succeeded in establishing his right to the Barony, on the grounds that the marriage of Robert Dudley's parents had indeed been legitimate and authentic. Leicester, although he appears to have been fond of his son, never acknowledged his legitimacy.
Eventually restored to Elizabeth's favour, Dudley was placed in command of the Dutch campaign of 1585, culminating in the Battle of Zutphen. He was afforded the title Governor-General of the Dutch Republic under the Treaty of Nonsuch. In 1588, despite having shown himself a failure as a military leader, he was in command of the English land forces against the Spanish Armada. The Spanish never landed, and he died soon after (probably of stomach cancer), near Oxford. By the time of his death, he was already losing his place as Elizabeth's favourite to his stepson, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex. He died at his house in Oxfordshire on the 4th September 1588. Elizabeth was devastated at the loss of her old friend and companion and, reputedly, locked herself in her apartment for hours, if not days. She treasured the letter that he had sent her only days before his death, and wrote on it "His Last letter". She put it in her treasure box, and it was still there when she died 15 years later. Dudley is buried in the Beauchamp Chapel in St. Mary's Church, Warwick, Warwickshire, England. When Lettice Knollys died in 1634, she was buried along side Dudley in St. Mary's.
Robert Dudley Earl of Warwick
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 7 Aug 1574 - Richmond Palace, Surrey
Baptism:
Death: 6 Sep 1649 - Florence
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Robert Dudley 1st Earl of Leicester (1532-1588)
Mother: Lady Douglass Howard (Cir 1545-1608)
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Wikipedia:
Robert Dudley (7 August 1574 Richmond Palace, Surrey – 6 September 1649 Florence) was the possibly illegitimate son of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. He was a privateer, navigator, shipbuilder and the author of Dell'Arcano del Mare.
Early Life
Robert Dudley was the son of the Earl of Leicester and Lady Douglas Sheffield, daughter of William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham. The Earl of Leicester is thought to have married her in 1573, but he denied it in public at the time because he feared the wrath and loss of favour of Queen Elizabeth I. He also bigamously married Lady Lettice Knollys in 1578. When Lady Lettice married Edward Stafford, also bigamously, and left for the continent with him, Leicester took his son into his household but did not have him declared officially legitimate.
Robert was enrolled into Christ Church, Oxford in 1587 with the status of filius comitis, Earl's son. There his mentor was Thomas Chaloner, who also became his close friend.
In 1588, when the Spanish Armada threatened Britain, the 14-year-old Robert joined his father, who was commanding the army and fleet, preparing to resist a Spanish invasion. On September 4 the Earl of Leicester died. The Earl's will gave Robert a large inheritance, including his castle and estate at Kenilworth and his lordship of Denbigh and Chirk. Eighteen months later Robert also inherited from Ambrose Dudley, earl of Warwick.
In 1591 the 17-year-old Dudley married Margaret Cavendish, sister of Sir Thomas Cavendish - in whose last voyage Dudley had probably invested - who soon died without having children. His father-in-law Robert gave Margaret two ships, Leicester and Roebuck.
Expedition to West Indies
In 1594 Dudley assembled a fleet of ships, including his flagship the galleon Beare, Beare's Whelpe and pinnaces Earwig and Frisking. He intended to use them to harass the Spaniards in the Atlantic. The Queen did not approve of his plans because of his inexperience and the value of the ships. She did commission him as a General but insisted that he sail to Guiana instead.
Dudley recruited 275 veteran sailors, including navigator Abraham Kendal, and captains Thomas Jobson and Benjamin Wood. Dudley's fleet sailed on November 6, 1594, but a sudden storm separated the ships and drove the vessels back to different ports. He sent word to the captain of the Beare's Whelp to join him in the Canary Islands or Capo Blanco and sailed again.
At first Dudley's trip proved unlucky - the Earwig sank and most of the vessels they encountered were friendly. Dudley led only one raid in the Gulf of Lagos. In December the expedition finally managed to capture two Spanish ships at Tenerife. Dudley renamed them Intent and Regard, manned them with his sailors and put Captain Woods in charge. He sailed to Capo Blanco, expecting to meet the Bearer's Whelpe there, but it did not show up. Dudley's fleet sailed to Trinidad and anchored at Cedros Bay on January 31, 1595. There he discovered an island that he claimed for the English crown and named "Dudleiana". Then he sailed to Paracoa Bay for repairs and made a reconnaissance to San Jose de Oruna but decided not to attack it.
Dudley divided his forces, sending Intent and Regard to the north. In Trinidad Dudley recruited a Spanish-speaking Indian who promised to escort an expedition to a gold mine up the Orinoco River. The expedition lead by Captain Jobson returned after two weeks - their guide had deserted them and they had struggled back. Dudley returned to Trinidad.
On March 12 Dudley's fleet sailed north, where they finally captured a Spanish merchantman. Then it sailed to Capo Roho, Puerto Rico, waited for suitable prey for some time and then sailed towards Bermuda. A storm blew the Beare north to near what is now New England before the fleet finally reached the Azores.
Low on provisions and working guns, Dudley sailed for home but met a Spanish man-of-war on the way. Dudley managed to outmanoeuvre and cripple it in a two-day battle but decided not to board it. The Beare arrived at St Ives at the end of May 1595 and Dudley heard that Captain Woods had taken three ships.
Intervening years
The next year Dudley joined his cousin Essex to serve as a commander of the Nonpareil in the "counter-Armada" that attacked Cadiz in 1596. He was later knighted for his conduct in that battle although what he did was not recorded. Shortly afterwards he married Alice Leigh.
In 1597 Dudley sent Captain Woods to China with the Beare and Beare's Whelp, but they never returned.
Trying to claim legitimacy
In May 1603 Dudley silently began trying to establish his claim to the title of Earl of Leicester and the right to inherit his uncle Ambrose Dudley's estate of Warwick Castle because Ambrose had no known sons. The case ended up in the Star Chamber and became public and forced James I to create a law that made bigamy a felony.
The case included 90 witnesses for Dudley and 57 for the Countess of Leicester, the former Lady Lettice Knollys. Various witnesses contradicted each other when both sides tried to establish their claims to legitimacy. Under oath, Lady Douglas swore that Leicester had solemnly contracted to marry her in Cannon Row, Westminster in 1571 and that they were married at Esher, Surrey, in May 1573.
However, the Star Chamber rejected the evidence for Dudley, arrested several of the witnesses to the marriage and fined them for perjury or subordination. The papers of the case were impounded in the interests of "Public policy". King James ratified the judgment against Dudley and it was handed down on May 10, 1605.
A new life in Italy
Dudley left England in July 1605 by Calais. His lover and cousin Elizabeth Southwell accompanied him, disguised as a page. Elizabeth was daughter of Sir Robert Southwell and Lady Elizabeth Howard, granddaughter of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham and Catherine Carey. Both declared that they had converted to Catholicism. Dudley married her in Lyons in 1606, after they had received a Papal dispensation because they were blood relatives, and they first settled in Florence. He began to use his father's titles of Earl of Leicester and his uncle's titles of Earl of Warwick.
Dudley began to design and build warships for the arsenal of Tuscany and became a naval advisor to Ferdinand I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, of the Medici family. He received an annuity of 2000 ducats. In 1608 Dudley convinced the duke to send the privateer galleon Santa Lucia Buonaventura to Guiana and northern Brazil.
Attempts of reconciliation
James I revoked Dudley's travel license in 1607. When he ordered Dudley to return home to provide for his deserted wife and family, Dudley refused. He was declared an outlaw and his estate was confiscated. He continued contacts with the English Court through Sir Thomas Chaloner, who was now a chamberlain to Henry, Prince of Wales. He corresponded with the young Prince on the subjects of navigation and shipbuilding and in 1611 tried to broker a marriage between him and Caterina, daughter the Duke Ferdinand.
Dudley also tried to reconcile with the king in negotiations that included a sale of his former estate of Kenilworth to the Prince. The deal collapsed in 1612 when both Chaloner and the Prince died.
In 1618 James I transferred the Earldoms of Leicester and Warwick to others. In 1620 Dudley convinced Grand Duchess Maria Maddalena, wife of the new duke Cosimo II, to ask her brother Ferdinand II, the Holy Roman Emperor, to recognize his claim to his grandfather's vacant claim to the title of Duke of Northumberland. James I severed all negotiations for conciliation.
Later years
Elizabeth died of plague in 1631. Later Dudley incorporated his notes into six volumes of The Secret of the Sea, self-published in 1646-1647. He also wrote a Maritime Directory as a manual for the Tuscan Navy but it was never published. He also fought the Barbary pirates.
In 1644 Charles I granted Lady Alice the title of Duchess - without significant prerogatives - and recognised Dudley's legitimacy but did not restore his titles and estate.
Robert Dudley died September 6, 1649 outside Florence in Villa Rinieri.
Achievements
Dudley was a skilled mathematician and architect, master of navigation, designer of warships, and practiced in medicine, instrumentmaking and cartography. He became a skilled navigator, engineer, and chartmaker. However, like his father he acquired a reputation as a bigamist and privateer.
In addition to shipbuilding, Dudley created many projects in Livorno, including the city's breakwater and harbour fortifications, draining local swamps, and a building a palace in the heart of Florence. He also designed new galleys for Tuscany, and he wrote his memoirs of navigation and seamanship between 1610 and 1620.
Dell'Arcano del Mare (Secrets of the Sea)
Dudley wrote Dell'Arcano del Mare[1], (Secrets of the Sea), the first maritime atlas to cover the whole world. It includes a comprehensive treatise on navigation and shipbuilding and it has become renowned as the first atlas of sea charts of the world.
Dell' Arcano del Mare consists of six known volumes that illustrate Dudley's knowledge of navigation, shipbuilding and astronomy and it includes 130 original maps, all his own creations and not copied from existing maps, which was unusual for the period. Originally published at Florence in 1645 in the local Italian, they represent a collection of all contemporary naval knowledge. The Atlas also includes a proposal for the construction of a fleet of five rates (sizes) of ships, which Dudley had designed and described. Dell' Arcano del Mare was reprinted in Florence in 1661 without the charts of the first edition.
The distinctive character of Dudley's charts was influenced by the Italian baroque engraving contributed by Antonio Francesco Lucini. Later mapmakers chose not to copy Dudley's style and so it became a unique and rare relic in the history of cartography. Lucini recorded that he had spent 12 years and 5000 pounds of copper to produce the plates.
Noble title
Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor accepted Dudley as Duke of Northumberland in 1620. Dudley's third marriage, to Elizabeth Southwell, produced at least 11 potential heirs but the European title fell vacant on the death of Ferdinando Dudley in 1757.
Charles I created Lady Alice (ne Leigh) Dudley (daughter of Sir Thomas Leigh and Katherine, daughter of Sir John Spencer), Duchess of Northumberland in 1645 in a royal patent that recognised her husband's legitimacy and conferred the precedence of a Duke’s daughters on her surviving children.
Charles II confirmed this same royal patent in 1660, legitimising the English status of the Duke of Northumberland. Lady Alice died in 1668 or 1669 at the age of 90, after which her title seems to have fallen "extinct".
Children
Dudley's marriage to Alice Leigh lead to the birth of four children:
Alice Dudley (born at Kenilworth Castle 1597 - May 21, 1621). She was wife to Sir Ferdinando Sutton (September 4, 1588 - November 23, 1621), son of Edward Sutton, 5th Baron Dudley and Theodosia Harrington.
Catherine Dudley (1598 - February, 1673). She was married around 1609 to Richard Levenson.
Frances Dudley (d. 1644) Married to Sir Gilbert Knifeton of Bradley, Derbyshire. She died without children and was likewise buried at St. Giles.
Lady Anne Dudley, married the lawyer Sir Robert Holborne of Bradley, Derbyshire.
Dudley's affair and marriage to Elizabeth Southwell resulted in the birth of nine children:
Henry Dudley.
Anna Dudley (d. 1629).
Mary Dudley.
Carlo Dudley, Duca di Northumbria (1614 - October 26, 1686).
Ambrose Dudley.
Fernando Dudley.
Teresa Dudley.
Cosmo Dudley.
Anthony Enrico Dudley (b. September 12, 1631).
References
Raymond E. Role - Sir Robert Dudley Duke of Northumberland (History Today March 2003)
Rev Samuel Dudley
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Individual Information
Birth:
Baptism: 30 Nov 1608 - Ashley, England
Death: 10 Feb 1683 - Exeter, New Hampshire
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Governor Thomas Dudley (1676-1633)
Mother: Dorothy York (1582-1643)
Spouses and Children
1. *Mary Winthrop (1609 - 1643)
Marriage: 1633 - Salisbury, Massachusetts Bay
Status:
Sources
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