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Subject: Re: Corley Connections - Revised
Date: 13 Apr 2006 19:21:28 -0600


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Harriet Imrey is a well-respected professional researcher, a position which she has held for many years. I respect her opinions, even though I sometimes respectfully disagree with her. She is not related to our Corleys, nor our Risingers. However, she has a wealth of knowledge on early South Carolina (she's a walking library :o) and sometimes sheds a light on things for me - when I haven't even thought of it. I was offering a different opinion and opening the subject up for discussion. The first I heard of Christina was a few days ago, so I'm simply in a discovery period.

The word Fraulein in German means Miss. So, she was referring to Miss Black-in. It helps a great deal to understand Germans and their early handwriting and culture when researching our ancestors who came from Germany - especially when trying to decipher old handwritten documents. I've answered a lot of Risinger questions from my correspondence with researchers in Germany.

And what I meant by - she makes a good point - is her statement concerning that Dionysis wasn't in South Carolina until 15 years after Lawrence Corley married Christina, which would mean that she was here before Dionysis - therefore - he could not be her father. Even if Christina was born around the same time Granny Corley was (1770), she still couldn't have been his daughter. Also assuming that if she was closer to Lawrence's age, then she would have been born around 1742 and couldn't possibly have been his daughter.

Proof (or the reason I'm saying this :o)? In looking at the SC Archives Index, the first mention of him:
Date: 1784/11/17
Description: BLAKLEY, DIANATIOUS, PLAT FOR 100 ACRES ON SAVANAH CREEK, ORANGEBURGH DISTRICT, SURVEYED BY PHILIP WATERS.
Names Indexed: BLAKLEY, DIANATIOUS/WATERS, PHILIP/
Locations: ORANGEBURG DISTRICT/SAVANNAH CREEK/CONGAREE RIVER

There has to be an original land grant for this property - UNLESS - he acquired it from his father. There are several Blakely men before him, as early as 1716. So, this places him as first owning land in 1784 - well after the year Christina would have been born.

According to the info from John, Christina died in 1806. If Dionysis was listed in the 1850 census, Christina was not listed in his household since she was already deceased. It's not impossible that HE was living in 1850. If he was, he was probably in his late 90's, considering he acquired land in 1784, when he could have been as young as early 20's. If he were any older in 1784, he would have been 100 years or older in the 1850 census - possible, but not probable. I searched the 1850 Lexington County Census and there is no Dionysis Blakeley (and all spellings) not only in Lexington County, but the state of South Carolina. If there was a revision made to the 1850 Lexington County Census by the Lexington Genealogical Association, there has to be documented proof that this man and his family were left out of the original 1850 census. But, even if there is proof that he was living in 1850, Christina was not - and would not be listed.

Do you have any birth information on Christina? All I have is her death date (November 15, 1806). It would really help me clear up some of the above if you have her birth information. Have you been to her gravesite? I wonder if her stone states when she was born.

Since I just found out that she is also my husband's 4th gr-grandmother, I really would like to know more about her.

-Dana



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