THE FAMILY TREE OF WILLIAM DAINES OF BRISTOL AND NORFOLK
William Daines b. 1617 England m. Phillis BEMBRIGG (7/28/1636) ch=
Sir William Daines b. abt. 1647, Norfolk, VA m. Elizabeth Harris ch= 3 Mary Daines, Anne Daines m. John Shute, who was Lord Barrington, Thomas Daines m. Elizabeth Haskett
Mary Daines b. ? m. John Hoffler and inherited the James River plantation ch=??
Elizabeth Daines m. Lewis Conner ch= Keador Conner; also m. Anthony Lawson; ch=Anne Conner b. 1696 m.George Powell (1697-1736) ch= Moses Powell (1725-1790) m. Mary Williams ch= Moses Powell II (1760-1821) m. Sarah H Maddux ch= William H Powell (1788-1847) m. Elizabeth Parsons (1789-1859) ch=Sarah Powell m. William Lassater ch= Jessie M. Lasseter (1830-1865) m. Sarah Jane Walls ch= Penelope Helen Lasseter (1852-1912) m. Hillyard T. Raughton ch= Moses Taylor Raughton (1882-1925) m. Minnie Lee George ch= Leona Mae Raughton m. Duke Hornsby ch= D. Hornsby m. B. Wright ch= Russell Hornsby Wright (www.hornsbys.org/daines.htm) 22 Feb 2003
As early as October 1668, Sir William Daines was engaged in the shipping business and owned several ships The Lyon and the Betty, and perhaps the Cornwall. He was knighted on November 28, 1694. He was Sheriff of Bristol and seems allied to the lineage of the Jeffries/Hunt/Cooke/Ford Atwood/Batchelder/Rogers/French families in England. He was married to Elizabeth and had a son Thomas Dean, mariner, who also had issue. More to come.
The William Deans Family of Northwestern
Chowan County, North Carolina
By James Elliott Deans Jr.
Last Revised May, 2009
The story told by the following analysis is one of two ancestral threads. The first thread goes forward in time from early 17th century England to just after the American Revolutionary War at Hertford County, North Carolina. The second thread goes backward from the present also to the time soon after the Revolutionary War also at Hertford County, North Carolina. The problem is tying the two threads together with the middle twice burned away due to the loss of Hertford County records to fire-first by an arsonist (literally tried to burn the evidence against him!) in 1832 and again in 1862 by Union forces during the civil war. As will be seen there is some suggestive evidence that might tie this knot but I also hope that other readers of this analysis can perhaps provide additional information on this subject.
The first thread starts with the historical derivation of the Deans surname.
Per a variety of references on surnames [20,21] the “Deans” version has at least three possible sources as follows:
(1) From the Latin "Decanus" a leader of ten men in the Roman army and the source of the ecclesiastical/academic "Dean".
(2) From the Medieval English "Dene" meaning a small valley or dale. This term was in use in some English wills as late as the 17th century as in the "lower Deanes".
(3) Of Denmark e.g. "Danes/Daines/Daynes". These were likely descendants of the Vikings that slaughtered their way across England in the ninth and tenth centuries. They seized the eastern third of England-eventually called the Danelaw and had numerous settlements in England. Over 60% of the English Parish church record references to the Daines et al surname from the early 16th century onward in the LDS Family History Center Locality Index are in Norfolk and Suffolk counties e.g. "East Anglia" on the English coast northeast of London. Most of these existing parish records start in the late 15th and early 16th century. Thus it is likely that the surname originated in that region several centuries before. A number of "Danish" settlements are said to have been in present day East Anglia and York areas by references on the history of the Vikings [eg 23]. See also Figure 1 below. Most of the Viking invasions into eastern England are believed to have originated in Denmark whereas the invaders into north Scotland presumably came primarily from the Norway area.
There are references to the surnames "Danemundus"(Norfolk) or "(Turchillus) Danus" (Huntshire-two shires west of Norfolk) in the Domesday Book ca 1086.
Figure 1. Anglo-Saxon England 830 AD Showing Danish Settlement Areas
Y Chromosome analysis can be used to partially test the Danes descent hypothesis by determining the migration haplogroup of the author whose surname presumably (assuming no false paternities or unknown adoptions) descends from these Danish settlements through the male line to be analyzed. Haplogroups are determined by DNA analysis via detection of certain mutation sets carried by the Y-chromosome (passed down only through the male line)and reveal ancient ancestral migration patterns depending upon which mutations occurred. Three mutation set haplogroups specifically R1b, I and R1a are considered to be the source of most of today’s European population[40,42]. See Table 1 below. The author’s haplogroup is R1b which means the Danish descent hypothesis is possible since about 39% of Denmark’s current male population is R1b. Since Haplogroup I is also about 39% of the current male Danish population “the Danish descent hypothesis is possible” is about all that can be said with certainty. Further data refinements may help in the future.
Figure 2. Haplogroups R1b, I and R1a Locations during the Last Ice Age
The population shown in present day Spain was mostly R1b and after the ice began melting that population migrated[40] over many generations up the coast to England, Scotland, Ireland and a little east further up the European coast. A land bridge from Europe to England was present then(not shown on this map) that later submerged as the seas rose following the ice age. R1b migration also went north and further east including some up the coast to the Denmark area as mentioned. Haplogroup I, north of Greece migrated primarily up to Germany, Denmark and also into Norway. Haplogroup R1a, north of the Black Sea moved up predominately into Norway, Eastern Europe, Ukraine, Russia and western Asia although some also made it to present day Denmark.
Later migrations and invasions no doubt caused some further intermixing of the three Haplogroups. See Table 1 next, a survey of modern male populations. The sample size is only 1772 so there will probably be further refinements as more data is collected. Presumably these modern males thought they descended from “natives” although they cannot be sure of course.
Male Haplogroup R1b I R1a Other
Norway 30% 28% 34% 8%
Germany/Denmark 39% 39% 12% 10%
Scotland 80% 10% .02% 10%
Ireland 90% 7% 0% 3%
Basque(NW Spain) 89% .02% 0% 10%
Table 1-Converted from “A Y Chromosome Survey of the British Isles”. A Capelli et al. Current Biology Vol 13 May 27, 2003.
Surnames began to be used in England shortly after the Norman Conquest of 1066 and were essentially in universal English use by the early 16th century. The variety of "Deans" appropriate for this genealogy is probably derived from the "Daynes/Daines" source above based on the following analysis. For the record the surname "Daines" had substantially converted to "Deanes"(later to "Deans") by the middle of the 19th century in England. As will be seen below the line followed in this analysis converted from “Daines” to “Dean(e)s” in the middle of the 18th century in America.
Surname Ancestor Birth Location ______ Spouse _____ Death
(1) William Daynes b1617 England m7/28/1636 Phillis Bembrigg d1687
Some of this information is per Mrs. Alice Granberry Walter's "Daynes, Conner, Lawson, Walke, Thorowgood and Sayer Connections"[5]. There is also a record [1] from Stepney, Saint Dunstan Parish church( Figure 3 below) (2-3 miles east northeast of London in the early 17th century) of the marriage of a William Daynes/Phillis Bembrigg on July 28, 1636. This entry indicated William Daynes was then a "mariner" and lived in Ratcliff (now named Limehouse) parish south of Stepney. As a seaman, Ratcliff (on the Thames) was likely a convenient low living cost(known then as a disreputable slum) residence area while William was not at sea and may not have been where he was born.
Figure 3. St. Dunstan’s Stepney, London 1997.
Figure 4 below gives some idea of the appearance of the Tower of London at the time the William Daynes parental family was living in England ca 1600. As a seaman William Daynes undoubtedly saw this Tower from the Thames numerous times in his sailing career.
As historical time markers note that Queen Elizabeth I of England died in March, 1603. Her successor James I died in 1625 and William Shakespeare died in April, 1616. Charles I assumed the throne and then became involved in the great rebellion of 1640-1660 that temporarily ended the rule of kings and queens in England. Charles I was defeated at Naseby, England in June of 1645 by which time William Daynes was already in the Virginia Colony of the American continent along with his wife of nine years-Phillis.
Figure 4. Tower of London in 1597.
The consistent and unusual spelling of Daynes (usually and variably spelled Danes or Daines at that time) found in most of his records indicates William Daynes' probably spelled out his name to the appropriate clerk for his marriage at Stepney, England and other records later in the Virginia Colony. Thus he was at least able to spell/read at some level at the age of about nineteen years. He also later became an attorney[3]in the Virginia Colony certainly confirming his literacy. He was likely a junior son of some English family who had the resources to provide an education for their children. However since William evidently would not inherit land to justify staying home (if any it probably went via primogeniture to the eldest son) he took to the sea, saw Norfolk, Virginia Colony in his travels, then later decided to quit the sea and move himself and then his new wife to Norfolk, Virginia. There as we shall see he quickly solved the lack of land problem.
William Daynes became a tobacco planter in Norfolk around 1645. Phillis arrived in June 1645 with William apparently already present per Richmond, Virginia land records [2]. He is granted 400 acres of land on the "Eastward side of the mouth of Bullock Creek down to the main (James) River" in Lower Norfolk County on April 26, 1646 for transportation of eight people including himself and Phyllis [27]. Bullock Creek was then the border between Nansemond and Norfolk Counties and eventually in the 20th century became the border line between the cities of Suffolk and Portsmouth and is now the north flowing creek this line follows before it enters the James River NW of Portsmouth. This creek was later renamed Hoffler Creek probably for the husband of William Daynes’ daughter Mary who was willed the original William Daynes’ plantation per his 1687 will as Mary Hoffler.
At Norfolk he became an attorney as well as continued as a tobacco planter and eventually a Norfolk County Court Commissioner in 1655(appointed by then Governor Edward Digges along with William's presumed brother Thomas Daynes). During this time he is often referenced in the Lower Norfolk County Court Records[3,44]. While most are just various court cases some records give us a glimpse of William himself.
At a court deposition he makes in June of 1657 William describes a sea captain named Lockers who evidently had serious problems during his voyage to the Norfolk area and seemed to have gone ashore near William Daynes’ house as this Captain Lockers arrives at William’s house along with a group of other people in starving condition. While not mentioned explicitly William presumably fed them and was also present when some of the people bound to Captain Lockers as payment for their voyage had their indentures sold to a Samuel Stolton. Additionally one of the indentured people died a few days later at William’s house presumably due to the difficult voyage and William wants to insure this matter is known by the court and so recorded.[44,p81]
In November of 1660 and again in December of 1661 William Daynes is fined 50 pounds of tobacco for swearing in “open court” this being against a “former ordinance of ye county court”.[44,p271,p344]
In August of 1661 William Daynes tenure as a court commissioner comes to an abrupt end as a result of the Governor of Virginia(William Berkeley) hearing of William’s “scandalous entertaining and living with Sarah wife of Thomas Watson and keeping her from her husband”. This event also got him arrested and fined 1000 pounds of tobacco. The last related record comment indicates that William did “humbly request that the governor suspend him from court duties.”[44,p308]
Presumably his first wife Phillis has died or left him prior to the events described in August of 1661 or perhaps even earlier as in January of 1654 there is a court note that William Daynes is to no longer “entertain” the then unnamed wife of Thomas Watson.[44,p3]
By October of 1663 William was evidently considered to have suffered enough embarrassment as the Governor then reinstated him as a Norfolk County Commissioner.[44,p479]
During and after this period William continues to acquire substantial additional Norfolk and almost certainly Nansemond County land acreage by paying for indentured servant transportation thus receiving 50 acres "headright" for each person brought over plus their labor for three to seven years. William Daynes shows up several times in the early Norfolk County court records [3] for this reason. Per the titheable lists [6,7,8] of Norfolk County, Virginia all the currently known Norfolk Daynes/Daines/Deanes/Deans et. al. lived in this Western Branch precinct location until the late 1700's probably as a result of William Daynes' success in acquiring land in that area that passed to his descendants. It should also be noted that one of the Virginia Nansemond River’s upper(to the south as the Nansemond flows north) east side creeks is named “Deans creek” today. A likely reason would be a farm on the banks of that creek that was established by one of William Dayne’s descendants on some of his early headright grant land many years ago.
Children ("Daynes, Conner, Lawson, Walke, Thorowgood and Sayer Connections"[5])
William (b before 1671 assuming >16 in 1687) m Mary ?
Mary (b before 1673) m by 1687? (at least 14?)John? Hoffler and inherited the original James River plantation. This marriage is probably why Bullock Creek is now called Hoffler Creek.
Surname Ancestor Birth Location ______ Spouse ___ Death
(2)William Daines b<1671, Norfolk County, VA m Mary ? dca1717
Source-Genealogist Alice Granberry Walter incorrectly deduced that (Sir) William Daines minor stepson of Captain James Harris(mariner) of Norfolk, VA and later of Bristol, England was the son of William Daynes[5]. This conjecture has been disproved by the later discovery of Sir William’s will [37] filed in England. (Sir) William was evidently born in Norfolk, Virginia Colony along with his possible sister Elizabeth Daynes whose father is as yet unknown. (Sir) William went to England with his stepfather and later via the tobacco trade enhanced his career all the way to Sheriff of Bristol and then Member of Parliament representing Bristol. In fact Sir William is the only known MP that was born in the original continental American colony.
Given that the 1687 will of William Daynes (Deanes) identifies a son William that we now know is not “Sir William” then the William so identified as the decedent in the will probated 1717 in Norfolk Colony, Virginia is most likely the son of our William Daynes due to the significant Western Branch Norfolk and Nansemond county property holdings indicated.
Per Norfolk County records this William Daines was also an attorney and planter as was his surmised father.
Children ("Daynes, Conner et. al. Connections"[5],"Powell Family Genealogy"[24])
Henry Daines (Inherited Nansemond county land per 1717 will)
Francis (Inherited the Norfolk county land per 1717 will)
William Deans Jr (of late 18th century Norfolk-see ca 1758 Norfolk deed-Francis to William Deans)this William (Jr) was a shipwright.
Elizabeth?-her first husband’s will indicates she is the daughter of a William Daines but which one?.
John (children see generation 3 below)
Joseph
Richard
Thomas
Mary
(3)John Dain(e)s b <=1700 Norfolk County, VA m ? d >1733
Source-William Daines 1717 will and Mrs. Walter's monograph.
There is also a record of John Daines being the father of a James Daines in Mrs. Elizabeth Wingo's "Norfolk County Tithables" list of 1730[6]. Unfortunately there were two James Daines in that 1730 and later lists up to about 1750. The James Daines(Jr.) son of John is about 10-15 years younger than the older James(Sr) since the Sr has a tithable listed and thus Jr is more likely to have a son born ca 1736 which is when John’s presumed grandson Daniel Daines/Deanes below was born. The older James Daines is called "Sr" in later tithable lists relative to the younger "Jr.". In the 18th century "Sr/Jr" were not necessarily in the same households but "Sr/Jr" was used as an identifier by age for people with the same name in the same area. John Daines is not on record as owning any land in Norfolk County.
Children("Norfolk County Tithables, Vol. I", Thomas Bruce Norfolk will)
James Daines(bca1714) m Diana Bruce
John (bca1715)
(4)James Daines(Jr.?) b ca1714 Norfolk, VA m<1737 Diana Bruce d 1767/1782
Source-As previously mentioned John Daines is listed as the likely father of a James in the early 1730 Norfolk tithable lists. Diana Bruce was married to one of the two James Daines in Norfolk as of 1737 per the will of her father Thomas Bruce (Sr)[4]. The surviving (or remaining?) James Daines (in Norfolk ca 1760) and father of Daniel Daines/Deanes below witnessed the will of Thomas Bruce (Jr) 15 March 1760 indicating a close relationship with the Bruce family and thus the likelihood that Diana Bruce is the mother of Daniel Deanes below. James Daines was then living on Thomas Bruce (Sr)'s plantation per Thomas Bruce's will. James Daines is not on record as owning any Norfolk County land.
Children ("Norfolk County Tithables Volumes I and II”)
Daniel Daines/Deanes (bca1736) m Judith Perry?
Thomas (bca1747)
(5)Daniel Daines/Deanes bca1736 Norfolk County, VA m Judith Perry? d 1790/1800 in Hertford county, NC
Source-Norfolk County, Virginia Colony tithable list taken 6/10/1753[7p61] showing Daniel with James in the north side of the Western Branch tithable area. A 1751 preceding list showed only James[7p20]. Thus it is likely that Daniel was James' son and turned tithable age-16 yrs old ca 1752. Note in an analysis of Daniel’s children below it appears that Daniel’s first son is named James-probably after Daniel’s father. This is the LAST time the "Daines" spelling is ever used for the currently known Norfolk Virginia tithable lists. Daniel and James are converted (probably by the tithable listing agent) to "Dean(e)s" spelling for later tithable lists.
A Daniel Deanes is in the 1768-1770 Hertford County, NC taxlist of William Murfree[17], another taken in 1779 and finally in the 1790 Hertford County, NC census but not in the 1800 census. Furthermore Volume III of “Norfolk County Tithables”[8p16] lists Daniel for the last time in Norfolk in 1767 and he shows up next in the 1768 Hertford County tax list of William Murphree. This is strong evidence that the Norfolk Daniel and the Hertford Daniel are the same. A Judith Deanes is in the 1800 Hertford, NC census with the right age and a couple of older children for Daniel's widow. Furthermore listings from “Bible Records of Nansemond County”[18] name Daniel/Judith Deans as parents of a Mary Deans who married a McClenny-actually two first Elijah and after Elijah’s 1804 death then James McClenny. Thomas Deanes, the sheriff of Hertford County in 1800-1813, is the son of Daniel Deanes per Benjamin Winbourne's "History of Hertford County"[9]. Sheriff Thomas named a daughter Judith Perry perhaps after his mother although note that her mother Susan was a Perry as well. Additionally both the names of Henry and Thomas Best who are in the 1790 Hertford County NC census near William Deanes are also in the 1765 Norfolk County Western Branch Tithables list which is yet another tie back to Norfolk County, VA.
Judith’s maiden surname is believed to be Perry per Mrs. Katheryn Carter’s research due to the middle name of one of Judith’s grandsons. If true this appears to be the beginning of a long association by marriage (continued into the 20th century-Pauline Elliott Deans m Stephen Toeniel Perry ca 1925 Chowan County, NC generation 9 below, Balinda Deans married Turner Perry 1850) of the Perry and Deans families of northeastern North Carolina and Norfolk, Virginia. Whether Judith was born and/or married in Norfolk, VA or Hertford, NC Counties is unknown at present.
One final note-per Norfolk County land records and the 1767 tithable list-Daniel Deanes did NOT own any land in Norfolk and was evidently a tenant farmer thus a motive to migrate to Hertford County where he could evidently acquire land-in fact 300 acres per his 1779 Hertford County tax valuation.
Children("The Colonial and Political History of Hertford County" by Benjamin Winbourne[9] and material of Boone Crowder great-grandson of Sheriff Thomas[33]. "Bible Records of Nansemond County"[10] for Mary. An 1817 lost heirs suit[28] establishing Mary McClenny(Deans), Matthias Deans et al(other unnamed Deans then in Hertford County), William Deans and Elizabeth Carr(Deans) as highly probable then living heirs of Daniel Deans. The Hertford will of Issac Carter of 1844 mentions land purchased from Daniel and James Deans.)
James Deanes (bca1755-1765 Norfolk?. d Hertford bef1815 m Celia ?) Likely named for Daniel’s father. Hertford Tax list of 1815 mentions his estate. Hertford 1800 census shows zero male children. Children below guesstimated per process of elimination ie could not find info they belonged to anyone else. Of course these Deans could also have been descendents of other Deans moving later into Bertie/Hertford County than Daniel.
Thomas Jefferson (Coachmaker) b1812.
Peterson bca 1810. In Bertie County 1830 census.
William bca 1810. In Bertie County 1830 census.
Both these last two brothers married Wilkes sisters and moved to Tennesee.
Thomas (b bef 1770 d July 30,1830) m 1st ? Ward, 2nd Susan Perry-
Hertford County Sheriff 1800-1809, NC General Assembly 1815, 1816, NC State Senate 1821,
Michael Ward Deanes(1st marriage) bca1790 m Mary Jenkins ca1810 d1841,
Three children per Boone Crowder-currently unknown although Peterson and William above are possibilities given the 20 year old Michael in 1810.
Thomas Deanes Jr(1st) no issue,
Sarah/Sallie Ann Ward(1st) m Thomas Barnes-Hertford County, Christiana Susan(1st) m William Bartelle Wise d >1830,
James Daniel Deanes(2nd) b1819 d1835,
Judith Perry(2nd)b1824 m Rueben Jones d1862,
Ann Elissa(2nd) b1826 m John E Maget d1894
Mary (b4/1/1775) m 1st Elijah McClenny d ca1804 and then brother James.
William (bca1760 d1800/1810) m Penelope Hare per Katheryn Carter.
James Perry Deanes b1802, David Dickenson, Priscilla, Martha
Deans. The Perry middle name of James is the source of the speculative maiden surname of his mother Judith. Widow Penelope and family moved to Maury County, Tennessee ca 1810/1817.
Matthias bca 1772 d1840/50) m 1st ? Perry? m 2nd Mary ?.
Children-see generation 6 below.
Elizabeth (d <1817) m ? Carr
(6)Matthias Deanes bca1772 Hertford? County, NC m1st? m2nd Mary ? d 1840/1850
Source-Matthias is in the 1800 through 1840 Hertford census but not 1850 thus the death date estimate. In the 1850 Hertford census there is a Mary Deans in the Thomas Deans household that seems likely to be the widow of Matthias. This Mary is too young to be the mother of William(generation 7 below) and is probably a later wife of Matthias Deanes.
The census of Hertford County 1800-includes Matthias, Jesse, James, William and Thomas Deanes as head of household. Per this census the number of household male children less than 10 years of age at that time was as follows:
Matthias 3
Thomas 3
Jesse 2
William 1
James 0
We are now looking for a son named William born 1799 in the above list derived from our Deans' ancestral thread going back in time from the present.
In the 1810(Our William should then be 10-11) census of Hertford county for males [10-16 years] we find:
Matthias 1 Our William Deans? Where is William’s brother Thomas b1807?
Thomas 1 Thomas Deans Jr? (Not the Thomas b1807 above)
Penelope (Hare) 2 Widow of the 1800 William Deanes-James Perry Deans?, David Dickenson Deanes?
James 1 One of Jesse Deanes' children? maybe Jesse Jr.?,
Petersen or William Deans Bertie census 1830?
Note that James Deanes had no sons under 10 in 1800 thus James is unlikely as William's father since he certainly would seem to have known about an infant male born in 1799. Also this implies that the 1 male in 1810 above may not have been born to James Deanes.
From Benjamin Winbourne's and Boone Crowder’s research [9,33] there are no surviving William's mentioned in Sheriff Thomas Deanes' family (Benjamin Winbourne's brother married the granddaughter of Sheriff Thomas Deanes and thus Benjamin Winbourne is likely to possess some reliable Deans family information. Mr. Boone Crowder is a direct descendant of the Sheriff) nor were there likely any in William/Penelope Deanes' family per Mrs. Katheryn Carter's (a descendent of Penelope through her son James Perry Deans) research showing Penelope moved to Maury County, Tennessee with the children mentioned prior to 1817. That leaves Matthias and Jesse (1800) with Matthias the most likely with 3 versus 2 males of the right age. Since Jesse Jr. was also a "well respected"[28] Sheriff there would seem to be a namesake in further family names that we do not see in later lines or occurrence of some family "sheriff" stories had Jesse been the father of William Deans. Unfortunately there are also no Matthias or Matt namesakes in our later generations either.
There is also a suggestive though tenuous tie from William Deans generation (7) below to this Matthias Deanes. In 1864 while both William and his wife Rachel are still alive their youngest son William D. Deans/Martha Ann Will(i)ford (then probably living with William/Rachel Deans) have their first son b1864 and name him Joseph Perry Deans perhaps influenced by a long ago prior neighbor named Joseph Perry-three households away from Matthias Deanes in the 1810 Hertford census and thus fairly close by when William Sr would have been 11 years of age. Since William's wife Rachel Taylor was not apparently closely related to the Perry's a possible connection may be the currently unknown 1st wife of Matthias Deanes. In both the 1820 and 1830 William Deans census entries there was an older woman living with them however Matthias still has a female >=45 with him as well in 1820 so this older female with William remains unknown.
The 1815 Hertford tax list lists both Matthias and Issac Taylor together in Captain Rawls district indicating they owned land relatively close together. Matthias is on record for 270 acres of land in 1815.
Rebecca Deanes Wiggins is 53 in the 1850 Hertford census and Matthias has the only Hertford female Dean(e)s in the 1820 Hertford census of this age bracket assuming she was born to a Hertford Dean(e)s head of household.
Children (Process of elimination removing from 1800 Hertford Census head of household list-Thomas, William, James and maybe Jesse leaving Matthias plus the probable 1810 census match of Joseph Perry to the 1864 William Deans' grandson named Joseph Perry Deans, Also the 1840 Hertford census has Matt(hias) and Thomas Deans (NOT the old sheriff who had died by then) directly adjacent. Material of James Milligan a descendant of Thomas Deans b1807)
Rebecca Deanes (b1797) m William Wiggins and lived in the Maney's Neck
area. Her birthdate potentially implies Matthias as a father after census analysis.
Joseph, Mary, Susan, Judith, Mariah and Cornelius
William (b1799) m ca1815 Rachel Taylor
Children-see generation (7) below.
Thomas (b1807) m Harriet ? (b ca1813) lived in Hertford County directly adjacent to Matthias in 1840 census(Southern Township).
Thomas J (b1845), James Miles (b1847), Ellen J (b1846), Arabella
(b1849), Joseph(b1/1853), A. J.(Alfred(/1870 census) J? b1857)
Thomas J Deans(b1846) m 1/18/1872 Rachel Caroline Piland
W Joseph Deans
Jeff, Joe Deans
James Thomas Deans b10/3/1873 m Genie Frances Wilder b2/6/1886
Rachel Malinda b 9/2/1907 m Joseph Earnest Milligan b 10/30/1906
Elizabeth Mollie(Hannah) Deans
Ella Blanche
Lula Etta
Eva Louise
Charles J Deans
John, Earl, Barnes, Tom, Lynwood, Robert Jack, Stella & Nancy
Joseph Deans(b 1/1853 Hertford d ca 1915 Chowan?) m1st daughter of Jendia O. Northcut b4/1842, Dick Julius Deans b 10/1889, Frank R. Deans b 4/1887.
Joseph Deans m2nd Amanda Elizabeth White
William Clarence Deans(b 10/1895), Pattie Deans(b 2/1900), Rose Deans(b 1901), Mary Deans (b1902), Annie Bell Deans(b3/25/1904) m Joseph Allen Smithwick, Claude Joseph Deans(b11/24/1897) m Pearl Cornelia Kelley
Lily Belle Deans(b3/5/1925), Claude Joseph Deans Jr (b9/15/1927)
Lily Belle Deans m Hiram Eugene Humphrey and lived in Fort Worth, Texas. Lily died in 2001.
Surname Ancestor Birth Location ______ Spouse _____ Death
(7)William Deans b1799 Hertford County,NC mca1815 Rachel Taylor d 6/1865
Source-William Deans' census data showing a William as head of household and an older woman living with him and his younger presumed wife in 1820(Hertford) and 1830(Bertie County, NC-as Willy Deans-the first name in the 1830 Bertie county census). It should be noted that William and his presumed father Matthias were only two pages apart in the 1820 Hertford census(William-p186, Matthias-p188). William is in the Chowan census in 1840, 1850 and 1860. He is then located on land, purchased in 1833 from William McFarlane(Rachel’s uncle-former Taylor land) and more land purchased in the early 1840's[29] from the Welch family of Gates and Chowan County, in the far northwestern part of Chowan County. This land is bordered on the west by the Chowan river and the north by Catherine creek per the intestate filing land description of William Deans' estate in 1865. William paid over $1000 for the Welch land and a likely source for the money may have been the estate of Matthias Deans who died in 1840/1850. Unfortunately due to the Hertford courthouse fires no records seem to exist to confirm this theory but it is a logical manner in which William could have obtained about $1000 in 1841.
William Deans is unusually consistent about his age in the census entries for the early to mid 1800's probably because he only had to add one to the current year to figure it since he was evidently born in 1799.
A problem with the 1830 Bertie census entry is that it should show a male entry for our Thomas Deans(generation 8 below)in the male under 10 age group and two females for Thomas' sisters Winnie Malinda and Irene Deans in the female under 10 age group but it does not have such entries. This could be a mistake (entries left out during transcription?), the younger children may have then been visiting some other family or this could be the wrong William Deans. They are not present in Issac Taylor’s 1830 Hertford census entry. The reason for the omissions are unknown at this time.
William Deans(Sr) was likely a tenant farmer in Bertie County since he is not on record as owning any land in Bertie. There is a family story, per my uncle Richard Deans, about "His Grandfather Deans" (story told relative to Richard's father James Edward Deans generation 9 below whose grandfather would be this William). That William presumably had a "big corn farm on the river by Colerain that became a Confederate base and later where the showboat landed that was called Colerain Beach" that is consistent with this census data.
William Deans had moved to Chowan County by 1833 per his youngest son William D. Deans' civil war records [25]-"born(1833 per later census records)in Chowan County". He is also on record as buying 250 acres of land(Chowan County Deed book K2, p672)in Chowan County Jan 28, 1833 from William McFarlane-Rachel’s maternal uncle. The deed indicates William Deans was resident in Chowan at that time so he probably arrived in Chowan no later than late 1832.
The 1840 Chowan census of William Deans shows four male children and two female children. This is the first recorded census listing of the Deans surname in Chowan County. The 1870 will of his wife Rachel indicates only three survived to 1870 or that some of the 1840 entries may have been children of Rachel's relatives or others living in the family home. Rachel is listed as keeping house in the 1850 census with William, our Thomas and Thomas' brother William Deans (Jr). The William (Jr) is known to be William Daniel Deans per later census and estate records. Bonds contained in the NC Archives indicate William Sr. was probably a constable for Chowan County in the 1841-1847 time period.
Per Issac Taylor Sr's 8/1834 Hertford will [a few survived the fires-30] Rachel Deanes is the first daughter of Issac Taylor Sr. Issac Taylor's wife maiden name is believed to be McFarlane. The 1850 Chowan census entry for our William and Rachel also includes a listing for an Adaline McFarlane a cousin of Rachel's if her mother was a McFarlane. Note also that Issac Taylor's 1810 Hertford census entry is only two pages away from that of Matthias Deanes reinforcing our theory that Matthias Deanes is William Deans' father.
William’s family survived the civil war reasonably well based on the 1865 inventory of William’s estate. His home location on the eastern side of the Chowan river was in a dangerous area with neither Union nor Confederate forces really in control in Chowan or Gates counties during the war. In such a lawless situation gangs of raiders, deserters and criminals often preyed on isolated farm families. There was one such gang, the infamous Chowan “Buffaloes” headquartered just about four miles down the Chowan river from William Deans’ farm. Their leader, John A.(Jack) Fairless, was related to Rachel through the McFarlane line (she was Jack’s first cousin once removed) and this relationship plus some well armed male children, eg William Jr. and Thomas, may have kept the family relatively unscathed during the civil war.
There is as yet no info on William’s(b1799) mother. In the 1850 census there is a Mary, who may be Matthias widow, living with William’s presumed brother Thomas Deans of Hertford but she is too young to be Williams’ mother. Given their first son Noah’s middle name of Perry there is some chance his mother’s maiden surname was Perry. Thus the older woman living with William Deans in 1820 and 1830 may have been a Perry surname aunt?
William Deans died intestate in Chowan County before mid 1865 per his estate records[11].
Rachel died in 1870 with her Chowan will[12] probated in November 1870.
Children (William Deans' 1850 Chowan census, intestate estate papers, Rachel Dean's 1870 will, Chowan deed to Noah P. Deans 1/2/1842, 1870 Bertie census entry for Turner Perry, Recorded interview with Mrs. Elma Bunch Reddick taken in 1934, Information of Alan Massie great grandson of William D. Deans).
Noah Perry Deans(b bef 1820-see Bertie Census 1830 d <2/1843)
Noah purchased 300 acres of "land" from William G. Welch for a total of $10.00 per the deed [29] with the location at the corner of the Chowan River and Catherine Creek which was the swamp portion of the William (b 1799) Deans' farm per later estate filings. The deed was registered at the Chowan County court 2/1845 after Noah’s death. Per Noah’s estate records administered by his father and filed 2/1843 Noah was due $50 from the common school superintendent and thus was probably a school teacher.
Thomas T.(Taylor?)(b ca1823) m 1/1852 Mary Frances Howell of Gates
Children-see generation (8) below.
Winnifred(Winnie) Malinda(b ca1830 nicknamed Balinda) m 1850 Turner Perry and lived in Colerain, Bertie County NC. Probably named for her paternal grandmother Winnifred Taylor/Carter. Winnifred Taylor appears to be a daughter of Kindred Carter of Edgecombe county, NC. If true this would tie Rachel Taylor into President Jimmie Carter’s line that moved later into Georgia.
Amelia (Milly) Perry(b1850)
Caroline Perry(b1852)
Annie Perry(b1855)
Jacob Perry(b1862)
Phillip Perry(b1864)
William Perry(b1868)
Irene ?(b1825-1830 d <=1850) mentioned in Mrs. Reddick's interview.
William Daniel.(b5/1833, d7/1907) m Martha Ann Will(i)ford and lived north of Thomas T. Deans on the original Chowan William Deans farm probably in William's(b1799)old house.
Joseph Perry Deans(b4/27/1864, d5/12/1945) m7/17/1894 Annie Laurie Cross-was a partner in Colerain, Bertie County, NC with William Miles Deans generation (9) below. Joseph was called “Perry” Deans.
Irma Leigh Deans b7/1895 m William Taylor Lineberry.
William Taylor Lineberry Jr lives in Southern California.
Nell Laurie Deans m Alvin J. Eley
Nell Deans Eley m Andre Evans and lives in Virginia Beach, VA
Annie Elizabeth Deans m Clifton E. Wade
Ann Cross Wade m ? Cameron and lives in Raleigh, NC
William Judson(“Juddie”) Deans(b1863) in Gates census married to Maggie A Russell?(middle name of 1st daughter)in 1900. William not in Gates census in 1910 while rest of family is in the census. William died <1910?
Bertha Russell Deans b1898
Bessie Lee Deans b1898
Belle Maggie Deans b1900
Alice Cary Deans b1902
Richard Judson Deans b1902
Lula Thelma Deans b?
Virginia Clifford Deans(b1868) m John Ephrain Goodwin
Ada, Madoc, Terry and Virginia Goodwin.
Louvenia?(1880 census illegible) A. Deans(b1872) m William Hurdle
Martha Sarah(“Pattie”) Deans (b March 1, 1878 Hobbsville,
NC d Feb 9, 1973) m Joseph Hunter Fairless
Martha Sarah, Evelyn ?,Inez Welch, William Deans
Surname Ancestor Birth Location ______ Spouse _____ Death
(8)Thomas T(aylor?) Deans bca1824 Hertford?,NC m1/1852 Mary Frances Howell dbef 12/1887
Source-1850 census preceding showing Thomas with the above William and Rachel. Rachel Deans' will filed in Chowan County dated 7/7/1870(signed) indicates Thomas Deans was her eldest living son at that time. A marriage bond exists for Mary Howell/Thomas Deans filed in Gates County NC and dated 1/15/1852. It is witnessed by a W. G?. Daughtey? who would normally be a member of the bride's family implying that her family may not have been available. A copy of a Gates County will for a Miles Howell dated in 1839, probated 1840, lists a Mary Frances Howell as a minor child with no mother/wife named in the will thus an indication both of Mary's parents may have been dead by the time she married. Based on Gates county marriage records Mary Frances Howell's mother should be Mary “Cross(unknown maiden name)” widow of Elisha Cross d1823 Gates[43] and Miles Howell, evidently of Nansemond County VA, were married [14] in July, 1825 in Gates County, NC. Elisha Cross was murdered in Gates county in late 1823[43 date].
Note the middle name below of Mary’s first son William Miles Deans.
Chowan County estate records [11] filed 10/1889 show Thomas Deans' died intestate. Marriage records for his daughter Ella indicate Thomas was dead by her wedding in 12/1887. Mary F. Deans (Sr) is living with her son Jasper Leroy Deans in Chowan County in the 1900 census but not in the 1910 census. Her son James Edward Deans marriage license indicates Mary is living in Wilkes(certainly with or near son James Edward Deans) county by his marriage in July 1901. Mary is also present at the Chowan wedding of her son James Edward Deans in 1901. Mary had a daughter Fannie M. Deans per the 1889 estate records. This daughter was listed as Mary F. Deans in the 1880 census. Fannie is a nickname for Frances and thus she was probably named after her mother thus another source for the “Frances” for Mary F. Howell.
Children (1870 and 1880 Chowan census lists, Material of Martha Beuhla Lynch (Cross), family history data of Thomas Deans[39], family history data of Gerald(Jerry) Elliott Deans[45]):
William Miles Deans(b12/29/1852, d1/19/1917) m Gatcie E. Cross (dca1897)
Mary Virginia Deans (bc1894, d1985) m1922 Edgar Lee Stokes
Edgar Lee Stokes Jr.-died 12/2007 in Colerain, Bertie County
Thomas J(efferson?)(b 1855, d >9/1889 <2/1921-not a survivor of P. H. Deans?) m 12/26/1882 Lucy Cornelius Cross[39] sister of Gatcie E. and Annie Laurie Cross who were the daughters of Gates County Georganna Howell with Georganna in turn the sister of Mary Frances Howell.
Cecil Deans, Eutha and May-location, further issue unknown.
Patrick Henry (b11/18/1860-d2/09/1921) m ? Elizabeth R. Stennet? and moved to South Norfolk, VA ca 1885 where he was in the lumber business.
No issue?
Ella D. (b1862 d<2/1921) m William R. Jones 28 Dec 1887 per her marriage license.
Location, issue unknown.
James Edward (b6/03/1864 d7/20/1940) m 7/11/1901 Pauline Estelle Elliott
Children-See generation 9 below.
Charles C(ecil?)(b 5/1868, d >2/1921) m ca1896 Maggie(Margaret?) L. ? and was living in Churchland, Norfolk County, VA in 2/1921 about one mile south of the old William Daynes land grant as a farmer. No children were listed in his 1900 census entry.
No issue?
Walter A.(b1868 per 1870 census but not in 1880 census nor his father's 1889 intestate heir so d<1880)
Jasper Leroy(b4/15/1870, d11/29/1950) m 12/21/1898 Martha Lou Elliott and was a farmer and the last Deans on the Chowan family farm-probably left in the 1930's after Martha died (5 Mar 1932) and then Thomas T. Deans' old house(Jasper’s by then) burned down.
Martha Elizabeth Deans (living in Hertford, Perquimans in 1998, now(2008)deceased),
Pauline Elliott Deans (d1987) m Stephen Toeniel Perry(d1970)
Gerald Deans Perry (d1995), Alexus Stephen, Marjorie Lou and Janice Ann Perry all living near Hertford, Perquimans County in 1998
Thomas Earl Deans (b1899, d3/1974) m Ethel Forest
Thomas Earl Deans jr(b2/1945) (In Poquoson, VA 2/2008)
Amber Leigh Deans
Gerald(Jerry) Elliott Deans(b6/21/1948) (In Richmond, Va 2/2008)[45]
James Thomas Deans
Elliott Russell Deans (May 2008)
Matthew Forest Deans
Mark Rhodes Deans
Jasper Elliott Deans(b1913, d2/1928-in a Model T Ford accident)
Mary Frances(b1874) married C. C. Kirkman and was living in Norfolk, VA 2/1921.
(9)James Edward Deans b6/15/1864 Chowan, NC m7/11/1901 Pauline Estelle Elliott d7/20/1940
Source-Family recollections. James Edward Deans moved to the cooler environs of North Wilkesboro, NC around 1896 from the Chowan county area to get away from the Chowan hot summer nights (he had malaria and had great difficulty sleeping in the Chowan summer night heat). He became a retail jeweler and optometrist in North Wilkesboro until he retired in the late 1930's. According to the 1900 census he was then staying with Charles Martin Finley at the top of Kensington Hill per his son Julian Deans. Charles Finley was the son of John Horton Finley and grandson of William Pitt Finley in turn the brother of Augustus Washington Finley.
Per her son Julian Stuart Deans, Pauline Estelle Elliott was born 4/12/1878 at a crossroads near the city of Hertford, Perquimans County. It is more probable she was born at the small town of Smalls Crossroads, Chowan County where her family had moved about 1870 and the "crossroads" birth location was later confused by Julian Deans. Her death certificate indicates she was born in Chowan county. She was the daughter of Richard Dillard Elliott and Martha Jane Goodwin of Perquimans/Chowan County. Pauline died in North Wilkesboro, NC on 2/28/1957.
Children (Family sources):
James Elliott Deans(b7/19/1902, d7/28/1984) m10/4/1942 Lura Finley Coffey of North Wilkesboro, NC.
James Elliott Deans Jr(b7/18/1943) m6/25/1966 Catherine Upshaw, lives at 9402 Clearock, Austin, Texas 78750 and is the creator/editor of this document.
Christine Elizabeth Deans (b3/30/1970) lives in Sonoma,California.
Emily Coffey Deans (b1/5/1974) m10/2/2004 Richard Gabriel Brideau and lives southwest of Boston.
Lily Caroline Brideau (b7/12/2007 Norfolk, Mass.)
Julia Rose Brideau (b5/5/2009 Norfolk, Mass.)
Julian Stuart (b1/20/1904, d7/4/1999) m9/2/1930 Rebecca Hall Blackwell
Mary Carolyn Deans m James Irvin Gilliean-and lives in Maitland, Florida.
Julian Stuart Deans Jr (b7/29/1946) m5/9/1987 Julia E. Eller and lives in Hickory, North Carolina
Erin Rebecca Deans (b3/31/1988)
Thomas Richard (b9/16/1905 d7/04/1979) no issue
Marjorie Pauline (b8/01/1908, d2/15/1989) m William H. Kelly
Patricia Kelly (b5/28/1938) m Thomas Stallings-lives in Millbrook, Alabama
Nancy Dean Kelly (b12/9/1940)-lives in Cambridge, Massachussets
Alicia Kelly (b12/10/1944) m Ronald Phelps-lives in Taylors, South Carolina
See: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dorchesterdeans
William Daines b. 1617 England m. Phillis BEMBRIGG (7/28/1636) ch=
Sir William Daines b. abt. 1647, Norfolk, VA m. Elizabeth Harris ch= 3 Mary Daines, Anne Daines m. John Shute, who was Lord Barrington, Thomas Daines m. Elizabeth Haskett
Mary Daines b. ? m. John Hoffler and inherited the James River plantation ch=??
Elizabeth Daines m. Lewis Conner ch= Keador Conner; also m. Anthony Lawson; ch=Anne Conner b. 1696 m.George Powell (1697-1736) ch= Moses Powell (1725-1790) m. Mary Williams ch= Moses Powell II (1760-1821) m. Sarah H Maddux ch= William H Powell (1788-1847) m. Elizabeth Parsons (1789-1859) ch=Sarah Powell m. William Lassater ch= Jessie M. Lasseter (1830-1865) m. Sarah Jane Walls ch= Penelope Helen Lasseter (1852-1912) m. Hillyard T. Raughton ch= Moses Taylor Raughton (1882-1925) m. Minnie Lee George ch= Leona Mae Raughton m. Duke Hornsby ch= D. Hornsby m. B. Wright ch= Russell Hornsby Wright (www.hornsbys.org/daines.htm) 22 Feb 2003
As early as October 1668, Sir William Daines was engaged in the shipping business and owned several ships The Lyon and the Betty, and perhaps the Cornwall. He was knighted on November 28, 1694. He was Sheriff of Bristol and seems allied to the lineage of the Jeffries/Hunt/Cooke/Ford Atwood/Batchelder/Rogers/French families in England. He was married to Elizabeth and had a son Thomas Dean, mariner, who also had issue. More to come.
The William Deans Family of Northwestern
Chowan County, North Carolina
By James Elliott Deans Jr.
Last Revised May, 2009
The story told by the following analysis is one of two ancestral threads. The first thread goes forward in time from early 17th century England to just after the American Revolutionary War at Hertford County, North Carolina. The second thread goes backward from the present also to the time soon after the Revolutionary War also at Hertford County, North Carolina. The problem is tying the two threads together with the middle twice burned away due to the loss of Hertford County records to fire-first by an arsonist (literally tried to burn the evidence against him!) in 1832 and again in 1862 by Union forces during the civil war. As will be seen there is some suggestive evidence that might tie this knot but I also hope that other readers of this analysis can perhaps provide additional information on this subject.
The first thread starts with the historical derivation of the Deans surname.
Per a variety of references on surnames [20,21] the “Deans” version has at least three possible sources as follows:
(1) From the Latin "Decanus" a leader of ten men in the Roman army and the source of the ecclesiastical/academic "Dean".
(2) From the Medieval English "Dene" meaning a small valley or dale. This term was in use in some English wills as late as the 17th century as in the "lower Deanes".
(3) Of Denmark e.g. "Danes/Daines/Daynes". These were likely descendants of the Vikings that slaughtered their way across England in the ninth and tenth centuries. They seized the eastern third of England-eventually called the Danelaw and had numerous settlements in England. Over 60% of the English Parish church record references to the Daines et al surname from the early 16th century onward in the LDS Family History Center Locality Index are in Norfolk and Suffolk counties e.g. "East Anglia" on the English coast northeast of London. Most of these existing parish records start in the late 15th and early 16th century. Thus it is likely that the surname originated in that region several centuries before. A number of "Danish" settlements are said to have been in present day East Anglia and York areas by references on the history of the Vikings [eg 23]. See also Figure 1 below. Most of the Viking invasions into eastern England are believed to have originated in Denmark whereas the invaders into north Scotland presumably came primarily from the Norway area.
There are references to the surnames "Danemundus"(Norfolk) or "(Turchillus) Danus" (Huntshire-two shires west of Norfolk) in the Domesday Book ca 1086.
Figure 1. Anglo-Saxon England 830 AD Showing Danish Settlement Areas
Y Chromosome analysis can be used to partially test the Danes descent hypothesis by determining the migration haplogroup of the author whose surname presumably (assuming no false paternities or unknown adoptions) descends from these Danish settlements through the male line to be analyzed. Haplogroups are determined by DNA analysis via detection of certain mutation sets carried by the Y-chromosome (passed down only through the male line)and reveal ancient ancestral migration patterns depending upon which mutations occurred. Three mutation set haplogroups specifically R1b, I and R1a are considered to be the source of most of today’s European population[40,42]. See Table 1 below. The author’s haplogroup is R1b which means the Danish descent hypothesis is possible since about 39% of Denmark’s current male population is R1b. Since Haplogroup I is also about 39% of the current male Danish population “the Danish descent hypothesis is possible” is about all that can be said with certainty. Further data refinements may help in the future.
Figure 2. Haplogroups R1b, I and R1a Locations during the Last Ice Age
The population shown in present day Spain was mostly R1b and after the ice began melting that population migrated[40] over many generations up the coast to England, Scotland, Ireland and a little east further up the European coast. A land bridge from Europe to England was present then(not shown on this map) that later submerged as the seas rose following the ice age. R1b migration also went north and further east including some up the coast to the Denmark area as mentioned. Haplogroup I, north of Greece migrated primarily up to Germany, Denmark and also into Norway. Haplogroup R1a, north of the Black Sea moved up predominately into Norway, Eastern Europe, Ukraine, Russia and western Asia although some also made it to present day Denmark.
Later migrations and invasions no doubt caused some further intermixing of the three Haplogroups. See Table 1 next, a survey of modern male populations. The sample size is only 1772 so there will probably be further refinements as more data is collected. Presumably these modern males thought they descended from “natives” although they cannot be sure of course.
Male Haplogroup R1b I R1a Other
Norway 30% 28% 34% 8%
Germany/Denmark 39% 39% 12% 10%
Scotland 80% 10% .02% 10%
Ireland 90% 7% 0% 3%
Basque(NW Spain) 89% .02% 0% 10%
Table 1-Converted from “A Y Chromosome Survey of the British Isles”. A Capelli et al. Current Biology Vol 13 May 27, 2003.
Surnames began to be used in England shortly after the Norman Conquest of 1066 and were essentially in universal English use by the early 16th century. The variety of "Deans" appropriate for this genealogy is probably derived from the "Daynes/Daines" source above based on the following analysis. For the record the surname "Daines" had substantially converted to "Deanes"(later to "Deans") by the middle of the 19th century in England. As will be seen below the line followed in this analysis converted from “Daines” to “Dean(e)s” in the middle of the 18th century in America.
Surname Ancestor Birth Location ______ Spouse _____ Death
(1) William Daynes b1617 England m7/28/1636 Phillis Bembrigg d1687
Some of this information is per Mrs. Alice Granberry Walter's "Daynes, Conner, Lawson, Walke, Thorowgood and Sayer Connections"[5]. There is also a record [1] from Stepney, Saint Dunstan Parish church( Figure 3 below) (2-3 miles east northeast of London in the early 17th century) of the marriage of a William Daynes/Phillis Bembrigg on July 28, 1636. This entry indicated William Daynes was then a "mariner" and lived in Ratcliff (now named Limehouse) parish south of Stepney. As a seaman, Ratcliff (on the Thames) was likely a convenient low living cost(known then as a disreputable slum) residence area while William was not at sea and may not have been where he was born.
Figure 3. St. Dunstan’s Stepney, London 1997.
Figure 4 below gives some idea of the appearance of the Tower of London at the time the William Daynes parental family was living in England ca 1600. As a seaman William Daynes undoubtedly saw this Tower from the Thames numerous times in his sailing career.
As historical time markers note that Queen Elizabeth I of England died in March, 1603. Her successor James I died in 1625 and William Shakespeare died in April, 1616. Charles I assumed the throne and then became involved in the great rebellion of 1640-1660 that temporarily ended the rule of kings and queens in England. Charles I was defeated at Naseby, England in June of 1645 by which time William Daynes was already in the Virginia Colony of the American continent along with his wife of nine years-Phillis.
Figure 4. Tower of London in 1597.
The consistent and unusual spelling of Daynes (usually and variably spelled Danes or Daines at that time) found in most of his records indicates William Daynes' probably spelled out his name to the appropriate clerk for his marriage at Stepney, England and other records later in the Virginia Colony. Thus he was at least able to spell/read at some level at the age of about nineteen years. He also later became an attorney[3]in the Virginia Colony certainly confirming his literacy. He was likely a junior son of some English family who had the resources to provide an education for their children. However since William evidently would not inherit land to justify staying home (if any it probably went via primogeniture to the eldest son) he took to the sea, saw Norfolk, Virginia Colony in his travels, then later decided to quit the sea and move himself and then his new wife to Norfolk, Virginia. There as we shall see he quickly solved the lack of land problem.
William Daynes became a tobacco planter in Norfolk around 1645. Phillis arrived in June 1645 with William apparently already present per Richmond, Virginia land records [2]. He is granted 400 acres of land on the "Eastward side of the mouth of Bullock Creek down to the main (James) River" in Lower Norfolk County on April 26, 1646 for transportation of eight people including himself and Phyllis [27]. Bullock Creek was then the border between Nansemond and Norfolk Counties and eventually in the 20th century became the border line between the cities of Suffolk and Portsmouth and is now the north flowing creek this line follows before it enters the James River NW of Portsmouth. This creek was later renamed Hoffler Creek probably for the husband of William Daynes’ daughter Mary who was willed the original William Daynes’ plantation per his 1687 will as Mary Hoffler.
At Norfolk he became an attorney as well as continued as a tobacco planter and eventually a Norfolk County Court Commissioner in 1655(appointed by then Governor Edward Digges along with William's presumed brother Thomas Daynes). During this time he is often referenced in the Lower Norfolk County Court Records[3,44]. While most are just various court cases some records give us a glimpse of William himself.
At a court deposition he makes in June of 1657 William describes a sea captain named Lockers who evidently had serious problems during his voyage to the Norfolk area and seemed to have gone ashore near William Daynes’ house as this Captain Lockers arrives at William’s house along with a group of other people in starving condition. While not mentioned explicitly William presumably fed them and was also present when some of the people bound to Captain Lockers as payment for their voyage had their indentures sold to a Samuel Stolton. Additionally one of the indentured people died a few days later at William’s house presumably due to the difficult voyage and William wants to insure this matter is known by the court and so recorded.[44,p81]
In November of 1660 and again in December of 1661 William Daynes is fined 50 pounds of tobacco for swearing in “open court” this being against a “former ordinance of ye county court”.[44,p271,p344]
In August of 1661 William Daynes tenure as a court commissioner comes to an abrupt end as a result of the Governor of Virginia(William Berkeley) hearing of William’s “scandalous entertaining and living with Sarah wife of Thomas Watson and keeping her from her husband”. This event also got him arrested and fined 1000 pounds of tobacco. The last related record comment indicates that William did “humbly request that the governor suspend him from court duties.”[44,p308]
Presumably his first wife Phillis has died or left him prior to the events described in August of 1661 or perhaps even earlier as in January of 1654 there is a court note that William Daynes is to no longer “entertain” the then unnamed wife of Thomas Watson.[44,p3]
By October of 1663 William was evidently considered to have suffered enough embarrassment as the Governor then reinstated him as a Norfolk County Commissioner.[44,p479]
During and after this period William continues to acquire substantial additional Norfolk and almost certainly Nansemond County land acreage by paying for indentured servant transportation thus receiving 50 acres "headright" for each person brought over plus their labor for three to seven years. William Daynes shows up several times in the early Norfolk County court records [3] for this reason. Per the titheable lists [6,7,8] of Norfolk County, Virginia all the currently known Norfolk Daynes/Daines/Deanes/Deans et. al. lived in this Western Branch precinct location until the late 1700's probably as a result of William Daynes' success in acquiring land in that area that passed to his descendants. It should also be noted that one of the Virginia Nansemond River’s upper(to the south as the Nansemond flows north) east side creeks is named “Deans creek” today. A likely reason would be a farm on the banks of that creek that was established by one of William Dayne’s descendants on some of his early headright grant land many years ago.
Children ("Daynes, Conner, Lawson, Walke, Thorowgood and Sayer Connections"[5])
William (b before 1671 assuming >16 in 1687) m Mary ?
Mary (b before 1673) m by 1687? (at least 14?)John? Hoffler and inherited the original James River plantation. This marriage is probably why Bullock Creek is now called Hoffler Creek.
Surname Ancestor Birth Location ______ Spouse ___ Death
(2)William Daines b<1671, Norfolk County, VA m Mary ? dca1717
Source-Genealogist Alice Granberry Walter incorrectly deduced that (Sir) William Daines minor stepson of Captain James Harris(mariner) of Norfolk, VA and later of Bristol, England was the son of William Daynes[5]. This conjecture has been disproved by the later discovery of Sir William’s will [37] filed in England. (Sir) William was evidently born in Norfolk, Virginia Colony along with his possible sister Elizabeth Daynes whose father is as yet unknown. (Sir) William went to England with his stepfather and later via the tobacco trade enhanced his career all the way to Sheriff of Bristol and then Member of Parliament representing Bristol. In fact Sir William is the only known MP that was born in the original continental American colony.
Given that the 1687 will of William Daynes (Deanes) identifies a son William that we now know is not “Sir William” then the William so identified as the decedent in the will probated 1717 in Norfolk Colony, Virginia is most likely the son of our William Daynes due to the significant Western Branch Norfolk and Nansemond county property holdings indicated.
Per Norfolk County records this William Daines was also an attorney and planter as was his surmised father.
Children ("Daynes, Conner et. al. Connections"[5],"Powell Family Genealogy"[24])
Henry Daines (Inherited Nansemond county land per 1717 will)
Francis (Inherited the Norfolk county land per 1717 will)
William Deans Jr (of late 18th century Norfolk-see ca 1758 Norfolk deed-Francis to William Deans)this William (Jr) was a shipwright.
Elizabeth?-her first husband’s will indicates she is the daughter of a William Daines but which one?.
John (children see generation 3 below)
Joseph
Richard
Thomas
Mary
(3)John Dain(e)s b <=1700 Norfolk County, VA m ? d >1733
Source-William Daines 1717 will and Mrs. Walter's monograph.
There is also a record of John Daines being the father of a James Daines in Mrs. Elizabeth Wingo's "Norfolk County Tithables" list of 1730[6]. Unfortunately there were two James Daines in that 1730 and later lists up to about 1750. The James Daines(Jr.) son of John is about 10-15 years younger than the older James(Sr) since the Sr has a tithable listed and thus Jr is more likely to have a son born ca 1736 which is when John’s presumed grandson Daniel Daines/Deanes below was born. The older James Daines is called "Sr" in later tithable lists relative to the younger "Jr.". In the 18th century "Sr/Jr" were not necessarily in the same households but "Sr/Jr" was used as an identifier by age for people with the same name in the same area. John Daines is not on record as owning any land in Norfolk County.
Children("Norfolk County Tithables, Vol. I", Thomas Bruce Norfolk will)
James Daines(bca1714) m Diana Bruce
John (bca1715)
(4)James Daines(Jr.?) b ca1714 Norfolk, VA m<1737 Diana Bruce d 1767/1782
Source-As previously mentioned John Daines is listed as the likely father of a James in the early 1730 Norfolk tithable lists. Diana Bruce was married to one of the two James Daines in Norfolk as of 1737 per the will of her father Thomas Bruce (Sr)[4]. The surviving (or remaining?) James Daines (in Norfolk ca 1760) and father of Daniel Daines/Deanes below witnessed the will of Thomas Bruce (Jr) 15 March 1760 indicating a close relationship with the Bruce family and thus the likelihood that Diana Bruce is the mother of Daniel Deanes below. James Daines was then living on Thomas Bruce (Sr)'s plantation per Thomas Bruce's will. James Daines is not on record as owning any Norfolk County land.
Children ("Norfolk County Tithables Volumes I and II”)
Daniel Daines/Deanes (bca1736) m Judith Perry?
Thomas (bca1747)
(5)Daniel Daines/Deanes bca1736 Norfolk County, VA m Judith Perry? d 1790/1800 in Hertford county, NC
Source-Norfolk County, Virginia Colony tithable list taken 6/10/1753[7p61] showing Daniel with James in the north side of the Western Branch tithable area. A 1751 preceding list showed only James[7p20]. Thus it is likely that Daniel was James' son and turned tithable age-16 yrs old ca 1752. Note in an analysis of Daniel’s children below it appears that Daniel’s first son is named James-probably after Daniel’s father. This is the LAST time the "Daines" spelling is ever used for the currently known Norfolk Virginia tithable lists. Daniel and James are converted (probably by the tithable listing agent) to "Dean(e)s" spelling for later tithable lists.
A Daniel Deanes is in the 1768-1770 Hertford County, NC taxlist of William Murfree[17], another taken in 1779 and finally in the 1790 Hertford County, NC census but not in the 1800 census. Furthermore Volume III of “Norfolk County Tithables”[8p16] lists Daniel for the last time in Norfolk in 1767 and he shows up next in the 1768 Hertford County tax list of William Murphree. This is strong evidence that the Norfolk Daniel and the Hertford Daniel are the same. A Judith Deanes is in the 1800 Hertford, NC census with the right age and a couple of older children for Daniel's widow. Furthermore listings from “Bible Records of Nansemond County”[18] name Daniel/Judith Deans as parents of a Mary Deans who married a McClenny-actually two first Elijah and after Elijah’s 1804 death then James McClenny. Thomas Deanes, the sheriff of Hertford County in 1800-1813, is the son of Daniel Deanes per Benjamin Winbourne's "History of Hertford County"[9]. Sheriff Thomas named a daughter Judith Perry perhaps after his mother although note that her mother Susan was a Perry as well. Additionally both the names of Henry and Thomas Best who are in the 1790 Hertford County NC census near William Deanes are also in the 1765 Norfolk County Western Branch Tithables list which is yet another tie back to Norfolk County, VA.
Judith’s maiden surname is believed to be Perry per Mrs. Katheryn Carter’s research due to the middle name of one of Judith’s grandsons. If true this appears to be the beginning of a long association by marriage (continued into the 20th century-Pauline Elliott Deans m Stephen Toeniel Perry ca 1925 Chowan County, NC generation 9 below, Balinda Deans married Turner Perry 1850) of the Perry and Deans families of northeastern North Carolina and Norfolk, Virginia. Whether Judith was born and/or married in Norfolk, VA or Hertford, NC Counties is unknown at present.
One final note-per Norfolk County land records and the 1767 tithable list-Daniel Deanes did NOT own any land in Norfolk and was evidently a tenant farmer thus a motive to migrate to Hertford County where he could evidently acquire land-in fact 300 acres per his 1779 Hertford County tax valuation.
Children("The Colonial and Political History of Hertford County" by Benjamin Winbourne[9] and material of Boone Crowder great-grandson of Sheriff Thomas[33]. "Bible Records of Nansemond County"[10] for Mary. An 1817 lost heirs suit[28] establishing Mary McClenny(Deans), Matthias Deans et al(other unnamed Deans then in Hertford County), William Deans and Elizabeth Carr(Deans) as highly probable then living heirs of Daniel Deans. The Hertford will of Issac Carter of 1844 mentions land purchased from Daniel and James Deans.)
James Deanes (bca1755-1765 Norfolk?. d Hertford bef1815 m Celia ?) Likely named for Daniel’s father. Hertford Tax list of 1815 mentions his estate. Hertford 1800 census shows zero male children. Children below guesstimated per process of elimination ie could not find info they belonged to anyone else. Of course these Deans could also have been descendents of other Deans moving later into Bertie/Hertford County than Daniel.
Thomas Jefferson (Coachmaker) b1812.
Peterson bca 1810. In Bertie County 1830 census.
William bca 1810. In Bertie County 1830 census.
Both these last two brothers married Wilkes sisters and moved to Tennesee.
Thomas (b bef 1770 d July 30,1830) m 1st ? Ward, 2nd Susan Perry-
Hertford County Sheriff 1800-1809, NC General Assembly 1815, 1816, NC State Senate 1821,
Michael Ward Deanes(1st marriage) bca1790 m Mary Jenkins ca1810 d1841,
Three children per Boone Crowder-currently unknown although Peterson and William above are possibilities given the 20 year old Michael in 1810.
Thomas Deanes Jr(1st) no issue,
Sarah/Sallie Ann Ward(1st) m Thomas Barnes-Hertford County, Christiana Susan(1st) m William Bartelle Wise d >1830,
James Daniel Deanes(2nd) b1819 d1835,
Judith Perry(2nd)b1824 m Rueben Jones d1862,
Ann Elissa(2nd) b1826 m John E Maget d1894
Mary (b4/1/1775) m 1st Elijah McClenny d ca1804 and then brother James.
William (bca1760 d1800/1810) m Penelope Hare per Katheryn Carter.
James Perry Deanes b1802, David Dickenson, Priscilla, Martha
Deans. The Perry middle name of James is the source of the speculative maiden surname of his mother Judith. Widow Penelope and family moved to Maury County, Tennessee ca 1810/1817.
Matthias bca 1772 d1840/50) m 1st ? Perry? m 2nd Mary ?.
Children-see generation 6 below.
Elizabeth (d <1817) m ? Carr
(6)Matthias Deanes bca1772 Hertford? County, NC m1st? m2nd Mary ? d 1840/1850
Source-Matthias is in the 1800 through 1840 Hertford census but not 1850 thus the death date estimate. In the 1850 Hertford census there is a Mary Deans in the Thomas Deans household that seems likely to be the widow of Matthias. This Mary is too young to be the mother of William(generation 7 below) and is probably a later wife of Matthias Deanes.
The census of Hertford County 1800-includes Matthias, Jesse, James, William and Thomas Deanes as head of household. Per this census the number of household male children less than 10 years of age at that time was as follows:
Matthias 3
Thomas 3
Jesse 2
William 1
James 0
We are now looking for a son named William born 1799 in the above list derived from our Deans' ancestral thread going back in time from the present.
In the 1810(Our William should then be 10-11) census of Hertford county for males [10-16 years] we find:
Matthias 1 Our William Deans? Where is William’s brother Thomas b1807?
Thomas 1 Thomas Deans Jr? (Not the Thomas b1807 above)
Penelope (Hare) 2 Widow of the 1800 William Deanes-James Perry Deans?, David Dickenson Deanes?
James 1 One of Jesse Deanes' children? maybe Jesse Jr.?,
Petersen or William Deans Bertie census 1830?
Note that James Deanes had no sons under 10 in 1800 thus James is unlikely as William's father since he certainly would seem to have known about an infant male born in 1799. Also this implies that the 1 male in 1810 above may not have been born to James Deanes.
From Benjamin Winbourne's and Boone Crowder’s research [9,33] there are no surviving William's mentioned in Sheriff Thomas Deanes' family (Benjamin Winbourne's brother married the granddaughter of Sheriff Thomas Deanes and thus Benjamin Winbourne is likely to possess some reliable Deans family information. Mr. Boone Crowder is a direct descendant of the Sheriff) nor were there likely any in William/Penelope Deanes' family per Mrs. Katheryn Carter's (a descendent of Penelope through her son James Perry Deans) research showing Penelope moved to Maury County, Tennessee with the children mentioned prior to 1817. That leaves Matthias and Jesse (1800) with Matthias the most likely with 3 versus 2 males of the right age. Since Jesse Jr. was also a "well respected"[28] Sheriff there would seem to be a namesake in further family names that we do not see in later lines or occurrence of some family "sheriff" stories had Jesse been the father of William Deans. Unfortunately there are also no Matthias or Matt namesakes in our later generations either.
There is also a suggestive though tenuous tie from William Deans generation (7) below to this Matthias Deanes. In 1864 while both William and his wife Rachel are still alive their youngest son William D. Deans/Martha Ann Will(i)ford (then probably living with William/Rachel Deans) have their first son b1864 and name him Joseph Perry Deans perhaps influenced by a long ago prior neighbor named Joseph Perry-three households away from Matthias Deanes in the 1810 Hertford census and thus fairly close by when William Sr would have been 11 years of age. Since William's wife Rachel Taylor was not apparently closely related to the Perry's a possible connection may be the currently unknown 1st wife of Matthias Deanes. In both the 1820 and 1830 William Deans census entries there was an older woman living with them however Matthias still has a female >=45 with him as well in 1820 so this older female with William remains unknown.
The 1815 Hertford tax list lists both Matthias and Issac Taylor together in Captain Rawls district indicating they owned land relatively close together. Matthias is on record for 270 acres of land in 1815.
Rebecca Deanes Wiggins is 53 in the 1850 Hertford census and Matthias has the only Hertford female Dean(e)s in the 1820 Hertford census of this age bracket assuming she was born to a Hertford Dean(e)s head of household.
Children (Process of elimination removing from 1800 Hertford Census head of household list-Thomas, William, James and maybe Jesse leaving Matthias plus the probable 1810 census match of Joseph Perry to the 1864 William Deans' grandson named Joseph Perry Deans, Also the 1840 Hertford census has Matt(hias) and Thomas Deans (NOT the old sheriff who had died by then) directly adjacent. Material of James Milligan a descendant of Thomas Deans b1807)
Rebecca Deanes (b1797) m William Wiggins and lived in the Maney's Neck
area. Her birthdate potentially implies Matthias as a father after census analysis.
Joseph, Mary, Susan, Judith, Mariah and Cornelius
William (b1799) m ca1815 Rachel Taylor
Children-see generation (7) below.
Thomas (b1807) m Harriet ? (b ca1813) lived in Hertford County directly adjacent to Matthias in 1840 census(Southern Township).
Thomas J (b1845), James Miles (b1847), Ellen J (b1846), Arabella
(b1849), Joseph(b1/1853), A. J.(Alfred(/1870 census) J? b1857)
Thomas J Deans(b1846) m 1/18/1872 Rachel Caroline Piland
W Joseph Deans
Jeff, Joe Deans
James Thomas Deans b10/3/1873 m Genie Frances Wilder b2/6/1886
Rachel Malinda b 9/2/1907 m Joseph Earnest Milligan b 10/30/1906
Elizabeth Mollie(Hannah) Deans
Ella Blanche
Lula Etta
Eva Louise
Charles J Deans
John, Earl, Barnes, Tom, Lynwood, Robert Jack, Stella & Nancy
Joseph Deans(b 1/1853 Hertford d ca 1915 Chowan?) m1st daughter of Jendia O. Northcut b4/1842, Dick Julius Deans b 10/1889, Frank R. Deans b 4/1887.
Joseph Deans m2nd Amanda Elizabeth White
William Clarence Deans(b 10/1895), Pattie Deans(b 2/1900), Rose Deans(b 1901), Mary Deans (b1902), Annie Bell Deans(b3/25/1904) m Joseph Allen Smithwick, Claude Joseph Deans(b11/24/1897) m Pearl Cornelia Kelley
Lily Belle Deans(b3/5/1925), Claude Joseph Deans Jr (b9/15/1927)
Lily Belle Deans m Hiram Eugene Humphrey and lived in Fort Worth, Texas. Lily died in 2001.
Surname Ancestor Birth Location ______ Spouse _____ Death
(7)William Deans b1799 Hertford County,NC mca1815 Rachel Taylor d 6/1865
Source-William Deans' census data showing a William as head of household and an older woman living with him and his younger presumed wife in 1820(Hertford) and 1830(Bertie County, NC-as Willy Deans-the first name in the 1830 Bertie county census). It should be noted that William and his presumed father Matthias were only two pages apart in the 1820 Hertford census(William-p186, Matthias-p188). William is in the Chowan census in 1840, 1850 and 1860. He is then located on land, purchased in 1833 from William McFarlane(Rachel’s uncle-former Taylor land) and more land purchased in the early 1840's[29] from the Welch family of Gates and Chowan County, in the far northwestern part of Chowan County. This land is bordered on the west by the Chowan river and the north by Catherine creek per the intestate filing land description of William Deans' estate in 1865. William paid over $1000 for the Welch land and a likely source for the money may have been the estate of Matthias Deans who died in 1840/1850. Unfortunately due to the Hertford courthouse fires no records seem to exist to confirm this theory but it is a logical manner in which William could have obtained about $1000 in 1841.
William Deans is unusually consistent about his age in the census entries for the early to mid 1800's probably because he only had to add one to the current year to figure it since he was evidently born in 1799.
A problem with the 1830 Bertie census entry is that it should show a male entry for our Thomas Deans(generation 8 below)in the male under 10 age group and two females for Thomas' sisters Winnie Malinda and Irene Deans in the female under 10 age group but it does not have such entries. This could be a mistake (entries left out during transcription?), the younger children may have then been visiting some other family or this could be the wrong William Deans. They are not present in Issac Taylor’s 1830 Hertford census entry. The reason for the omissions are unknown at this time.
William Deans(Sr) was likely a tenant farmer in Bertie County since he is not on record as owning any land in Bertie. There is a family story, per my uncle Richard Deans, about "His Grandfather Deans" (story told relative to Richard's father James Edward Deans generation 9 below whose grandfather would be this William). That William presumably had a "big corn farm on the river by Colerain that became a Confederate base and later where the showboat landed that was called Colerain Beach" that is consistent with this census data.
William Deans had moved to Chowan County by 1833 per his youngest son William D. Deans' civil war records [25]-"born(1833 per later census records)in Chowan County". He is also on record as buying 250 acres of land(Chowan County Deed book K2, p672)in Chowan County Jan 28, 1833 from William McFarlane-Rachel’s maternal uncle. The deed indicates William Deans was resident in Chowan at that time so he probably arrived in Chowan no later than late 1832.
The 1840 Chowan census of William Deans shows four male children and two female children. This is the first recorded census listing of the Deans surname in Chowan County. The 1870 will of his wife Rachel indicates only three survived to 1870 or that some of the 1840 entries may have been children of Rachel's relatives or others living in the family home. Rachel is listed as keeping house in the 1850 census with William, our Thomas and Thomas' brother William Deans (Jr). The William (Jr) is known to be William Daniel Deans per later census and estate records. Bonds contained in the NC Archives indicate William Sr. was probably a constable for Chowan County in the 1841-1847 time period.
Per Issac Taylor Sr's 8/1834 Hertford will [a few survived the fires-30] Rachel Deanes is the first daughter of Issac Taylor Sr. Issac Taylor's wife maiden name is believed to be McFarlane. The 1850 Chowan census entry for our William and Rachel also includes a listing for an Adaline McFarlane a cousin of Rachel's if her mother was a McFarlane. Note also that Issac Taylor's 1810 Hertford census entry is only two pages away from that of Matthias Deanes reinforcing our theory that Matthias Deanes is William Deans' father.
William’s family survived the civil war reasonably well based on the 1865 inventory of William’s estate. His home location on the eastern side of the Chowan river was in a dangerous area with neither Union nor Confederate forces really in control in Chowan or Gates counties during the war. In such a lawless situation gangs of raiders, deserters and criminals often preyed on isolated farm families. There was one such gang, the infamous Chowan “Buffaloes” headquartered just about four miles down the Chowan river from William Deans’ farm. Their leader, John A.(Jack) Fairless, was related to Rachel through the McFarlane line (she was Jack’s first cousin once removed) and this relationship plus some well armed male children, eg William Jr. and Thomas, may have kept the family relatively unscathed during the civil war.
There is as yet no info on William’s(b1799) mother. In the 1850 census there is a Mary, who may be Matthias widow, living with William’s presumed brother Thomas Deans of Hertford but she is too young to be Williams’ mother. Given their first son Noah’s middle name of Perry there is some chance his mother’s maiden surname was Perry. Thus the older woman living with William Deans in 1820 and 1830 may have been a Perry surname aunt?
William Deans died intestate in Chowan County before mid 1865 per his estate records[11].
Rachel died in 1870 with her Chowan will[12] probated in November 1870.
Children (William Deans' 1850 Chowan census, intestate estate papers, Rachel Dean's 1870 will, Chowan deed to Noah P. Deans 1/2/1842, 1870 Bertie census entry for Turner Perry, Recorded interview with Mrs. Elma Bunch Reddick taken in 1934, Information of Alan Massie great grandson of William D. Deans).
Noah Perry Deans(b bef 1820-see Bertie Census 1830 d <2/1843)
Noah purchased 300 acres of "land" from William G. Welch for a total of $10.00 per the deed [29] with the location at the corner of the Chowan River and Catherine Creek which was the swamp portion of the William (b 1799) Deans' farm per later estate filings. The deed was registered at the Chowan County court 2/1845 after Noah’s death. Per Noah’s estate records administered by his father and filed 2/1843 Noah was due $50 from the common school superintendent and thus was probably a school teacher.
Thomas T.(Taylor?)(b ca1823) m 1/1852 Mary Frances Howell of Gates
Children-see generation (8) below.
Winnifred(Winnie) Malinda(b ca1830 nicknamed Balinda) m 1850 Turner Perry and lived in Colerain, Bertie County NC. Probably named for her paternal grandmother Winnifred Taylor/Carter. Winnifred Taylor appears to be a daughter of Kindred Carter of Edgecombe county, NC. If true this would tie Rachel Taylor into President Jimmie Carter’s line that moved later into Georgia.
Amelia (Milly) Perry(b1850)
Caroline Perry(b1852)
Annie Perry(b1855)
Jacob Perry(b1862)
Phillip Perry(b1864)
William Perry(b1868)
Irene ?(b1825-1830 d <=1850) mentioned in Mrs. Reddick's interview.
William Daniel.(b5/1833, d7/1907) m Martha Ann Will(i)ford and lived north of Thomas T. Deans on the original Chowan William Deans farm probably in William's(b1799)old house.
Joseph Perry Deans(b4/27/1864, d5/12/1945) m7/17/1894 Annie Laurie Cross-was a partner in Colerain, Bertie County, NC with William Miles Deans generation (9) below. Joseph was called “Perry” Deans.
Irma Leigh Deans b7/1895 m William Taylor Lineberry.
William Taylor Lineberry Jr lives in Southern California.
Nell Laurie Deans m Alvin J. Eley
Nell Deans Eley m Andre Evans and lives in Virginia Beach, VA
Annie Elizabeth Deans m Clifton E. Wade
Ann Cross Wade m ? Cameron and lives in Raleigh, NC
William Judson(“Juddie”) Deans(b1863) in Gates census married to Maggie A Russell?(middle name of 1st daughter)in 1900. William not in Gates census in 1910 while rest of family is in the census. William died <1910?
Bertha Russell Deans b1898
Bessie Lee Deans b1898
Belle Maggie Deans b1900
Alice Cary Deans b1902
Richard Judson Deans b1902
Lula Thelma Deans b?
Virginia Clifford Deans(b1868) m John Ephrain Goodwin
Ada, Madoc, Terry and Virginia Goodwin.
Louvenia?(1880 census illegible) A. Deans(b1872) m William Hurdle
Martha Sarah(“Pattie”) Deans (b March 1, 1878 Hobbsville,
NC d Feb 9, 1973) m Joseph Hunter Fairless
Martha Sarah, Evelyn ?,Inez Welch, William Deans
Surname Ancestor Birth Location ______ Spouse _____ Death
(8)Thomas T(aylor?) Deans bca1824 Hertford?,NC m1/1852 Mary Frances Howell dbef 12/1887
Source-1850 census preceding showing Thomas with the above William and Rachel. Rachel Deans' will filed in Chowan County dated 7/7/1870(signed) indicates Thomas Deans was her eldest living son at that time. A marriage bond exists for Mary Howell/Thomas Deans filed in Gates County NC and dated 1/15/1852. It is witnessed by a W. G?. Daughtey? who would normally be a member of the bride's family implying that her family may not have been available. A copy of a Gates County will for a Miles Howell dated in 1839, probated 1840, lists a Mary Frances Howell as a minor child with no mother/wife named in the will thus an indication both of Mary's parents may have been dead by the time she married. Based on Gates county marriage records Mary Frances Howell's mother should be Mary “Cross(unknown maiden name)” widow of Elisha Cross d1823 Gates[43] and Miles Howell, evidently of Nansemond County VA, were married [14] in July, 1825 in Gates County, NC. Elisha Cross was murdered in Gates county in late 1823[43 date].
Note the middle name below of Mary’s first son William Miles Deans.
Chowan County estate records [11] filed 10/1889 show Thomas Deans' died intestate. Marriage records for his daughter Ella indicate Thomas was dead by her wedding in 12/1887. Mary F. Deans (Sr) is living with her son Jasper Leroy Deans in Chowan County in the 1900 census but not in the 1910 census. Her son James Edward Deans marriage license indicates Mary is living in Wilkes(certainly with or near son James Edward Deans) county by his marriage in July 1901. Mary is also present at the Chowan wedding of her son James Edward Deans in 1901. Mary had a daughter Fannie M. Deans per the 1889 estate records. This daughter was listed as Mary F. Deans in the 1880 census. Fannie is a nickname for Frances and thus she was probably named after her mother thus another source for the “Frances” for Mary F. Howell.
Children (1870 and 1880 Chowan census lists, Material of Martha Beuhla Lynch (Cross), family history data of Thomas Deans[39], family history data of Gerald(Jerry) Elliott Deans[45]):
William Miles Deans(b12/29/1852, d1/19/1917) m Gatcie E. Cross (dca1897)
Mary Virginia Deans (bc1894, d1985) m1922 Edgar Lee Stokes
Edgar Lee Stokes Jr.-died 12/2007 in Colerain, Bertie County
Thomas J(efferson?)(b 1855, d >9/1889 <2/1921-not a survivor of P. H. Deans?) m 12/26/1882 Lucy Cornelius Cross[39] sister of Gatcie E. and Annie Laurie Cross who were the daughters of Gates County Georganna Howell with Georganna in turn the sister of Mary Frances Howell.
Cecil Deans, Eutha and May-location, further issue unknown.
Patrick Henry (b11/18/1860-d2/09/1921) m ? Elizabeth R. Stennet? and moved to South Norfolk, VA ca 1885 where he was in the lumber business.
No issue?
Ella D. (b1862 d<2/1921) m William R. Jones 28 Dec 1887 per her marriage license.
Location, issue unknown.
James Edward (b6/03/1864 d7/20/1940) m 7/11/1901 Pauline Estelle Elliott
Children-See generation 9 below.
Charles C(ecil?)(b 5/1868, d >2/1921) m ca1896 Maggie(Margaret?) L. ? and was living in Churchland, Norfolk County, VA in 2/1921 about one mile south of the old William Daynes land grant as a farmer. No children were listed in his 1900 census entry.
No issue?
Walter A.(b1868 per 1870 census but not in 1880 census nor his father's 1889 intestate heir so d<1880)
Jasper Leroy(b4/15/1870, d11/29/1950) m 12/21/1898 Martha Lou Elliott and was a farmer and the last Deans on the Chowan family farm-probably left in the 1930's after Martha died (5 Mar 1932) and then Thomas T. Deans' old house(Jasper’s by then) burned down.
Martha Elizabeth Deans (living in Hertford, Perquimans in 1998, now(2008)deceased),
Pauline Elliott Deans (d1987) m Stephen Toeniel Perry(d1970)
Gerald Deans Perry (d1995), Alexus Stephen, Marjorie Lou and Janice Ann Perry all living near Hertford, Perquimans County in 1998
Thomas Earl Deans (b1899, d3/1974) m Ethel Forest
Thomas Earl Deans jr(b2/1945) (In Poquoson, VA 2/2008)
Amber Leigh Deans
Gerald(Jerry) Elliott Deans(b6/21/1948) (In Richmond, Va 2/2008)[45]
James Thomas Deans
Elliott Russell Deans (May 2008)
Matthew Forest Deans
Mark Rhodes Deans
Jasper Elliott Deans(b1913, d2/1928-in a Model T Ford accident)
Mary Frances(b1874) married C. C. Kirkman and was living in Norfolk, VA 2/1921.
(9)James Edward Deans b6/15/1864 Chowan, NC m7/11/1901 Pauline Estelle Elliott d7/20/1940
Source-Family recollections. James Edward Deans moved to the cooler environs of North Wilkesboro, NC around 1896 from the Chowan county area to get away from the Chowan hot summer nights (he had malaria and had great difficulty sleeping in the Chowan summer night heat). He became a retail jeweler and optometrist in North Wilkesboro until he retired in the late 1930's. According to the 1900 census he was then staying with Charles Martin Finley at the top of Kensington Hill per his son Julian Deans. Charles Finley was the son of John Horton Finley and grandson of William Pitt Finley in turn the brother of Augustus Washington Finley.
Per her son Julian Stuart Deans, Pauline Estelle Elliott was born 4/12/1878 at a crossroads near the city of Hertford, Perquimans County. It is more probable she was born at the small town of Smalls Crossroads, Chowan County where her family had moved about 1870 and the "crossroads" birth location was later confused by Julian Deans. Her death certificate indicates she was born in Chowan county. She was the daughter of Richard Dillard Elliott and Martha Jane Goodwin of Perquimans/Chowan County. Pauline died in North Wilkesboro, NC on 2/28/1957.
Children (Family sources):
James Elliott Deans(b7/19/1902, d7/28/1984) m10/4/1942 Lura Finley Coffey of North Wilkesboro, NC.
James Elliott Deans Jr(b7/18/1943) m6/25/1966 Catherine Upshaw, lives at 9402 Clearock, Austin, Texas 78750 and is the creator/editor of this document.
Christine Elizabeth Deans (b3/30/1970) lives in Sonoma,California.
Emily Coffey Deans (b1/5/1974) m10/2/2004 Richard Gabriel Brideau and lives southwest of Boston.
Lily Caroline Brideau (b7/12/2007 Norfolk, Mass.)
Julia Rose Brideau (b5/5/2009 Norfolk, Mass.)
Julian Stuart (b1/20/1904, d7/4/1999) m9/2/1930 Rebecca Hall Blackwell
Mary Carolyn Deans m James Irvin Gilliean-and lives in Maitland, Florida.
Julian Stuart Deans Jr (b7/29/1946) m5/9/1987 Julia E. Eller and lives in Hickory, North Carolina
Erin Rebecca Deans (b3/31/1988)
Thomas Richard (b9/16/1905 d7/04/1979) no issue
Marjorie Pauline (b8/01/1908, d2/15/1989) m William H. Kelly
Patricia Kelly (b5/28/1938) m Thomas Stallings-lives in Millbrook, Alabama
Nancy Dean Kelly (b12/9/1940)-lives in Cambridge, Massachussets
Alicia Kelly (b12/10/1944) m Ronald Phelps-lives in Taylors, South Carolina
See: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dorchesterdeans