"Ancestrees"

William UNDERWOOD

  General Notes:

This generation and his children is conjecture on my part from traditions passed down in this family combined with patterns of early Underwoods living in this country.

I have found part of the children listed here as children of William Underwood and Margaret Masan in the family ancestral files at www.familysearch.com: Anne, William, Elizabeth, Sarah, Margaret and Mary. However, that source also lists him with 3 wives named Margaret, two of which he married in VA and the 3rd in England. If this is true, then some of them were children of his 2nd or 3rd wife. This family obviously needs work.

It's entirely possible that the family that includes William as a child is simply a different branch of Underwoods that does not include our Thomas directly. However, as they have his first wife marrying him in 1621 and they do not have any listed children before 1629, I'm suggesting that Thomas and George also belong in this family. They came over on the same ship at the same time... and both disappeared from Old Rappahonnak Co, VA records after their arrival. There is a tradition passed down in the family that Thomas was one of 3 brothers that migrated together, with all 3 dispersing in different directions after they arrived.

Margaret Mason, his wife, married John Upton after William's death. John Upton's will only names their children William, Elizabeth, Sarah and Margaret Underwood which accounts for all the children still living in the area except for Mary. (C-2403)

William married Margaret MASAN about 1621.¹ (Margaret MASAN died after 1656 of Rappahonnak, VA.)

William next married Margaret UNDERWOOD about 1629.¹

William next married Margaret ROBERTS on 1/3/1632 in St. Giles, Cripplegate, London, ENG.