Category: Thames Family
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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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Timothy is one of the elusive Thames men from South Carolina for whom we don’t know parents. There is only one census on which Timothy appears, the 1820 census for St Helena Parish LA. His age range is 26-44, which places his date of birth 1776-1794. Because he served as a Sergeant in the War…
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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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After settling his father’s estate in Sumter Co SC, Richard and his family made the move to Mississippi.
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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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Return to Title Page/Table of Contents Here’s one to ponder. I hope someone already knows the answer and can jump in. On 15 July 1781, at Bladen County NC, Mary Thims was issued a certificate for supplying quite a lot of beef (looks like either four or five hundred pounds of beef – the first…
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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 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…