This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hudgins Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hAC.2ACE/923.922.1051 Message Board Post: Dear Jackie, Do you know if a Robert Hudgins in your line became a Baptist minister in what was then Gloucester County and is present-day Mathews County and then a legislator in the VA General Assembly? He would have been a minister about 1785-1795. Thanks. Bill Simpson

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hAC.2ACE/1216.1 Message Board Post: William J. Graves died Jan.17, 1876 at age 68. His son Amos gave the death information. William J. Graves' wife at the time of his death was named Margaret. William's parents are identified as William & Elizabeth Graves. Using that information and the 1850/1860 census records, I would place the family in the Coke/Timberneck Creek area of the county. Hope this helps.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Rilee, Wiatt Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hAC.2ACE/1217 Message Board Post: My cousin Americus Vespucius Rilee was known as "Mex." The man who gave me my driving test at Gloucester Court House in 1960 was Americus Vespucius Wiatt, known as "Mex." Does anyone know how "Mex" became the nickname for people whose given name was Americus Vespucius ?

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This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: GRAVES Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hAC.2ACE/1216 Message Board Post: We are looking for the ancestors of Amos F. GRAVES. His father's name was William J. GRAVES who was married to Eliza. Thanks in advance for your assistance. Hershel

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/4300/hAC.2ACE/1176.1 Message Board Post: My grandfather was one of l9 children. Garnett, from Virginia. Would like to hear from Charlene Garnett and anyone else with questions and information. Looking for information on Garnetts in New Jersey, Philadelphia, Pa; Virginia, Harrisburg, Pa and Steelton, Pa; New York (possible connectedness to Henry Highland Garnet(t) and Samuel Ringgold Ward.

I am trying to determine the ancestry of Ambrose Ranson of Cumberland Co. He was living in Goochland as early as 1744, presumably in the southern part that later became Cumberland Co. He was married to Catherine Keeble who was the daughter of Walter Keeble of Gloucester Co. Catherine died in 1761 and Ambrose's will was recorded in Cumberland Co. in 1762. In his will he names five sons (Flamstead, Ambrose [jr.], Robert, William, & Henry) and three daughters. He apparently owned land on Angola Creek, north of the Appomattox River. The last three sons remained in the Cumberland/Prince Edward area, Ambrose Jr. may have moved to Halifax Co., and Flamstead had moved to Buckingham Co. around 1786 and died there by 1796. His widow was Elizabeth (possibly Douglas or Perkins). Can anyone connect Ambrose Sr. with the Ranson/Ransoms of Gloucester and Mathews? I suspect there is a connection since his wife was from the area. I would greatly appreciate any help or suggestions. Ed Ayres

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hAC.2ACE/1207.1.1 Message Board Post: have u found any other tillage of african descent!!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Callis Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hAC.2ACE/1150.4 Message Board Post: Saw your posting. I sent you an email and I am looking for information on William H. Callis and Ashley Callis his son, who died by the time he was 30. Ashley married an Ada V. no surname known. Also had a daughter Essie G. May have had other children. I found this info in the 1900 census for Mathews County, Va. Is any of this familiar? Sincerely Pat Ward

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hAC.2ACE/1207.1 Message Board Post: I can tell you that in the 1860 Census of Gloucester, in the home of Warner Green, there were two free African American Tillages, John Tillage, age 71, and Henry Tillage, age 7. If you have specific names and approximate dates, I would be happy to search marriage and death records.

In a message dated 4/23/2 11:35:04 AM, imatrip1953@yahoo.com wrote: << I'm researching the Martiau family and was wondering if you or anyone knows who the parents of Nicholas were. >> No, the parents of Nicholas Martiau remain unknown to modern researchers. A good, brief biography of Martiau can be found in ADVENTURERS OF PURSE AND PERSON, 3rd Edition, as well as a brief outline of his more immediate descendants. Charles Ward CMW12635@aol.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hAC.2ACE/427.433 Message Board Post: Dear Tom, We are very interested in the Singleton's from Gloucester County. We live on what was once Bloomsbury, and the original land grant was to a Henry Singleton in 1650. The property passed through many hands since then and is now called Ditchley after the Lee's Ditchley in England. The house is not original to Bloomsbury except the basement - the basement we believe to be original to all 3 homes on the site - the first 2 were burned and rebuilt over the previous site. But we are resourcing the history of the families that lived here and how they aftected the property as well as the county of GLoucester and state of Virginia. We are the caretakers here and we are compiling the info for the current owner - Mr. Michael Suttle Jr. If you have any info on Mr Singleton we would be happy to get it! We also believe he donated the land that Singlton United Methodist Church now sits on - also here in Ware Neck. We would love to hear back from you! Thanks, Christine and Kevan Lipscomb ps please respond to ctlipscomb@aol.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hAC.2ACE/1096.2.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for the input. I will check on this as soon as I light somewhere. My wife and I live in a motor coach and travel about the US. We are currently in Texas making out way, circuitously to South Dakota. When we bet there (in about 3-4 weeks) I will go through the data I have been picking up and storing for further use. Again thank you and I will get back to you.

I have just uploaded 2 more 1812 Payroll records: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaglouce/paygibbs.html http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaglouce/paycaryjr.html Jane

Several months ago, someone asked me what was an "Overseer of the Poor". I explained it the best I could, but I have just come across an article printed in the "Virginia Cavalcade" magazine, winter 2000 issue that explains their duties. This is an interesting article about the Overseers of the Poor and their duties, especially in connection with the poorhouses. Gloucester Co. is mentioned briefly in the article. Here is the address: http://www.poorhousestory.com/VA_Rogues_17.htm Jane G.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Rowe, Huffman,Tracey,Plymale,Perry and Terry Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hAC.2ACE/1214 Message Board Post: I am a decendant of James Rowe b. abt 1753 in Virginia possible Culpepper Co. He married Elizabeth Tracey( I believe).My line is through Stephen their son. Their last son was Joseph/Joel Rowe he was born in the late 1700's Gloucester. Some researcher have him born in Gloucester Mass. I believe the mix up comes from the abreveations Ma and Va. James lived in Virginia and moved to N.C. then back to Va. They lived in the New River area. James took his family to Pike Co., Ky. Leaving Stephen and his wife Barbara (Huffman) in Va. on the family farm. Joseph and his wife Elizabeth Plymale left Kentucky and went to Illinois. Any information about Joseph, his father James,or his father ?? would be greatly appreciated.

I have just completed the first (of many) Payroll Record of Thomas Carey's Company for the War of 1812. Some of the records are very brief and others are quite long. So keep checking back ever so often to see what has been added. You can view this record at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaglouce/paycarey.html Thanks. Jane Goodsell, CC Gloucester Co. VaGenWeb

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sears, Booker, Dutton, Acra, Willing, and others Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hAC.2ACE/1213 Message Board Post: Found a Melvin F. Acra in the 1910 census. Petsworth District. Acra, Melvin F. 51? Acra, Eva (Wife) 29 Acra, Olive I. Daughter 12 Acra, Florence (Daughter) 9 Acra, William M. (Son) 5 Does anyone know anything about this family? I believe Olive I. married into "the Treadwell" family.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hAC.2ACE/588.591.1.2 Message Board Post: Laura, My name is Dorene Brusstar Orr. My father was Henry Brusstar Jr. the son of Henry Brusstar and Etta Grove Gordon. I have just recently begun to search for my family history. I would be very interested in anything you could tell me. It seems like we could have the same grandfather. Please let me know if this is possible. I would like to share information with you. Please email. Dorene

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hAC.2ACE/1096.2 Message Board Post: Bill, I know that it has been almost a year since you posted this, but thought that I would share what I know. As far as I can tell, Nathan Hall to daughter Nancy.Nancy married Conrad Storms. Their son Randolph married Cathrin Hardin. Their son George married Sallie Ann Hendren. Their son Irvin married Hattie Lee Westerfield. They had a daughter, Clemmie, who is my grandmother. I know that the Storms line and the Westerfield line go back 10 or more generations from my grandmother. Let me know if this helps.