Do you have any information about Martha Bidgood, b. ca1780 in Isle of Wight, Va. She married William Jordan in 1797 and died in 1805. I am looking for her parentage. Frances Barger ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 8:07 PM Subject: Re: [BIDGOOD] Data exchange > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Hatswell, Bidgood > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ClD.2ACEB/31.31.3.1 > > Message Board Post: > > Kathryn, > > I have one for you: > Susanna HATSWELL, Birth c. 1781 in Tiverton, Devon, England. > Lived in (c. 1851-aft. 1881) Stepcote Hill St George Exeter Devon. > Death aft. 1851. > Marriage 27 Oct 1802 in Tiverton, Devon, England to Thomas BIDGOOD > > Contact me off list if you want more on this family, > Don. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Frank, Thank you for your Email. Not a great deal on the parents of Martha Bidgood. The only thing that might relate is that the Isle of Wight Co. VA Slave Schedule 1782 contains 10 BIDGOOD names including Martha Bidgood. No other information. Source [email protected] in 2001. I gather that slaves often took the surname of their owner, so it is possible that many of these named people were from the same estate. I do have a white Bidgood family who had slaves. Apparently slaves were encouraged to have children since these became the property of the owner. I do not think that marriage was a a pre-requisite or even common for the slaves. However this is outside my area of expertise so please try and confirm from other sources. It would be interesting to see if William and Martha show up on a census record as black. Hope this helps, and please keep me up dated if you find anything further. At present all I have on the family is the marriage, and the birth of the son John. Good hunting, At 10:07 AM 09/09/2006, you wrote: >Do you have any information about Martha Bidgood, b. ca1780 in Isle of >Wight, Va. She married William Jordan in 1797 and died in 1805. I am >looking for her parentage. >Frances Barger Don, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada Collecting and sharing information on BIDGOOD, BEDGOOD, BEDGGOOD and BITGOOD any time and any place - a One Name Study. Member Guild of One-Name-Studies. My profile available on Guild website. Outgoing messages and attachments scanned by Norton Virus Scan.