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Please check the Dinwoodie site as well as this one. I've requested that they be merged since they are the same Scottish family!
Here's the history as I have it:
Three (four?) brothers who came here originally from Scotland (some say Ulster, Ireland). The name was Dinwiddie which is Scottish, but there are many derivations even over there.
The three brothers (some say four) Dunwody were:
Robert - who died unmarried
William - went to Virginia & became the ancestors of the VA Dinwiddies
James - died in 1749 in Lancaster County, PA
Jame is the key to all the Dinwiddies/ Dunwoodies I know and am related to. He had five sons, the elder two kept the Dunwody spelling and the three younger JAMES, ROBERT and SAMUEL went to VA and called themselves Dinwiddie (nephews of the William mentioned above). The two elder sons:
Thomas died in 1783 and was a Revolutionary War soldier under Capt. McKinnie
WILLIAM (I have him born in 1747) who married Esther Rankin and was a Presbyterian. Together they had 10 children, the youngest was Samuel, Samuel was a Lt. in the Revolutionary War and Martha McClain and came to east TN about 1783. They had 8 children. One son William (second born, first son) b. 2/19/1787, had 6 children one of which was James McClain Dunwody (second born, first son) b. 9/16/1817 m. Margaret Russell Brown and had twelve children. I have a photo of this couple (he looks like Lincoln!). Their youngest child John Alexander Dunwody/Dunwoody married Elizabeth Ann Davis (related to Nathaniel Greene of Revolutionary War). They had twelve children. I have photo of them and my grandfather Austin (Alston) Hawkins Dunwoody is among them. I've got more, this was compiled by James Dunwoody of Tracy City, TN which I got from my mother Jane Dunwoody, one of four children of Austin.
My cousin Bill Manies and I are especially interested in finding relatives of the last twelve I mentioned.
We have a (believed to be) Cherokee relative in Elizabeth Ann Davis and would like to know if anyone has traced her to a member of a recognized tribe, Eastern Band Cherokee (we think). A job in the Indian Health Service of the Department of Health and Human Services is riding on this.
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