Judy: I just read somewhere on a posting to one of the lists I belong to
that although many folks were not of the "Church of England" faith they
continued to have births , and marriages recorded in those places so as to
protect their rights of inheritance. Just a thought.
Alyce
Judy Bates wrote:
I have just joined the CATLETT List although I have E-mailed a lot
of
CATLETT researchers before but not for the last year-and-a-half or so. I
have a great-great-grandmother, Nancy CATLETT, who was first married to
a William DAVENPORT (or DEVENPORT) in November, 1808 at the St. John's
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hagerstown, MD. I personally saw the
record of this marriage at the MD. Archives in Annapolis, MD. last
summer. I also perused the records for signs that they were members of
the church's congregation, took communion there, etc. There were records
of such things and I looked at years before and after for their names.
They did not seem to be members of the congregation, I never found their
names except when they married. The listing says - "William Devenport
and Nanzi Catlett". I'm reasonalbly sure that Nancy did not spell her
name that way and perhaps William, was a Davenport, however, we all know
that people spelled things as they sounded to them in those times so one
cannot be sure.
Something must have happened to their marriage (or William) because
Nancy then married my great-great-grandfather, John FILSON somewhere in
VA. or MD. (cannot find the record so far) and by 1812, they were having
children of their own. They had 8 children and moved from the area to
southeastern PA. and then OH., both dying in Alliance, Stark Co., OH.
John had been married before too in 1799 in Berkeley Co., VA. to a
Jemima BUTT ( I have this record). John and Jemima had 2 sons. These 2
sons grew up in the family of John and Nancy but there is sketchy
information that Nancy and William DEVENPORT had a son, and there is
never any mention of him that I can see.
I cannot place Nancy CATLETT with any CATLETT families in the area at
the time. Census records from later times say, both, that she was born
in Baltimore, MD., and in VA.I have speculated that Nancy and William
went across Potomac River to MD. to get married, for some reason and
they did not really live in MD. I have read that others did the same
thing. There were CATLETT families and DAVENPORT/DEVENPORT families in
Berkeley Co., VA., at the time. I need to do more research to find the
marriage record of Nancy and John FILSON in some Co's. surrounding
Berkeley Co., VA. and Washington Co., MD. In the 1810 Census, I found a
William Davenport living in Berkeley Co. with one (under 10 yrs. of age)
son and a female. Both he and the female are in the young 20's range. I
have no idea whether this is William and Nancy (CATLETT) DAVENPORT and
their young son, or not, because there were a lot of William Davenports
in the southern MD. and norhthern VA. area at the time.
Has anyone run across a Nancy CATLETT in any of the CATLETT families
that they are researching? She supposedly was born September 26, 1785 in
MD. ar VA. I suppose her name could have been CATTELL or CATTLE or
something else or she could have been married before William to a
CATLETT and that is how she got that name. I just do not know. If you
have any suggestions, let me know. If William died by the end of 1810 or
in 1811, several years after their marriage, would there be any will (he
would have been very young) or probate records?
Judy (FILSON) Bates
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