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From: "BJ Hughes" <>
Subject: RE: [TANKERSLEY-L] Re: Richard Tankersley m Nancy Leech/Leek 1798 in VA
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:25:34 -0500
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Thank you for sharing your info with all of us. I have updated our database
and web site with marriages I didn't have recorded at: www.bjhughes.org
thank you
belinda melton hughes
www.bjhughes.org
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Hi, Mary Jo,
According to the 1895 genealogy by Charles W. Tankersley, which has some
major problems but seems to have been pretty accurate on this particular
lineage, the Richard Tankersley who married Nancy Leek was the son of
Richard Tankersley III and Mary Wood of Amherst County, Virginia. Here's a
brief overview of my records regarding Richard and Nancy:
RICHARD TANKERSLEY. Born March 6, 1775. Married Nancy Leek in 1798. Died in
1821.
Children:
Mary Tankersley, 1800, m. Elijah Brown
Rachael Tankersley, 1803, m. Henry Sly
Nancy Tankersley, 1804, m. William Black
John Tankersley, 1807, m. Abbie Eutsler
Julia Tankersley, June 9, 1809, m. (1) a Stanton/Staunton and (2) Franklin
Smeltz
William Tankersley, 1811, m. Susan Staunton
Jane Tankersley, April 10, 1814, m. William Prym
Winston Tankersley, May 17, 1816, apparently never married
Franklin Tankersley, August 6, 1818, m. (1) Dianah Pirkey and (2) Catharine
Mobley
Samuel A. Tankersley, 1821, m. Elizabeth R. Miley
The marriage of Richard Tankersley and Nancy Leek, daughter of Mark Leek,
was recorded on January 2, 1800 in Rockbridge County, Virginia. Some other
records show her name as Ann Sales Leek.
My records are also showing that Richard and Nancy's daughter Rachael
married Henry Sly in Rockbridge County on January 3, 1822, and census
records show that they were still together as late as 1850. I haven't
followed them beyond that point. Was David Mynes by chance a later marriage?
According to the 1850 census, her children by Henry Sly were William,
Rachel, Henry, Jacob, Lucy, Alfred, James and Harvey. I don't know whether
that's a complete list, since the census record is all I have on her
children.
By the way, you'll find a lot of data on the web, copied from that old
genealogy, about the supposed ancestry of Richard Tankersley III. We can
document that he was the son of Richard Tankersley Jr., who is traditionally
accepted as having been the son of Richard Sr. of Caroline County and his
wife Margaret Mathews, but the old genealogy seems to have made some serious
errors when it came to Richard Sr.'s ancestry. Whatever you do, don't pay
any attention to the stuff about descent from the lords of Tankersley
Parish, Yorkshire, because the old genealogy was just plain wrong about
this.
Anyway, I hope this helps.
Harriet
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