From the father of William Bryan who landed in circa

1613 St. James Church, Clerkenwell, , Middlesex, England before he went to India.
5. Capt. Francis Bryan (John Sr. (Capt.) 1 ) was born in 1582 in Buckland
Monachorum, , Devonshire, England, was christened on 27 Jan 1582 in Buckland Monachorum,
, Devonshire, England, and died before 1650 in Fort St. George, , Tamil Nådu, India.
Noted events in his life were:
• Information: 1582, Buckland Monachorum, , Devonshire, England. Francis was
certified as Ship Captain and Master in Rotterdam by Capt. Nicholas Washington II
June 14, 1609. He hired out to the Washington family and served the East India Trade.
He did not marry in Rotterdam or England thereto, he may have married in India. He
was master of one of the ships that landed at Masulipatam India in 1611.
6. Capt. William Bryan (John Sr. (Capt.) 1 ) was born in 1588 in Buckland
Monachorum, , Devonshire, England, was christened on 29 Jun 1588 in Buckland Monachorum,
, Devonshire, England, and died after 1656 in Gloucester County, Virginia.
Noted events in his life were:
• Family: William had the following siblings:
1. John 18 Nov 1575 Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England
2. Maria 21 Jan 1578 Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England
3. Richard 14 Jan 1580 Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England
4. Francis 27 Jan 1582 Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England
5. William 29 Jun 1588 enuerated this record
• Information: 1588, Buckland Monachorum, , Devonshire, England. William was the
son of mariner John Bryan and his wife, Marian Ashelford, of Buckland Monachorum
- His parents married July 2, 1573 at Uffculme Devonshire England. William was
certified as Master and Ship Captain by Capt. William Barker in London in May 1614.
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We have accessed a considerable number of resources attempting to prove this man
and his family. We assumed the extant data circulated about this Bryan family to be
correct, and followed it accordingly. Then we began finding bits and pieces of
information that suggested the accepted historical pedigree was suspect. We then
turned our attention to locate sound proofs of the family the Bryan family of
Cheddington in Buckinghamshire. We followed Sir Francis Bryan throughout his
lifetime and there is tons of extant data in England and Ireland whereas there is no
doubt about him, or his second wife. Serious doubt exists however about Sir Francis
Bryan leaving descendants by his second wife, Lady Joan Fitzgerald. We turned to
the latest published book that proves Armorial Bearings of the United Kingdom's
antique heraldry, and the trusted Burkes publication proved that Sir William Smith that
went to Ireland in service to his country did in fact exist, and he married Bridget
Fleetwood.
Sir William Smith was born circa 1550, and he was the son of George Smith and his
wife, Isabella. He married Bridget Fleetwood, daughter of Thomas Fleetwood in
1590. Sir William died in 1626; however, he was a peer of Sir Francis Bryan Jr., born
1550; therefore, ruling out any possibility that he could have married his peer's
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