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    1. [VA-NORTHERN-NECK] Question Regarding Ursula BYSSHE
    2. DAVID BROWN
    3. Hi Charlene,   Ursula Bysshe is my 10x g-grandmother.    I think the best source of information for Ursula Bysshe is an excellent book by Alice Wright Algood.   According to Algood, all of Ursula's children were by her first husband Richard Thompson whom she married in 1641 in Maryland.   These children included Elizabeth Thompson who married Peter Presley and Sarah Thompson who married Thomas Willoughby.   Apparently, there was also a son named Richard who died young.   Ursula Bysshe was married three times -- first to Richard Thompson, then to John Mottram, and then finally to George Colclough (who, after Ursula's death, married Elizabeth Willoughby Oversee, the sister of Thomas Willoughby who married Ursula's daughter Sarah).   Algood says that John Mottram, Jr. was a son of John Mottram, Sr. by his first wife (in other words, he wasn't Ursula's son).   Apparently, after John Mottram, Jr.'s death, his widow (Ruth Griggs) married his nephew Mottram Wright.     Hope this helps.     David 

    04/03/2011 04:48:23