Lancelot Bathurst (abt. 1646 - bef. 1701)

Born about 1646 in Lechlade, Gloucestershire, England

Ancestors

Descendants

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Biography

Lancelot was a Virginia colonist.

Lancelot Bathurst (also spelled Launcelot Bathhurst)

"Bathurst, Lancelot, was son of Sir Edward Bathurst, of Sussex county, England, whose estates were sequestered on account of his loyalty to Charles I. Lancelot Bathurst lived in Essex county, and was a lawyer. He had four children: Mary, married Francis Meriwether; Lawrence, who died about 1705 without issue; Elizabeth, married (first) William Tomlin, and (second) in 1709, William Daingerfield; Susanna married Drury Stith."^[1]

In the Visitations of Gloucester, 1682-3 he was noted as the 5th son of Sir Edward Bathurst, living in Virginia, aged 36.^[2][3] It was also noted that his issue would be heirs to the baronetcy.

Parents: Sir Edward Bathurst and Susan Rich (fifth son)^[4]

Born: 1646,^[4] Lechlade,, Gloucestershire, England^[5]

Married: ...

Children:^[6]

1. ____ (Elizabeth^[1]), m prior to 1704 William Tomlin^[6] and (2) in 1709, William Daingerfield^[1]
2. Mary, m prior to 1704 Francis Merriweather^[7]
3. Susan, m Drury Stith
4. Lawrence, who died d.s.p. in Essex county "His will dated 29 Dec. 1704, prob. 11 Feb., 1705, mentions his above named sisters."

Son Lawrence's will dated Dec 29, 1704, proved Feb 11, 1705 mentions a "cousin" Mary Merriwether and his brothers-in-law.^[8]

Died: 1705^[4]

Events

• Deputy for Attorney-General, 1684^[9]
• Sheriff, 1698^[10]
• Magistrate, 1702^[11]

Research Notes

Citations needed:

Lancelot Bathurst was issued three patents to a total of 900 acres of land lying on the Pamunkey River and Totopotomoi Creek and Crumps Creek.

In 1684 Bathurst was named Deputy to Edmund Jennings, the Attorney General of Virginia. He was listed as an attorney in 1680 and in 1689 was named Clerk of the Council. It is not known when he took up residence in the County of New Kent, but as early as 1699, he was a Justice of the Peace.

It is not known whom he married, and his children moved to Essex Co. Virginia. He was dead before 1701 when son in law, Francis Merriweather, the executor of his Estate, appeared in Court on behalf of the Estate.

Notes

Note: 'of New Kent County'

Parent family not included in tree: http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Family:Edward_Bathhurst_and_Susan_Rich_(1)

Spouse family not included in tree: http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Family:Lancelot_Bathhurst_and_Susannah_Puckle_(1)

• Source: S1 Title: WeRelate.org Text: Text content at WeRelate.org is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 Data: Date: 13 September 2014 Text: Current version: http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Lancelot_Bathhurst_(1) Authors: http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Lancelot_Bathhurst_(1)?action=history
• Source: S104 Title: One Great Family Web Site Data: Date: 13 September 2014 Text: Current version: http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Lancelot_Bathhurst_(1) Authors: http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Lancelot_Bathhurst_(1)?action=history04
• Source: S44 Title: Sons of the Revolution in state of Virginia quarterly magazine Author: Sons of the Revolution in state of Virginia Publication: Richmond [Virginia]: Sons of the Revolution in the State of Virginia, 1922-[1932]. Text: Note: Full source text: http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Source:Sons_of_the_Revolution_in_State_of_Virginia._Sons_of_the_Revolution_in_State_of_Virginia_Quarterly_Magazine Authors: http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Source:Sons_of_the_Revolution_in_State_of_Virginia._Sons_of_the_Revolution_in_State_of_Virginia_Quarterly_Magazine?action=history

additional notes

On 5 Apr 2017 at 19:00 GMT Honi Kleine wrote:

Information for the Bathhurst, Meriwether families found in William and Mary Quarterly can be found here..ref page 61 https://play.google.com/books/reader?printsec=frontcover&output=reader&id=bwYSAQAAIAAJ&pg=GBS.PA61. Contained in this information, you will not see a brother by the name of Lancelot, there is a brother named Lawrence who died unmarried.

following moved from top of profile ~ Noland-165 19:10, 9 February 2018 (EST)

- need to double-check sources & propose merge(s?) with duplicate profiles for father.

!! Found source of Robert as father... it's a different Lancelot. Following from The Peerage, citing Cokayne (see Lancelot b c1646)

Laurence Bathurst (b. c1681, d. after 1682), son of Robert Bathurst.

George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume II, page 238. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Baronetage.

Lancelot Bathurst (b. c1646, d. after 1686), son of Sir Edward Bathurst, 1st Bt. and Susan Rich. He lived in 1686 at Virginia.

George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume II, page 238. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Baronetage.

see also

http://thepeerage.com/p11813.htm#i118127 and

http://thepeerage.com/p13521.htm#i135206

• note on profile for Richard (attached as father as of June 12, 2015):
  • p 10 - I believe this Robert Bathurst is the Robert listed in the tree as being "10 yere old 1623" and that he is the brother of Edward (also shown in tree), whose WikiTree profile is Bathurst-18. I also believe that these Bathursts are not related to the Lancelot Bathurst (Bathurst-8) and his father (according to sources given in Lancelot's bio) Edward Bathurst m Susan Rich (who I believe are Bathurst-106 and Rich-2218).

~ Noland-165 17:22, 12 June 2015 (EDT)

AND... nope, apparently same family, if text for Bathurst-18 is correct (which says he married Susan Rich in 1634).

Lead

Following from Janet's Rootsweb page (Lancelot) and seems to tie the 36 year old reference to a date. It also seems that we have several birth years for Lancelot, representative of several generations. Following is from Janet's page, which has a ton more information that needs to be carefully reviewed to help ensure the WikiTree profile for this Lancelot is correct (currently working it as Lancelot, father of Susannah m Stith):

Launcelot Bathurst (6) b. 1646, living in Va., in 1682. Burke states without foundation that his descendants moved to Jamaica. He was in Va., prior to 1680, as in that year he was listed as atty. He received large grants of land in New Kent Co., where he was sheriff 1698, justice 1699, and successively captain and colonel of militia. (IV-235, 252 369; St. Peter's Parish Vestry Book). On March 18, 1707, reference was made to him in the Ex.J.Council Col. Va. as "Col. Launcelot Bathurst, late of New Kent, decd." The name of his wife is not known. The will of Thos. Lane partner of Micajah Perry, the London merchant who had so many dealings with Va. at this time, dated Middlesex, Eng. 1710, mentioned among others his wife's sister Susanna Bathurst and her daughter, Susanna. Since Launcelot had a daughter Susanna it has been thought his wife is the one mentioned in the will. Thos. Lane was one of the original benefactors of William and Mary College. (18W (1) 105). However, one Edward Bathurst appeared as agent for Micajah Perry in Maryland in 1704. (Am.Col. 1st Ser.59). An Edward Bathurst owned 100 acres in Nansemond Co., in 1704 of whom nothing further is known. (Rent Roll) Launcelot Bathurst (6) had issue, according to the will of his son Lawrence. Lawrence Bathurst (7) will dated Essex Co. Va., 12/17/1704, mentioned cousin Mary Meriwether, and brothers-in-law Wm. Tomlin, Francis Meriwether, and Drury Stith. The will was witnessed by Wm. Grinell and Wm. Dangerfield. Elizabeth Bathurst (7) m. (1) Wm. Tomlin, d. 1708 (2) Wm Dangerfield, Essex Co., will dated 1734 and mentioning children Wm., Edwin, Elizabeth, and Martha (BW(1)). Mary Bathurst (7) married Francis Meriwether (2) Rubin Welsh and (3) Hon. John Robinson. (Nicholas Meriwether of Wales and His Descendants, Griffith.) (may be Meriweather-cj) Susanna Bathurst (7) m. Drury Stith, circa 1694. He was the son of Col. John Stith and Jane his wife of Charles City Co., Va. Drury Stith was Sheriff of Charles City, 1719-1724. According to the Charles City Order Book, the last will and testament of Lt. Co. Drury Stith was brought into court by Susanna and Wm Stith, Jan. Court 1741. Mrs Susanna Stith continued to be mentioned in the records 1744 and 1745. (OB.1737-1750; p.310-352). Drury and Susanna Stith had issue among others Mary Stith (8) who m. Buller Herbert of Prince George Co. and had issue Mary Herbert (9) who m. Col. Augustine Claiborne of Sussex Co. Va. ( See Herbert-S.V.F., II, p. 159) Printed from Family Archive Viewer, CD 191 Family History: Southern Genealogies #1, Historical Southern Families, Vol. VIII.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, page 182
2. ↑ Fenwick. The Visitation of the County of Gloucester in 1682-3. (1884): page 13.
3. ↑ Cokayne.The Complete Baronetage, vol. 2. (1902): page 238 fn g.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} from Janet Ariciu's Rootsweb tree entry for Lancelot Bathurst, citing #Virginia_Heraldica and Register of Ancestors - The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia
5. ↑ Source: #S104: WeRelate:Person:Lancelot_Bathhurst_(1)
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} page 12, William Armstrong Crozier, 1864-1913, ed, Virginia heraldica : being a registry of Virginia gentry entitled to coat armor, with genealogical notes of the families
7. ↑ perhaps not named Mary? Seems odd that Lawrence's will names her separately as "Cos" when his three sisters' husbands are listed as brothers-in-law; "Cos" was a term loosely used then, but I think it's more likely to refer to a sister of Francis or perhaps a daughter than a sister of Lawrence.
8. ↑ This should be moved to Lawrence's profile ... From an Official Copy of the Will of Lawrence Bathurst:

   “In the name of God amen, I, Lawrence Bathurst of Essex County, Virginia, being sick & weak but of sound mind & Memory doe make and ordaine this my last Will and Testament in Manner and forme following:
   

   And first I bequeath my soul into the hands of God that gave it hoping through the Merritts of my blessed Savior Christ Jesus to obtain remission of my sins, and my body to the earth from whence it was taken to be decently Interred at the discretion of my Executors here­after named –
   

   Item I give unto my Cos: Mary Meriwether my own Riding Horse –
   

   Item I give and bequeath unto my three Brothers in law William Tomlin, Francis Meriwether and DRURY STITH all the rest of my estate to be equally divided betwixt them, either in Virginia or elsewhere and lastly I doe constitute and appoint two of my Brothers in law aforesaid William Tomlin and Francis Meriwether my Ex-trs to this my last will and Testament as Witness my hand and Seal this twenty ninth day of December Seventeen Hundred and four.
   

   Signed, Sealed and Published in the presence of us. –
   

   Those words interlined before assigned.
   

   his Lawrence Bathurst (Seal)
   

   William W. Grinell Proved by the oaths of Wm. Grinell and mark William Dangerfield, in Essex County
   

   Will, Dangerfield Court Ye 11th day of Febry: 1705 and recorded

   Teste Richard Buckner C1 Curt
   

   A copy Teste James Roy Micon Clk E. Cty Ct. Va. March 24th. 1881.
   

   ~ Source: Janet Ariciu

9. ↑ Source: #S44 Page: p. 76 Data: Text: http://books.google.com/books?id=-OcQAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA1-PA78&ots=ejN-rOrWOo&dq=%22william%20fauntleroy%22%20house%20of%20burgesses&pg=RA1-PA76#v=onepage&q=%22william%20fauntleroy%22%20house%20of%20burgesses&f=false
10. ↑ Source: #S44 Page: p. 76 Data: Text: http://books.google.com/books?id=-OcQAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA1-PA78&ots=ejN-rOrWOo&dq=%22william%20fauntleroy%22%20house%20of%20burgesses&pg=RA1-PA76#v=onepage&q=%22william%20fauntleroy%22%20house%20of%20burgesses&f=false
11. ↑ Source: #S44 Page: p. 76 Data: Text: http://books.google.com/books?id=-OcQAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA1-PA78&ots=ejN-rOrWOo&dq=%22william%20fauntleroy%22%20house%20of%20burgesses&pg=RA1-PA76#v=onepage&q=%22william%20fauntleroy%22%20house%20of%20burgesses&f=false

• Descendants of James Hardaway; see also this page
• "The Stith Family" archive.org (pretty sure it's same as this JSTOR article, and this Google book)

• The Stith Family, research compilation by Charles R. Stith (see also this page)

• Rootsweb page, Janet Ariciu's research
• Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume I, IV--Burgesses and Other Prominent Persons."

• The Visitation of the County of Gloucester: Taken in the Year 1623 by Henry Chitty and John Phillipot (p p 10)

• Cokayne, George Edward ed. The Complete Baronetage, volume 2. (Exeter, 1902): page 238.

• Tyler, Lyon ed. "WOODHOUSE , MERIWETHER , BATHURST , SKELTON , GILLIAM Family Connections", in William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, volume 12. (July 1903): pages 60-64.

• Fenwick, T. Fitz-Roy and Walter C. Metcalfe eds. The Visitation of the County of Gloucester in 1682-3: Begun by Thomas May, Chester, and Gregory King, Rouge Dragon, in Trinity Vacacon, 1682, and Finished by Henry Dethick, Richmond, and the Said Rouge Dragon, Pursuivant, in Trinity Vacacon 1683, by Virtue of Several Deputacons from Sir Henry St. George, Clarenceux Kinge of Arms. (Exeter, 1884): page 13.