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Facts and Events
Research Notes
- Note: Parents and maiden surname are unproven at this time.
- Theory A: Parents = Miles and Susannah Gorham. Source = Holtzclaw 1 who states that their daughter, Mary Gorham, was a ward of Henry and Elizabeth Wharton. He believes that Mary may have wished to honor her guardians by using the name Wharton when naming the eldest son of Edward Ransdell.
- Evidence Against: Ransdell 2 states, "The supposition that Wharton's mother was Mary Gorham, repeated as fact by some writers, is not tenable" based on an estimated birth year for Wharton of 1685.
- Status: More research needed.
References
- "Thornton of Richmond County, Virginia" by Dr. B. C. Holtzclaw, in Boddie, John Bennett. Historical Southern Families. (Redwood City, California: Pacific Coast Publishers, 1957-1980)
Vol 12, 1968. - Family Recorded, in Ransdell, William Keith. Sifted from the ashes: thirteen generations of one line of the Ransdell family in America from its first known document until January 2, 1988. (Place of publication not identified: W.K. Ransdell, 1987).
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