The name Nancy Townsend is also the name of "my" Berrell Hampton Hambrick's oldest daughter .... Nancy Townsend Hambrick .... born 1832 in GA. Kathy -----Original Message----- From: John I Porter <idporter@onramp.net> To: HAMRICK-L@rootsweb.com <HAMRICK-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, November 19, 1999 11:31 PM Subject: Re: [HAMRICK-L] Re: Burwell??? >Nancy Townsend is the daughter of Henry Townsend (1739-1789) and unknown Barrett >(1740-1840). Nancy married Joseph in 1800's. > >MICHAEL MARTINEZ wrote: > >> JR (and Gwen), >> >> OK, it looks like the two Burwell's are getting mixed up. However this >> works out, the name Burwell/Burrell Hampton gets handed down several >> generations. Since we know that the name Burwell is predominate in that >> branch of the Hamrick family, it is more than conceivable that we can attach >> him there. >> >> Do you happen to know who the parents of Nancy Townsend are? If I can find >> more family names that I can attribute to that side of the family then we >> might be able to make a stronger circumstantial case for "my" Burwell >> Hampton Hamrick/Hambrick being the son of Joseph as opposed to his brother, >> for instance, where the name Hampton comes from. >> >> I wonder how it is possible that only the one child, and a daughter at that, >> has been firmly established for Joseph and Nancy Townsend Hamrick? Are >> there any more hypothetical children of this union? Did Nancy died young >> and Joseph re-marry? If Joseph lived long enough to be the guardian of a >> younger brother (actually think it was two of them), then he would certainly >> have been old enough, and financially established enough, to have fathered >> more than one child. >> >> Does anyone else on the Hamrick or Hambrick lists have a thought on this? >> >> Kathy >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Hamrick <hamrick@home.com> >> To: Kathy Martinez <mamkmm2@prodigy.net> >> Date: Friday, November 19, 1999 3:19 PM >> Subject: Burwell??? >> >> >Kathy, >> > >> >I am trying to have a collective site of Hamrick Genealogy >> >and have nothing I am trying to prove except to have the >> >most correct data. >> > >> >Every time I try to put some descendants on Burwell, s/o >> >Thomas Hamrick and Sarah Scurlock, Tressie Neeley and >> >Steve Bridges tell me he is the one b est 1788 and died >> >1814 est age 26 and was unmarried. >> > >> >Burwell Hampton Hamrick is another person and there is no >> >direct evidence so far exactly where to put him. Tressie >> >told me confidentially that she thought the most likely >> >place for him was as a child of Joseph and Nancy Townsend >> >but she had no proof of anything, just a hunch. >> > >> >The only children I have for Joseph and Nancy Townsend are >> >Sarah b 1805 m Josiah James. She died 1855 Henry, GA and is >> >buried in the Hamrick-James Cem there; and Burwell Hampton >> >b est 1810 d 4 Jun 1868 Van Zandt, TX. I have Burwell H age >> >40 in the 1850 Tallapossa County, Al Census. This makes his >> >birth 1810 instead of the 1790 you have. 1790 goes better >> >with Burwell brother of Joseph. In 1860 Van Zandt census >> >he is age 49 b 1809. >> > >> >If Joseph had a brother Burwell and a son Burwell, his son >> >would not have been old enough to fight in 1814. Since the >> >War data is good data, it has to go somewhere. >> > >> >Please tell me what you think and any data you have found. >> >Have you ever read the Van Zandt County History Book? Surely >> >it would have a story on him but might not have any more on >> >his ancestry. >> > >> >Thank you for the data you sent. Berrell Hampton b 1809-10 >> >would seem to fit what you have. >> > >> > >> >J R >> >Hamrick Hambrick Genealogy at: >> > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com >> >or http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~hamrick >> > > > >