Edmund Rossingham

Edmund Rossingham
Member Virginia House of Burgesses
Military service
Branch/serviceVirginia colonial militia
RankEnsign (1619); later Captain

Edmund Rossingham (sometimes shown as Ensign Rossingham, Captain Rossingham or Roffingham, probably due to old style printing) was the nephew of and factor or agent for Sir George Yeardley, who was Governor of the Colony of Virginia, three times between November 1616 and November 1627, and his wife Temperance Flowerdew. Rossingham was a member of the first assembly of the Virginia House of Burgesses at Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 for Flowerdew Hundred Plantation, Yeardley's plantation.[1]

Rossingham was a son of Temperance Flowerdew's elder sister Mary Flowerdew and her husband Dionysis Rossingham.[2][3]

  1. ^ [1] Flowerdew is located on the south bank of the James River, east of Hopewell, Virginia in Prince George County, Virginia. Flowerdew Hundred web site. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
  2. ^ Southall, James P. C. "Concerning George Yardley and Temperance Flowerdew", William and Mary Quarterly, July 1947. Retrieved August 10, 2020
  3. ^ [2] "Pedigree of Flowerdew." The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 25, no. 2, 1917. Virginia Historical Society. p. 208. Retrieved August 10, 2020.