George Percy

After Virginia After his service as Virginia colony governor, Percy returned to England but remained interested in colonization schemes. In 1615, he proposed an expedition to Guiana but found no supporters. In 1620, he sold his four shares in the Virginia Company and returned to military service.

Percy returned to the Netherlands in 1621 when war between Spain and the Dutch Republic resumed. He was the commander of a company in the Low Countries in 1627..

These authors also contradict other, and more authoritative, published sources that do include convincing primary source references. At least two other published books assert that George Percy died unmarried in 1632. In this work, following the list of sons of the Eighth Earl, George being at the very end, are listed the three daughters of Henry Percy, the Eight Earl, and were therefore sisters of George Percy: Lady Anne Percy, who died an infant, Lady Lucy Percy and Lady Eleanor Percy. The last two married and had issue. It could be that from this list of the sisters of George Percy, misinterpreted as being his family, the myth of a wife Ann and daughter Ann may have first arisen. This author cites one of his primary sources thusly: "This account of the issue of the eighth Earl of Northumberland, so full and accurate, is chiefly given from MS Collections of the late Thomas Butler, Esq. agent to his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, and clerk of the peace for the county of Middlesex, who died 1777. The births, & c are chiefly from Petworth Register.". This seems to indicate primary sources from the family register were actually used for their work. Those manuscripts are now held privately in England, probably at The Archives of the Duke of Northumberland at Alnwick Castle.

Many more books and other sources do not mention a wife or children at all, inferring that there were neither.

Based on the two credible sources now available, one being derived from the Percy family's own Petworh Register, he clearly could not have had a wife or a daughter.

Ancestry