Anne West

Evidence needed to support Ann, wife of John West, as daughter of Hon. George Percy, Colonial Governor of Virginia & Anne Floyd.

• John West in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Page 423: "John West, brother of Thomas, Third Lord Delaware,... married Anne ______, and had only one child, John West, Jr."
• Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists. Page 144. https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/30421969?h=dfcc3e Children of Thomas West & Ann Knollys: v. Col. John West, Governor of Virginia m Ann __. a. Col John West, b 1632 …

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Disputed Origins

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Percy

George Percy married Anne Floyd.[4]. The couple had one daughter, Anne Percy, who married Governor John West.

4. Brenan, Gerald (1902). A History of the House of Percy, from the Earliest Times Down to the Present. London: Freemantle. Vol. II pp. 208–209.Note: This source documents marriage to Anne Floyd, but states that the couple had no children. < Archive.Org > “His death occurred in 1632, a few months after that of Northumberland ; and he does not appear to have left any children by his wife, Ann Floyd.” 1. This, however, is not absolutely certain. Ann Floyd remained behind in America after her husband's return to England.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:George_Percy

Was George Percy married?

I question whether George Percy ever married. In the various published accounts of the history of Jamestown and Virginia's early leaders, he is consistently listed as having never married. See John W. Raimo, Biographical Directory of American Colonial and Revolutionary Governors, 1607-1789 (Westport, Conn.: Meckler, 1980) and Edward Wright Haile, ed., Jamestown Narratives: Eyewitness Accounts of the Virginia Colony, The First Decade: 1607-1617 (Champlain, Va.: RoundHouse, 1998), 51-52. If he did ever marry, it could NOT have been in 1607 as the first English women did not arrive in Jamestown until September 1608. See Smith's Generall History (1624) in Haile, Jamestown Narratives, p. 283. User:JGMcCurdy(talk), 5 December 2007

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Is wife really Anne Percy?

In (Richardson, Douglas (2004). Plantagenet Ancestry. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc. pp. p. 405. ISBN 0806317507. lists the wife of John West merely as "Ann _____" As Richardson's book seems to be a very reliable source, this make me concerned about our article stating clearly that the wife's name is "Anne Percy." Also, when I consulted the external link, Tudor Place: John West, Governor of Virginia, it provides no documentation for its claims at all. I have emailed the Tudor Place webmaster, but have not received any response. When I proceeded to do further research, I was able to find a source for George Percy having married Anne Floyd, Anne Percy's supposed mother. (See George Percy.) However, I was unable to access reliable sources of Anne Percy actually existing. I did find some sites discussing the issue and it's lack of documentation (See Begin Your Adventure < Dead link > & Rootsweb.com [Dead link, but see < soc.Gen.medieval>.)] If anyone finds documentation, actually posting it to this article would be a very great help as people are quoting this unnsourced article as authority for their family genealogies.Kenalynn (talk) 14:28, 27 November 2007 (UTC) [reply]

You are correct. I was just notified today about this misleading claim and I've just deleted it. Tudorplace.com.ar is an unreliable source, not just on this connection, but in general. Wjhonson (talk) 03:41, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

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Some seventeenth-century pedigrees at Alnwick Castle insist that Percy married Anne Floyd or Lloyd in Virginia, while others include no reference to a marriage. One pedigree compiled around 1673 states categorically that Percy died a bachelor, that he "left noe estate." None of this can be taken at face value. Many family pedigrees from the 1670s were "adjusted" either to refute or sustain the claim of James Percy, who, with the earldom vacant for want of a male heir, maintained that he was descended from one of the ninth earl's brothers. When the genealogist Sir Thomas Banks visited America early in the 1800s he met two brothers in Virginia who claimed descent from Percy. Banks pointed out that if what these men said were true, they would be "the right male heirs of the earldom of Northumberland of the de novo creation, the ancient one being suspended in the crown." The claim seems never to have been pursued in England.

Baronia Anglica Concentrata, Or, A Concentrated Account of All the Baronies ... by Thomas Christopher Banks. Publication date 1844. Vol l, page 369. < Archive.Org > Mr. Maximilian Woodroffe, son of Bichard and Lady Elisabeth Percy, went to Virginia, where his cousin George Percy, brother to Henry, ninth Earl of Northumberland, had gone, and in a MS. entitled. Indigested Chronology, among the Stirling Papers in the Histo- rical Library at New York, is said to have planted Viiginia, and to have discovered Powhatan, now called James River. In Campbell's History of Virginia, (1813) p. 49, it is stated that Mr. George Percy was left in direction of the colony of Virginia on the departure of Lord De la Warre. In 1887, when the Editor was in the United States, be met two brothers of the name of Percy, who held lands in Virginia, and claimed deecent from the said Mr. George Percy ; in which respect they would be the right male heirs of the earldom of Northumberland, of the de Bovo creation, the ancient one being suspended in the crown.

Note: the author T.C. Banks was known to create fraudulent pedigrees.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Percy

"[22] Henry Percy's younger brother George would emigrate to Virginia and serve as deputy governor until 1612. His daughter, Lady Anne Percy, married John West, brother of Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr."[7]

”Though commonly found online from older sources, there is absolutely no evidence that Anne West's LNAB is Percy. In fact there is no contemporary evidence that her supposed father George Percy ever married or had any children at all. It is an old identification (probably intentional fraud) which is no longer accepted.”< Wikitree >

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References

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_West_(governor)_ John West married Anne Percy, daughter of George Percy and Anne Floyd.[11][12]. The couple's eldest son, John, married Unity Croshaw. Their younger sons Thomas West and Nathaniel West also became burgesses, as did other relatives.
  • 11. Brenan, Gerald (1902). A History of the House of Percy, from the Earliest Times Down to the Present. London: Freemantle. Vol. II pp. 208–209. < Archive.Org > Note: This source documents marriage to Anne Floyd, but states that the couple had no children.
  • 12. Bradburn, Douglas; Coombs, John C. (September 20, 2011). Early Modern Virginia: Reconsidering the Old Dominion. University of Virginia Press. p. 50. ISBN 9780813931708. < GoogleBooks >
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_West_(colonel) Colonel John West, Jr. of West Point, Virginia (1632–1691) was a planter, commander of the New Kent Militia in the Colony of Virginia, and represented the county in the House of Burgesses, as would his sons. John West was born 1632 at Bellfield Plantation, York River, Virginia. He was the child of Captain John West, Virginia Governor and his wife Anne. His father received an extra land grant because John was the first child of English parents born in the York River area.[1]
  • 1. Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography (New York, 1915) Vol.I, p.356 < link > West, Colonel John, son of Captain John West, governor, etc., was born at "Bellfield," York river, in 1632, being the first child of English parents born on York river ; lived at West Point ; sat on the courts- martial that tried the rebels in Bacon's time ; senior justice and colonel of the New Kent county militia ; married Unity, daughter of Major Joseph Croshaw ; burgess for New Kent county in 1685 and 1686. He had three sons — John, Nathaniel and Thomas, and one daughter — Unity, who married Henry Fox, of King William county.
• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Jun 29 2017, 17:47:56 UTC
• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Jun 13 2018, 3:18:53 UTC
• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Jun 13 2018, 3:21:49 UTC English explorer and Governor of Virginia. Son of Henry and Lady Catherine (Neville) Percy Husband of Anne (Floyd) Percy Their daughter, Ann Claiborne Percy (m. John West, Sr., Governor of Virginia)
• John West in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Page 423: "John West, brother of Thomas, Third Lord Delaware,... married Anne ______, and had only one child, John West, Jr."
• Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists. Page 144. https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/30421969?h=dfcc3e Children of Thomas West & Ann Knollys: v. Col. John West, Governor of Virginia m Ann __. a. Col John West, b 1632 …
• “Hon. George Percy of VA (1580-app.c.1632)” < soc.genealogy.medieval > Post by Tony Hoskins, Oct. 4, 2005. document attached … "Governor John West married Ann whose surname is unknown, though it is believed by many of her descendants that she was the only child of George Percy (1580-1632) [eighth and youngest son of Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland] and his wife Ann Floyd, daughter of Nathaniel Floyd of Jamestown. George Percy came to Virginia in 1607 and returned to England in 1612, leaving his wife in Virginia." [Fox and Ayres, _The Noble Lineage of the Delaware-West Family of Virginia_ (1958), p. 185]. The 1958 work by Fox and Ayres is at the moment the earliest reference in print I have discovered on this matter. I can attest though that among some descendants of the Hon. John West of Virginia this legend was widely believed well before 1958.
• The Noble Lineage of the Delaware-West Family of Virginia: Through Col. John West, His Sons, and His Daughter Anne West who Married Henry Fox. Ann Woodard Fox. Seebode Printing Service, 1958 - Families. Page 8, page 184. < GoogleBooks >
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83073555/anne-west no sources