Cecil, Earl Edward^[1]

1571 - 1638  (67 years)

• Name	Cecil, Edward
  Prefix	Earl
  Birth	1571	Burleigh, Glouchester, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	1638
  Person ID	I142	Fitzgerald-Aller
  Last Modified	2 Oct 2004

  
  

  Father	Cecil, Thomas,   b. 5 May 1542, Cambridge, England d. 7 Feb 1623, London, Burghley House, Strand, England (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Neville, Dorothy,   b. 1548, Yorkshire, England d. 23 Mar 1608, London, Middlesex, England (Age 60 years)
  Marriage	1564	England
  Family ID	F64	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Marriage	Y  [2]
  Family ID	F82	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Oct 2004

  
  

  Marriage	10 Jul 1601	Brooke, England
  Family ID	F83	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Oct 2004

  
  

• Notes

  According to "The Cecils of Hatfield House An English Ruling Family" by David Cecil, Houghton Mifflin 1973: He became a drunkard, homosexual and declared athiest in Italy. According to research by Jim Cissell as quoted from his Internet Home page, Sir Edward visited the Virginia Colony and showed up in the 1607 Virginia Colony Census. It appears this Edward was a signer of the Second Virginia Charter, dated May 23, 1609. He was also known as General Cecil. "The Records of the Virginia Company of London", ed. Susan Myra Kingsbury, A.M., Ph.D., published by the Library of Congress, Washington, in 1933, 4 volumes, for your Sir Edward CECIL. Found quite a few references. On pg 81, vol III, there is a list of "Adventurers to Virginia, with the several amounts of their holdings", "Sir Edward Cecill 25" He is also listed several other places as a General Cecill). At the quarter court meeting on 9 Jun 1619 he (written General Cecill and Generall Caesill) apparently consulted with Sir Horation VEERE (VERE) and Sir Thomas GATES about some engineering issues in Virginia. Sir Edward was also a General-and we know from Colonial Census data he was in Virginia Colony in 1607, 1611, 1619 (as General) and 1624. A Robert was in VA in 1607, and Edward in 1611, a Thomas in 1607, and a William in 1612.There is no doubt, because of the investment of Sir Thomas, Earl of Exeter, and his son Edward, in the 2nd Virginia Company, that this is the Cecil family. Each of them may have even fathered children out of wedlock in VA (based on their known reputations)-but these children probably did not carry their surname. We also know that Barbados was often a way station on the way from England to VA and MD colonies. We still do not have the definitive tie of the immigrant Cecil?s and Cissell's to MD to this family. I have not gotten any significant information from the Oxenbridge family (a different Oxenbridge was an investor in the 2nd VA company) to verify that the Thomas Cecil who married Susan Oxenbridge is the Thomas Cecil, son of above Thomas, who is documented to have married Ann Lee, daughter of a Mayor of London.

  
  

• Sources

  [S20] Melissa Thompson Alexander, GEDCOM File: Melissa Thompson Alexander. [S27] "The First Elizabeth" by Carolly Erickson, Summit Books, New York, 1983.