[Ancestor] Townsend

---

---

Husband [Ancestor] Townsend

---

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

       Marriage: 

---

---

Wife

---

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

---

Children

---

1 M William Townsend ¹

---

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Mary [Unk] (      -      ) 1

---

---

General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Townsend

---

The Townsend or Townshend families of England and America, are of mixed Norman and Saxon origin, and of great antiquity in county Norfolk, England. Walter Atte Townshende, son of Sir Ludovic de Townshende, a Norman nobleman whom Collins in his "Peerage of England" puts at the head of this family, flourished soon after the Conquest. Sir Ludovic married Elizabeth de Hauteville and settled in county Norfolk, becoming possessed of a large estate said to have been granted them by William the Conqueror. The line is traced through the centuries to Richard Townsend, of Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England, who had two sons, Richard and William. Richard (2) Townsend was born in England, 1644 or 1645. He joined the Society of Friends, 1672, settled in London 1676, married Anne Hutchins 3 mo. 25 day, 1677. He came to Pennsylvania with William Penn on the ship "Welcome" arriving at New Castle on the Delaware, October 24, 1682. He was a carpenter and millwright, and had come to the New World prepared to follow his trade, as about 1727 he wrote: "After a little time I set up a mill on Chester Creek which I brought ready framed from London, which served for grinding corn and sawing of boards and was of great use to us." This was the first flour and sawmill in Pennsylvania. Barber in his "History of Pennsylvania" says: "About a mile and a half northeast of Chester on the left bank of Chester creek and a short distance from the mill of Richard Flowerdews, there still exists a cottage built principally of brick by Richard Townsend, for the accommodation of his family while he was erecting this the first mill in the province." William Townsend died at the home of his nephew, Joseph Townsend, in East Bradford, 1 28, 1732; children: Hannah, married Isaac Cook; James, born on the "Welcome," in Delaware river, 1682; Joseph, born 5 mo. 16 day, 1687. William Townsend, son of Richard and brother of Richard (2), the emigrant who came with Penn, never left England. He had issue by wife Mary, and of this issue there is record of Joseph who came to Pennsylvania and was a resident there during the last ten years of the life of his uncle Richard Townsend, who died at the home of his nephew. From Richard and Joseph Townsend, uncle and nephew, descend the Townsends of Pennsylvania.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 1027.