>Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 12:02:56 -0800 (PST) >From: Chris Robinson 352-463-3210 <[email protected]> >Subject: WILLCOCKSON--ROWAN CO., NC >To: sharrah <[email protected]>, wilcox-l <[email protected]>, > THE WILLCOCKSON FAMILY OF ROWAN CO. NC (Part 1): > > A major difficulty in regard to the early Willcockson family in Rowan > Co., NC, concerns the children of ISAAC WILLCOCKSON, Sr. (a relative > and probably a brother of George and John Willcockson, also of Rowan > Co., NC). Isaac Willcockson apparently married by 1748 a Martha Bane, > of Goshen, PA. It is possible that this was not Isaac's first marriage. > For marrying a non-Quaker, Martha was dismissed from the local Quaker > meeting. Soon after, Isaac and Martha moved to Anson Co., NC (where > an "Issacher Willcocks" appears in a 1750 land deed). In 1753, Rowan > County was formed from Anson County. Also, in 1752/53, John and George > Willcockson settled with the BOONE family in Rowan County. Martha > (Bane) Willcockson died in the late 1750's, and Isaac remarried to an > Edith Philpot (according to DAR records). By the time of this marriage, > Isaac already had several children, including three who were still > minors in 1771. Isaac and Edith (Philpot) Willcockson had three more > children. > > --a Rowan County court record of 1771 states: "William, Martha, and > Daniel Willcockson, minor orphans of Isaac Willcockson, deceased, > chose Isaac Willcockson as their guardian." An Isaac and George > Willcockson signed the guardianship bond. The question arises as > to who this ISAAC WILLCOCKSON--the guardian of the children--was, > and also who the GEORGE WILLCOCKSON was who also signed the bond. > It would seem natural that, if the elder Isaac Willcockson had > any children of age in 1771, that one of them should have become > the guardian of their younger brothers and sister. If this is the > case, and it seems most probable, then the guardian ISAAC WILLCOCKSON > and the bondsman GEORGE WILLCOCKSON were older sons of the deceased > Isaac Willcockson. > > --it is known that both of the brothers, John Willcockson, Sr. and > George Willcockson, Sr. had sons named ISAAC and GEORGE. Tax lists > also show that there was an additional Isaac and George Willcockson > in Rowan County, which were probably sons of Isaac Willcockson (who > was deceased by 1771). These tax lists are as follows: > > * the family of John Willcockson, Sr. can be found in Lyon's District > in the 1772 Rowan County tax list. This list includes the names > of John Willcockson and his two eldest sons, John, Jr. and George > (who were both already heads of families). John Willcockson's other > sons, including his son ISAAC, were still at home and not yet of > taxable age in 1772. > > * the family of George Willcockson, Sr. also included sons named > ISAAC and GEORGE. Both of these sons were born in the 1760's and > were thus too young to be named in the 1772 tax list. > > * in Johnston's District in the 1772 Rowan County tax list, the names > of ISAAC, GEORGE, and DAVID Willcockson can be found. As has been > shown above, none of these three heads of household could have been > sons of John or George Willcockson. This leaves Isaac Willcockson > (husband of Martha Bane) as the apparent father of these three men. > The Isaac and George Willcockson on this list are undoubtedly > identical with the two men who signed the 1771 guardianship bond for > the elder Isaac Willcockson's three minor children. D.A.R. records > show that Edith (Philpot) Willcockson, the last wife of Isaac > Willcockson, had three Willcockson children, of which the last was > born in 1764. In 1767, Edith (Philpot) Willcockson--by then the > widow of Isaac Willcockson--married secondly, Matthew Busey. Thus, > Isaac Willcockson apparently died between 1764 and 1767. In > 1768, the names of David and Isaac Willcockson are found on the > Rowan County tax list. Since the elder Isaac Willcockson was dead > by 1768, the Isaac and David Willcockson on this list are obviously > the same as the Isaac and David Willcockson named in the 1772 tax > list for Johnston's District. > > From the information given above, it seems that Isaac Willcockson by > his two or more wives, was the father of David, Isaac, George, William, > Daniel, Martha, Rachel, Catherine, and Aaron Willcockson. Evidence also > indicates that Isaac Willcockson, Sr. was the father of Nancy > Willcockson, who married Benjamin Greer. The fact that Isaac > Willcockson moved from Pennsylvania to North Carolina, that he lived in > Rowan County near John Willcockson, Sr. and George Willcockson, Sr., and > that all three of these earliest known Willcocksons had families in > which the names JOHN, GEORGE, ISAAC, DANIEL, and WILLIAM were common > indicates that these three men were all brothers. > > > > ------ Ruth (Schauer) Davison [email protected] Please help support Internet Genealogy. Be a proud sponser of ROOTSWEB RootsWeb surname lists are funded *entirely* by you. http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html ==== WILCOX Mailing List ==== Web Archives http://lists.rootsweb.com/~archiver/lists/WILCOX-L/