Category: Cumberland Co NC
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Go to The Two Jesses – Part 1Return to Title Page/Table of Contents Court Records It seems apparent that one of the Jesse’s died before October 1796, because at the October sessions of the Court of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions at Cumberland County, deeds that Jesse had been a party to are finally being…
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Return to Title Page/Table of Contents In A Thames Family History: From Derbyshire, England 1584 to Cape Fear North Carolina to 2002 (Emert, 2002, self-published), on page 63, the following statement is found: “Joseph Thames came to Cape Fear area of North Carolina as a young man. He had been a school teacher since Thomas…
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George Washington Marsh was the great-grandson of Cornelius Thames and Mary Evans. Cornelius and Mary’s daughter Mary married John Beard. John and Mary (Thames) Beard’s daughter Martha married Absalom Marsh, and George was their son.
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This article examines basics about Joseph and Martha and their children.
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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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William left some clues for us in 1877 William is one of the early Thames men for whom we don’t know parentage, exactly, but evidence points to him being the son of Thomas Thames (son of Joseph Thames and Martha Newberry) by his first wife (name unknown). Because he was a Union loyalist during the…