Does any one know any thing about the Gooch's , that I guess the County was named after in Va. I have seen that name in Jefferson Co., Ala , and was wondering about them. ----- Original Message ----- From: <SPRAD666@aol.com> To: <HODGES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 10:39 PM Subject: [HODGES-L] William HODGES/Susanna LOVELL of Goochland > I made a discovery at the Library of VA in Richmond this week. I found that > the Welcome William HODGES' son William HODGES is not the one that married > Susanna LOVELL in Goochland in 1758, as reported in several > ancestry/rootsweb.com listings. William and Susanna are my GGGGGG > Grandparents thru their Son John, b. 1759 in Goochland, who married Frances > SHELTON in 1790 in Goochland. The William married to Susanna I believe is the > s/o of John HODGES of Goochland (probably a Brother of Welcome William HODGES > since they named their children similar names and lived very close to each > other in Goochland in the 1730s). The William HODGES married to Susanna > LOVELL had a child David in 1774 (according to the Douglas register) after > the marriage date of William HODGES and Elizabeth COCKE earlier in the same > year 1774. > > I know the William that married Elizabeth COCKE is Welcome William HODGES' > son William since they sell a piece of property together in Goochland in 1771 > right before Welcome dies in 1772. That 1771 deed names Welcome William > HODGES and William HODGES, Jr. from Trinity Parish in Louisa selling a 100 > acres that Welcome had given William in 1754 (part of 300 acres Welcome had > obtained in 1730 in Goochland. He also gave 100 acres to each of his other > two sons Benjamin and Jesse in 1754). There is only one William HODGES in > Louisa at that time (according to the tithables in Louisa) and he is the > owner of a piece of property called Attonce (called Deep Creek till the > early 1900s) in Louisa and is married to Elizabeth COCKE in 1774 in Goochland > (from the book "Old Homes of Louisa"). > > There were only three William HODGES in Goochland around the time a William > married Susanna LOVELL in 1758, according to the Goochland Tithables. One was > the son of John, one the son of Welcome William and the other an overseer of > a piece of property. The overseer could be the William that married Susanna > LOVELL but I feel it is John's William because Susanna and William named > their first Child John. At least I know it is not Welcome William HODGES' son > William who owned Attonce/Deep Creek. > > Regards, Tim Spradling > > > ==== HODGES Mailing List ==== > - > Faye Dyess fdy@comcast.net Listmanager > Thou shalt check thy spelling and thy grammer. > Searchable Archives at: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > >