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 >