Author: Becky Thames-Simmons
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Return to Title Page/Table of Contents Much of what follows is Walt and Maxine’s work, with some edits for clarity and several additions of new records not included in Walt’s book. I will do my best to source Walt’s entries and provide hyperlinks to documentation where available. If the statement or phrase is in green…
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Return to Title Page/Table of Contents Deed and other records point to the existence of a second Jesse Thames. We already know of the Jesse who is named in his father Joseph’s will dated 1780. As it turns out, there was another Jesse in Bladen/Cumberland; based on the documents found so far, he was very…
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Return to Title Page/Table of Contents This deed stands out because it reveals more than a simple transfer of property. It tells us a few things. It’s a bit cumbersome, so I’ll take the liberty of breaking it up into paragraphs. 7 Aug 1779 – Bladen County DB 19 p 418-419 – No. 24, Joseph…
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Return to Title Page/Table of Contents There is no family folklore to tell from where the Thames came before their arrival in the Colonies. Is Thomas Thems in Prince William County, Virginia the same man as Thomas of Beaufort, Craven and Bladen counties North Carolina? We know from Y-DNA studies of certain male Thames individuals…
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Return to Title Page/Table of Contents After all, we don’t know when Thomas married Prudence. The only record that names Prudence is Thomas’s will dated 1758. If Thomas’s family was following the patronymic naming tradition, then we would expect to see the name Prudence recur in subsequent generations. Thomas had a daughter named Marcy, who…
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Return to Title Page/Table of Contents It is not known with certainty that this Thomas is the same Thomas who died in Bladen Co NC in 1758, but he’s not been located in any other early records, so these records shouldn’t be discounted. A clerk who copied the leases into Deed Book D referred to…
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Return to Title Page/Table of Contents By Walt and Maxine Gabennesch The following information is the result of several years of rather intensive research. The information that we have gathered about this family in NC is far from complete. This document is not static. This information is in a constant state of change. When we…
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Return to Title Page/Table of Contents By Walt Gabennesch To Maxine Thomas Thames 1705/10-1758 + PrudenceJoseph Thames 1730/32 -1780 + Martha Newberry 1732/34 -1814Rev William Thames 1759-1813 + LucyRev David Thames 1780- 1840 + HannahMary Thames 1799 -1839 + Henry EvansMary Evans 1819-1877 + James B CarverMary Jane Carver 1840 -1938 + Jonathan Evans CarverJulia…
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Return to Title Page/Table of Contents By Walt Gabennesch Genealogy was new to me, I thought it was just writing down who your grandparents were and who their parents were and their parents and on it went. So I asked my father and mother a few questions. My grandmothers and grandfathers were gone. I found…