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9. GEORGE9 WIATT , SIR (THOMAS8, THOMAS7, HENRY6 WYATT , SIR EARL OF NORFO LK, RICHARD5, JEOFFREY4 WIATT, ROBERT3 WIOT, WILLIAM2, ADAM1) was born 155 0. He married JANE FINCH, daughter of THOMAS FINCH.
Notes for GEORGE WIATT , SIR:
The Wiatt Family of Virginia
Sir George Wyatt, born 1550 was restored to his estate at Boxley by Que en Elizabeth in 1570 . He married Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Finch of Ea stwell, Kent, on Oct. 8, 1582. Between 1590 and his death he devoted mo st of his efforts to study and writing. His interests included theology, t he Military Sciences and history, particularly the history ofthe English R eformation in which his father and grandfather played such important and h azardous parts. His main project appears to have been a eulogistic biograp hy of Anne Boleyn. He died in Ireland and was buried at Boxley, Sept 1, 16 24.
Children of GEORGE WIATT and JANE FINCH are:
i. FRANCIS10 WIATT , SIR ROYAL GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA, b. Boxley Manor, Ken t, England; m. MARGARET SANDYS.
Notes for FRANCIS WIATT , SIR ROYAL GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA:
Appointed Governor of Virginia in 1621. Organized the first legislative bo dy, known as the "General Assembly of Virginia." Governor from1621-1641. I nherited Boxley and returned home.
ii. HENRY WIATT.
iii. THOMAS WIATT.
iv. GEORGE WIATT.
v. ELEANORA WIATT, m. JOHN FINCH.
10. vi. HAUTE WIATT , REV., b. 1594, Boxley Manor, Kent, England.
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WYATT
The Reverend Haute Wyatt (1594-1638), the brother of Sir Franc is Wyatt, Governor of Virginia, 1621-1626, and second son of Sir George Wy att and his wife Lady Jane Finch, arrived in Virginia on the Georgia, on N ovember 18, 1621. He returned to England with his brother in 1626 at the d eath of his father, but four of his children eventually settled in Virgini a.
John Wyatt (1630-1666), the third son, was born in England to Wyatt 's second wife, Ann Cox, daughter of John Cox and his wife Ann Lee. He w as claimed as a headright by Colonel Thomas Pettus for land patented in We stmoreland County, Virginia in 1652. John married Jane Osborne.
Their son William Wyatt, born about 1650, was a resident of New Ke nt County and among the "inner circle" of the Governor's Council. Howeve r, in 1683 he was the first to sign a petition to the Governor, Sir Har ry Chicheley, protesting against his peers, the prominent men of his St. S tephens Parish Vestry who "are soe Insulting, and of such Ill diposed a nd turbulent spirits and despositions, That noe Minister Cann or will st ay w'th us or teach among us" and urges that "wee may have the Liber ty to Elect and make Cleare by the Gen'll vote of the Inhabitants of our s aid Parish of such Persons [for a new Vestry]...that will tend to the Glo ry of God and the Peace and welfare of the whole Parish." William marri ed Rebekah Eivens , the daughter of Richard Eivens, Jr. and his wife Eliza beth Perry .
The son of William and Rebecca was John Wyatt, born about 167 5. He married Rachel Calloway . Their daughter Elizabeth married Joseph Oa tes , son of Elizabeth Perry and her second husband, James Oates. In th is remarkable relationship, Joseph Oates married the great-granddaught er of his mother by her first marriage.
The grandson of Elizabeth and Joseph Oates, James Oates, married in to the Wyatt family again - Mary Ann Wyatt. Her relationship to Elizabe th is unknown.
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