• General Notes

  FITZHUGH - COOK - BEALE.  Mr. Douglas H. Thomas, of Baltimore, Md., writes
  as follows:
     "Referring to page 30, No. 1, Vol. II [Mr. Brock's paper on Virginia's Past
  Portraiture], regarding consecutive series of family portraits, I have something
  quite unique myself.  I allude to the portraits of the Fitzhugh family and de-
  scendants, direct male and female in line, from 1643 to date, embracing por-
  traits of nine generations in direct line, broken only by the absence of the
  portrait of the fourth generation, to wit:
  
     1.  Henry Fitzhugh, of Bedford, England, born 1614. (Son of William Fitzhugh).
     2.  Col. William Fitzhugh, of Bedford, King George County, Va. born 1651,
           died 1751.
     3.  Capt. Henry Fitzhugh, of Bedford, King George County, Va., born 1687,
           died 1758.
     4.  Thomas Fitzhugh, of "Boscobel", born 1725, died 1768 (Missing).
     5.  Susanna Fitzhugh, of "Boscobel", born 1751, died 1823; Wife of Wm. Knox
           of Windsor Lodge, Va.
     6.  Annie Campbell Knox, of Windsor Lodge, Va. born 1784, died 1867.  Wife
           of Basil Gordon, of Falmouth, Va.
     7.  Annie Campbell Gordon, of Falmouth, Va., born 1819, died 1886.  Wife of
           Dr. John Hanson Thomas.
     8.  Myself.
     9.  My children.
  
     Capt. Henry Fitzhugh married Susanna Cooke (1693-1749).  She was the daughter
  of Mordecai Cooke, of "Mordecai Mount", Gloucester County, Va.  He was High
  Sheriff of Gloucester County 1698, and Justice of the Peace, and Burgess 1702-
  14.  I am very anxious to ascertain the name of his wife.  Can you help me?
  The John and Mordicai Cooke mentioned in the Quarterly, I think in number 4,
  Vol. II were evidently his son and grandson.
  
     Can you give me the family name of the wife of Thomas Beale?  See Quarterly
  Vol. II, No. 1, page 25.  Her Christian
  
  Page 69.
  
  name was Ann, and she married William Colston, as I find, among the records of
  Rappahannock Co., the following:  "At a Court held for Rappahannock County
  August 7, 1689, upon the humble petition of William Colston who married, and
  for and on behalf of Mrs. Anne Beale, relict of Mr. Thomas Beale, deceased,
  etc."' [Capt. Thomas Beal's tomb (1679) at 'Chestnut Hill', Richmond County,
  states that he married 'Anne, daughter of William Gouge',  In the York Records
  27 Feb, 1671-2., Thomas Beale jr. is mentioned as "intermarrying Mrs. Anne
  Gooch."  The tombstone, 1655, of Major William Gooch (pronounced Gouge), of
  the Council is in the old York Church ruins at Temple Farm, York County.] -
  EDITOR.
  ----------------------------------
  The following is a partial list of Virginians, and subsequent settlers in
  Virginia, who are shown by Foster's "Matriculations" to have been students
  at the University of Oxford.
  
       FITZHUGH, HENRY, s. William, of Virginia, gent, Christ Church, matric.
  30 Oct., 1722, aged 15.  [He was the eldest son of Col. Wm Fitzhugh of
  "Eagle's Nest," Stafford Co., and his wife Ann, daughter of Richard Lee
  of "Stratford."  He resided at "Eagle's Nest," was a member of the House of
  Burgesses, married Lucy, daughter of Robert Carter of "Corotoman", and had
  an only son, William Fitzhugh of "Chatham," Stafford, whose daughter, Mary
  Randolph Fitzhugh, married G. W. P. Custis, and was the mother of Mrs.
  Robert E. Lee.]
  
  
  
  
  

Details of Henry's family with Lucy Carter