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- Red River Settlers
On 30 Jul 1800 in Montgomery County, Morgan Brown, Esqr., chairman of the county Court, and George Oldham, by order of the court, appreticeshipped William Murphy, orphan of Patrick Murphey, deceased. At the same time, Margaret Murphey, an orphan of Patrick, deceased, was bound to Thomas Keefe.
Montgomery County, Tennessee Will Book A, pp. 83, 119
dshannon1
Posted: 1 Feb 2002 1:37PM
Classification: Query
Surnames: Oldham, Elliott, Johnson, Rice, Hensely, Baysye
My g3-grandmother was Henrietta "Ritter" OLDHAM, of Montgomery/Stewart Counties, TN. She was born October 14, 1795 or 1796 in Caswell County, NC. She married George Simms ELLIOTT, abt 1815. She died January 2, 1882, in Weakley County, TN, and her name by then was Henrietta JOHNSON. I am not sure the name of this second husband.
She was the daughter of George OLDHAM and Charlotte (various spellings) __?__. George was the son of Moses OLDHAM, Sr., and Mary "Molly" RICE. Contrary to some postings, this George was probably not the one who married Henrietta STACEY in 1807 in Caswell County, NC. That would likely be George, Jr. (1781-abt 1850?), son of George, Sr., and Susannah HENSLEY, and a cousin of my George.
Moses OLDHAM (abt 1750 - 1810) is said to be the son of a William OLDHAM, but this seems to be the guy that most are now calling Richard William, married to Elizabeth BAYSYE. Who are the parents of this R.W.? Some have him as the son of another Richard. However, a cousin of mine shows him as son of Col. Samuel OLDHAM, of Westmoreland County, VA. Does anyone have any information to support this?
In any case, since the name Conway was used in several generations, this line would seem to descend from the OLDHAM who married Ann Conway? However, that is most likely a John OLDHAM, born 1705, an age peer of Richard William and possibly a brother. Can anyone straighten all this out for us?
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dshannon1
Posted: 1 Feb 2002 2:31PM
Surnames: OLDHAM, OLDUM, PETERSON, TARPLEY
Okay, here is some more wild speculation: The 1820 Census for Stewart County does list a Charlotte OLDUM as head of household. There are, in fact, no other OLDHAM households in Stewart County, but probably there are some in Montgomery County.
This ought to be the Charlotte who is the mother of my Henrietta "Ritter". There are more children, and some of them younger, living in this household than what I have for Charlotte and George.
Might this have been the scenario? Charlotte PETERSON married first George OLDHAM, having children Ritter, Isaac, Moses, Polly and Betsey, prior to 1804. Then my George dies, perhaps? (The death date of "abt 1850" seems to be attached to the one who married Henrietta STACEY.) At this point, Moses, Jr., marries his brother's widow, and they have Nancy in 1805, plus Ebenezer and John.
Since there is a Charlotte still living and heading a household in 1820, perhaps Moses, Jr., did not get along all that well with said widow, so they divorced, and he married Christiana TARPLEY in 1816. Those two go off eventually to Texas, and in any event he is not heading a Stewart County household in 1820 (still in Montgomery, perhaps?).
Well, when looking for needles in haystacks, you have to have a hunch about which haystacks to look in. Or was that a woodpile we were searching?
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Oldham Family History
Abt 1775 - Abt 1850 (~ 75 years)
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