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Connections Avent, McCroskey, Duff
Posted by: Kerry McGrath	Date: August 13, 2001 at 18:20:15
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Looking for Aven-Duff-McCroskey Connections in Va, NC, and/or TN

John Duff Aven, born in Virginia, ended up in Christian County, Missouri, as a neighbor of Mathew Duff McCroskey and his brothers, James Madison McCroskey and William Barton McCroskey. I suspect John's descision to come to this part of Missouri was based on the fact that the McCroskey's were kin. To date, I have not been able to make the connection. Any assistance would be appreciated.

This is what I have determined so far, virtually all of the information comes from postings by generous reseachers, sources are cited at at the end:

First Aven-MCroskey Link:

1. first generation: Thomas AVENT, Rebecca STEVENS (AVEN)
2. .second generation: Allen Burton AVEN (M) -
       Birth: 1770 -- Wayne Co, NC, apparently orphaned. Who were his parents?
       Death:
       Spouse: , Barsheba TRUELOVE b. abt 1780
       Child of LUCY AVENT [ Peter Avent3, Colonel Thomas Avent2, Louis Avent1) ] and TIMOTHY TRULOVE.
       Children: Rebecca AVEN
        Timothy AVEN
Sidney Jane AVEN
3. third generation: Timothy Allen AVEN (M) -
              Birth: 4 JUL 1809 -- Washington, VA
              Death:1862 -- -
       Spouse: , Ann Eleanor MCCROSKEY
               Birth: btw 1809/1812 --
              Death:1875 --
       MARRIED: 25 MAY 1831, Washington County, VA
       CHILDREN:
              Francis Henderson Reed AVEN
              Eliza Carolina AVEN
              John D. AVEN
              James W. AVEN
              Mathew Gilford AVEN
              William Allen AVEN
              Samuel Wiley AVEN
              David W. AVEN

4. fourth generation: John Duff Aven (M) married Sarah Payne in Christian County, Missouri

Second, Aven-McCroskey-Duff Link:

ID: I180
Name: James MCCROSKEY
Sex: M
Birth: 1766 in Augusta Co., VA (now Rockbridge Co.) 1
Death: 1860/1861
Burial: Green Spring Cemetery 1
Occupation: Surveyor (?)
Note: Possible spouses are:
1 .Ann DUFF,
2. Rachel Avent m.12/12/1826,
Father: James MCCROSKEY b: 1720-30
Mother: Elizabeth HAYS

Marriage 1 Ann DUFF (see below for information about Ann's parentage)
1 Children
Francis MCCROSKEY b: ABT 1799
William Barton MCCROSKEY b: 13 NOV 1805 in VA**
Matthew Duff MCCROSKEY b: 01 JAN 1808 in VA**
Thomas MCCROSKEY
Frederick MCCROSKEY
John MCCROSKEY b: in VA
James Madison MCCROSKEY b: 13 FEB 1810 in VA**
**All three brothers brought their families to the Greene-Christian County area by ca. 1860.

Marriage 2 Rachel AVENT
Married: 12 DEC 1826
One source says:James & Rachel had children born in VA, but names not known. HOLSTON PATHFINDER lists her name as "Rebecca". Another identifies the following as the
2 children of James and Rachel:
Rebecca Jane MCCROSKEY b: 1828
Cynthia MCCROSKEY b: 1831
Martha MCCROSKEY b: 1834
Hilda MCCROSKEY b: 1837

Ann Duff is identified as the Daughter of:
ID: I9996
Name: John DUFF
Sex: M
Birth: 1746 in Ireland 1
Death: ABT 1794 1
Father: Samuel DUFF b: in Scotland
Mother: Margaret (?)
Marriage 1 Margaret BROWN
Children
Nelly DUFF b: 29 JUL 1777
Mathew B. DUFF
Jane DUFF
John S. DUFF b: ABT 1786
Jacob N. DUFF
Ruth DUFF
Mary "Polley" DUFF
Martha DUFF
Ann DUFF

Note: James McCroskey had a wife named Ann who was the daughter of John and Margaret Brown Duff. Will Book 9 Page 310 on the partial settlement of John's estate because he died intestate. Has Matthew B. Duff [John's son] in some land shuffling with the heirs, nine children, " a deed from James McCroskee and Ann, his wife who was also a child of said John Duff and the said two ninths of said land are the premises herein and hereby conveyed". Aronhime Papers have James with a wife Ann.

Another McCroskey-Duff Link
James McCroskey's brother John D. McCroskey reportedly married a Margaret Duff

ID: I17282
Name: John D. MCCROSKEY
Sex: M
Birth: 1763/1764 1
Death: 10 FEB 1850 in Clarksville, Habersham Co., GA 1
Note: Have pension statement.
Father: James MCCROSKEY b: 1720-30
Mother: Elizabeth HAYS
Marriage 1 Margaret DUFF
Married: 15 APR 1790 in Washington Co., VA 2

Sources:
Charles W. Carden

Marriage Register, Washington Co., Va.

HOLSTON PATHFINDER, Vol 11, No.3 (March 1993) p.43-13

"The Clan Duff" by Christine R. Brown & Donald V. Brown, 1978 (TN Archives)

Bonnie Duff Smith, P.O. Box 221044, San Diego, CA 92192

http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=gedind&ti=0&f2=29786&f3=725

http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?Timothy,Ave

http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?Timothy,Ave

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=SHOW

http://www.my-ged.com/db/page/cox/2063Ann!Anne

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Re: Connections Avent, McCroskey, Duff Reginald M. Dean 8/26/01

http://genforum.genealogy.com/avent/messages/179.html
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