A lot at the Library of Virginia, and more at the various counties
Court Houses. Some counties hold lots of deeds, others were burnt
since so many of the Court houses were built of timber. Lots from
books written before the court houses burned and lots from various
family papers, and Virginian love their family papers <G> The biggest
thing is Virginians are big on ancestors <G> which helps a lot.
Not my tail female line but it goes to John Michie who with his friend
James Watson was jailed at Preston and thanks to the English love of
lists, is found both in the prison records and the ships manifest on
which they were transported to the New World arriving 29 June 1716.
For anyone who had Rebel kin the Preston Prison ledger Records were
filmed and put online (totally free) at
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tornabene/
look for these radio buttons
1715 Jacobites in Prison
1715 Jacobites Transported
1715 Jacobite Resources
Eliz
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Janice Edwards <wagsjan(a)myfairpoint.net> wrote:
Thank you for your reply, Eliz. Is it the Virginia State Historical
Society
that has the genealogical records, or where?
Janice
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eliz Hanebury" <elizhgene(a)gmail.com>
To: "Janice Edwards" <wagsjan(a)myfairpoint.net>;
<wls-gwynedd(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: [GWYNEDD] maternal ancestry
> My maternal line goes back to Mary Wheeler James (yes from Wales
> sometime @ 1640) born in Virginia 1706, her mother is Diana (surname
> unknown) who married John Wheeler and there I am at a halt. And only
> got that far thanks to the state of Virginia keeping all sorts of
> genealogical records.
> >
> Eliz
>
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