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- The name of William Withers' wife is not known. He left at least two sons, one of whom was James Withers, and one William Withers, Jr.
Robert Edwin Withers, assisted by Katherine Cox Gottschalk of Washington, D.C. and A. May Osler of Beckenham, Kent, England, professional genealogists, in 1947 compiled and published the book "Withers Family of the County Lancaster, England,d of Stafford County, Virginia."
This book contains charts which purport to record the ancestry of William Wither (1636-1698), the immigrant ancestor of the Withers families through many generations, to Sir John Wyther and his wife Joan. Sir John lived at Pendleton Hall, Lahire and was Seneschal to Robert de Lucy, Constable of Chester (1179-1189). A Seneschal was a powerful official in the household of a mediveal noble.
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