Ursula (Smith) Thorpe (1618)

Born 1618 in North Nibley, Gloucestershire, England

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Ursula Smyth was born in 1616 in North Nibley, Gloucestershire, England.Ursula, child of John Smith, was baptised on 1 May 1618 in North Nibley, Gloucestershire, England.^[1]

Marriage

Ursula's marriage can be estimated at about 1636 ssssuming a marriage at about the age of.^[2]

Parents and Siblings

John Smyth's first wife, Grace, a native of Nibley, died in 1609, without issue, and Smyth married as his second wife (9 Jan. 1609–10) Mary, daughter of John Browning of Cowley.

By this second marriage Smyth had five sons and three daughters. His eldest son, John, was buried in Nibley church in 1692, aged 81. John Smith or Smyth (1662–1717) [q. v.], the playwright, is believed to have been a great-grandson.^[3]

John Smyth of Nibley (d. 1641) and Mary Browning had:

1. John Smith of North Nibley (1611)
2. Thomas Smith of Stonehouse in Glos.(1613)
3. Mary Smith who married (1632) Christopher Purnell of Nibley
4. Ursula Smith (1618) who married (1636/7) William Thorp of Wandswell, Berkeley
5. Elizabeth Smith (c. 1615) who married (1636/7) Edward Hill of Cam, Glos
6. William Smith (1625) of Kingswood, Wiltshire
7. Sarah Smith (1627) who died young
8. George Smith (1629) of Twickenham, Middlesex
9. Richard Smith (1631)

1636 Marriage to William Thorpe of Wanswell Court

In 1636 Ursula married, as his first wife, William Thorpe of Wanswell Court. He died at Berkeley 2 August 1667. ^[2]

Ursula Smith (1618) who married (1636/7) William Thorp of Wandswell, Berkeley^[4]

Parentage of Husband

William Thorpe's father was George Thorpe, Esq. George in turn was the son of Nicholas Thorpe, of Wanswell Court, by bis first wife, Mary Wikes, alias Mason, niece of Sir John Mason, a counselor of state. He was baptized January 1, 1576 (see Throckmorton pedigree); a captain; a gentleman pensioner; a gentleman of the king's privy chamber; M. P. Portsmouth, 1614; M. C. for Va. Co. He sold his lands in England, and in 1618 formed a partnership for making a private plantation in Virginia with Sir W. Throckmorton, John Smith, of Nibley, Richard Berkeley (whom see), and others. ^[5]

Thorpe was much interested in converting the Indians; had taken an Indian boy and taught him to write (see John Smith, of Nibley); went to Virginia himself in March, 1620, where he was manager of the college lands and a member of the council; took especial interest in the Indians, making a study of their views of Religion and Astronomy; became convinced that "all the past ill success was owing to the not seeking of God's glory in converting the Natives, which are peaceable and wanted but meanes;" was massacred by the Indians March 21, 1622. ^[5]

Capt. George Thorpe was twice married; first to Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Porter, who died s. p.; and secondly to Margaret, daughter of David Harris; she died in 1629. Their son, William Thorpe, was also twice married, his first wife (married in 1636) being Ursula, daughter of John Smith, of Nibley, the antiquary.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Baptism: "Gloucestershire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1813"
   Gloucestershire Archives; Gloucester, Gloucestershire; Gloucestershire Church of England Parish Registers; Reference Number: Gdr/V1/168
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry au Record 4732 #14340317 (accessed 26 September 2022)
   Ursula Smith baptism on 1 May 1618, child of John Smith, in North Nibley, Gloucestershire, England.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Thorpe Pedigree. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, page 322.
3. ↑ Seccombe.
4. ↑ The Visitation of the County of Glousester, p. 149
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Alexander Brown (editor) The genesis of the United States: a narrative of the movement in England, 1605-1616, which resulted in the plantation of North America by Englishmen, disclosing the contest between England and Spain for the possession of the soil now occupied by the United States of America; set forth through a series of historical manuscripts now first printed together with a reissue of rare contemporaneous tracts, accompanied by bibliographical memoranda, notes, and brief biographies (Google eBook). Houghton Mifflin, 1897. United States. pp 1030-1032

• The Visitation of the County of Gloucester: Taken in the Year 1623, by Henry Chitty and John Phillipot as Deputies to William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms. With Pedrigrees from the Herald's Visitation of 1569 and 1582-3, and Sundry Miscellaneous Pedigrees. Volume 21 of The Publications of The Harleian Society, Harleian Society. Authors John Philipot, William Camden. Editors William Crawshay Heane, Sir John Maclean. Published 1885. Original from University of Chicago. Digitized Nov 20, 2013

• Seccombe, Thomas, John Smith, Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 53.

• Smyth, John. The Berkeley Manuscripts (J. Bellows, Gloucester, 1883-85) Pedigree of Smyth of Nibley

• The family of Smith/Smyth - of North Nibley, Gloucestershire - with pedigree information kindly supplied separately by Tim Powys-Lybbe.

• Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society

See also:

• Ancestry tree (link broken as of 26 Mar 2019): http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=52032573&pid=2368