Draft:Edward Wyndham
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Comment: I don't think this person is notable in the Wikipedia sense. The things described in the article that might fulfil the criteria are his political positions. If you want this to be in Wikipedia, read Wikipedia:Notability_(people)/Subnational_politicians, try to find more substational coverage of his role as an elected representative, and rewrite the article to focus on his role as a politician not his genealogy. The article shouldn't be written to be interesting to a descendant - that's what Wikitree is for. Wikipedia articles need to have a broader interest. Lijil (talk) 19:00, 15 June 2025 (UTC)
Edward Wyndham ( 1608 - 1664 ) was born in 1608 in the county of Norfolk, England as the youngest son of Thomas and Susan Clere Wyndham and grandson of Sir Henry Wyndham (b. 1537.) He was a descendant of Thomas Wyndham, (b. 1466). he was married to Abigail Offley ( 1604 - 1650 ) c. 1630 in Virginia. His sister , Ann Wyndham, married Thomas Thoroughgood, brother of
Adam Thoroughgood who married Sarah Offley in 1627 and subsequently Francis Yeardley, the son of George Yeardley. These interrelationships are critical to an understanding of the political dynamics in and between England and colonial Virginia, and also of subsequent migrations motivated by religious beliefs within the original colonies.
Political and military career in Virginia and Maryland
[edit]He served as a judge and military advisor in Tidewater Virginia. [1]On June 16, 1637,he was appointed as a commissioner in Lower Norfolk. On January 6, 1639, he was appointed inspector of tobacco crops for the county Clerk's Office, in Portsmouth, Va. The deeds of Norfolk County show that he was a landowner, since he was able to deed 400 acres.
He represented Lower Norfolk in the 1642/3 as a burgess in the Virginia General Assembly.[2][3] He is said to have acted as lieutenant-colonel of the militia. Given the intense military challenges that resulted in the third of the Anglo-Powatan Wars, that must have been a significant position.
Family sources state that he was a man of military talent. That perception is supported by the fact that he was one of the eight members of the council of war which met on June 3, 1645. He is referred to as Captain Edward Wyndham in the orders shown in the Lower Norfolk County records. [4]
Historical reports and analysis of the Anglo-Powattan Wars indicate that the colonists were facing significant military threats at that time. That makes it unlikely that they would have trusted membership on the council of war to an inexperienced or inept person, and supports the idea that he was a military leader.
The significance of his family ties on his career and politics remains speculative, as is the influence of the English Civil War on events in Colonial Virginia and Maryland. The replacement of Francis Wyatt as Governor of Virginia by William Berkeley, who offered asylum to royalists and was hostile to Puritans and Quakers in 1641 is an indicator, as is the family report that he joined the Puritan emigration to Maryland in 1651.
Death
[edit]Upon his return to England, he was buried in Stokley, Norfolk on September 6, 1664.
References
[edit]- ^ Stanard, William G. and Mary Newton (2012). The Colonial Virginia Register: A List of Governors, Councilors and Other High Officials. Clearfield.
- ^ McCartney, Martha W. (2007). Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers 1607-1635: A Biographical Dictionary. Provo UT USA: Genealogical Publishing Co.
- ^ Bruce, Philip. "First Legislative Assembly in America". Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 2: 423.
- ^ Bruce, Philip (1910). Institutional History of Virginia in the 17th century. p. 83-85.