Ursula Yale

Ursula Knight

• Death: Feb 7 1698 - Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales
• Husband: David Yale

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Ursula Knight (1624–1698) married David Yale (1613–1690). Their son Elihu Yale (April 5, 1649 – July 8, 1721) was a Welsh merchant and philanthropist, governor of the East India Company, and a benefactor of the Collegiate School of Connecticut, which in 1718 was named Yale College in his honor.

From https://minerdescent.com/2012/01/23/thomas-stoughton/

William Knight died in 1630, leaving a will dated 21 Mar 1629/30 in which he appointed as the executor, Israel Stoughton, his son-in-law. By that time, Israel Stoughton had married William Knight’s daughter, Elizabeth. After William Knight’s death, these members of the family of Elizabeth Knight, wife of Israel, also came to New England, including her mother, the widow Elizabeth Knight, her brother, Rev. William Knight, and two other sisters, Mary, wife of Thomas Clark and Ursula, wife of David Yale, accounting for all of the children mentioned in the will except John.

• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Feb 7 2017, 17:15:12 UTC