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Subject: CHARLES Oldham & wife Sarah of Lunenburg Co., VA 1774
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 14:25:25 EDT

Can anyone on this list indicate the origins of Charles Oldham and his wife
Sarah of Lunenburg Co., VA ca 1774?

Apparently, Charles is somehow related to Leroy Oldham. (It seems to me
that a Leroy Oldham had links to some of the colonial Northern Neck counties of
Virginia. Correct me if I am wrong.) Are these Oldhams linked to those
Oldhams who later migrated to the area around Louisville, KY?

Lunenburg Co., VA Deed Bk 12-362 To Thomas Chambers & Charles Hamlin,
Gentlemen of L[unenburg], greeting. Charles Oldham, by his deed of Jul 7,
1761, sold to Leroy Oldham, 254 acres in L[unenburg]. Sarah Oldham, wife of said
Charles, cannot conveniently travel to our county court to make
acknowledgment of the deed. You are therefore authorized to go to Sarah to receive her
acknowledgment. Signed Jan 7, in the 14th year of our reign - Wm. Taylor. on
Jan 11 [no year mentioned] Sarah acknowledged the deed, and is willing for
it to be recorded. Signed - Thomas Chambers, Chas Hamlin.
The commission and certificate were recorded Jan 13, 1774.

(Source: TLC Genealogy, LUNENBURG COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEEDS, 1771-1777 [Miami
Beach, FL: TLC Genealogy, 1990, p. 55)

(Comment: Unfortunately, TLC Genealogy seems to be no longer in business,
and those of us who search Southside Virginia, and a few other places, are out
of luck.)

E.W.Wallace

(If you use this material, please include the source. Research without
citations is a loss to all of us. That is why there is so much disrepect for
LOTS of material on genealogy websites.)

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