Re: Ludwell Brackett and Ann Elizabeth Cox, Virginia
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In reply to:
Re: Ludwell Brackett and Ann Elizabeth Cox, Virginia
11/06/01
Thanks very much for taking the time to help.I've seen this LDS material elsewhere and I'm having trouble reconciling it with (1) the posting to which you so kindly followed-up, (2) the information I posted in message #896 in this forum, and (3) what I think I know about the birth year of Frances Brackett Bolling.
Starting with (3), the 1850 US census for Buckingham Co., VA lists a 40-year-old Frances living with Robert Bolling and a four-year-old son named Robert.In 1851 Frances would give birth to Susan Peyton Bolling, my wife's gggrandmother.I find an 1809/1810 year of birth for Frances Brackett Bolling to be more plausible than 1790.
The information I posted in message #896, drawn from a 1915 genealogy of the Woodson family, is somewhat consistent with the posting to which you replied.Both sources list nine children.Here are the inconsistencies:
1.The Woodson book has Martha dying in 1843; Boddie has 1834.
2.Woodson has Henry Brackett; Boddie has Thomas Henry.
3.Woodson has Betsy Brackett m. Isham Harris; Boddie has Elizabeth Brackett m. John S. Harris.
4.Other names are spelled differently, i.e., Ann-Anne, Phebe-Phoebe.
5.Woodson does not cite the parents of the nine siblings; Boddie cites Ludwell Brackett and Ann Elizabeth Cox.
Taken together Woodson and Boddie paint an entirely different picture of the Brackett-Cox family than does the LDS material.I appreciate your posting and I imagine that there must be a definitive study of this family out there somewhere.If not perhaps I'll pursue it.But I'm a Bolling family researcher and I thought I was posing a relatively easy question to the Brackett forum.After all, Ludwell Brackett and Ann Cox were not unknown in their day and I imagine they have thousands of descendants.Is it possible that no one's focused on this family?Thanks again for your response.
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Re: Ludwell Brackett and Ann Elizabeth Cox, Virginia
BETTY KNIGHT 11/12/01
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Re: Ludwell Brackett and Ann Elizabeth Cox, Virginia
Fred Hof 11/13/01
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Re: Ludwell Brackett and Ann Elizabeth Cox, Virginia
BETTY KNIGHT 11/15/01
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Re: Ludwell Brackett and Ann Elizabeth Cox, Virginia
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Re: Ludwell Brackett and Ann Elizabeth Cox, Virginia