Early Kellaways in America
The following is an excerpt from the letter of Mr. Noel Currer-Briggs (Genealogist in England) addressed to CFA, dated Oct. 24, 1978. The letter accompanied various wills, parish records of baptisms, marriages and burials, and court records which relate to families connected with the William Kellaway who died in York Co., VA , leaving a widow, Agatha (nee Eltonhead), who soon married Capt. Ralph Wormeley.
". . .I would like to say a word about William Kellaway of York County (Va) and his wife, Agatha Eltonhead. The three Eltonhead sisters, Eleanor, Martha and Agatha, were the daughters of Richard Eltonhead of Eltonhead, Furness, Lancashire and his wife Ann Sutton, and nieces of Edward Eltonhead of London and Henham, Essex. Their brother, William Eltonhead emigrated to Maryland. Agatha was born in 1627 and her third husband was Sir Henry Chicheley, the son of Sir Thomas Chicheley of Wimpole, Cambridgeshire and of his wife Dorothy Kempe, whose sisters, Amy Kempe and Mary Kempe, were the wives respectively of Sir Henry Skipwith and Sir Dudley Digges. The sons of all three of these Kempe sisters are well known in Virginia history, namely, Sir Grey Skipwith, Sir Henry Chicheley (Governor), and Edward Digges (Governor). William Kellaway, Agatha's first husband, had a brother Henry Kellaway, who married Anne Wormeley, a sister of Ralph Wormeley, Agatha's second husband, so there is a double link here. I realise that this is frightfully complicated, but I hope I have made it a little clearer!
"The will of Mary Keyllewaye of Tonbridge (1638) is especially interesting if my identification of her son, Thomas Cakebread, is correct, for he was involved with William Claiborne (Clayborne) in the Kent Island (Md.) adventure, and, of course, Claiborne drew many of his recruits from Kent, Hertfordshire and Essex."
Marie Keyllewaye of Tonbridge, Kent, widow - 24 Sep. 1638
PR: 13 Nov. 1638 by Robert Scoles in London
Exor: Robert Scoles.
Witnesses: George Children, John Hooper.
Legatees: Thomas Cakebread, my son by a former husband, if it can be made to appear to my executor within one year after my decease that the sd Thomas my son is living either beyond the seas, whither he went long since, or in any other place, the sum of L25 which formerly I put into the hands of Robert Scoles of Cannon Court in Wateringbury, Kent, gent. for his use; if it cannot be shown that my son is living, then I will the sd L25 as follows: -
To Hannah Callys, widow, my kinswoman L10, to Jasper and Anne Scoles, the children of the sd Robert Scoles L5 each, and to Mary Monnax, daughter of Elizabeth now the wife of Herbert Crofts, gent. L5.
Note: Thomas Cakebread appears as a headright of Bartholomex Hoskins, Jan. 1, 1645/6 but this must refer to a second return to Virginia for his name also appears (HCA 24/98) in lists of servants submitted by William Claiborne in his lawsuit against William Cloberry & Co. as follows:
1633 - Men employed upon the service of the joint stock at the Isle of Kent. Inter alia Thomas Cakebread - employed at the kitchen.
1634 - ditto
1635 - ditto and also employed to dress victuals and beat corn
1636 - ditto
Chesapeake Conflict: The Troublesome Early Days of Maryland, by Gene Williamson.
In 1621, William Clayborne of England arrived in Virginia as a surveyor and later became a prominent official in the local government. He built up a successful fur trade, operating from Kent Island, which he discovered, purchased, named, and settled in 1628. In 1632, the English King gave a patent, which included Kent Island, to his friend Lord Baltimore. Clayborne/Claiborne disputed the action. The Claiborne/Baltimore conflict dominated events and issues that helped to shape the Maryland colony, and was the opening salvo in a series of disputes over Chesapeake rights which have never been completely resolved.
Author, Gene Williamson has included illustrations and a searchable index.
"The will of Robert of Stepney (1580) is likewise of great interest. His son-in-law and executor is, I think, the same Sir John Harrington, Alderman of London, who later became first Baron Harington (created a peer at the coronation of James I) and the guardian of the Princess Elizabeth, sister of Charles I, and better known as the Winter Queen of Bohemia, mother of Prince Rupert. He looked after her at Combe Abbey, which, of course, he owned in right of his wife, Anne Kelwaye. Lord Harington was a trader to Virginia and I believe also a shareholder in the Virginia Company - if not himself, then a namesake and member of the same family.
"It seems clear, therefore, that the Virginia Kellaways were members of a wealthy merchant family with many connections among the leading pioneers of the colony. The fact that some of them appear as headrights is no indication of a pauper background."
The excerpts from the letter and all of the documents were originally published in the 1979 CFA Journal.
". . .I would like to say a word about William Kellaway of York County (Va) and his wife, Agatha Eltonhead. The three Eltonhead sisters, Eleanor, Martha and Agatha, were the daughters of Richard Eltonhead of Eltonhead, Furness, Lancashire and his wife Ann Sutton, and nieces of Edward Eltonhead of London and Henham, Essex. Their brother, William Eltonhead emigrated to Maryland. Agatha was born in 1627 and her third husband was Sir Henry Chicheley, the son of Sir Thomas Chicheley of Wimpole, Cambridgeshire and of his wife Dorothy Kempe, whose sisters, Amy Kempe and Mary Kempe, were the wives respectively of Sir Henry Skipwith and Sir Dudley Digges. The sons of all three of these Kempe sisters are well known in Virginia history, namely, Sir Grey Skipwith, Sir Henry Chicheley (Governor), and Edward Digges (Governor). William Kellaway, Agatha's first husband, had a brother Henry Kellaway, who married Anne Wormeley, a sister of Ralph Wormeley, Agatha's second husband, so there is a double link here. I realise that this is frightfully complicated, but I hope I have made it a little clearer!
"The will of Mary Keyllewaye of Tonbridge (1638) is especially interesting if my identification of her son, Thomas Cakebread, is correct, for he was involved with William Claiborne (Clayborne) in the Kent Island (Md.) adventure, and, of course, Claiborne drew many of his recruits from Kent, Hertfordshire and Essex."
Marie Keyllewaye of Tonbridge, Kent, widow - 24 Sep. 1638
PR: 13 Nov. 1638 by Robert Scoles in London
Exor: Robert Scoles.
Witnesses: George Children, John Hooper.
Legatees: Thomas Cakebread, my son by a former husband, if it can be made to appear to my executor within one year after my decease that the sd Thomas my son is living either beyond the seas, whither he went long since, or in any other place, the sum of L25 which formerly I put into the hands of Robert Scoles of Cannon Court in Wateringbury, Kent, gent. for his use; if it cannot be shown that my son is living, then I will the sd L25 as follows: -
To Hannah Callys, widow, my kinswoman L10, to Jasper and Anne Scoles, the children of the sd Robert Scoles L5 each, and to Mary Monnax, daughter of Elizabeth now the wife of Herbert Crofts, gent. L5.
Note: Thomas Cakebread appears as a headright of Bartholomex Hoskins, Jan. 1, 1645/6 but this must refer to a second return to Virginia for his name also appears (HCA 24/98) in lists of servants submitted by William Claiborne in his lawsuit against William Cloberry & Co. as follows:
1633 - Men employed upon the service of the joint stock at the Isle of Kent. Inter alia Thomas Cakebread - employed at the kitchen.
1634 - ditto
1635 - ditto and also employed to dress victuals and beat corn
1636 - ditto
Chesapeake Conflict: The Troublesome Early Days of Maryland, by Gene Williamson.
In 1621, William Clayborne of England arrived in Virginia as a surveyor and later became a prominent official in the local government. He built up a successful fur trade, operating from Kent Island, which he discovered, purchased, named, and settled in 1628. In 1632, the English King gave a patent, which included Kent Island, to his friend Lord Baltimore. Clayborne/Claiborne disputed the action. The Claiborne/Baltimore conflict dominated events and issues that helped to shape the Maryland colony, and was the opening salvo in a series of disputes over Chesapeake rights which have never been completely resolved.
Author, Gene Williamson has included illustrations and a searchable index.
"The will of Robert of Stepney (1580) is likewise of great interest. His son-in-law and executor is, I think, the same Sir John Harrington, Alderman of London, who later became first Baron Harington (created a peer at the coronation of James I) and the guardian of the Princess Elizabeth, sister of Charles I, and better known as the Winter Queen of Bohemia, mother of Prince Rupert. He looked after her at Combe Abbey, which, of course, he owned in right of his wife, Anne Kelwaye. Lord Harington was a trader to Virginia and I believe also a shareholder in the Virginia Company - if not himself, then a namesake and member of the same family.
"It seems clear, therefore, that the Virginia Kellaways were members of a wealthy merchant family with many connections among the leading pioneers of the colony. The fact that some of them appear as headrights is no indication of a pauper background."
The excerpts from the letter and all of the documents were originally published in the 1979 CFA Journal.
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