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Jul 7, 2003
Taken from my notes:
John Hall, Sr.
Married 1. Mary Price, 14 Aug 1757 in Baltimore Co., MD. Married 2. Elizabeth Williamson, 22 Dec 1763 also in Baltimore Co., MD.
Source: Maryland Marriages, St. John's Parish Register, MSHS (Maryland State Historical Society) Baltimore, MD. Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD.
Married 3. Finavill/Finivill Black Shanks.
Source: Betty Guthrie
Source: Tombstone Inscriptions:
Providence Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Matthews, NC
Mary McCulloch
Died: November 16, 1842
73 years, 4 mo., 1 day
Consort of John
Daughter of James and Finavill Shanks.
Of interest, the Black family can be traced from Mecklenburg Co., NC to Maryland. I believe.
Danna
webadmin
I believe I can cite at least one source
Toxey Hall - Jan 24, 2005
I believe I can cite at least one source for this confusion. The following source uses the “Fenwell” spelling three times and “Fenevill” once, but not Fenaville/Finiville. It is easy to confuse the vowels “i” and “e” when handwritten and also to confuse “iv”, “ivi” or “vi” as “w”, particularly if the clerk had writers cramp.
It is significant to note that the presumably authoritative source gives two different spellings ”Fenaville” and “Fenifille”. It was probably spelled both ways. “Readin writin ain't always easy!”
My own given name somehow evolved from “Torksey” to “Toxey” during the nineteenth century right there in North Carolina. I understand that there were contemporary first cousins using both spellings.
Toxey A. Hall
BURKE COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA, RECORDS 1755-1821 (Including Wills Index 1784-1900), Volume IV, Edith Warren Huggins, Southern Historical Press Inc. Extracted from a copy at the Iredell County Public Library, Statesville, NC, on 1 Aug 2001, by Toxey A. Hall, Sr.
From page 37:
“COURT MINUTES 1804-1810 OF WILLS, ESTATES, ORPHANS
JANUARY 1804, p. 449:”
“Jan 1804, P. 454-455: James Shanks, dec'd., wid. Fenwell granted Adm. and year's allowance.”
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“Apr 1804, P. 480: Fenwell Shanks' dower, but is now the wife of John Hall.”
“P. 482: Legatees of James Shanks, dec'd., with legatees named as Fenevill Shanks, John ReCullock, Wm. Black, thomas Gribble, James Wylie, Andrew Miller, Andrew Sprot, to Jesse Martin, 50 acres dated Feb. 20, proved by John Hall.”
From page 39”
“Jan 1805, P.528: John Hall and Wife petition for dower to Fenwell Hall, wid of James Shank, dec’d.”
Pg 40; Jan 1806, p. 621, James Shanks est. to be settled.
Book "Burke Wills" has: "Fenwell Hall, presented for probate Jan 1821. Proved by James Moore and Thomas Morrison, witnesses. John McCulloch and William Black qualified as executors. "