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From: "rford" <>
Subject: Re: Look-Ups
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 02:14:32 -0400
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Great Marci. Thanks.
Robert W. Ford
See my two web sites.
Civil War: www.robert-ford.ws
Genealogy: http://home.cox.rr.com\bobford\index.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marci" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 12:08 AM
Subject: Re: Look-Ups


> Bob,
>
> Give me a couple of days to update my data. I just got some additional
info from my cousin in Azle. She and I are going to raid our aunt's house
when I go out there to visit in early October. There is supposed to be lots
of info on Shropshire in a trunk, but her husband won't share it. My cousin
has some newspaper clippings regarding Shropshire, which she will be sending
me soon. I'll be sure to pass them on!
>
> Marci
>
>
> Marci Shaw Peralez
>
> "If you can't get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well dance with
it." - George Bernard Shaw
> ----- Original Message -----
> From:
> To:
> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 12:24 PM
> Subject: Re: Look-Ups
>
>
> Marci,
>
> I thought your name looked familiar. I would welcome your input. I had
the
> info before, but a virus hit my hard disk and I had to reformat, after
> failing to back up by
> PAF after entering Shropshire's data. I may have a hard copy of his
descent
> somewhere but I have not yet come accross it yet, so all I have is his
> children and fome of their spouses.
>
> Finding the parents of Elijah is a real challange. I know he was in
> Surry/Stokes county by 1785. He was closely associated with a Thomas
Evans
> Sr. and his sons; however he is not Thomas Sr's son; nor do I believe he
is
> the grandson of Nicholas Evans, Thomas Sr's father. I have concluded
that
> they must be related in some fashion. Nicholas apparently came from
Somerset
> county Maryland.
>
> Another clue was the church records from Garrard county which stated
that a
> Pleasant Alverson was a cousin of Elijah. The source of all Virginia
> Alverson's that I can find comes from Richmond county (in the Northern
Neck).
> In the parish of North Farnham, there is an Evans family, Alverson
family,
> and a Taylor family in close association for a hundred years
(1688-1783). The
> Evans and Taylor's intermarried, but I have not yet found the marraige
link
> to the Alverson's which would make Elijah and Pleasant cousins. Peter
Evans,
> who owned the Evans farm in 1688 had three sons. One of thise may have
been
> the ancester of Elijah.
>
> Another clue was the relationship to the Ray family. A descendant of the
> Arden Evans family (who moved to Wilkes county Georgia before the
revolution)
> apparently married into the same Ray family that moved to Garrard
county. I
> suspect that Rebekah may have be a Ray from this family also.
>
> These three Evans families point back to Maryland, and were very likely
> Quakers in their religous beliefs, but like so many of the Quaker faith
in
> the early 1700's changed to Baptists, Methodist and other faiths.
>
> For various reasons, I suspect that the Evans roots go back to the
Eastern
> shore of Virginia. There is a John Evans who appears on the 1624 listing
of
> Virginia inhabitants. He may have been the John Evans who came to
Jamestown
> in 1619. There were also three apparently brothers, Thomas John, and
> Nicholas, who came in 1635. These three may have been the sons of John
who
> came in 1619.
>
> I am currently trying to find hard proof that my theory is correct. It
may be
> well that I may disprove it also; but that is what I am working on.
>
> My snailmail address is:
> 1109 Mill Run
> Allen Texas 75002.
>
> I would welcome any info from anyone concerning Evans' on the Eastern
Shore,
> Northern Neck, the Virginia Blue Ridge, or Wilkes county North Carolina;
> where Elijah lived in 1793 amidst another group of Evans and Ray
families.
>
> Thanks for your response
> Bob Evans
>
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