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John Durham
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Thomas DURHAM
Born: c. 1696,
Durham, Oxfordshire, England
Died: 1779, Orange, OranCtyNC
Father:
John DURHAM
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Married:
c. 1721, VA
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Margaret LINDSEY
"Peggy"
Born: c. 1702,
Scotland
Died: 1776, Colony of Virginia, British Colonial America
Father: Andrew LINDSEY
Mother:
Elizabeth MILLAR |
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Children:
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1. Thomas DURHAM
Jr. (b. c. 1722, VA or GA)
Children:
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Thomas DURHAM III (b.
7 Aug 1782) |
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2. William
DURHAM (b. c. 1724, VA
or GA)
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3. James
DURHAM (b. c. 1726, VA)
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4. Joel DURHAM (b. c. 1728,
VA)
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5. Nathanael
DURHAM (b. c.
1730, VA)
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6. Joab
Lindsey DURHAM (b. c. 1731, VA; d. 1849,
PulaCtyGA)
Children:
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Margaret DURHAM (b. c.
1788, GA)
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Catherine DURHAM (b. c.
1790, GA)
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Thomas DURHAM (b. c.
1792, GA)
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Jephtha DURHAM (b. c.
1794, GA)
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John W. DURHAM
(b. c. 1796, GA)
- m1. Polly YEARTY
- m2. Mathilda MASON
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Jane DURHAM (b. 1798)
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James DURHAM (b. c.
1800, GA)
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Matthew DURHAM (b. c.
1804, GA)
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Nathanael DURHAM (b. c.
1806)
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Joab DURHAM Jr. (b. 1814)
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Betty DURHAM (b. ?)
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7.
John DURHAM
Sr. (b. c. 1732,
VA; d. 1821)
Children:
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John Durham Sr. moved to
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On the Thomas Durham
webpage web, Descendants of
Thomas Durham by Ford Bond III, it is proposed that Rev. Thomas
Durham was the son of Thomas Durham and Margaret "Peggy" Lindsey.
If the dates I've seen for old Thomas' death are correct (d. 1749), then
he could not have been the father.
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I
need to verify this family. Information NOT COMPLETE!
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8. Jeptha
DURHAM
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9.
Matthew DURHAM
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Thomas Durham arrived in Virginia in 1730 as an immigrant. He was
granted land in Spotsylvania Co, VA. He married Margaret Peggy
Lindsey (b. 1702, Clackmannanshire, Scotland; d. 1776, Colony of
Virginia, British Colonial America.
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Mathew and Thomas Durham
A significant Durham genealogy mystery concerns the relationship
between Mathew Durham and Thomas
Durham (b. 1696; m. Margaret "Peggy" Lindsey). Were they
brothers? Was Mathew a son of Thomas? Their birthdates appear to be about 30
years apart. Thomas and Matthew are said to have been born in England. Then,
the two brothers came over to America together, (of course),
meeting the two lovely Lindsey sisters aboard the ship. They married
once in America.
How will we ever know for sure?
There is, however, one certainty, thanks to new scientific techniques.
Mathew and Thomas were related to each other. This is supported by
not only family genealogy paper evidence and family lore, but more importantly by DNA test
results (see the
Thomas/Mathew group on the Durham Surname DNA Project website
web.) On that
website our group is called "Mathew/Thomas". The DNA test results also
tie in a third Durham ancestor George
G. DURHAM, the father of James Lindsey DURHAM.
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From the Texas group tradition, Thomas came to America in 1721 with a
ship load of young emigrants, many being young married people. James
Allen Durham told his grandson, George William Durham, that Thomas got on
that boat with a large number of other young men and women, thinking
that it was a sight-seeing trip until they were too far from shore to
swim back and were told that they were on their way to America. On the
ship he met, courted and later married a Scotch lass named Margaret
Lindsey, called "Peggy". Family tradition says that she lost her
bonnet overboard and that Thomas told her he would marry her and buy her
a new bonnet.
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I am skeptical about James Lindsay Durham (b. 1761) being a son to Thomas.
James' birth date is more than 30 years after John (b. 1732), but this is proving hard
to uncover, especially with so many accounts that Joab was Thomas' son.
I feel that it is possible that there was a father named Thomas who was
born in 1696, who had a son named Thomas (who married Peggy Lindsey).
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Found this online:
Repository: Name: Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150
www.familysearch.org
Title: International GeneCtyALogical index
Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Note: Record submitted by a member of the LDS Church
Search performed using PAF Insight on 12 Oct 2006
Text: Margaret Lindsey; Female; Christening: 17 MAY 1702 Clackmannan,
Clackmannan, Scotland; Father: Andrew Lindsey; Mother:
Elizabeth MillCtyAR; Film Number: 457763 Page Number: Reference number:
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Page Sources:
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Durham Surname DNA Project
webpage
web.
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Bambi and Ford Bond's
website.
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Ken L. Durham's Book
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Family History Library, Salt
Lake City, Utah.
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Durham Family
Database, Byron Durham online.
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ModLog:
Date of ModLog |
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Description of Changes |
24 Sep 2022 |
Author's upgrade |
Changed county links. |
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Names Added to Name Index: NO
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