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Subject: Re: [VIA-L] Re:John Via of Amherst
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 22:52:16 -0600 (CST)
On 02/01/99 23:41:43 you wrote:
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>Hi Eric -
>
>John Via of Amherst is said to have married Mary Powhatan. As far as I know,
>no one has found any documentation for his wife's name. We don't know who his
>father was either, but we do have the names of his children and William was
>one of them. I was just speculating that he may be a son of Amer Via, as no
>other Via we know of seems to fit as his father.
>
>No one knows Amer Via's birthdate. We only know when he arrived in Virginia,
>when his children (some of them) were baptized and when he no longer appears
>in the parish records. I do not accept that we know the name of his wife,
>much less her birthdate. Some people say she was Mary or Margaret from their
>reading of the Parish records, but I do not agree with that interpretation.
>
>Amer's child Nohome Via who died in 1688 would have been "Naomi" in today's
>spelling. It is an old testament name. I think in the Bible Naomi was the
>mother-in-law of Ruth.
>
>Although we don't know John Via's lineage, it seems almost certain that he was
>a descendant of Amer Via, as appear to be all of the Via family in early
>Virginia.
I do have references to Vier and Voyer, all from around that period and some
even earlier.
These names may have been either related or totally different families
and the names Vier/Viar/Vair may have evolved from them. That's part
of the quandry.
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>Edna Barney
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Sue, wading her way through a prolifera of variations
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