PAMUNKEY DAVENPORTS & OTHERS INTERESTED: A recent e-mail exchange with a cousin relative to determining whether Ann Pemberton, second wife of Henry Davenport, Sr., of Cumberland/Buckingham, came from King William Parish, Cumberland County (Powhatan County since 1777) or from St. John's Parish or St. David's Parish, King William County, and the cousin electing a King William County origin, we felt constrained to reply: Quote: You are laboring, we suggest, to force legitimacy and ignoring the facts. We have a Henry Davenport, Sr., situation where an older man, at least thirty years older than his second wife, who had a child (Wilson), claimed as the oldest child of that second wife, born before or concurrent with the birth of the youngest child and son (Henry, Jr.) of his first wife, and a marriage date with that second wife a year or so (possibly two or more) after the birth of both sons. You want to have old Henry, Sr., courting a late teenager 60 to 70 miles away from his manor plantation while he's still married to a wife of at least 30 years. That won't wash, particularly in Colonial Virginia. A more logical hypothesis, we suggest, is that Ann Pemberton was a servant girl or foster child in Henry, Sr.'s household, and Henry succumbed to nubile temptation, and having a brother, namely Thomas Davenport, Jr., Gentleman, who was one of the principal justices of Cumberland Court, was able to keep his bastard son officially concealed and away from the notice of the Parish. Henry's marital situation did not permit a courting of a distant Ann, but within his own household, he was the master. He could not have claimed Ann's son as long as his first wife was alive, but as long as the child did not become a responsibility of the Parish, there was no public concern, no need to identify the father. His first wife, who we believe was Sarah Terry, a daughter of Daniel Terry and wife Christian Evans, had birthed eight to ten children for Henry by this time, likely was worn out, ill and carrying Henry, Jr., when Henry cast his seed elsewhere within his household. It's neither a unique story nor without precedent. As to Ann's antecedent's, the fact that she is not in Richard Pemberton's will is not definitive. We've found a half dozen or so LW&Ts among the Pamunkey Davenports that omitted one or more children. Consider also that Ann may have been a Pemberton miscue or embarrassment, was intentionally overlooked. That would explain why she might have been a servant or a foster child in Henry's household. We have more to come concerning the Pembertons of Powhatan, i.e., King William Parish, God Lord Willing and the Creek Don't Rise, which we think will enable a better focus for identifying Ann. We are now redoing Powhatan Court records through 1815, as well as continuing to search Campbell County records 1782-1815. End Quote. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ

I have "Louis/Lewis" Davenport b about 1875 in Missouri married Nancy Anna Frances Hampton before 1893 in Douglas County, Missouri Louis/Lewis died before 1900. Louis and Nancy had son James Louis (D) in 1894 Douglas County, Missouri Nothing is know about Louis/Lewis Davenport. Has anyone hear of him or his family Janet