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- Maureen (Mareen) Duvall was the one that the wife of William Cecil whose wife died March 1697/98 on her deathbed requested that Mireen (sic) Duvall take charge of her children of William Cecil.
(According to Elise Greenup Jourdan, nothing has been determined to date regarding this William Cecil's ancestors. He does appear to be connected to the Catholic Cissell's in SMC, MD. He had some education as he could write his name. He lived with Dr. Richard Pile in 1706/1707, a member of PGC, MD gentry. He was Protestant and bound his children to a Protestant family. There are no indications he owned land. He stated that it was his wife's deathbed request that the children be bound to Mr. Mareen Duvall-probably because his wife knew him to be unwilling or incapable of caring for the children. Duvall researchers have not come up with any blood or marriage link between the Cecil and Duvall families. It was said he was know to associate with disreputable character. Dr. Pile does not seem to be a very nice man either. William did have servants, a horse and nice things. By mid 1700's he appears to have been living with a grandchild in Frederick Co, MD William CECIL BIRTH: ABT 1665 DEATH: JUL 1749, Frederick Co., MD Family 1: Mary MARRIAGE: ABT 1688 John CECIL Phillip CECIL Susannah CECIL )According to Elise Greenup Jourdan, nothing has been determined to date regarding his ancestors. He does appear to be connected to the Catholic Cissell's in SMC, MD. He had some education as he could write his name. He lived with Dr. Richard Pile in 1706/1707, a member of PGC, MD gentry. He was Protestant and bound his children to a Protestant family. There are no indications he owned land. He stated that it was his wife's deathbed request that the children be bound to Mr. Mareen Duvall-probably because his wife knew him to be unwilling or incapable of caring for the children. Duvall researchers have not come up with any blood or marriage link between the Cecil and Duvall families. It was said he was know to associate with disreputable character. Dr. Pile does not seem to be a very nice man either. William did have servants, a horse and nice things. By mid 1700's he appears to have been living with a grandchild in Frederick Co, MD
William CECIL
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BIRTH: ABT 1665
DEATH: JUL 1749, Frederick Co., MD
Family 1: Mary
MARRIAGE: ABT 1688
John CECIL
Phillip CECIL
Susannah CECIL
Notes
from Elise Jourdan's book:
"Greenup Witten Cecil" (Gateway Press 1989) regarding our William:
"..There were at least two distinct lines of Maryland Cecils: The Catholic Cecils of St. Mary's County and the Protestant Cecils of Prince George's County. William Cecil, ancestor of at least part of the line which intermarried with the Witten and Greenup lines, was a Protestant. These Cecils all came from England where Cecil was not an unusual name and some Cecils were quite prominent and close to the crown. Sir Thomas Cecil, the London Engraver, was given a vast tract of land in Maryland for making the first map of the colony in 1638. His landholdings in St. Mary's County were managed by his son, John Cecil, who is believed to have married a Calvert..." From p. 224 of her book.
In March of 1697/98 as recorded in the annals of Prince George's County, a William Cecil (Sessell) "...by the request of my wife as she lay upon her deathbed" disposed of his children John, age 7, Phillip, age 5 and Susan, age 2, to Mareen Duval (the Elder) and his wife.
Proposed parents of William:
John CECIL(b.1620 d.6-Jun-1698) who m.c.1683 in VA Mary (______). This is unproven, and the William who was the son of John (b.1620) died c.1744, so the link to the Prince George's Cecils to the St. Mary's Cecil's is unlikely.
John CECIL(b.c.1635 d.6-Jun 1698) who m.c.1664 Mary SHIRCLIFF. This John was the son or Sir Thomas and Susan (Oxenbridge) CECIL. Is this the same John as the prior one?
Our William Cecil (or Sessell) appears in Prince George's County and later Frederick County (created from PGC) on several occasions from 1697 to 1749. This William was a witness in a trial in PGC in March of 1706, donated 50 pounds of tobacco to Queen Anne's Parish (Anglican) in 1708, and was involved in other court documents in 1710, 1714 and 1729. He witnessed wills in 1731 and 1732. His estate was probated in 1749, and grandchildren Thomas, Sabret and Samuel were administrators. These grandchildren are sons of John and Elizabeth (Sollars) Cecil.
Both William Cecil and William Cissell had sons named John. John Cecil married Elizabeth Sollars, who survived him at his death in 1759 per his will. John Cissell married an Elizabeth also, but this John died in 1742, and his widow married one Charles Neale.
We haven't a shred of evidence about who William Cecil married, what he did, or where he came from. (Lots of IDEAS but no proof!! :>).
http://www.charweb.org/gen/whitten/d0003/g0000032.htm#I2
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West Nebraska Family Research & History Center
Abt 1665 - 1749 (~ 84 years)
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