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Perhaps someone here can help me with this. I've had little response to my requests before about the Moody families of SC so perhaps their just isn't any info about them, but will try again.
I have a recent Ydna match to the Moody's of Darlington Co., SC descending from the John 1 Moody line whose father is sometimes been said Perhaps to have been a James MOODY.
The Marion Co., SC line of Robert Moody is also said to Perhaps be related to this John Moody line but so far No Proof has ever been recovered to solidly support that, that I am aware of. However the two families do seem to appear on Court records together and own properites adjoining each others or nearby (so I've been told).
One of the names that is perplexing me right now however is that of a son named James MOODY b.c1785 (per census estimated years of birth) who doesn't seem to show up in Darlington Co. at all but in Marion Co. (perhaps he is one of the reasons folks believe there is a link between the two lines).
James was said to be a son of John 1 Moody along with other sons John, Jr., Asa and Levi MOODY.
James' wife in the census of 1850 was Jannette (Jeanette).
However, in the 1860 census of Marion, SC, Janette is head of house but a woman named Elizabeth MOODY age 80 b. SC is living with her too. Who was she? I tried to track her back through the Marion Co., SC census' and she appears as head of household I believe as far back as the 1830 census.
Then in the 1820 census are male MOODY's with wives who could be Elizabeth or was Elizabeth a Sister of James b.c1785? I think she was probably a sister-in-law.
Because James' wife Jeanette was about 20 years younger than he was, I am a bit perplexed as to who the wife was married to James MOODY in Marion Co., SC prior to the 1850 census because that James' wife was the same age as he was which would be in keeping with Elizabeth's age as she was in the same age bracket as James.
Could this be a case of a 1st wife living with a 2nd wife and family? It seems unlikely but who knows?
I also noticed that everyone has Jannette as James' 1st wife. If she were 20 years younger than he was, to me the ages of his children make that seem unlikely to me because James' children would be nearly the age of Jannette by 1850 and all I believe had married and children of their own by then.
So I am a bit confused by this James MOODY of Marion Co., SC who was said to be a son of John 1 Moody of Darlington Co.
Supposedly this James Moody died in 1851 and that may be as he is not in the 1860 census as I mentioned earlier Jannette is head of house.
I would also like to add one more time, I have posted this before, but until it is proven otherwise I will go on believing this to be the case...I believe that John 1 Moody of Darlington Co., SC and Robert 1 Moody of Marion Co., SC to be related. Whether or not they are brothers remains to be seen at this time until we have a Ydna match between the Moody lineages.
John was said to have been born around c1750 and Robert around c1745.
I believe these two could very well be sons of Thomas MOODIE and Jean McKENZIE who came to SC bef. Feb. 1772.
Robert had brothers JAMES and JOHN, All 3 of whom were baptized in Nor. Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland.
They also had sisters Ann, Helen (Eleanor/Ellen) and Rachel MOODIE baptized in Scotland. (old parish records taken from the church in which they were baptized on record in the IGI listings at Family Search).
Because the names of Robert, James and John run in both of these families (DArlington and Marion Co., SC Moody families) along with the name of Thomas and other names associated with this Thomas MOODIE of Scotland (whose lineage line I have, he was a son of William MOODIE of Fifeshire, Scotland), and whose lineage line I believe connects to the Benjamin MOODIE and his wife Caroline and their son James Gairden MOODIE of Charleston, SC (found details in old SC Court records from the 1700's and early 1800's), this could be why James Moody was living over in Marion Co. near his Uncle Robert.
There are a slew of clues between these families that I recognize from my several years of researching the MOODIE family of Scotland who came to America.
Thomas MOODIE was a merchant, James Moodie of Charleston was a merchant and later a bank officer.
Thomas Moodie and family moved to Savannah, GA where his daughter Ann married George Houstoun.
Benjamin Moodie's son James Moodie's daughter Caroline married into the CHISOLM family who also came to SC from Scotland (supposedly descended from Alexander Chisolm an early settler in Charleston).
James Moodie and Robert Trail Chisolm (whose middle name suggests a possible link to the TRAILL family to whom the Moodie's also had intermarried relations to back in Scotland and also in Ontario, Canada via James Wedderburn Dunbar MOODIE who married Susannah Strickland, whose sister Catherine Parr Strickland married a Thomas TRAILL.
These Moodie's moved all over the place and I have been studying them for the last several years.
I believe this is our line of descent but cannot for the life of me prove it. This newest Ydna match in Darlington is the closest I've come so far to Possibly seeing a link to them, but again without good genealogy and more Ydna testing we may never be able to set the records straight.
John 1 Moody's son John, Jr. did name 2 sons Hugh and Gilbert Gordon MOODY. These two first names are both very common among the MOODIE family in Scotland. (see The Moodie Book by the Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval publ. 1906 whose mother was a Moodie from the Orkney line)
If anyone can help I would be most greatful.
Thank You.
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