I need some help on an SC location: I used the USGS site to bring up a map of the area and the info is confusing: it shows two Lick Creeks -- one in Lancaster Co. and one in Kershaw Co., yet when I zoom in on the maps it looks as if they are both in Lancaster Co. One Lick Creek lies to the east of Elgin and the other is south of Kershaw but still in Lancaster Co. Is this the same Lick Creek and it flows down through Kershaw? I appreciate any help. Vickie Elam White
Hello - Does anyone have any information on the following McBays listed in the 1790 census of Lancaster Co., Camden District: James McBay, George McBay, Jason McBay? Also searching for info on Abel McBay listed in the NC 1790 census. Thanks. Any info will be helpful. E-mail me at [email protected]
Hi, I am looking for any information on Sarah HARTSFIELD, b. abt. 1760 in Camden District, Lancaster Co. SC. She was married to Burrell Bottoms. Any information greatly appreciated. Arlene Hampton
HI, My web site listed below my signature has a few SC links. I have a David & Mary Adams who lived in the Waxhaws settlement in Lancaster county, SC. David died prior to 1794, and his wife, Mary, moved on to GA with some children. I have various data on my site that connects to SC. I have a links page with the SC GenWeb site and Lancaster and Kershaw counties with links. I am also starting some pages that will pertain to certain surnames that I am researching, but each one will have a section on SC data. (census, wills, marriages, etc.) You may place a link to my site, if you wish. My SC data is bare minimum, at this point, but will be growing in the near future. I do have as many SC marriages as I could find. They, too, are based on the surnames that I am researching. However, they are not all my relatives, so might be useful to visitors to your site. thanks, Tina Hall [email protected] Tina's Family Genealogy Page at: http://www.crosswinds.net/~thall/ Steve and Tina's Home Pages at: http://www.netos.com/hallfamily/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Hocutt <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2000 8:25 AM Subject: [SCLANCAS] StateGenSites and a Favor > HI > > My Name is Bill Hocutt, I am the writer responsible for "Uncle Hiram's Adventures in Genealogy". > > www.stategensites.com > > It has links to all 50 states, over 4600 links so far. I would also like to ask that if you have a home page you would like to add to this site please e-mail it to me. We desperately need South Carolina Sites. We are a new and growing tool for the use of the Genealogical Researcher. Please Help us to grow. > > The Site also has 4 Genealogical Columns. I would like to invite yall to sample them. We are trying to add a fifth columnist specializing in African American Research. I would also like to invite yall to sample my column available at www.stategensites.com/UncleHiram > > > > Thank You > > Bill Hocutt > > > > >
HI My Name is Bill Hocutt, I am the writer responsible for "Uncle Hiram's Adventures in Genealogy". www.stategensites.com It has links to all 50 states, over 4600 links so far. I would also like to ask that if you have a home page you would like to add to this site please e-mail it to me. We desperately need South Carolina Sites. We are a new and growing tool for the use of the Genealogical Researcher. Please Help us to grow. The Site also has 4 Genealogical Columns. I would like to invite yall to sample them. We are trying to add a fifth columnist specializing in African American Research. I would also like to invite yall to sample my column available at www.stategensites.com/UncleHiram Thank You Bill Hocutt
Generally if either was under 18 or 21, a parent of the underage party had to give permission for the marriage. Gerald J.
I have been meaning to ask this question for some time now, and am hoping that some of you out there with more expertise than I have, will be able to give me an answer. It concerns what was considered legal marrying age in South Carolina [Lancaster County] in 1849. My 3xg/g'parents, Andrew Jackson and Lydia Jane [BAKER] BAKER were married sometime early in 1849 [I still have not found proof of the exact date] in the Flat Creek area of Lancaster County. At the time of this marriage, Andrew Jackson BAKER was about 24 years old. Lydia Jane BAKER [her maiden name was also BAKER], was 13 years of age. According to all of the records that I have been able to find on the family, this was "not" a shotgun wedding, as they did not have their first child until January of 1852. Also, I have yet to prove any connection between the two BAKER lines beyond this marriage. Any suggestions and/or help with this would be greatly appreciated. Bill
I have moved my webpage. Please make note of the new address. Have a safe and happy holidays. Bill Hughes [email protected] See my homepage at: http://lightning.prohosting.com/~bhughes/
I have moved my webpage. Please make note of the new address. Have a safe and happy holidays. Bill Hughes [email protected] See my homepage at: http://lightning.prohosting.com/~bhughes/
I have moved my webpage. Please make note of the new address. Have a safe and happy holidays. Bill Hughes [email protected] See my homepage at: http://lightning.prohosting.com/~bhughes/
My apologies to the group for the garbled message I sent on marriage, birth and death records. Strike the first three paragraphs and the last will make more sense. Louise
Bill, There was no legal age for marriage because there was no law that required marriages to be registered in state or county. Marriage was considered to be a matter of concern to the family, not the government. It might be added that such attitudes help to explain why SC was considered the most conservative of all states until Utah came along. Here is an article that I wrote for the York County Genealogical and Historical Society's Quarterly because there were so many questions about the matter of marriage, birth and death records and where they could be located: BIRTH, MARRIAGE, &DEATH RECORDS The state of South Carolina kept no records of births or deaths before January 1, 1915 when the South Carolina Bureau of Vital Statistics was created. And the state has no record of marriages before 1950 (but the counties do have marriage records between 1911-1950). The Bureaus address is Bureau of Vital Statistics, State Board of Health, Sims Building, Columbia, SC 29201. The state of South Carolina did not require the recording of marriages until July 1, 1911. They were issued in the counties. In York County the task of recording marriages was given to the probate judge. In 1911 the probate judge was L. R. Williams. He issued the first York County marriage license to Lathern Brown McFadden and Mollie Albright of Rock Hill. Until July 1, 1950 the record of the marriage was preserved only in the county in which the marriage occurred. There was no state record. After July 1, 1950, the state of South Carolina centralized all of the marriage records by placing them in the Bureau of Vital Statistics, a division of the State Board of Health. The Bureau of Vital Statistics was not created until 1915 and then kept only a record of births and deaths. The state did not require a record of births and deaths before January 1, 1915 and did not centralize the records until July 1, 1950 at which time they became official state records. For many years it was very easy to get married and impossible to get divorced. South Carolina was the last state in the union to permit divorce. It was not until 1950 that divorces were allowed and not until July 1, 1962, that the Bureau of Vital Statistics began keeping a record of divorces. Common law marriages (where a man and woman live together openly as man and wife) have always been considered lawful marriages. The largest collection of Marriage and Death Notices is at the South Caroliniana Library on the University of South Carolina campus in Columbia. It is far from being inclusive. It is unfortunate that South Carolina did not follow the example of North Carolina and keep vital statistics from the beginning of statehood.) Newspapers did publish some marriage notices, or "hymeneals" but these account for only a few of the marriages. A few churches, or their pastors, may have kept records but few have been preserved. Historically, South Carolina has treated births, marriages, and deaths as private family matters of no concern to the state unless these events also were pertinent to other matters such as marriage settlements that dealt with titles to certain properties held by the woman. Marriage settlements, both prenuptual and postnuptual are recorded with the Secretary of State (records in the State Archives) and are usually in the form of a trust designed to protect the wifes property or her inheritable property. Records of births, marriages and deaths were kept in Charleston by the Church of England and after the Revolution were kept by the Episcopal Church, the successor of the Church of England, until the 1850s. But York County had no Church of England congregation at all and few Episcopalians at any time. The Presbyterian and Methodists seem not to have kept these records in the pre-Civil War period. Flint Hill Baptist Church in Fort Mill township is a notable exception, but, even there, marriages and deaths are recorded sporadically and births not at all. Baptisms were recorded only by name with no age attached. The lack of official birth, marriage and death records has made cemetery listings extremely important. Tombstones, along with family Bible records and newspaper accounts remain our best sources of information. Louise Pettus PS: As you have probably discovered by now, practicing genealogy in South Carolina is a real challenge! When you add the ravages of Sherman's army in South Carolina (burned all the estate papers, including the wills, in Lancaster County, for example) and the exodus of so many citizens for the west (cotton quickly leached potash from the soil and there were no commercial sources for replacement) to the lack of official birth, marriage and death records, it takes persistence plus the generosity of the fortunate few who have private records to get anywhere at all.
I am trying to find more information on Thurlow BLACKMON of Flat Creek, Lancaster, SC. He was born about 1854, and was married prior to 1875 to Emma ___________. This family shows in the 1880 Federal Census in the Flat Creek area with three [3] children; Ernest F.; Richard T.; and Lilly W. Any help at all with this family would be greatly appreciated. Bill Hughes [email protected] See my homepage at: http://home.talkcity.com/LibertySt/kinseeker4/index.html
Trying to find ancestral info on Galatea GILBERT [[email protected] - d. after 1831] who married Jeremiah CHANCELLOR [[email protected] in England - d. after 1831]. I would appreciate hearing from any GILBERT researchers who have info on her and her family. Bill Hughes [email protected] See my homepage at: http://home.talkcity.com/LibertySt/kinseeker4/index.html
As we pass between 10 November [the 224th Anniversary of my United States Marine Corps] and 11 November [the day designated to recognize and honor all of our veterans], I would invite you to visit my webpage and look over my "HONOR ROLL". Bill Hughes [email protected] See my homepage at: http://home.talkcity.com/LibertySt/kinseeker4/index.html
Hello all! I'm new to this list, but not to rootsweb. I am seeking information concerning John Vaughn & wife Mary ?. Their daughter, Harriet P. married Thomas King between 1816 and 1820 in TN. By 1825 they are in MS. Both Thomas King and Harriet P. Vaughn were born about 1798 in NC. I'm seeking information concerning them. They show up in 1820 on the census records in Williamson county. I cannot locate any marriage records for them. Does anyone have any information on what county they came from in NC? Are these lines familiar to anyone out there? Thomas and Harriet are my GGG-grandparents. happy hunting, Tina Hall [email protected] Tina's Family Genealogy Page at: http://www.crosswinds.net/~thall/ Tina's Treasure Trove: http://shop.affinia.com/tinahall/Store/ features genealogical products to enhance your research ******************************************** Viruses are like Pandora's Box, if you don't open it, it cannot harm you.
Can anyone help me find an obituary of my gggrandfather Levi Knight. He was born in Chesterfield County but died in Lancaster County in 1910 I think. He was born in 1820. I thought maybe because he was so old when he died and because he was a veteran of the Chesterfield Artillery maybe there was a decent obituary about him giving some information on him or his family. I would appreciate any help I can get! Thank you. Janice Haring
Just a reminder to those of you who may not know about this group, there is a group of folks listed thru Rootsweb who volunteer of their time, books and efforts to do lookups. It is a "great" research tool, plus the fact that it is both easy to use and F R E E. Those of you not familiar with this service, should visit the website and see if there are any folks doing lookups for your area. Also, if you have good research material and are willing to help others out in their searches, there is a place there for you to volunteer. Check it all out at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~bwo/index.html Good luck and good hunting. Bill Hughes [email protected] See my homepage at: http://home.talkcity.com/LibertySt/kinseeker4/index.html
my line is: Charles>Pleasant>Nelson>William Franklin>William Nelson(my grandfather). have traced them from SC>TN>MO. is anyone researching this line? could this line be related to Jasper Crane of CT/NJ? thanks deb
Hi Amy, I am sorry to say, I can't find a definite connection with your JAMES MADISON RICHARDSON. I do have a THOMAS RICHARDSON born 1817 in TN,married 1/1/1844 in Ark.to ELIZA PUGH,he died 1860 Johnson Co.TX; but that can't be yours, he has different parents, Joshoah and Mary(Cook)Richardson. Sorry, wish I could have helped;will keep your data, just in case it fits later on,Eleonore http://members.xoom.com/Mandaley/