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Author: jgfarmer2
Surnames: Carr, Farmer
Classification: queries
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Julia,
This is getting good. Three things:
First, how do you know that the Francis Farmer in the will is my Frances Farmer? and that
she was married to Samuel B. Farmer son of Matthew Farmer of Chesterfield, Halifax and
Franklind Counties? I have found that there were a lot of Farmers in the Virginia around
that time and some have been linked to John Farmer, the supposed great grandfather of my
Samuel B. Farmer. I have been collecting property "indentures" and scanning
through census and marriage info from Virginian from the mid early 1700s to 1840s and
concluded that Samuel would have had a lot of cousins, and 2nd, third, and 4th cousins
living around him in Halifax, Chesterfield, and Franklin counties.
Also, you have to remember that these families of English descent seemed to like to
recycle first names. I just found a "Fannie Farmer" (Nee Bush) living in the
Cote Sans Dessien Township, of Callaway Co. Mo. who was married to a Samuel Farmer in the
1800s. In the same Township, at the same time, there was a Francis Farmer (Nee Strau)
married to a Harison Farmer. Fannie is a nick name for Francis/Frances. This is just one
of the many examples I have found of how easy it is to assign relationship based on name,
location, year and name of spouse. Also, for some reason or another, a boy in a family
would grow up and marry a girl with his mother's first name, and then you would find
that his brother did the same thing and now we have 3 women living in the same township
with the same first name and same married name. And at the same time the unmarred little
sister has been given the same first name as her mother. Then little sister dies without
getting married and is buried in t!
he family cemetery plot along side her mother and wives of her two brothers. And all
women have the same name. (It is nice when you find the tombstones that say "wife
of".)
I almost assigned a certain "Captain William Carr" as the grandfather of Frances
till I read the postings on this forum.
secondly,
about John Carr who died in 1753; are you saying that this man might be the father of
William C Carr of the will? The William who was one of the sons of John could have named
one of his sons after his brother Thomas B.
And thirdly,
What do you think of the posting by Betsi McKay (sylverpoint(a)yahoo.com)?
She is saying that the father of William C. Carr of the will is named Thomas and that they
are descended from a Walter and Susannah Carr in Baltimore MD. I would like to see some
follow up on that. There were a lot of Carrs in Va. in the 1700s. I would be nice if we
could isolate this family from the rest of them.
By the way, how are you related to the William C. Carr of the will? If what you say is
true he would be my 5th great grandfather.
And Betsi also, if you are reading this.
I would be happy to tell you what happened to my Frances "Fanny" Carr Farmer
after she married Samuel if you would like. We have some Carr tombstones here also.
Jim Farmer,
Florissant
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