11520. Robert GLIDEWELL
Gloydwells, Gildewell, Gladwell, Gledewell, Gliedvelk, Gliddell, Glidswell, and Gledwill
I have a copy of a widely circulated manuscript, entitled, "Glidewell Background," that contains much detail of the Glidewell families in Wales and England and equally as much about the Glidewells who may have been ancestors of the line. The manuscript shows no author, no date, and no sources. Because the language is quite similar to that used in two publications by James Arthur Glidewell of Dallas, TX, I believe that he is the author. The publications are: (1) Compendium of American Genealogy, Vol III, 1942, p 564. (2) Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas, 1889, p 830. F. A. Battey Co, Chicago, IL, 1889. If you check these, notice the differences and similarities between the reports.
I have no firm documentation of my belief about the authorship. All I can reliably document for Aymes is his landing in Boston from London in 1635. For what it is worth, here is a quotation from the relevant section of that manuscript): (Comments from Jack Glidewell)"About 1715 or 1717, Robert Glidewell of London married Phillis Eames. She was the daughter of Thomas Eames and Mary Scott. We know very little at this time about the Eames family, variously spelled as Ames, Aymes, and even in one case Ealmes; but Mary Scott had a very long lineage. She was the daughter of John Scott and Mary Kirkton, and a granddaughter of Sir William Scott and his wife, Lady Mary Howard. It is probable that Robert and Phillis Glidewell had a number of children, but we are concerned at this time only with our ancestor, the first Glidewell to come to America. Named for his Mother's family, this was Aymes Glidewell."
"One son Daniel, with whom we are chiefly concerned, was born in 1656 at Gloucester. There may have been other children, but we know nothing about them. When Daniel was about 5 years old, his father was lost at sea. The widow, with Daniel and her other children, if any, moved to New Windsor, Conn., to live with relatives. Her parents were already dead, but an uncle, Obidiah Bruen, was a prominent and prosperous citizen of that town.
[There is no mention of a son Robert, only a son Daniel. In his article in the Amer.Compendium, he reported that Aymes had a son Robert who was Daniel's father.]
"Four or five years later, in 1666, Obidiah Bruen sold out of his land in Conn. and moved to New Jersey, where he became one of the proprietors of a rather large grant. Ann Bruen Glidewell died about this time, whether before the move or after is not known; but the orphan Daniel was taken to New Jersey, where he lived through his youth. Daniel must have inherited his father's love for the sea, for when he was 12, he shipped as a cabin boy on a sailing merchant ship, beginning a career that would last two decades until he was too broken by the hard life to continue in it. Thus, about 1690, Daniel Glidewell a broken old man at 35, retired to land in the Isle of Wight County, VA. Perhaps his last voyage had ended at Norfolk; or he may have met there the widow he was to marry, Susan (Bernard) Thomas, whom he married about 1696.Daniel's son, Robert, is our ancestor. There may have been other children of this union, but we don't know about them. Robert was born about 1698. Daniel then took his family to Bristol Parish, Va, further inland, maybe to get away from the temptation of the sea. Here Daniel lived until his death in 1728, after having been stricken with paralysis, having lost his wife, and become a charge of the Parish." [end quote].
There was a Daniel Glidewell b 1655-1675 in MA, Sand-key’s sources say 1656, which agrees with James Arthur Glidewell's manuscript. There are many secondary sources placing Daniel in the lineage from Aymes to Nash, but as well as I can tell, all are based on one source: The Compendium of American Genealogy, Vol III, p 564, in a lineage of James Arthur Glidewell of Cooper, TX. This compendium is based upon interviews with well-known citizens of communities and is published without any other sources. It has been difficult for me to judge its authenticity, but it contains much that is supported in independent documents. Except for his parentage and birth, Daniel was in the records of the day, especially in the Bristol Parish Vestry Book and birth register, where, however, Daniel did not appear until he was an adult and judged to be an "idiot." The sources that report that Daniel was an "idiot," almost certainly were based on the Vestry Book’s account of him.
Stephanie Combs, a Glidewell genealogist in VA, sent many people this report about the appellation. E-mail message 2 May 1998 from Stephanie Combs: "... My mother [Elizabeth Glidewell b 1917 still living 1998), dau of Wm Agee (b 1871) son of Henry Thomas (b 1833)] knows much more than she should that is not written down! I have questioned her on things that were in the Bristol Parish Books and she has told me things like, 'Daniel was NOT an idiot! How dare them print such! Daniel had raised a large family before he fell down the well." ... I asked her how she knew things that happened so very long ago and was told that she, being the youngest, was sent upstairs to keep her grandmother (who was bedridden) occupied while her mother tried to keep house! All she heard was stories of the family!.. Some of what she says I can prove and some I can not." I think that the information is correct and could prove useful to others."
The Vestry Book refers to Daniel’s wife as "Elizabeth, not Susan (Bernard) Thomas, as named by James Arthur. Perhaps Susan was his first wife and Elizabeth was his second. So far I have no sources that inform on Daniel’s wife or wives.
This takes us through Daniel. Clearly, there was a man named Daniel Glidewell in Bristol Parish, VA who died in 1727 and left a widow, Elizabeth. That is all I can say for sure about him. Sandkey didn’t give any space to Daniel (I.e., Daniel Glidewell b 1556, Gloucester, MA). If you have more data, I would be pleased to have a reliable source on Daniel’s wife, on his death, and any children prior to his death.
"GLIDEWELL BACKGROUND
"Until recently we have supposed that the Glidewell name is derived from one of the companions of William the Conqueror, one William Le Glede, a Norman of unknown ancestry. We were uncertain as to how this name became Glidewell, whether through a place name itself derived from this William Le Glede, or by addition for some reason of another syllable. Now, however, we are certain that this William Le, Glede, if he had any family at all, is not our ancestor, at least in the direct paternal line. Further research has both disproved our earlier theory, and established the origin of the family and the derivation of the name.
"Our first ancestor to use the name Glidewell was a Welshman.
"Before the time of fixed, inherited family names our ancestors were already an old and royal family in Wales. The first to use the name of Glidewell, or GLYDEWELL, was the great-grandson of one of the outstanding Welsh kings, Llewellyn the Great. This ancestor, whose name was Glwydded ab Llewellyn, as near as we can spell it in English, was born about 1275 A.D., and was the youngest son of Llewellyn ab Gruffydd, who was a son and heir of Gruffydd (Griffith), a son of Llewellyn the Great. In those days there were no family names in Wales. A man had given, or Christian name, and to make the name more definite the name of his farther was added, connected by the word "ab" or "ad", meaning "the son of". Hence Glwydedd ab Llewellyn was "the son of Llewellyn", as his father, Llewellyn ab Gruffydd, was "the son of Gruffydd". While the hereditary family name had come into use in England, at this time Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, still used only one name with the father's name attached by a conjunction.
"When his father was slain in a family feud, in 1282, this ancestor of ours with the unpronounceable name, Glydedd ab Llewellyn, was a child of about 8 or 10 years. Times were perilous in those days, and we do not know how he spent the rest of his youth. His mother, who was a BRAOS, may have taken this, her youngest child to her ancestral home in England; he may have remained with his mother and older brothers in Wales; or he may have been taken as a hostage by his distant cousins, the Mortimers, who were at war with his family. There is some reason to think that his mother took him, and maybe other small children to some of her distant relatives in Leinster, Ireland, at least until the trouble died down a bit , which it did within the next few years--maybe because the most ardent fighters killed themselves off.
"At about 25, Glwydedd ab Llewellyn was in County Somerset, England, married to one of his distant cousins, Isabel BRAOS. Probably because no Englishman could pronounce his name without sneezing, he had shortened it to GLYDELWELL, apparently to preserve as much of his Welsh name as possible in a more easily pronounced English version.
"The next generation, William (b.1302). used the same spelling; his son William (b. 1325) dropped one letter and spelled it GLYDEWELL; while his son Robert (b. 1362) called it GLIDEWELL. However, through then years, and even now, many people persist in spelling the name Glydewell, Glydwell, and Glidwell or Gladwell. From around the beginning of the 14th Century to around the beginning of the 16th, the family might be said to have languished in bondage. For 200 years our ancestors were literally servants of the nobility, as much as the Israelites were servants in Egypt. Not, perhaps because they were bound by law, but because of a poverty they seem to have been unable to rise above.
"A few times during the two centuries, and for short periods, one of them did rise above the lot of family. But these rises were so brief and so limited by the system that they made but a dot on the pages of history of the times. In the main the Glidewell family remained lowly vassals, almost serfs, of the lordly and powerful Somersets, until one finally broke away and went to London, about the beginning of the 16th century.
"The bondage began about 1330, when William Glydlewell, who was a great-great-grandson of Llewellyn the great, died and left a 5 year old son, also. His wife Margaret, was a daughter of John Wake, a baron descended from both Llewellyn the great and Saire de Quincey, of the Surety barons; but at her marriage, although to one more royally descended then herself, she was cast out of the family. And because of this action by the "upstart" Baron Wake, the family of her husband would not receive her, or maybe because he had become an Englishman, William had been definitely marked off the family rolls of the Llewellyns. At any rate, Margaret Glydlewell was left with an infant son to support; and having been as gently reared as the custom of the country allowed, she had no means of support. There is no record of any property in her husbands name.
"Margaret was young and of good birth; so she might of made a prosperous marriage, according to the custom of the time. But even this was not allowed her; death intervened and she followed her husband to the grave within less than two years, leaving 7-year-old William a full orphan. A compassionate tenant of the Somersets took the child and reared him as their own. We know very little of this family six centuries later. We only know their name was White. They, like our own family, may have seen better days; or they have been bound to the land since the dawn of history. William "Glidewell" did marry their daughter, but not until he was almost 35 years old. This would suggest that William also lived and labored in the bondage of the Somersets, but this is not recorded.
"Records of the family were kept through the church parish records, which seem to have been carefully kept and have been almost miraculously preserved and only published within this century. Through the entries of births, marriages, and deaths in the church books we can trace the biological path of the family in the church books. Because there were few of this name, and because they remained in the same spot for two centuries, we believe we have a reasonably accurate (account) of this phase of our family history. Some of the names, in the rude script of the time, and in the varying spelling used by the clerks, are almost indecipherable; in fact some of them have faded so they cannot be read at all. The dates however, are fairly easy to determine because the entries were made in chronological order. From these church books and a few mentions of the Glidewells in other documents, we can trace, dimly, our family through its two centuries of bondage
"This is not to say that during all these 200 years these ancestors were down-trodden and in abject poverty. Many were more or less contented with their lot; a number climbed rather far up the social scale. That they dropped in these two centuries from high in the ruling class in the working and middle class does not indicate slavery. For instance, William the orphan, rose in the service of his lord Somerset, to the trusted position of Master of Horse. This may have been little more than head groom in the stables of the manor, but it carried with it some social position in the strata below that of nobility.
"William's son, Robert was spoken of in at least one letter of Lord St. Muir(Seymour), as "my ward and clerk" indicating that he was at least under the knights protection and in a more or less trusted position. A marriage of one Robert Glidewell, in 1395, to an Ellen Adams seems to be that of our ancestor. This was the only Robert married in 50 years of the time, and the next in our line was born barley 10 months later, and named William. If this is our Robert, his wife came from a rather proud and aristocratic family, being the niece of Lord Seymour, either by blood or by marriage, it is not clear which.
"About five generations later, another William seems to have done right by himself. He married into the Needham family, both sides of which had a long ancestry including kings and nobility of a half a dozen countries, and already large land-holders in England, Scotland and Wales. This William seems to be the one who broke away from the soil and literally "went to town", moving to London were he became a business man, or merchant, but he at least paid taxes on property.
"About 1615 or 1617, Robert GLIDEWELL of London married Phillis EAMES. She was the daughter of Thomas Eames and Mary Scott. We know very little at this time about the Eames family, variously spelled as Ames, Aymes, and even in one case Ealmes; but Mary Scott had a very long lineage. She was the daughter of John Scott and Mary Kirton, and a granddaughter of Sir William Scott and his wife, Lady Mary Howard. It is probable that Robert and Phillis Glidewell had a number of children, but we are concerned at this time only with our ancestor, the first Glidewell to come to America. Named for his mothers family, this was Aymes Glidewell. (Spelled Gladwell on the passenger list).
"The father of Aymes Glidewell died when he was about 10 or 11 years old, and the widow made out the best she could in London as a seamstress. Apparently she received little or no help from her family, suggesting that her marriage had not been well-received. When Aymes was 15 or so, his mother also died.
"Two of her brothers had already come to New England, so the orphaned Aymes was sent, or came, to Boston on the ship "Encrease", land in July 1635. As there is no record of his having been bound "out" for his passage, it is assumed that his mother left him enough for the passage, or maybe his uncles sent it. When he arrived in Boston in 1635, Aymes Glidewell first went to his uncles, probably Anthony Ames of Charleston, Mass. Here he became one of an already large family for a few years."Information to follow not proved!
From: "SandKey" Subject: Re: [GLIDEWELL] Re: Glidewells of TN I have an Arminda Glidewell - born mid 1800's, married unknown Gentle, daughter of Shadrack Glidewell born 1831. I have seen spellings Amanda, Armida and Arminda. She had siblings William, Jacob, Clarinda, Fretima?, David, Joe Henry (b. 1859). I am descended through Alvis Glidewell who would be Arminda's first cousin. Happy Hunting! Deb The family lines goes as follows according to my information (which could have mistakes); Descendants of William Glidewell Generation No. 1 1. WILLIAM1 GLIDEWELL was born Bet. 1550 - 1560. He married UNKNOWN NEEDHAM. She was born Bet. 1550 - 1560. Child of WILLIAM GLIDEWELL and UNKNOWN NEEDHAM is: 2. i. ROBERT2 GLIDEWELL, b. Bet. 1580 - 1600. Generation No. 2 2. ROBERT2 GLIDEWELL (WILLIAM1) was born Bet. 1580 - 1600. He married PHILLIS EAMES Bet. 1615 - 1617 in London, England, daughter of THOMAS EAMES and MARY SCOTT. She was born Bet. 1580 - 1600. Child of ROBERT GLIDEWELL and PHILLIS EAMES is: 3. i. AYMES3 GLADWELL, b. 1619, Wapping-St. John, England; d. 1660, died at sea. Generation No. 3 3. AYMES3 GLADWELL (ROBERT2 GLIDEWELL, WILLIAM1) was born 1619 in Wapping-St. John, England, and died 1660 in died at sea. He married ANN BRUEN 1645 in Gloucester, Essex County, MA, daughter of DANIEL BRUEN. She was born Abt. 1620. Children of AYMES GLADWELL and ANN BRUEN are: 4. i. ROBERT4 GLIDEWELL, b. Bet. 1645 - 1655; d. VA. ii. DANIEL GLIDEWELL, b. 1656, Gloucester, MA; d. 1728, Bristol Parish, Prince George County, VA; m. SUSAN BERNARD THOMAS, 1696, Isle of Wright, VA. Generation No. 4 4. ROBERT4 GLIDEWELL (AYMES3 GLADWELL, ROBERT2 GLIDEWELL, WILLIAM1) was born Bet. 1645 - 1655, and died in VA. Child of ROBERT GLIDEWELL is: 5. i. ROBERT5 GLIDEWELL, b. 1695; d. 1728. Generation No. 5 5. ROBERT5 GLIDEWELL (ROBERT4, AYMES3 GLADWELL, ROBERT2 GLIDEWELL, WILLIAM1) was born 1695, and died 1728. He married ELIZA ELIZABETH SUSAN NASH. She died 1765 in Chesterfield County, VA. Children of ROBERT GLIDEWELL and ELIZA NASH are: 6. i. NASH6 GLIDEWELL, b. 1721, Prince George County, VA. ii. ROBERT GLIDEWELL, b. October 23, 1722. iii. SUSAN GLIDEWELL, b. Bet. 1720 - 1729. iv. TERENCE LAMB GLIDEWELL, b. January 1732/33. Generation No. 6 6. NASH6 GLIDEWELL (ROBERT5, ROBERT4, AYMES3 GLADWELL, ROBERT2 GLIDEWELL, WILLIAM1) was born 1721 in Prince George County, VA. He married MARTHA BANNISTER, daughter of JOHN BANNISTER and WILMETTE UNKNOWN. She was born December 31, 1722 in Bristol Parish, Prince George County, VA. Children of NASH GLIDEWELL and MARTHA BANNISTER are: 7. i. ROBERT7 GLIDEWELL, b. Abt. 1745, Halifax County, VA. ii. PETER GLIDEWELL, b. 1741, Halifax County, VA. 8. iii. JOHN GOODE GLIDEWELL, b. 1751, Halifax County, VA; d. Bristol Parish, VA. iv. MARY GLIDEWELL, b. 1750. v. EDY GLIDEWELL, b. 1750. vi. SARAH GLIDEWELL, b. 1755. vii. RACHEL GLIDEWELL, b. 1757. viii. JUDITH GLIDEWELL, b. 1758. ix. ELINDER GLIDEWELL, b. 1760. x. HANNAH GLIDEWELL, b. 1762. xi. JANE GLIDEWELL, b. 1765. Generation No. 7 7. ROBERT7 GLIDEWELL (NASH6, ROBERT5, ROBERT4, AYMES3 GLADWELL, ROBERT2 GLIDEWELL, WILLIAM1) was born Abt. 1745 in Halifax County, VA. He married ELIZABETH UNKNOWN. Children of ROBERT GLIDEWELL and ELIZABETH UNKNOWN are: 9. i. NASH8 GLIDEWELL, b. 1786, VA. ii. MOSES GLIDEWELL, b. 1770. 8. JOHN GOODE7 GLIDEWELL (NASH6, ROBERT5, ROBERT4, AYMES3 GLADWELL, ROBERT2GLIDEWELL, WILLIAM1) was born 1751 in Halifax County, VA, and died in Bristol Parish, VA. He married NANCY ANN MEALER WHITLOW September 30, 1785 in Mecklenburg County, VA. Children of JOHN GLIDEWELL and NANCY WHITLOW are: 10. i. THOMAS HENDERSON SR.8 GLIDEWELL, b. 1797. ii. BANNISTER GLIDEWELL, b. 1801; d. January 09, 1861, Randolph County, AR; m. NANCY ANNE HAWLEY, September 14, 1819, Granville County, NC. Generation No. 8 9. NASH8 GLIDEWELL (ROBERT7, NASH6, ROBERT5, ROBERT4, AYMES3 GLADWELL, ROBERT2 GLIDEWELL, WILLIAM1) was born 1786 in VA. He married (1) JANE SCOTT BARNES. She was born 1849. He married (2) PATSEY JANE CLAYWELL Abt. 1815 in Cumberland County, KY, daughter of SHADRACH CLAYWELL and ELIZABETH RUSH. She was born 1796 in Bedford County, VA. Children of NASH GLIDEWELL and PATSEY CLAYWELL are: 11. i. ANDERSON9 GLIDEWELL, b. 1826, KY. 12. ii. NASH JR. GLIDEWELL, b. 1827. 13. iii. JOB GLIDEWELL, b. 1825, KY. 14. iv. SHADRACK GLIDEWELL, b. 1831. v. NANCY GLIDEWELL, b. October 22, 1822, Hardeman County, TN; d. August 11, 1904, Savage, Fannin County, TX; m. WISEMAN TRACY SAVAGE, January 26, 1848, Hardeman County, TN; b. October 01, 1822, Monroe County, KY or Cumberland County, TX; d. October 27, 1885, Wolfe City, Hunt County, TX. vi. FREDERICK GLIDEWELL, b. 1830. 10. THOMAS HENDERSON SR.8 GLIDEWELL (JOHN GOODE7, NASH6, ROBERT5, ROBERT4, AYMES3 GLADWELL, ROBERT2 GLIDEWELL, WILLIAM1) was born 1797. He married AGNES BILLINGS. Child of THOMAS GLIDEWELL and AGNES BILLINGS is: i. TERRANCE M.9 GLIDEWELL. Generation No. 9 11. ANDERSON9 GLIDEWELL (NASH8, ROBERT7, NASH6, ROBERT5, ROBERT4, AYMES3 GLADWELL, ROBERT2 GLIDEWELL, WILLIAM1) was born 1826 in KY. He married SARAH ANN AURE, daughter of DENTON AUREE. She was born 1833 in TN. Children of ANDERSON GLIDEWELL and SARAH AURE are: 15. i. ALVIS W.10 GLIDEWELL, b. October 27, 1856, Clinton County, KY; d. 1937. ii. MARY E. GLIDEWELL, b. Abt. 1852. iii. FRANCIS M. GLIDEWELL, b. June 02, 1854. iv. OBEDIENT GLIDEWELL, b. Abt. 1861. v. MCPERRY GLIDEWELL, b. Abt. 1865. vi. JOHN S. GLIDEWELL, b. Abt. 1868. vii. PERMELIA E. GLIDEWELL, b. January 18, 1859, Clinton County, KY; d. January 18, 1859. 12. NASH JR.9 GLIDEWELL (NASH8, ROBERT7, NASH6, ROBERT5, ROBERT4, AYMES3 GLADWELL, ROBERT2 GLIDEWELL, WILLIAM1) was born 1827. He married (1) LITHY SINTHY UNKNOWN. She was born Abt. 1832 in TN. He married (2) MARY F. CUMMING June 05, 1859 in Clinton County, KY. She was born 1840 in KY. Children of NASH GLIDEWELL and LITHY UNKNOWN are: i. LUCINDA10 GLIDEWELL, b. Abt. 1846. ii. JOHN GLIDEWELL, b. Abt. 1849. iii. ORTHO M. GLIDEWELL, b. Abt. 1844. Children of NASH GLIDEWELL and MARY CUMMING are: iv. NARCISSA H.10 GLIDEWELL, b. 1860. v. ALICE ADDIE GLIDEWELL, b. 1862. 16. vi. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN GLIDEWELL, b. 1864. vii. DORA ANN GLIDEWELL, b. 1866; m. MATTHEW FLETCHER; b. 1860. viii. JAMES L. GLIDEWELL, b. 1868. ix. WILLIAM GLIDEWELL, b. 1870. x. JOHN A. GLIDEWELL, b. 1871. xi. VIOLAH GLIDEWELL, b. 1873. xii. ORA F. GLIDEWELL, b. 1875. xiii. NORA P. GLIDEWELL, b. 1878. 13. JOB9 GLIDEWELL (NASH8, ROBERT7, NASH6, ROBERT5, ROBERT4, AYMES3 GLADWELL, ROBERT2 GLIDEWELL, WILLIAM1) was born 1825 in KY. He married FERRAHN HOLT Bef. 1853, daughter of JAMES HOLT and REBECCA BROWN. She was born 1836 in KY. Children of JOB GLIDEWELL and FERRAHN HOLT are: i. MARTHA10 GLIDEWELL, b. Abt. 1853. ii. JAMES GLIDEWELL, b. Abt. 1855. iii. WILLIAM GLIDEWELL, b. Abt. 1857. iv. JOHN GLIDEWELL, b. Abt. 1860. v. MARY E. GLIDEWELL, b. Abt. 1862. vi. SARAH C. GLIDEWELL, b. Abt. 1865. vii. REBECCA B. GLIDEWELL, b. Abt. 1867. viii. ISAAC GLIDEWELL, b. Abt. 1869. 14. SHADRACK9 GLIDEWELL (NASH8, ROBERT7, NASH6, ROBERT5, ROBERT4, AYMES3 GLADWELL, ROBERT2 GLIDEWELL, WILLIAM1) was born 1831. He married ANNA UNKNOWN. Children of SHADRACK GLIDEWELL and ANNA UNKNOWN are: i. WILLIAM10 GLIDEWELL. ii. JACOB GLIDEWELL. iii. ARMINDA GLIDEWELL, m. UNKNOWN GENTLE. iv. CLARINDA GLIDEWELL. v. FRETIMA GLIDEWELL. vi. DAVID GLIDEWELL. vii. JOE HENRY GLIDEWELL, b. 1859. Generation No. 10 15. ALVIS W.10 GLIDEWELL (ANDERSON9, NASH8, ROBERT7, NASH6, ROBERT5, ROBERT4, AYMES3 GLADWELL, ROBERT2 GLIDEWELL, WILLIAM1) was born October 27, 1856 in Clinton County, KY, and died 1937. He married DEBBIE OR SARAH G. MCCLUSKEY July 21, 1878 in Clay County, Tennessee, daughter of GILBERT MCCLUSKEY and MARTHA THURMAN. She was born 1863 in Clay County, TN or KY, and died 1941. Children of ALVIS GLIDEWELL and DEBBIE MCCLUSKEY are: i. RUSSELL BURR11 GLIDEWELL, b. Abt. 1880, KY; d. Truscott, Knox County, TX; m. SOPHRONIA MAE BOOE, TX; b. July 11, 1886, Texas; d. August 05, 1975, Dallas County, Texas. ii. CLAUDE L. GLIDEWELL, b. Abt. 1880, TX; m. LOLA WILSON, February 21, 1900, Lamar County, TX; b. Abt. 1881, MO. iii. WILL B. GLIDEWELL, b. Abt. 1880; m. FLORENCE EFFIE ANDERSON. iv. GERTIE GLIDEWELL, b. Abt. 1880. 16. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN10 GLIDEWELL (NASH JR.9, NASH8, ROBERT7, NASH6, ROBERT5, ROBERT4, AYMES3 GLADWELL, ROBERT2 GLIDEWELL, WILLIAM1) was born 1864. He married LOUISA DENNIS. She was born 1865. Child of BENJAMIN GLIDEWELL and LOUISA DENNIS is: i. EULA MAE11 GLIDEWELL, b. 1880.
11600. COXE
From Adventurers of Purse and Person, pages 211-216: William Coxe came to Virginia at the age of 12 in the Godspeed, which arrived 10 June 1610 with the party of Thomas West, Third Lord De La Warr. The fact that Lord De La Warr's brother, Robert West, married Elizabeth Coxe, daughter of Sir Henry Coxe of Broxburn, Hertfordshire, suggests that William Coxe may have been of that family. When the muster was taken, Feb. 1624/25, he was listed with Thomas Bouldinge at Elizabeth City. He was granted a lease for ten years, 20 Sept. 1628, for 100 acres "within the precincts of Elizabeth City," bounded on the south by the maine [James] river, on the east by Dictoris Christmas, planter, and Christopher Calthropp, Gent.
Thomas West had a younger brother, Francis West (1586-1633) who came to America about July 1609 but went to England early in 1610 to return to Virginia the same year. He was involved in a quarrel with Captain John Smith, who is said to have conspired with Powhatan to kill West. Smith, however, was injured by a gunpowder explosion and returned to England on the 5th of October 1609 where he defended his actions. In 1612, Francis succeeded George Percy as commander at Jamestown. The Third Lord De La Warr also had a brother Robert West who married Elizabeth Coxe. It is assumed that the 12-year-old lad William Coxe was related to Elizabeth and came to Virginia in the care of one of his numerous kinsmen. In the muster of 1624 William Coxe was then 26 years old and the only "Ancient Planter" from the Godspeed who was then surviving.
Research received from: Michelle Taunton e-mail: mtaunton@mindspring.com (2001), 1805 Crystal Dr., #903, Arlington, VA 22202-4420
We know that he was related to Sir Henry Coxe of Broxburn, Hertfordshire but don't exactly know how. He may be the same person as the Henry Cox, b. 1565-1575 also in Broxburn.
He should be easy if he was a member of the English gentry. All of their genealogical records have been carefully preserved and published in The Complete Peerage, which is the English aristocracy's Bible.