Essex Beville (bef. 1640 - aft. 1682)

Born before 15 Mar 1640 in Chesterton, Huntingdonshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Amy (Butler) Botte — married 1669 in Henrico, Virginia

Descendants

Died after 9 Nov 1682 after age 42 in Henrico County, Virginia

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Biography

Essex Beville was a Virginia colonist.

Essex was the son and main heir of John Beville and Mary Clement. He was baptised at Chesterton, Huntingdonshire on 15 March 1639/40.^[1][2][3][4]

Essex settled in Henrico County, Virginia by autumn 1671 when he was named in land warrant as "Essex Beville, of Old Town on the Appomatox River". Agnes Tedcastle's book on the Beville family speculates that he may have come from Barbados rather than directly from England, but gives no sourcing for this suggestion.^[5] From, 1677 to 1682 he was a Justice of the Peace there.^[1][2]

Essex married Amy Butler. They wed before 27 November 1671, when they are named as man and wife on a grant of 600 acres in Henrico County, on the north of the Appomattox River^[1][2][6] (Agnes Tedcastle's book on the Beville gives the month as October^[5]) If their son John was born in 1670, the marriage was likely to have been no later than 1669. They probably married in Virginia: a land grant records Amy there in 1664.^[5] They had the following children:

• John,^[1][2] who may have been born in 1670^[5]
• Essex^[1][2][5]
• Amy^[2][5]
• Elizabeth^[2][5]
• Mary^[2][5]

Essex's will, dated 9 November 1682, was proved in Virginia on 1 February 1682/3.^[1][2] In it he left land to his two sons, and the residue to his wife, whom he appointed as executor.^[7] His wife survived him, marrying twice more, her second and third husbands being Henry Kent and Thomas Bott(e).^[1][2]

Research Notes

First Name of Wife

Agnes Tedcastle's book on the Beville family names Essex's wife as both Anne and Amy, notes that she was called Amy in a 1664 land grant,^[5] and refers briefly to the two names in a note.^[8] Crozier's transcript of the 1671 land grant calls her Anne.^[6] His wife is named Amy in his will.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. I, p. 196, BEVILLE 16, Google Books
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. I, p. 362, BEVILLE 22
3. ↑ England & Wales, Christening Index, 1530-1980, Ancestry.co.uk
4. ↑ "England, Huntingdonshire Parish Registers", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7BLX-W36Z : 1 June 2021), Johannis Bevill in entry for Efsexius Bevill, 1639
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8} Agnes Beville Vaughan Tedcastle. The Beville family of Virginia, Georgia, and Florida, and several allied families, north and south, privately pinter, 1917, p. 30, Internet Archive
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} William Armstrong Crozier. Virginia County Records, Vol. VI, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1971, p. 125, Internet Archive
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Benjamin B Weisigner. Colonial Wills of Henrico County, Virginia: 1654-1737, 1976, image on Familysearch
8. ↑ Agnes Beville Vaughan Tedcastle. The Beville family of Virginia, pp. 181-182, Internet Archive

See also:

• Lichliter, Assélia Strobhar. 700 Years of the Beville Family: the lives and times of 18 generations of the Beville family of Huntingdonshire, England; and some allied families, including the Bowerman, Hoo, Carew, Saunders, Lacy, Wimberly and other families in England, 1976, 2nd edition 1999
• FamilySearch Person: LCRH-Y32

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed for the Magna Carta Project by Michael Cayley on 2 November 2022.

Essex Beville is listed in Magna Carta Ancestry as a Gateway Ancestor (vol. I, pages xxiii-xxix) in a Richardson-documented trail to Magna Carta Surety Baron Geoffrey de Say (vol. I, pages 192-196 BEVILLE). Essex is also the Gateway in another trail to Richard de Clare that was identified by the Magna Carta Project. Both trails were project-approved/badged in November 2015 and are outlined in the Magna Carta Trails section, below.

See Base Camp for more information about Magna Carta trails. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".

Magna Carta Trails

Badged Richardson-documented trail to Say (MCA I:192-196 BEVILLE):

Gateway Ancestor Essex Beville (badged/100% 5-star)

1. Essex is the son of John Beville (badged/re-reviewed 4 Nov 2022)

2. John is the son of Mary Saunders (badged/re-reviewed 6 Nov 2022)

3. Mary is the daughter of Isabel Carew (badged/re-reviewed 9 Nov 2022)

4. Isabel is the daughter of Nicholas Carew (badged/100% 5-star)

5. Nicholas is the son of Richard Carew (badged/100% 5-star)

6. Richard is the son of James Carew (badged/100% 5-star needs)

7. James is the son of Margaret Fiennes (badged/re-reviewed 18 November 2022)

8. Margaret is the daughter of Roger Fiennes (badged/5-star, re-reviewed 6 February 2022)

9. Roger is the son of William Fiennes (badged/100% 5-star)

10. William is the son of Joan de Say (badged/100% 5-star)

11. Joan is the daughter of Geoffrey de Say (badged/100% 5-star)

12. Geoffrey is the son of Geoffrey de Say (badged/100% 5-star)

13. Geoffrey is the son of William de Say (badged/100% 5-star)

14. William is the son of William de Say (badged/100% 5-star)

15. William is the son of Magna Carta Surety Geoffrey de Say

Badged trail to Clare:

14. William de Say is the son of Hawise de Clare (badged/100% 5-star)

15. Hawise is the daughter of Magna Carta Surety Richard de Clare