John Byrd

1620 -

• Name	John Byrd
  Born	1620
  Gender	Male
  Died	Westover, Charles City, VA
  Person ID	I1000328	Ellie Wood Keith
  Last Modified	21 Feb 2017

  
  

  Family	Grace Stegg,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	1. Col. William Byrd,   b. 1652,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	21 Feb 2017
  Family ID	F1000142	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  //www.palmspringsbum.org/genealogy/css/Paper7.gif'); font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; font-family: sylfaen, 'trebuchet ms';">The Virginia history of the Byrd family began in 1670 with the emigration from England of the young eighteen-year-old William Byrd, son of John and Grace (Stegg) Byrd of London. Thomas Stegg, his maternal uncle, had become a prominent man in Virginia some years before ... Stegg was possessed of considerable property but had no children, and in 1670 he induced his nephew to come to Virginia and become his heir - a step none too soon, for he died in the same year, and the future Col. William Byrd found himself one of the landed gentry of the colony. He settle on his uncle's lands on the present site of the city of Richmond and continued the planting operations and Indian trade begun by his uncle.