--- Lou Poole <[email protected]> wrote: > Just some thoughts on the subject(s)... > > I think you are probably right that "Meredith" may > have originally been > a surname, and thus offers a possible clue as to > marriage connections. Actually, Meridith was a Welsh prenom. Example: Prince Maredudd [Meridith] ap Bleddyn of Powys (d.1132). Prince George County had a number of early Welsh settlers. > Similarly, Lewis may be derived from a surname, but > I don't know of any > Lewises living in the area of the Poythresses in > that time frame (of > course, I haven't exactly searched for them either). > The prominent > Lewis family with which I'm familiar was either > further north, or in the > Valley of Virginia area. Lewis as a given name > certainly was a popular > one among some families, most notably in my > knowledge and experience, > the Burwell family. So I don't think it's quite as > reliable a clue as > Meredith might be. > > There were in fact several branches of the Wall > family, and the > relationship of these branches, if there was one, is > still unknown (to > me, anyway). There was a Daniel Wall who appeared > in the early Bristol > Parish records, with a number of sons, who > eventually lived in the > northern part of Brunswick County (traces of this > family, but only > traces, can be found in some extant Dinwiddie > records). This is not the > Wall line that I believe married into the Poythress > family, though they > both used John as a somewhat favored name. For what > it's worth I don't > have a single Meredith identified within the John > Wall family that I > think is allied with the Poythress family. (That's > not to say that such > a connection won't eventually surface, but just a > statement of the > lay-of-the-land as I now think I understand it.) > > I've also learned by now that the prominent families > in the area of > southern Virginia were so interlocked with marriages > that they were > practically all related by marriage somehow. And > that sure doesn't help > when playing the "name game." > > Lou > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 10:12 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Wall/Meredith/Lewis/Poythress > > > Via Maynards suggestion, I am posting a possible > theory I have for a > possible name for Martha (Patsy) ? Poythress who > married Thomas > Poythress of > Brunswick VA say maybe mid to late 1750's. At > least it is something > worth > checking out, to try and prove or disprove. > > Ok here goes; We have Thomas Poythress and Martha > (Patsy) Unknown, > their > first child, they named Meredith (not a common > Poythress name), then > we > have Lewis, some say proven and some say not proven, > son of Thomas and > Martha (another uncommon name for the Poythress'), > well my thoughts are > our > Martha (Patsy) unknown, could possibly be a > Meredith, a > Lewis(Meredith's and > Lewis' intermarried) or maybe even a Wall(Meredith's > and Wall's > intermarried). All of these surnames were in > Virginia (Prince George, > Dinwiddie/Brunswick, Hanover, and a few other > surrounding counties) at > the > time Thomas and Martha were in those areas. There > was even a Lewis > Meredith > b. abt. 1640 who emigrated from Wales to Maryland in > the Queen Anne's > County > area, and some of his and his brother John's and > another brother, > either > William or a Thomas lines, who migrated to > Virginia. I do not know > much > about these other surnames, as I am much to new at > this research > business, > but maybe some of you know about them or have the > resources to explore > this > theory. I stress, that is all it is at this point, > just a hunch from > the > most inexperienced Poythress Researcher on the list. > But it is food for > > thought don't you think. > > Take care to you all and BPN, I am thinking about > you. > > Elaine > > > ==== POYTHRESS Mailing List ==== > Poythress Geneaology Research Web > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~poythress/ > > > > ==== POYTHRESS Mailing List ==== > The Poythress Genealogy List is hosted by RootsWeb. > If you'd like to learn more about Rootsweb please > visit http://www.rootsweb.com/ > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com