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Dousabel Leigh

Female Abt 1575 - 1615  (~ 40 years)


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  • Name Dousabel Leigh 
    Born Abt 1575 
    Gender Female 
    Buried 28 Aug 1615  Wooten Wawen, Warwick, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4578  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family George Griswold,   c. 6 Nov 1574, Wooten Wawen, Warwick, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. Abt 1623, of, Warwick, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 48 years) 
    Children 
     1. Edward Griswold,   b. 26 Jul 1607, Wooten Wawen, Warwick, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1690/1, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years)
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F1212  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. FHL book 929.242 G868f "The Greswold Family, 12 Generations in England," researched and edited by Robert L. and Esther G. French, comp. by Coralee Griswold [Wethersfeld, CT; 1999]. The authors standardize spelling as Greswold for England and Griswold for America. As of 2012, it appears that this book is the most current evolution of the Griswold ancestry and includes all previous research up to 1999 when it was published. (It also supersedes the author's own work in 1990 for the later English generations). See notes in this database of the original Griswold for a more detailed explanation of the various sources and a bibliography of previously published books that the authors include in this genealogical compilation.
      "George11 Greswold (Roger10, John9, John8, John7, John6, John5, William4, Richard3, Ralph2, John1) was christened 6 Nov 1574 in Wooton Wawen, Warwickshire, England. George died 1623 [Maybe died as late as 1643, but no reference can be found for this date.] He married (1) Dousabel (LEIGH ?) about 1606. She was born about 1575. Dousabel was buried 28 Aug 1615 in Wooton Wawen, Warwickshire, England. They had 1 Child:
      i. Edward Griswold, christened 26 July 1607, at Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire, England, died 30 Aug 1691.
      George married second (2) Honora (PAWLEY ?) about 1616, apparently in connection with his purchase of a cottage and garden in Kenilworth from Hugh Underhill and Lettice, his sister. Honora was probably a connection of the Underhill's, and possibly their (Hugh and Lettice) mother. Their father, (Honora's first husband) John Underhill had died in Holland in 1608. No record of Honora has been discovered until her remarriage at the Klooster Kerk at the Hague on 28 Nov 1628 to Dirck Thomaszen so she may have returned to Kenilworth during the 1609-1621 truce, after her husband died. They had 2 children:
      ii. Matthew Griswold, born 1620, died 27 Sep 1698
      iii. Thomas Greswold, born about 1622, died 1699.
      Richard Morris (Dirck Thomaszen) was a sword cutler, christened Jan 1582 at St. Nicholas Church, Warwickshire, England to Thomas and Elizabeth (___) Morris. Elizabeth was buried at St. Nicholas in Nov 1591. Richard Morris had a daughter, Katherine, christened at Wooton Wawen 25 Mar 1613 (the record shows only the father's name). Katherine married (1) (___) Wright and (2) Edward Greswold on 11 Jun 1635, at Kenilworth [not the immigrant, Edward of Windsor, Connecticut and IGI gives his name as Thomas Grissold, same place and date].
      After the truce, many military men returned to the continent and in 1625, John Underhill, the younger, became a cadet in the service of the Prince of Nassau. By then, George11 had died also. The Greswold, Morris and Underhill families were connected but the records are not complete enough to show exactly how."

      2. The book "The Griswold Family, the First Five Generations in America," comp. and ed. by Esther Griswold French and Robert Lewis French, May 1990, printed by The Griswold Family Association, 116 Garden St., Wethersfield, CT, 06109, pages 6-24. The authors note that their book updates Vol. II, "The Griswold Family England - America," which was published 50 years ago:
      "George (son of Roger, gson of William) was baptized 6 Nov 1574 at Wooten Wawen, died after 1620. Married (1) Dousabel, possibly Leigh (Lye, Ley) who was buried at Wooten Wawen 28 Ag 1615 (TAG 39:177). Her only known child is Edward.
      A letter of Ralph Phillips of Nassau, Rensselaer County, New York, to Donald Lines Jacobus gives the information from the Wooten Wawen parish register that Richard Lye and his wife Dousabelle had a son Richard bp. 1549 and a son Thomas bp. 1552. It is conjectured that one of these sons was the father of Dousabel who married George Griswold. It is also noted that Sir Thomas Leigh was the arbitrator of the entailed land dispute of Roger Griswold.
      George Griswold married (2) about 1616 an unknown wife by whom he had two sons, Matthew and Thomas. "On Nov. 12, 1616 George Grissold purchased from Hugh Underhill and his sister Lettice with her husband, a cottage and garden at Kenilworth." (TAG 41:214) This is undaoubtedly a move taken upon the occasion of his second marriage. There is also the possibility that his second wife was a connection of the Underhills.
      This possibility is further enhanced by the recollection of Edward's son, George, in a disposition taken 9 May 1700 stating that as a youth he had lived with his father Edward in Kenilworth, Warwickshire and had heard that the house they lived in belonged to Edward's brother Matthew.
      If George had settled the property upon his second wife at the time of their marriage, it would have become the property of her oldest son, Matthew, at her death. If both parents had died, Matthew may have been under Edward's guardianship.
      Child by first wife:
      Edward, bp. 26 July 1607 Wooten Wawen.
      Children by second wife:
      Matthew, b. ca. 1620.
      Thomas, b. ca. 1622 at Kenilworth, married c. 1644 to an unknown wife. Death date is also unknown. He remained in England. Children:
      Thomas, b. ca. 1645.
      Matthew, bp. 1 May 1649 Kenilworth, will dated 20 Feb. 1701/2."

      3. The booklet "The Griswold Family in England before 1639 - A Report of the Findings of Bonnie Boone Day Griswold and James Wells Griswold," 1984, Exeter, NH, copy in the library of the Windsor CT. Historical Society. The authors went to England to look up actual records. Quote from pp. 10-13:
      "The search for hard facts about our direct Griswold ancestors in England has yielded information only on Edward. This we found in the Warwickshire County Records Library. Even this information is evidently not new because the names and accurate dates are given in Glen E. Griswold's Vol. II of the Griswold Family. But since he does not cite the source of his information, maybe the following will add a bit...[See notes for Edward for full transcription of records found of his children.]
      The publication, the "American Genealogist," Volumes 39, 40, and 71 reports the extensive work of Genevieve Kiepura and John Hunt. Since their findings take 12 pages of close print, we will attempt to summarize it here. None of the original documents reported here have we seen personally, but the source reported in these articles suggest other areas for investigation.
      The articles clearly represent the extensive and careful work they have done and further dramatize the difficulties encountered because there were so many Griswolds in the area and so many of the families used the traditional first names.
      Mrs. Kiepura reports that the parish regester for Wootten Wawen lists the baptism of "Edward, son of George Griswold, 26 July 1607. There are references to the baptisms of George, son of Roger, 6 Nov. 1574; and to the burial of Dousabele, wife of George Griswold, 28 Aug. 1615. No Matthew or Michael in the index."
      For their research, Mrs. Kiepura and Mr. Hunt had copies of 11 wills that were on file at the Worcester Records Office. Piecing the fragments of facts given in each will to create a sequential chart is like a detective story. However, as a summary, the following is given by Mr. Hunt:
      Roger Griswold of Rowington. Will 1545 [had son:]
      William, b. ca. 1515-20? [had son:]
      Roger of Kenilworth, b. ca. 1540-45?, d. before 1607 [had sons:]
      Roger of Kenilworth, b. ca. 1570? of age by 1607.
      Thomas of Stonley, d. 1620. House in Kenilworth.
      George, bp. 1574 at Wootten Wawen [had sons:]
      Edward, bp. 1607 Wootten Wawen.
      Matthew, b. 1620.
      Thomas of Kenilworth [had sons:]
      Thomas.
      Matthew of Stonley. Will of 1701/2.
      (BDG and JWG Note: We still have not found an English source that proves that Matthew is a brother of Edward. The listing given above is based on the testimony given by George Griswold in 1700 for a court in Connecticut as to what he remembers.)
      In Volume 71 of the 'American Genealogist', Mr. Hunt reports on a copy of a will of 'Thomas Griswold of Stonley, Warwickshire dated the last day of Feb. 1620 wherein the testator, besides mentioning the rent of his house and gorunds in the town and parish of Kenilworth, names his close called Beggerspath and the ground called Broomfield, alias Thickthorn clearly in the vicinity of Kenilworth.'"

      4. The book "The Ancestry of Allen Grinnell Cleaver and Martha Irene Jessup," by William Jessup Cleaver (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 1989), pp. 486-90, 494-95:
      "GRISWOLD
      …The English ancestry of Edward has been the subject of much careful scholarly discussion (sometimes apparently heated). This solution appears to have the best documentation.
      Roger Griswold of Rowington - Margaret
      William Griswold
      Roger Griswold of Kenilworth
      George Griswold of Wooten Wawen - Dousabel
      Edward Griswold, emigrant - Margaret
      Francis Griswold (1st son of Edward)…
      John Griswold (6th son of Edward) - Mary Bemis (See) …
      D. ROGER GRISWOLD of Rowington, county Warwickshire, England died in 1545 leaving a will dated 9 June 1545 mentioning wife Margaret; sons Robert, William, John and Richard; and brother John. (1)
      C. WILLIAM GRISWOLD was born about 1515 to 1520. He was the second son of Roger. He appears to be the father of Thomas of Rowington and Roger of Kenilworth. (1)(3)
      B. ROGER GRISWOLD of Kenilworth was born about 1545-50 anti died before 1607. In a Chancery proceeding in 1602/3 involving certain lands, the relationship of this Roger to his father William is indicated. There were three sons: the second Roger of Kenilworth, Thomas of Stonley and George. (1)(2)(3)
      A. GEORGE GRISWOLD was baptized at Wooten Wawan in Warwickshire in 1574. He married, first, Dousabel and had a son Edward. Dousabel was buried at Wooten Wawen, wife of George, 28 August 1615 and George remarried, a wife whose name is unknown. Sons Matthew and Thomas were born of this marriage. Edward and his half-brother Matthew emigrated to New England. (1)(2)(3)(9)
      1. EDWARD GRISWOLD, son of George and Dousabell--, was baptized 26 July 1607 in Wooten Wawen, a chapelry of Henley in Warwickshire, England...
      References:
      (1) TAG, vol. 39, 1963. Mrs. Genevive Tvlee Kiepura.
      (2) TAG, vol. 40, 1946, John G. Hunt and Donald Lines Jacobus.
      (3) TAG, vol. 41, 1965, John G. Hunt.
      (9) Family Histories and Genealogies, E. E. and E. M. Salisbury, 1892, vol. II."