Category: Brick Walls and Conundrums
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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 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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The ongoing, seemingly impossible search for Oliver Edwards’s origins Oliver Edwards, who was born about 1813 in Virginia and who died before 24 Sep 1897 (when his death was announced) is an almost complete mystery to me. He was my 2x great grandfather. You’d think someone that “recent” wouldn’t be that hard to track down.…
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The wife of Rev William Thames Return to Title Page/Table of Contents 7 Oct 2022 – I’ve had this on my list for so long, thinking it would be an impossible task because no one had found Lucy’s maiden name during all these decades. This past Monday, I decided to go ahead and start tackling…
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Thomas Thames c1700-1758 – New records for a Thomas Thames have been discovered. Do they belong to our Thomas?
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Since very early on in my genealogy adventures when I first identified Serena, my 3x great-grandmother and wife of William M. J. Kelley, she’s been a genealogy brick wall. According to the 1850 census, she was born in Georgia about 1817; at the time of that census, she was living in Coffee County, Alabama with her…