Pat wrote: >I have just received the info that my Joseph GEORGE married Susannah BIRD/BYRD >on 25 Aug 1795 in Sumner Co, TN. > >This was sent to me by someone who (a) received it from someone else who had >long researched this family but is now deceased (b) could not find the actual >info in Sumner Co records. > >Anyone out there with a Susanna/h or Mary/Polly Bird/Byrd - and she probably >came from North Carolina - who might fit? Also we have a Mary/Polly who is >connected to a Thomas George, possibly with this same marriage date and also >in Sumner Co - and thus confused with one another. I have some name similarities. A Susannah Byrd who must have been born in the early 1790s married Jacob Honeycutt of Buncombe Co., N.C., about 1810. Unfortunately, I have not been able to trace her ancestry either. One family legend says that her parents were Sam and Polly Byrd. Another source said her father's name was Christopher. I have been able to document neither. There were a great many early Byrds in Buncombe County, especially in the part that now is Yancey County. They appear to have been descendants of George William Byrd, Revolutionary soldier from Virginia who subsequently settled in the area. Tom Tom Camfield - [email protected] 538 Calhoun Street, Port Townsend, WA 98368 Some surnames currently being researched: Westall, Blankinship, Stephenson, Cunningham, Moulton, Howe, Van Burkleo, Carpenter, Davis, Stroud, Mashburn, Brittain, Honeycutt, Lewis, Owenby, Porter, Sims, Coffey, Stout, Byrd, Gookin, Warren, Penland, Brevard, Ashworth, McKnitt, Witty, Taylor, Tull, Wharton, Melson ...