THE NAME AND FAMILY OF BAUGH (EXCERPTED) by Alan Baugh of England
(copy provided by Loretta June Shackelford-Wright)
The name of Baugh is said to be of Scotch derivation and to mean "bad or indifferent." Some writers maintain that it was first used as a nickname, having reference to the character of its original bearer, but others hold to the opinion that it was taken by its first bearers from their residence at a place of that name. It is found on ancient records in the various forms of Bawe, Baw, Bawff, Bawf, Baffe, Bauffe, Bauff, Bauf, Baff, Baughe, Baugh, and others, of which the last is the spelling most generally accepted in America today.
Families bearing this name were to be found at early dates in various parts of Scotland, Oxford, Worcester, Northampton, Essex, Salop (Shropshire), and Wilts, as well as in the city and vicinity of London. Those families were, for the most part, of the landed gentry and yeomanry of the British Isles.
One of the earliest lines of the family in Great Britain is that descended from Edward Baugh, of Twining, in Gloucestershire, in the early sixteenth century, who married Margerett, daughter of John Stratford, and was the father by her of Rowland, Thomas, Robert, William, Anne, and another daughter, whose Christian name is not known. Of these, the first son, Rowland (1), was the father by his wife Mary, daughter of John Croker or Crooker, of Edward, Margerett or Margaret, Mary, Allice or Alice, Rowland, Thomas, Stephen, Richard, John, and William.
Edward, the eldest of the last-mentioned brothers, married Constance, daughter of Thomas Folliott or Folett, of Worchestershire, and was the father by her of Mary, Alice, and possibly other children as well.
Rowland, son of the before-mentioned Rowland (1) and Mary, made his home in Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire and married Judith, daughter of Richard Allison or Allanson. The issue of this marriage were Richard, Mary, Elizabeth, Sarah, Anne, Rowland, and Edward. Of these, Richard resided at Twining, in Gloucestershire, and left issue there by his wife, Alice, daughter of John Roberts, of three daughters, Judith, Mary, and Elizabeth; Rowland died unmarried; and Edward settled at Rumford, County of Essex, and was the father about the middle of the seventeenth century of Edward, Richard, John, Anne, Margaret, and another daughter, whose name is not certain.
Thomas, son of the before-mentioned Rowland (1) and Mary, married Dorothy, daughter of John Gower, of Worcestershire, and left several children, but their names are not in evidence.
William, son of the before-mentioned Rowland (1) and Mary, married Mary Wakeman, who gave him four children, Edward, William, John, and Anne.
Thomas Baugh, second son of the first Edward Baugh, of Gloucestershire, and younger brother of Roland, of that place, made his home at Pensam, in Worcestershire, where he left issue by his wife Elizabeth of Edward, Thomas, Jane, Mary, Dorothy, Elizabeth, and Margaret.
Edward, elder son of Thomas and Elizabeth, married Mary, daughter of Leonard Jeffreys, and had issue by her of Thomas, Mary, Edmund, Elizabeth, and Grace, of whom the son Edmund was the father by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Philip Parsons, of Thomas, Richard, Edward, Mary, Anne, Susan, Elizabeth, and several other children, who died young.
Thomas, younger son of Thomas and Elizabeth, married Anne, daughter of Richard Atwood, and had issue by her of Elizabeth, Thomas and John. Of these, Thomas was the father by his wife, Elizabeth Lench, of John, William, Edward, George, and Penelope; while John was twice married, first to Esther, daughter of Peter Canon, of London, and later to Mary, daughter of Edward Baugh, of Gloucestershire, but probably had no issue.
Robert Baugh, son of the first Edward of Gloucestershire, remained in that county and married Alice, daughter of Richard Yerworth, and was the father by her of Richard, Rowland, and Elinor; and William, son of the first Edward of Gloucestershire, left issue by his wife Jane of two children, Margaret and John.
About the middle of the sixteenth century, one John Baugh was living in Shropshire, England. By his wife Joane, daughter of John Dale, he was the father of Thomas, William, Richard, and possibly others. Of these, the first son, Thomas, married Dorothy, daughter of George Parkes, and had issue by her of Henry, William, and Thomas, of whom the first had issue in the early seventeenth century by his wife Alice, daughter of Francis Holland, of at least five children, Thomas, John, Rowland, Marye, and Margarett.
One William Baugh, who was the descendant of this last-mentioned line of the family, was married in 1728 to Agnes, daughter of Thomas Botevyle or Botfield, a descendant of the noted family of that name in Shropshire and Wiltshire. Their children were Mary, Margaret, Agnes, William, Beriah, Richard, Thomas, Joseph.
Although it is not definitely known in every case from which of the many branches of the family in the British Isles the fisrt emigrants of the name to America traced their descent, it is generally believed that most, if not all, of the Baughs in this country derive from a common European ancestor of a remote period.
The first of the family in America was Thomas Baugh, who was living in West and Shirley Hundred, Henrico County, VA, as early as 1623, if not before. No definite records have been found, however, concerning his immediate family or descendants.
Sometime before 1638 two brothers 1, John and William Baugh, resided in Henrico County, VA. It is probable that they were closely related to the before-mentioned immigrant Thomas. Of these, John Baugh, "planter," served as a burgess in 1641 and in 1644, but the names of his children, if any, are not known.
NOTES:
1. Some researchers indicate that no proof has been found that they were brothers.
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