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Elizabeth Bessiles, 14th Great-Grandmother
March 21, 2013
— ancestors, British history, Brits
Elizabeth Bessiles
She was the only child and heiress of William Bessiles, whose family had been settled at Besils Leigh, Berks as Leland says in his quaint language, ‘syns the time of Edward the first’. The Bessells cam out of Provence in France and were ‘men of activitye in feates of arms as it appearith in monuments at Legh; how he faught in listes with a straunge knyghte that challengyd hym, at the whitche deade the kynge and quene at that time of England were present’. (source – http://www.tudorplace.com.ar)
She married Sir Richard Fettiplace.
Elizabeth Bessiles (1465 – 1511)
is my 14th great grandmother
Anne Fettiplace (1496 – 1567)
daughter of Elizabeth Bessiles
Mary Purefoy (1533 – 1579)
daughter of Anne Fettiplace
Susanna Thorne (1559 – 1586)
daughter of Mary Purefoy
Gov Thomas Dudley (1576 – 1653)
son of Susanna Thorne
Anne Dudley (1612 – 1672)
daughter of Gov Thomas Dudley
John Bradstreet (1652 – 1718)
son of Anne Dudley
Mercy Bradstreet (1689 – 1725)
daughter of John Bradstreet
Caleb Hazen (1720 – 1777)
son of Mercy Bradstreet
Mercy Hazen (1747 – 1819)
daughter of Caleb Hazen
Martha Mead (1784 – 1860)
daughter of Mercy Hazen
Abner Morse (1808 – 1838)
son of Martha Mead
Daniel Rowland Morse (1838 – 1910)
son of Abner Morse
Jason A Morse (1862 – 1932)
son of Daniel Rowland Morse
Ernest Abner Morse (1890 – 1965)
son of Jason A Morse
Richard Arden Morse (1920 – 2004)
son of Ernest Abner Morse
Pamela Morse
I am the daughter of Richard Arden Morse
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wow.. how far back do you think you can go Pam?
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Depends on the branch. My maternal grandmother was an orphan from Mississippi in a town where the courthouse burned..so one out of four is not traceable right there…..I have some stubborn cases, but have had big breakthroughs… Some claim they can take my ancestry back to Roman Senators, but I am into getting all the ones in America lined up with the voyage here from Europe….big job. More peeps involved with each generation back…It is an eternal game of reverse solitaire until you get to Adam and Eve.
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I love that portrait! Where are you finding all this stuff?
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Ancestry.com, Fiona. My favorite social media..because it is for the dead, who are so well behaved now..
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I wonder about my ancestors. Were they people I would have been proud of? Does it matter? I kind of regret not asking my grandparents, aunts, and uncles about their lives. There are some neat rumors about my family that I would like to validate.
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Rick
March 28, 2013
Well, you can, & we all have the good and the bad. It is so much fun because it is a linear history lesson..of course the are twice as many as you go back, so it gets harder to picture where they all are and what they did in the Middle ages..You get a week free on Ancestry because they know you will not be able to quit..I dare you to try…
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