Re: A Heady Story
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Re: A Heady Story
Myrl Jeffcoat 12/13/06
I am still in touch with Pat Heady who was slowed by illness but she still has her records and the ability to answer questions.
Nothing is more frustrating than not knowing where we come from and hitting a dead end. We have grown up with the belief."Where there is a will there is a way.". It is not always so that everything can be answered.
I am offended when I see people forcing the isssue with any substanioal evidence to come to a conclusion.
I have a question that I have not been able to answer and have asked many professional genealogist who do not have an answe.
Let me present you with my question(questions)
On one marriage application for Thomas Heady and Rebekah Stillwell we have the printed word spinster marked out and widdow written in. Some have argued the words were interchangeable. I do not think one would bother to marker a printed word out and enter a written word unless it was intentional.
One document is fro, Egg Harbor, N J
Another document shows the bahns in the area of Jersey City. It has both the Name Thomas Heady and Thomas Heddon on this piece of material
We know in looking at New Jersey records that Heady and Heddon appear on documents.
We know that Rebekah Stillwell's family were said to have lived in New Amsterdam. There is a wealth of information about this family in New Amsterdam, then New York. Finally we see them moving into N J. The Dutch Reformed Church kept very good records and there are many books in most public Libraries.. It shows the name transiting from Stilevil to Stillwell.
There are puzzles however! It goes from New Amsterdam to England and Holland. Many Dutch had been exiled during the reign of Louis XIV. In N J there are further records of the Stillwells in the Dutch Reformed Church. When there was not a Dutch Church the Church of choice was the Presbyterian.
We find a Thomas Heady as a member of the Presbyterian Church, I can not say with authority it is our Thomas.
After the move from N J to Pa. We know that Rebecka and her daughter were members of the Baptist Church in what in now Unionville, Fayette co. Pa.
Miriam Eddy and her husband are buried in the cemetery there.
Meriam Eddy father was this Eddy they are purporting to be the father of Thomas Heady.Now if Miriam and Thomas were brother and sister she was his older sister by quite a few years.
How did they arrive at some one bing the father of Thomas/ ??Through conjecture. Not one piece of evidence like a family bible or a will were in evidence.
One young man has written the most document and compelling account of how he thought Marcus Heddon was the father of Thomas. He prsented compelling evidence but did not have the smoking gun. Of all accounts I have read this wasthe best argued on evidence at hand.
y reason for thinking Marcus was probably not the father is thay his name was not handed down. It was like a contagious disease the way Headys handed down names generation after generation. True there wasa Mark heady and a Markle Heady(sometimes spelled Markel) but it does not make a convincing arguement.
One lady wrote about 3 brothers amed Heady coming from France with Lafayette. You say your came from Scotland. Others say theirs came from Ireland.
We do know the first documented Heady was from England.
His name was Richard and he settle in Va in the 1630's. We can draw any conclusion nor connect him to our family anymore than we can discount him.
Wm Penn sold land to a John Heady in England. Whether he came to the New World is unknown
There were heady's in the American Revolution. There was one named Abraham who was in the same outfit asa Nicholas Stillwell. These three Headys can be found where they were kicked out odf N Y and went to Conn. Now to be sure they could be related but we are uncertain..These Headys were officers instead of enlisted men.
However that is 50 years after Thomas was born. They were not Thomas offspring but could they be his nephews?
We have neverbeen able to document that as fact.
It would be a mistake to assume all the Headys are related to one another. We see Headys coming from FRance,England,Ireland and other countries well into the 19th century.
Some of these Headys were in Ill and one was in Ky....most were in N J and N Y
In the 18th century the name is spelled Headdy. In the first half of the 19th century the preferred spelling was Heddy and gradually we saw it become Heady.
My question is what orgin Is the name Heddon? Could they be Dutch, too?
The Coat of arms was for a De Heady(a Norman). in the 13th century De Head became Heady...
I feel these folks are doing a disservice by arbitraily assigned fathers with out proof.
I believe this mystery will be solved.
If you can give me some of your family names and dates, I will check my data base and see if there is a match.
Jim Heady
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