Information from "Windows Into Our Past A Genealogy of the Cowne, Gough & Associated Families, Volume 2", compiled by Judy Parsons Smith © 1998.
Edward
Porteus
,
lived at "Poropotank", in
Robert
Porteus
, Esq.
of
Newbottle, Virginia, son of Edward Porteus
, b. ca. 1679; d. 8 Aug
1758, at age 79 years; bur. Ripon Cathedral, England; m 1st 17 Aug
1700 to Mildred Smith
,
daughter of John & Mary (Warner) Smith
, b. 1682; d. bef. 1728;
m 2nd Elizabeth Jennings
, daughter of Edmund
Jennings
, b. ca. 1694; d. 1754.
Robert Porteus had a total of nineteen (19) children by his two wives.
Robert
Porteus
,
Esq.
,
left Virginia in 1720, and settled in England at York (and later at Ripon) for
the purpose of procuring for his children better instruction than he could
obtain in Virginia. He was a
native of Virginia, member of His Majesty's Council or Upper House of
Legislature in that Province.
Robert & Mildred (Smith) Porteus had:
1. Rev. Robert , b. ca. 1705 ; d. 1754; m. 1736 to Judith Cockayne
2. child
3. child
4. child
5. child
6. child
7. child
8. child
9. child
10. child
11. child
12. child
Robert
& Elizabeth (Jennings)
Porteus
had:
13.
child
14.
child
15.
child
16.
child
17.
child
18.
Beilby Porteus
, Bishop of London, b.
1731; d. 1809; Margaret Hodgson
.
He was known as one of the chief promoters of Sunday School.
19.
child
I.
Rev. Robert Porteus
,
son of Robert & Mildred (Smith) Porteus, b. ca. 1705; d. 1754; m. 1736 to Judith
Cockayne
,
daughter of Thomas Cockayne
of
Soham Cambridgeshire, England, b. 1702; d. 1789.
Rev.
Robert Porteus
, Rector of Cockayne
Hatley, Co. Bedford, England. Rev.
Robert & Judith (Cockayne)
Porteus
had:
1.1.
Mildred Porteus
,
daughter of Robert & Judith (Cockayne) Porteus
,
b. 1744; m. Robert Hodgson
of
Congleton Co. Chester, England, b. 1740. Robert
& Mildred (Porteus) Hodgson
had:
1.1.1.
Rev.
Robert Hodgson
, b. 1776; d. 1844; m.
1804 to Mary Tucker
.