Family Tree Beyer » William Thomas Randolph (< 1651-1711)

Persönliche Daten William Thomas Randolph 

• Er wurde geboren vor 7. November 1651 in Moreton Morrell, Stratford-on-Avon District, Warwickshire, England.
• Er wurde getauft am 7. November 1651 in Moreton Morrell Parish, Warwickshire, England.
• Eingewandert vor 12. Februar 1672 vanuit Virginia, British Colonial America.
• Beruf: Justice of The Peace in Henrico County Courthouse, Henrico, Virginia, British Colonial America.
• (Deed) vor 1. Dezember 1692 in Tuckahoe Creek, Virginia.
• (Deed) am 21. April 1695 in Goochland, Virginia, British Colonial America.
• (Lieutenant Colonel) Juni 1699 in Henrico, Virginia, British Colonial America.
• Er ist verstorben am 11. April 1711 in Turkey Island, Henrico County, Virginia, British Colonial America.
• Er wurde beerdigt April 1711 in Randolph Family Cemetery, Presque Isle, Chesterfield, Virginia, British Colonial America.
• Testament am 6. März 1709 naar turkey island, Chesterfield County, Virginia, Verenigde Staten.
• Ein Kind von Richard Randolph und Elizabeth Ryland

Familie von William Thomas Randolph

Er hat eine Beziehung mit Mary Isham.

Kind(er):

1. Mary Randolph  1692-1742 

Notizen bei William Thomas Randolph

William Randolph was baptized in Moreton Morrell, Warwickshire, England on 7 November 1650. He was the son of Richard Randolph (1620 – ca. 1671)[5][6] and Elizabeth Ryland (1625–ca. 1669) of Warwickshire.[6] Richard Randolph was originally from Little Houghton (also called Houghton Parva), a small village east of Northampton, where Richard Randolph's father, William, was a "steward and servant" to Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche (1556–1625), having previously served in that same capacity to Sir George Goring, a landowner in Sussex.[6][7][a] William was the fourth of seven Randolph children.[6]Richard and Elizabeth moved to Warwickshire before the birth of their first child in Moreton Morrell in 1647. They lived within the "heart of Parliamentarian Warwickshire" throughout the end of the English Civil Wars.[6] His family were among the Cavaliers who supported the king.[10] In 1657, the last of their children was born in Moreton Morrell. The same year, Elizabeth's father was buried there. Then, the family moved to Dublin.[6] His mother died there around 1669 and his father about two years later.[5][6][11]William's uncle, Henry Randolph (1623-1673), traveled to England and Ireland from Virginia in 1669, and sponsored William to emigrate to Colonial Virginia.[5][12] He arrived without money and an axe. He arrived in an area replete with others whose families had also supported the king during the Civil War. His family had long been members of the court.[10] William Randolph was in the colony by 12 February 1672 when he appears in the record as witness to a land transaction.[6]These were men who had fought on the royal side in the Civil War in England and now sought refuge in Virginia. They were known as ‘Cavaliers,’ and they gave Virginia a social atmosphere it never subsequently lost.— H. J. Eckenrode, author of The Randolphs: The Story of a Virginia Family[10]William first appears in Virginia records as witness to a deed on February 12, 1672. In 1674, he qualified for his first land patent by claiming headrights for importing twelve people. Around 1676, he married Mary Isham, a widow of some means, daughter of Henry Isham from Northamptonshire. Mary bore William ten children, of whom nine survived to adulthood (Mary, William, Henry, Elizabeth, Isham, Thomas, Richard, John, and Edward), an astonishingly high number given seventeenth-century child survival rates.4 In addition to dozens of grandchildren and hundreds of great-grandchildren – among whom are Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall (1755-1834), Edmund Randolph (1753-1813), John Randolph of Roanoke, Sir John Randolph (ca. 1693-1737), Richard Bland (1710-1776), and Peyton Randolph (ca. 1721-1775) – he was responsible for importing 168 indentured servants and slaves into Virginia.Although primarily a tobacco planter and transatlantic merchant – several of his sons and grandsons would boost the family's commercial operation by becoming ship's captains – William served in the House of Burgesses, was elected Speaker of the House for one term, served as clerk of the House of Burgesses, and for four years was Attorney General of the colony (a post that members of his family would hold for most of the eighteenth century). He was recommended for appointment to the Virginia Council in 1705, but he never received the position.6William died at his home, Turkey Island, on the James River, on April 21, 1711.7Although William has been variously described as a carpenter who started off in Virginia by building barns, as one of the "high loyalists in the Civil Wars," and as a member of the wealthy English gentry, there is no evidence for any of those claims. In fact, the evidence that does exist makes the first unlikely and rules out the others.8- Taylor Stoermer, 1/4/09Further Sources
Evans, Emory G. "A Topping People": The Rise and Decline of Virginia's Old Political Elite, 1680-1790. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009.
Randolph, Robert Isham. The Randolphs of Virginia, A Compilation of the Descendants of William Randolph of Turkey Island, and His Wife Mary Isham of Bermuda Hundred. Chicago: [1936].
Randolph, Wassell. William Randolph I of Turkey Island, Henrico County, Virginia, and His Immediate Descendants. Memphis: Seebode Mimeo Service, Distributed by Cossitt Library, 1949.
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"Here Lies Col. William Randolph Founder of Randolph Family
1651-1711." Virginia Conservation Com. 1946.
William Randolph, settled at Turkey Island in the early 1680s, near the head of the tidewater on the James River, built up a large estate, and became one of the most influential political leaders of his generation. He was the 26th Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1698. By the time of his death in 1711, he had established a leading dynasty and was able to bequeath thousands of acres of land to his children. Taking advantage of opportunities in the interior, his sons moved further upriver: Richard settled at Curles Neck, Thomas far beyond the falls at Tuckahoe (the first great plantation on the upper James), and Isham further upriver still. As a young man Isham had gone to sea, become a successful merchant, and lived for many years in London, serving as an agent for Virginia affairs. In 1718 he married Jane Rogers and three years later their daughter, Jane, was baptized at St. Paul's Church, Shadwell. Jane Randolph, Thomas Jefferson's mother, was English by birth and spent her childhood in London surrounded by the busy streets and docklands of the East End, before moving to her father's plantation at Dungeness in the frontier county of Goochland.
The Randolph Family Cemetery on the South-West side of the old Turkey Island Plantation. The Turkey Island Plantation is NOT on Turkey Island, but across the James River, north of Turkey Island. The family plot is now on private property and the owner does not allow people to visit the walled in cemetery.(according to G. Parsons).

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