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Looking for any information on a branch of the 'Dudley' family that came to America (namely Massachusetts) from England in the 17th Century (mid to late). The family is quite prominent in Massachusetts now and even have a town named after them. The family legend is that they are descended from Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, but I have my doubts, or perhaps it is actually an illegitimate line, as history says his line died out in the generation after him OR it could have descended from his potentially illicit union with Lettice Knollys before they married. We've got the family back to the first Dudley in America (and one of the first governors of Massachusetts) in about 1690, but there is a gap between their arrival in the colonies and their origins in England. My husband's maternal line is direct to the Massachusetts Dudleys. My husband's grandfather is Robert Arthur Dudley - whose siblings were Eliza, Walter and Guildford. Their mother Christiana Hill - descended from Submit Hill. Other names in the family tree are: Prentiss and Brewster (as in Elder Brewster on The Mayflower). Any info greatly appreciated.