Name | Francis Billingsley [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] | |
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Gender | Male | |
Birth | 1620
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Died | 1684
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Father | ![]() b. 1587, Astley Abbotts, Shropshire, England ![]() d. 1659, Netherlands ![]() | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Mother | ![]() b. 1593, Shropshire, England ![]() d. 1666, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands ![]() | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Marriage | 1612
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Wife | Ann Frances Hale (ID:I21273) (Age 47) b. 1622, Reusel-de Mierden, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands ![]() d. Abt 1669, Calvert County, Maryland, USA ![]() | |||||||||||||
Marriage | Abt 1647
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Histories | ![]() | Billingsley Descendants in Historical Southern Families, Vol III This is a two-page excerpt from a 9-generation straight-line (one child per generation) descendancy from my immigrant ancestor Frances Billingley. The first 4 generations are my ancestors: 1. Francis b.1620 Shropshire, England, 2. John 1647 Rotterdam, Holland 3. William 1670 Calvert Co, MD 4. William Jr, 1691 Calvert Co, MD | ||||||||||||
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Arrival | 1649
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Possessions | 26 Nov 1650
Selby Clifts, Calvert County, Maryland, USA
![]() – Received a land grant of 200 acres from Lord Baltimore for the transportation of Thomas Forby from Caecilius into Maryland. | |
Civil | 5 Dec 1654
Calvert County, Maryland, USA
![]() – Appointed Constable of Clifts | |
Residence | 1659
Richmond County, Virginia, USA
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Possessions | 1661
– Grant for 350 acres named Cornehill for the transportation of 5 men to Maryland. A 1786 home on the property is in the National Register of Historic Places. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornehill | |
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Billingsley Property - Cornhill Grant - 1661 This is a microfilm image of the flowery hand-written grant of 300 acres from Lord Calvert to Francis Billingsey in 1661 for paying for the transportation of 5 men to Maryland. |
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Cornehill Home Photo & Descriptio This could be part of a realty ad, but I think that it is just a description of a historic property. |
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Possessions | 1663
– Grants for 250-acres properties called "Deer Quarter" and "Expectation" | |
Residence | 1664
Calvert County, Maryland, USA
![]() – Returned to Maryland after his sister-in-law Sarah remarried | |
Possessions | 1668
– Granted a 250-acre property named "Addition" | |
Civil | 24 Sep 1682
Easton, Talbot County, Maryland, USA
![]() – Quaker meeting records; could refer to Francis Jr. |
Documents | ![]() | U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1994 Francis Billingsly |
![]() | Maryland marriages 1634-1777 | |
![]() | Francis Billingsley's Properties marked on Calvert County Mapp continued, south This is the northern half of Calvert County, which is on the west shore of Cheapeake Bay about 50 miles south of Annapolis. The west border of the county is formed by the Prather wide Patuxent River, which is shaded in grey. The map shows the properties called Cornehill, Expectation, Hunting Creek, and Selby's Clifts, plus All Saints Church. The county seat, Prince Frederick, is at the bottom of the map. "Deer Quarter" is at Plum Point, on the Bay just above the middle point on the map. Sotterly Plantation is in St Mary's County, across the Pautuxent River (to the west) and well south of this map. |
Histories | ![]() | Billingsley Descendants in Historical Southern Families, Vol III This is a two-page excerpt from a 9-generation straight-line (one child per generation) descendancy from my immigrant ancestor Frances Billingley. The first 4 generations are my ancestors: 1. Francis b.1620 Shropshire, England, 2. John 1647 Rotterdam, Holland 3. William 1670 Calvert Co, MD 4. William Jr, 1691 Calvert Co, MD |
![]() | Billingsley Family - British Ancestry Annotated excerpt from The Billingsley Family In America, by Harry Alexander Davis. My immigrant ancestor, Francis Billingsley and his father John Billingsley are listed on the last page of the excerpt. | |
![]() | Society of Friends will of Francis Billingsley | |
![]() | Provincial Court Proceedings 1664 | |
![]() | Billingsley Property - 600 acre warrant This warrant, dated May 16, 1662, is not yet a grant; it declares that 600 acres must be marked off for a grant to Francis Billingsley for the transportation of 15 people into Maryland. These included his brothers Thoma and James in 1656 and 12 others in 1660. | |
![]() | Billingsley Property - 1663 - Deer Quarter - 250 acres 1663 grant from Lord Calvert to Francis Billingsley | |
![]() | Billingsley Property - Selby Clifts A grant of 200 acres to Frances Billingsley for paying for the transportation of men to Maryland. This image of the handwritten grant is a almost-impossible-to-read negative image. A label attached to the document gives a date of 1658, but the Francis Billingsley's bigrapical sketch in Historical Southern Families, Vol III says that the grant occurred in 1650. | |
![]() | Billingsley Property - Sotterly Brochure Undated one-fold flyer from the Sottery Mansion Foundation. Containsa map and information about viewing of the 1730 mansion in Hollywood, St Mary's County, Maryland. Admission is $1 for adults. | |
![]() | Billingsley Propetry - 100 acre grand of land called Addition | |
![]() | Francis Billingslea Virginia to Maryland | |
![]() | Cornehill-National Register of Historic Places in Maryland From http://www.mht.maryland.gov/nr/NRDetail.asp?HDID=103&County=Calvert | |
![]() | Billingsley Propery - 350 acres called 'Expectation' 1667 grant from Lord Calvert to Francis Billingsley | |
![]() | Sotterly Plantation in Maryland This property, on a ridge overlooking the Patuxent River, was acquired by Francis Billingsley in the 1660s, and later sold by his chidren. It was once part of "Ressurection Manor". The existing house was built in the early 18th century, and refined by the Platter family over the subseuquent 100 years. | |
![]() | Billingsley Property - Cornhill Grant - 1661 This is a microfilm image of the flowery hand-written grant of 300 acres from Lord Calvert to Francis Billingsey in 1661 for paying for the transportation of 5 men to Maryland. | |
![]() | Cornehill Home Photo & Descriptio This could be part of a realty ad, but I think that it is just a description of a historic property. | |
![]() | Francis Billingsley Properties from Monnet Family Genealogy Excerpts from a family genealogy book that describe rental payments for properies that Francis Billingsley owned. | |
![]() | Seventeenth Century Colonial Ancestors, Vol. I 4 Billingsley Colonian Ancestors, all of whom happen to be my direct ancestors | |
![]() | BillingslyInAmerica_p18-20 | |
![]() | Third Haven Friends Meeting, Talbot Co, MD, Nov 1682 Francis Billingsley and Richard Johns were evidently asked to "treat with" Benjamin Lawrence about an issue described here that I could not make out. This could be Francis Billingsley | |
![]() | Francis Billingsley A Collection of the Sufferings of the Joseph Besse. People Called Quakers: For the Testimony of a Good Conscience from the Time of Their Being First Distinguished by that Name in the Year 1650 to the Time of the Act Commonly Called the Act of Toleration Granted to Protestant Dissenters in the First Year of the Reign of King William the Third and Queen Mary in the Year 1689 ยท Volume 2; London, 1793, p 388. | |
![]() | Article about Cornehill About the restoration of a Calvert County landmark | |
![]() | Billingsley Family - Immigrants and British Roots From British Roots of Maryland Families II, by Robert W Barnes. See also other stories attached to Francis Billingsley (my Billingsley immigrant ancestor) for other views of his British ancestry. | |
![]() | Billingsley Family Bio-Francis (1) Billingsley, 1620 - 1684 Francis and his brother William are both my immigrant ancestors and my 10th great grandfathers because Francis's son John married William's daughter Sarah Ann. From The Billingsley Family In America, by Harry Alexander Davis. |
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