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Facts and Events
The claim that Francis Meadows wife was Mary Bell and that they married in 1758 in Orange County, Virginia[1] seems to be based on speculation resulting from a possible misreading of a compiled index of early Virginia marriages. There is no record of a marriage for Francis Meadows nor of a Mary Bell in the Orange County, Virginia, Marriage Registers, for 1757-1938, nor in the Virginia Compiled Marriages for 1740-1850, nor in Virginia Compiled Marriages, 1660-1800.
There is a record -- not a marriage -- dated 1758 for a Frances Meador who married an unknown man named Bell, based on a will in Essex County, Virginia,[3] but this is for the daughter of Thomas Meador and Elizabeth Wood and has no bearing on the name of the wife of Francis Meadows in Orange County, Virginia.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 There was no Mary Kesiah Meadows, Curt L. Sytsma, 6 Mar 2001, in RootsWeb Archiver, MEADOWS > 2001-03 > 0983906196
accessed 6 Sep 2014.
"Mary Meadows, wife of a Francis Meadows, and Keziah Meadows, wife of another and different Francis Meadows, were two different women who were both living in Rockingham County, Virginia, on January 31, 1791. There was no such woman as "Mary Keziah Meadows," but two different women married to two different men. "
Extensive "Supporting Facts" based on documented property and tax records reported in the text of the original message.
- ↑ Breeden, Shirley Seal. The de[s]cendants of Francis Meadows of Orange & Rockingham Counties, Va. (Elkton, Va: S. S. Breeden)
scanned pages attached to "A to Z Family Tree 2008" by cherylbugala1, Ancestry.com, 30 Jan 2008. Accessed 11 Oct 2019.
p. 6
"I have found a marriage record in Orange Co. VA of a Francis Meadows and Mary Bell dated 1758, but am not sure this is my ancestor because I have not found his wife's name mentioned in any of his records."
p. 7
"I am claiming Mary Bell for the wife of Francis Meadows until I or someone else can prove different."
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NOTE; No record for the marriage for Francis Meadows or for Mary Bell can be found in Orange County in the years around 1858. See: Virginia, United States. Virginia, Compiled Marriages, 1740-1850, Virginia, Compiled Marriages, 1660-1800, Orange County, Virginia, Marriage Registers, 1757-1938
- ↑ Wilkerson, Eva Eubank. Index to marriages of old Rappahannock and Essex counties, Virginia, 1655-1900. (Southern Historical Press, 2006 reprint)
p. 165.
1758 [date of record, not of marriage] Frances Meador, married ? Bell, WII, 129 [Will Book II, p. 129]
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