Thanks all for your comments. I will follow up on your suggestions. Marilee > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 06:58:42 -0700 > From: susi c pentico <[email protected]> > Subject: [MDWashin] Dyer Dewar situation > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Many years ago I was told that marriages did not always happen legally until > the minister road in and performed the service. If the lay of the land and > area was remote, they may have had the blessing of the local people and were > declared married, then when a chance arose they would be formally married. > Your time frame is prone for that type of thing to happen. > > I am sure others will tell you the same. > > Susi > > > >> >> 1. Alexander Dyer and Rachel/Rachael Mobley (Marilee Cunningham) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:29:17 -0400 >> From: Marilee Cunningham <[email protected]> >> Subject: [MDWashin] Alexander Dyer and Rachel/Rachael Mobley >> To: <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: <CC5878CD.1B8DC%[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >> >> Does anyone know about a Rachael (Rachel) Mobley who married Alexander Dyer >> in Frederick, MD in Jan, 1821? I am trying to determine if Alexander was >> actually Alexander Dewar (the name was often misspelled). Alexander and >> Rachael lived in Loudon County, VA, and also had two children before 1821 so >> it's a mystery. I have looked everywhere for their marriage with no results >> in VA. I also looked for any Alexander Dyer in Frederick after 1821 to no >> avail, which makes me think it's possible they crossed over to MD to get >> married, for some reason two years after they had children -don't know how >> likely that would be. Thanks! > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:18:48 -0500 > From: "Donna Heller Zinn" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [MDWashin] Dyer Dewar situation > To: <[email protected]> > Cc: susi c pentico <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I'm suggesting that you also need to find out the religious denomination of > the people who were getting "hitched" and see what churches were on the > "circuit" in that area during that timeperiod and then turn to trying to > track down the records for the pastors who were on those "circuits". At > that time the "records" were usually "owned" by the pastor and he carried > them from one church to another. Another source could be the religious > denomination archives or holding facilities. > > Happy Hunting! > Donna Heller Zinn of Newville, Cumberland Co., PA.

Marilee, My husband has an early line from his mother's side in Maryland - Mobberly that became Mobley over time. You might see what you can find about them - it has been so long since I worked on them I can't recall offhand which county - I'm sure a very early one. Passano's Source Records of Maryland has these entries: Mobberly - Frederick County Families, Markell Ms. Personal list. Moberley Medical Annals of MD, Cordell. 1903 p. 508 MD Hist. Soc. Mobley M.E. Church Burial ground, Laytonsville, Montgomery Co. MD. Md. Geneal. Rec. Com. 1934-35, pp 69-92. Mss. DAR. For Dyer there is Bible Rec. Ms. DAR. Patriotic Md., Md. Soc. of S.A.R. 1930; St. Paul's Parish, Balto. Vol. 3. Mss. MHS. There is also a manuscript of Dyer Family History - in the MHS. They also suggest seeing the spelling Dyre. - There is a DYRE family chart in the MHS. They list both spellings for a couple entries Dyre, Dyer family in genealogy collections. There is a Blue Print of a chart in both DAR and MHS listed separately from the first entry. There are no Dewar entries. Brumbaugh's Maryland Records lists a Rachel Mobberly who married William Burdit in Anne Arundel County May 6, 1777. Rice's This was the Life - Excerpts from the Judgment Records of Fred. Co. Md, 1748 - 1765 lists a John Mobley who lived in Linganore Hundred in 1751. In 1798 a Lewis Mobley had a letter at the Frederick Post Office (from Wright's newspaper extracts.) Have you tried the Frederick Co. Listserve? Lauren Brantner --- On Wed, 8/22/12, Marilee Cunningham <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Marilee Cunningham <[email protected]> > Subject: [MDWashin] Alexander Dyer and Rachel Mobley > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, August 22, 2012, 7:48 PM > Thanks all for your comments. I will > follow up on your suggestions.  Marilee > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 06:58:42 -0700 > > From: susi c pentico <[email protected]> > > Subject: [MDWashin] Dyer Dewar situation > > To: [email protected] > > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > > Many years ago I was told that marriages did not always > happen legally until > > the minister road in and performed the service.  > If the  lay of the land and > > area was remote, they may  have had the blessing > of the local people and were > > declared married, then when a chance arose they would > be formally married. > > Your time frame is prone for that type of thing to > happen. > > > > I am sure others will tell you the same. > > > > Susi > > > > > > > >> > >>   1. Alexander Dyer and > Rachel/Rachael Mobley (Marilee Cunningham) > >> > >> > >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >> Message: 1 > >> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:29:17 -0400 > >> From: Marilee Cunningham <[email protected]> > >> Subject: [MDWashin] Alexander Dyer and > Rachel/Rachael Mobley > >> To: <[email protected]> > >> Message-ID: <CC5878CD.1B8DC%[email protected]> > >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > >> > >> Does anyone know about a Rachael (Rachel) Mobley > who married Alexander Dyer > >> in Frederick, MD in Jan, 1821?  I am trying to > determine if Alexander was > >> actually Alexander Dewar (the name was often > misspelled).  Alexander and > >> Rachael lived in Loudon County, VA, and also had > two children before 1821 so > >> it's a mystery.  I have looked everywhere for > their marriage with no results > >> in VA.  I also looked for any Alexander Dyer > in Frederick after 1821 to no > >> avail, which makes me think it's possible they > crossed over to MD to get > >> married, for some reason two years after they had > children -don't know how > >> likely that would be.  Thanks! > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 2 > > Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:18:48 -0500 > > From: "Donna Heller Zinn" <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [MDWashin] Dyer Dewar situation > > To: <[email protected]> > > Cc: susi c pentico <[email protected]>, > [email protected] > > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > I'm suggesting that you also need to find out the > religious denomination of > > the people who were getting "hitched" and see what > churches were on the > > "circuit" in that area during that timeperiod and then > turn to trying to > > track down the records for the pastors who were on > those "circuits".  At > > that time the "records" were usually "owned" by the > pastor and he carried > > them from one church to another.  Another source > could be the religious > > denomination archives or holding facilities. > > > > Happy Hunting! > > Donna Heller Zinn of Newville, Cumberland Co., PA. > > > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/MDWASHIN > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the > subject and the body of the message >