Notes for William "The Elder" Green: William Green of Northampton, England ("Green's Norton"), descended from the same ancestor as Sir Thomas Green, the father of Matilda Green who married Sir Thomas Parr. Matilda and Sir Thomas' daughter, Kathrine Parr, was the 6th wife of Henry VIII.
William Green married Eleanor Duff of the McDuff family of Scotland and was an officer in the bodyguard of William III, Prince of Orange (later named King William of England with wife Mary of "The Glorious Revolution" fame).
Green Family Scroll
William Green, who married Eleanor Duff, was over 6 feet tall and served in the palace guard of William of Orange, a Dutch Prince, who married Mary, daughter of King James II of England. In 1688 William and Mary supplanted King James II who fled to France where he died in 1701. It is said that William Green was born at Green's Norton which was an ancient estate purchased in 1352 by Sir Henry Greene, the Lord Chief Justice of England. This information can be read in many books about the early GREENS of Virginia.
More About William "The Elder" Green and Elenor Duff: Marriage: 1673
Children of William "The Elder" Green and Elenor Duff are:
The Elder William "The Elder" Green (b. 1650, d. 1701)
Notes for William "The Elder" Green: