Erasmus Ambrose Smith, Captain

Abt 1561 - Abt 1616  (55 years)

• Name	Erasmus Ambrose Smith
  Title	Captain
  Birth	Abt 1561	Withcote, Leicestershire, England
  Christening	Apr 1561	Leicestershire, England
  Gender	Male
  FSID	LT5M-VYM
  Death	Abt May 1616	Withcote, Leicestershire, England
  Burial	13 May 1616	Leicestershire, England
  Person ID	I37793	footsteps
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	Erasmus Smith,   b. Feb 1534, Leicestershire, England d. 30 Aug 1598 (Age 64 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Anne Bydd,   b. Abt 1534, Leicestershire, England d. Bef 1586, Leicestershire, England (Age < 51 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	Bef 1559
  Family ID	F19042	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret Cecil,   b. 1542, Leicestershire, England d. 1611, Leicestershire, England (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	19 Nov 1586	Leicestershire, England
  Children	+ 1. Henry Smith, Reverend ,   b. 1593, Norfolkshire, England d. 9 Aug 1648, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States (Age 55 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F18928	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Purchased Withcote from his elder brother. During the 19th century an annual fair was held on 16 October, and a village feast soon after the patronal festival of the parish church, All Saints (1 November). (fn. 42) Local histories have given particular prominence to the execution of nine women at Leicester in 1616 for bewitching one of the sons of Erasmus Smith (d. 1616) of Husbands Bosworth Hall, (fn. 43) and also to the lighting that struck the parish church on 6 July 1755 and caused great damage. (fn. 44)