Lastly, in a very large, labor-intensive project like this one it’s almost inevitable that it won’t be error free. Publishing it online gives more reviewers, over more time, the opportunity to spot errors and report them to me. I hope they do.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/p>\n
One bit of advice. Don’t even try to read this in the normal way. If you do, it’s likely that you’ll quickly be bored out of your gourd. It’s meant for browsing, as you look for bits that might grab you. And if you have any interest in things like American colonial history, Mormon history, Puritans and English history, especially English history involving the Tudor period, I predict you’ll find some good stuff.<\/p>\n
Without further ado, let’s get on with it. Or maybe you’ll want to bail out now.<\/p>\n
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If you descend through Devere Snow Dudley (#3 below), starting with Devere the following are your direct paternal grandfathers, in order, through 17 generations (19 generations for me) and going back 643 years. Each of these male Dudleys was the son of his predecessor, on the list and in life. I\u2019ve included interesting life events when they were available and reliably accurate.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\n- Ron Dudley<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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Wayne Dudley<\/em><\/p>\n\n- Wayne Leroy Dudley<\/strong> –<\/b> born July 14, 1920 Grand Valley, CO, died May 19, 2002 Murray, UT, married Lorna June Prince, Wayne was a farmer and cabinetmaker<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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\n- WWII. Fought in the invasion of Okinawa, radioman and flamethrower operator for his platoon.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Devere, Aggie, young Uncle Floyd and dog. Aggie was (barely) pregnant with my father<\/em>, Wayne Dudley. She died from breast cancer when Dad was 6.<\/em><\/p>\n\n- Devere Snow Dudley<\/strong> – born Dec 30,1888 Brigham City, Ut, died April 15, 1973 Kalispell, MT, married Sarah Agnes Allred (Aggie) and Beulah Lamar Libbert, Devere was a farmer.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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Joseph Smith Dudley (Killer Joe) and wife Isadore (Dora)<\/em><\/p>\n\n- \u00a0<\/span>Joseph Smith Dudley<\/strong> – born Sep 30, 1851 Salt Lake City, UT, died Feb 20, 1928 Hill Spring, Alberta, Canada, married Matilda Josephine Allen and Isadore Percy Sina Snow (D<\/span>ora), Joseph was an orchardist and farmer<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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\n- Matilda had an affair with a hired hand, Henry Wadman, and Wadman was killed by Joseph in a gunfight in 1879. Joseph was charged with murder but after a 5 day trial in Salt Lake City he was found not guilty (very long story). Joseph and Matilda later divorced.<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n
- Joseph\u2019s second wife and mother of Devere, Isadore Percy Sina Snow, was a daughter of Mormon Church President Lorenzo Snow. It’s Dora, my great-grandmother in the photo, not Matilda.<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\n- Oliver Hunt Dudley<\/strong> – born Feb 22, 1809 Alton, NH, died\u00a0 May 27, 1897 Willard, UT, married Mary Ann Robinson and Hannah Thomas (plural wife), Oliver was a shoemaker, orchardist and farmer.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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\n- Oliver and family were Mormons living in Nauvoo, IL when \u201cProphet\u201d Joseph Smith was murdered in 1844. A letter describes family members seeing the bodies of Joseph and his brother Hyrum \u201cwith blood dripping into pans beneath them\u201d.<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n
- Oliver and family emigrated to Utah in 1850 as part of the Edward Hunter Company. <\/span><\/i><\/li>\n
- Oliver lost an eye in a bizarre incident involving some sick sheep. He nearly died from it.<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\n- Gilman Dudley<\/strong> – born Aug 1, 1787 Exeter, NH, died Oct 22, 1822 Alton NH, married Polly (Mary) Haines, Gilman was a farmer<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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\n- Stephen Dudley<\/strong> – (born June 17, 1762 Exeter, NH, died Sep 24, 1826 Gilmanton, NH), married Mary (Molly) Gilman.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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\n- \u00a0Stephen was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill in Captain A. Kinsman\u2019s Company in 1775 at age 13.The battle took place on June 17, Stephen\u2019s birthday.<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\n- Deacon Stephen Dudley<\/strong> – born Oct 14, 1724 Exeter, NH, died Aug 22, 1811 Gilmanton, NH, married Hannah Sanborn,\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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\n- Enlisted for the Crown Point Expedition in the French and Indian War.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n
- Served on the Committee of Safety during the Revolutionary War.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n
- Deacon of the church in Gilmanton from 1776 until his death in 1811.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n
- \u201cHe is held in special honor for his religious character. In his disposition he was uniformly kind and pleasant, yet firm and decided. He was considered a staunch pillar of the church\u201d.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\n- \u00a0 <\/span>Col. Stephen Dudley<\/strong> – born March 10, 1687\/88 Exeter, NH, died 1734 Exeter, NH), married Sarah Davison<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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\n- When Stephen moved to Raymond, NH he purchased land from Indians that became the part of Raymond called Freetown.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n
- \u201cCol. Stephen, although poor, was accustomed to wearing a scarlet coat, laced jacket, ruffled shirt and powdered wig.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\n- Col. Stephen Dudley<\/strong> – born Dec 24, 1660 Exeter, NH, died 1734\/35 Exeter), married Sarah Gilman<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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\n- Stephen sometimes called himself a \u201cplanter\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n
- “He was known for his good sense, integrity and liberality.”<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\n- Reverend Samuel Dudley<\/strong> – <\/b>bap Nov 30, 1608 All Saints Church, Northampton, England, died Feb 10, 1683\/84 Exeter, NH, married Elizabeth Smith, Samuel was a minister.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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\n- Sailed for the New World in 1630 in the Winthrop Fleet aboard the flagship Arabella with Governor Winthrop (Pilgrims).\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n
- Minister of Exeter, NH for 33 years.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n
- Large land owner, kept the town books and was general conveyancer, judge and attorney.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n
- Married 3 times and had 18 children.<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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The Dudley Coat of Arms. Creative Commons. See below for the reason I’m including it here.<\/em><\/p>\n\n- Governor Thomas Dudley<\/strong> – <\/b>christened on Oct 12, 1576 Northampton, England, died July 31, 1653 Roxbury, MA, married Dorothy Yorke.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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\n- An orphan at 14 (or 10), he was raised as a page for Lord Compton, Earl of Northampton.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n
- Well educated in Latin and the law.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n
- Obtained Captain\u2019s commission at age 20 in 1596. Fought in support of King Henry IV of France at the siege of Amiens in 1597.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n
- Became a Puritan before 1603, well acquainted with John Cotton.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n
- One of the signers of the agreement to form the Massachusetts Bay Company in 1629 and was one of the 5 officers chosen to come to America with the Royal Charter. The group elected John Winthrop governor and Thomas Dudley deputy governor.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n
- Thomas and family sailed for New England on the Arabella in 1630 with the Winthrop Fleet – 11 ships with 700 passengers. 200 died the first year in the New World.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n
- In a letter Thomas wrote one of the first known descriptions by a European of an immense flock of Passenger Pigeons.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n
- Elected governor of Massachusetts 4 times and deputy governor 13 times.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n
- Founded Cambridge, MA in 1631, along with Simon Bradstreet<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n
- Appointed to the General Court in 1636 to consider the formation of a college at Newtown (Cambridge) and in 1650, as governor, Thomas signed the original charter forming Harvard College.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n
- One of the principal founders of the First Church of Boston.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n
- Very religious, even dogmatic – however, he championed the idea that the state should control the church while many other Pilgrims believed the opposite.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n
- His daughter, Anne Dudley, married Governor Simon Bradstreet. Anne Dudley Bradstreet is considered to be the first American poet and was the first writer in England\u2019s North American colonies to be published.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n
- In the past some researchers have questioned if there’s absolute proof that Thomas’s father was Roger Dudley, below. However, it’s generally accepted today that Roger was the father of Thomas and one of the many reasons is the fact that Thomas used the Dudley coat of arms in some of his correspondence. To quote one expert “coats of arms were then a distinguishing mark between noble families, and no high-minded person like Governor Dudley would assume the arms of another family, and no dishonest man would dare to do it.”<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\n- Roger Dudley<\/strong> – born 1535 London, England, died 1586 or 1590 in war, married Susannah Thorne, Roger was a soldier.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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\n- A Captain in the Earl of Leicester\u2019s militia, fighting with a commission from Queen Elizabeth I and under the banner of Henry of Navarre. Thought to have been killed in the Battle of Ivry, France in 1590. However, some evidence suggests that he was killed at the Siege of Zutphen in 1586.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n
- A contemporary of Robert Dudley who almost married Queen Elizabeth I, Roger served as one of Robert\u2019s soldiers.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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At this point, a note of explanation is necessary. Baron Dudley is a hereditary title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1440 for John Sutton, a soldier who served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, so John was the first Baron Dudley. He was also the first Sutton to adopt the surname of Dudley as an alias for Sutton. The name Dudley stuck so today\u2019s Dudleys descended from Suttons and it could be said, are still Suttons. <\/strong><\/p>\nTo this date there have been 15 Barons Dudley. Our line of Dudleys descends through three of the earliest Barons.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\nDudley Castle – Creative Commons<\/em><\/p>\n\n