General Notes

Name Suffix:<NSFX> Earl
Also Known As:<_AKA> Viscount /Wimbledon/
Name Suffix:<NSFX> Earl
1  BIRT
2DATE 1571
1  _FA2
2  DATE 1611
2  PLAC VA Colony Census
1  _FA3
2  DATE 1624
2  PLAC VA Colony


According to "The Cecils of Hatfield House An English Ruling Family" by David Cecil, Houghton Mifflin 1973: He became a drunkard, homosexual and declared athiest in Italy.  According to research by Jim Cissell as quoted from his Internet Home page, Sir Edward visited the Virginia Colony and showed up in the 1607 Virginia Colony Census.
It appears this Edward was a signer of the Second Virginia Charter, dated May 23, 1609.
He was also known as General Cecil.  "The Records of the Virginia Company of London", ed. Susan Myra Kingsbury, A.M., Ph.D., published by the Library of Congress, Washington, in 1933, 4 volumes, for your Sir Edward CECIL.  Found quite a few references.On pg 81, vol III, there is a list of "Adventurers to Virginia, with the several amounts of their holdings", "Sir Edward Cecill   25" He is also listed several other places as a General Cecill).  At the quarter court meeting on 9 Jun 1619 he (written General Cecill and Generall Caesill) apparently consulted withSir Horation VEERE (VERE) and Sir Thomas GATES about some engineering issues inVirginia.
Sir Edward was also a General-and we know from Colonial Census datahe was in Virginia Colony in 1607, 1611, 1619 (as General) and 1624.  A Robertwas in VA in 1607, and Edward in 1611, a Thomas in 1607, and a William in 1612.There is no doubt, because of the investment of Sir Thomas, Earl of Exeter, and his son Edward, in the 2nd Virginia Company, that this is the Cecil family.Each of them may have even fathered children out of wedlock in VA (based on their known reputations)-but these children probably did not carry their surname.We also know that Barbados was often a way station on the way from England toVA and MD colonies.  We still do not have the definitive tie of the immigrant Cecils and Cissell's to MD to this family.  I have not gotten any significant information from the Oxenbridge family (a different Oxenbridge was an investor inthe 2nd VA company) to verify that the Thomas Cecil who married Susan Oxenbridge is the Thomas Cecil, son of above Thomas, who is documented to have marriedAnn Lee, daughter of a Mayor of London.


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