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- According to Newman, she and her husband arrived on the Ark, with the Catholic immigrants to St. Mary's City in 1634.
According to Russell and Russell, she was brought to Maryland in 1651 as Neville's wife. And according to Russell and Russell, "[Neville's] second wife Joanna had an illegitimate daughter, Rachel, born in 1658. Joanna had been in England for one or two years before, while John stayed in Maryland. The father of Rachel is unknown. This is confirmed in a lawsuit detailed in Archives, 53:380-82, and Charles Co. Court and Land Records, G:72, when Joanna and her second husband Thomas Hussey on 13 Nov. 1677 gave to Rachel Ashford, "natural daughter of Joannah and wife of Michael Ashford of Charles Co., carpenter" a tract on the west side of Zachiah Swamp called ‘Moore's Ditch' (Charles Co. Court and Land Records, C:61, G:72). John Neville had only two children, both by his first wife Bridget."
I don't quite understand the logic of this confirmation? I suppose that her "natural" father is conspicuously absent? [1, 2]
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