Helen: To this day the ancestry, origin and arrival date of Richard Rich of Eastham on Cape Cod remains unknown. Craig Rich helen gregory wrote: > Dear Kinfolk, > It's been many years since I've contact with RFA. You printed an > article about our trip to Leez Priory, Vol. XX, Issue 2, 1985, page 17, > and another by my friend D. Eyde from the Smithsonian, about Uncle > William Rich, Botanist. > > Today, for an article I am writing, I need to know: > > The DATE that our first ancestor, Richard Rich, arrived in America; his > birth and death dates, where he lived and is buried. > ALSO, Was he born at Leez (Leighs) Priory, and is he the SON of Lord > Richard Rich(e), the man who founded Felsted School for Boys ? AND > what was Lord Richard to King Henry VIII? I need to know this very soon. > > I must have had the following information at one time, because I sent > this information to Julia Rich Hogan back in the mid-80's. Later, if you > can fill in the other birth, marriage, death dates, etc that I don't > have, I'd be most appreciative. > > Richard Rich and Sarah Roberts > Richard Rich and Anna Mulford > Richard Rich and Hannah Doane > Obadiah Rich and Pricilla Rich (a Rich by birth) > Obadiah Rich and Salome Lombard > Salome Rich and James Talbot Hutton(her bro. William is Botanist > William Rich Hutton & Mary Augusta Hutton (WRH-Civil Engineer) > b 3-21-1826 d 12-11-1905 m 8-21-1855 b 1-7-1826 d 1-6-1915 > Ellen Elizabeth Hutton and William St.Clair Caulfield > b 11-3-1865 d 12- -1960 m 1-26-1896 b d 5-26-46 > John Paul Caulfield & Helen Schaumann Schmidt > b 7-22-1902 d 12-28-1959 m 10-21-1936 b 9-20-1917 d 11-06-56 > **ME* Helen Caulfield * & James John Madine > b 8-10-38 m 11-30-57 b 7-17-33 d 11-26-93 > Helen Schaumann Madine & Everette Bruce Wilsie > b 9-25-57 m 5-20-78 b 5-11-50 > Ross Caulfield Wilsie b 3-24-79 (at VA TECH!!!) > Julia Hutton Wilsie b 6-17-82 (will go to UVA) > > Please let me know about our first ancestor, Richard Rich, and date of > his arrival in America,etc., as soon as possible. Thanking you in > advance I remain, > Helen Caulfield Madine Gregory (540) 473-2482 > (Mrs. Liniel G. Gregory, Jr.) I remarried 10-17-98 > "Forest Oak" > 911 Blacksburg Road > Fincastle, VA 24090-0526