Life History
about 1625 |
Born in Carter's Creek, Gloucester, Virginia.3,1,4 (most likely) |
1643 |
(less likely) |
1645 |
Married Lewis BURWELL in Virginia.4,5 |
18th Nov 1653 |
Death of Lewis BURWELL in Carter's Creek, Gloucester, Virginia.4 |
after 18th Nov 1653 |
Married William BERNARD in Virginia.5,4 |
6th Nov 1675 |
Died in Fairfield, Gloucester, Virginia.3,4 |
after 6th Nov 1675 |
Buried in Burwell Graveyard, Fairfield (Carter's Creek), Gloucester, Virginia.1,2 |
Other facts
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Married Philip LUDWELL |
Notes
- Millennium File
Lucy Higginson
Spouse: Lewis Burwell
Birth 1625 Fairfield, Gloucester County, Virginia, USA
Death 6 Nov 1675 Fairfield, Gloucester County, Virginia, USA
Parents: Robert Higginson
Children: Lewis Jr Burwell
Lucy's birth is rpeorted as either 1625 ro 1626.
Family Data Collection - Births
Lucy Higginson
Father: Robert Higginson
Mother: Joanna Torkesy
Birth 1626 Virginia USA
There are records on some events of Lucy's life. Marriage records for her three marriages are reported, but her birth date as reported cannot be correct. There is an error in the transcription, I should think. The original records are not posted, only a transcription, and various source reports from earlier periods. Two of the marriage records report her born in 1843, but her first marriage is dated 1853. One genealogy source reports her birth as "After 1825."
U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
Lucy Higginson, Gender: female
Birth VA 1643 [this can't be if she married in 1645!]
Spouse Name: Lewis Burwell
Spouse Birth Place: England 1621
Marriage Year: 1645
Lucy Higginson, Gender: female
Birth VA 1643 [this can't be if she married in 1645!]
Spouse Name: Philip Ludwell
Spouse Birth Year: 1638 [no marriage year reported]
The third marriage record, of her marriage to William Bernard, reports no birth year for Lucy, and reports William's as 1607.
U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
Lucy Higginson, Gender: female
Spouse Name: William, Esq. Bernard
Spouse Birth 1607 England
Marriage State: "of VA" [no marriage year reported]
Here is a partial entry from an early Virginia source on Lucy and the Higginson family:
"Captain Robert Higginson (a name that appears to have been commonly pronounced Hickerson) seems to have been prominent as an Indian fighter. ... The epitaph of his daughter Lucy (who died Nov. 6, 1675) on her tomb in the Burwell graveyard at "Carter's Creek," Gloucester, only states that she was the widow of Colonel Lewis Burwell, and that, "She was descended from the Ancient family of the Higginsons. She was the only daughter of the valiant Col. Robert Higginson...."
-- Bruce, Philip Alexander, ed, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (Vol IV, 1897). Richmond, Virginia: Virginia Historical Society (http://books.google.com/books?id=o78RAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA207&lpg=PA207&dq=thomas+bernard+1631+reading+gray's&source=bl&ots=0JJzP96j4T&sig=aJo7PBUqJ-d25V88mEY3q0LcBEo&hl=en&ei=TkBlSojoDIPYM9SitJYB&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2), p 207
Sources
- 1. Taliaferro/Toliver Times, Issue 25 (21 May 1997)
- Name: Name: http://www.spingola.com/TaliaferroTimes/TT25.htm;;
- 2. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (Vol IV, 1897). Richmond Virginia: Virginia Historical Society
- Name: Name: http://books.google.com/books?id=o78RAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA207&lpg=PA207&dq=thomas+bernard+1631+reading+gray's&source=bl&ots=0JJzP96j4T&sig=aJo7PBUqJ-d25V88mEY3q0LcBEo&hl=en&ei=TkBlSojoDIPYM9SitJYB&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2;;
- p 207
- 3. Millennium Files, Ancestry.com
- 4. Burwell Family
- Name: Name: http://www.geocities.com/christicrutchfield/burwell_family.htm;;
- 5. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900