Margaret
was my 4th great-grandmother. She was the daughter of Quakers Joseph
Thornburg and Ann Armfield. The spelling of her surname seemed to
depend on who was recording it. The clerks at some of the Quaker
monthly meetings in North Carolina in the late 1700s used various
spellings:
- Cane Creek: Thornburg, Thornbrugh, Thornborough
- Center: Thornbrough, Thornberry
- New Garden: Thornbrug, Thornbrugh, Thornburgh, Thornbrough, Thornburg, Thornbury
Her
father's will was recorded in 1800 in Guilford County, North Carolina
with the name Thornburg, so this is the spelling I use in my compiled
records.
Many
researchers have stated that her ancestry can be traced many
generations back to noble lines in England. It may be true, but I
don't have any proficiency in that type of research, so won't
speculate.
I do
know that Margaret was one of my "moving ancestors." She
was born in 10 Jan 1767 in Guilford County, North Carolina; moved to
Highland County, Ohio with her husband Stephen Hoggatt/Hockett and
family in 1805; then they moved to Hancock County, Indiana in 1817;
and finally with most of their married children moved to Henry
County, Iowa in the 1830s. It was there that Margaret died in 1843,
after her husband of 53 years had died in 1839.
Margaret
is one of my DNA circles on Ancestry DNA. As of today, 10 Jan 2017,
my DNA matches 21 individuals whose paper trail would include
Margaret as an ancestor. I am amused that Ancestry gives a brief
summary of her life with the DNA Circle and they state that she had
12 sons and 8 daughters. She did have a large family, but my research
shows she had 6 sons and 5 daughters for a total of 11. They all
lived to marry and she had at least 100 grandchildren. So using
conservative sizes for families we could estimate there would be
thousands of descendants alive today, so naturally some of them have
tested their DNA.
See
Margaret on my website:http://www.joanneskelton.com/p18.htm#i434
No comments:
Post a Comment