Sir Edward Lewis, “of London”

Evidence is lacking to say this is the same person as Sir Edward Lewis, of the Van

And the children don’t match up.

From About Me of his son John Lewis, Sr.

John Lewis was the son of Sir Edward Lewis of London, England says DAR; born ca. 1635-40. Some say he was born in Wales, some say France; at least one story says he was a French Huguenot who fled to Wales to avoid Catholic persecution; he came to America about 1665 and settled in New Kent Co., now Hanover Co., Virginia; married Mary W Brant, who was born 1650; married a second and a third time.

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From http://www.palmspringsbum.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I49972 (many references)

Research: Lewis of Warner Hall suggests that the parents of Robert Lewis were Edward Lewis of the Van & Ann Sackville.

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From https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/lewis/3647/

Sir Edward Lewis, the ancestor of a prominent Virginia emigrant, was born in Brecon, Wales, in 1557....married Lady Anne, the daughter of the Earl of Dorset.He had a son named Robert born in Brecon in 1579.This Robert had a son also named Robert Lewis who was born in 1607.This Robert became an officer in the British Army.Robert sailed with his wife Elizabeth aboard the Blessing and landed in Gloucester County where he settled.

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/captainjamesdavisgenealogy.wordpress.c...

Taken from: “Some prominent Virginia families: Volume 2 – Page 620″ by Louise Pecquet du Bellet, Edward Jaquelin, Martha Cary Jaquelin

The Lewis family were originally French Huguenots, and left France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 1685. Three brothers—namely, William, Samuel and John—fled to England. (See “History of the Huguenots.”) Shortly afterwards William removed to the north of Ireland, where he married a Miss McClelland; Samuel fixed his residence in Wales, while John continued in England. Descendants of each of these three brothers are supposed to have settled in Virginia.
About the middle of the seventeenth century four brothers of the Lewis family left Wales.

• I. Samuel Lewis, went to Portugal; nothing is known of him.
• II. William Lewis, d. in Ireland.
• III. General Robert Lewis, d. in Gloucester Co., Va.
• IV. John Lewis, d. in Hanover Co., Va.