Re: ENGLISH BREWER, 1830 Marion Co., Ga.
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Re: ENGLISH BREWER, 1830 Marion Co., Ga.
Bill Russell 3/08/05
I am glad to see I am not the only one thinking that there is a connection between Samuel Brewer and Jenny Brewer who married Matthew English.I have no proof, but I feel that Samuel and Jenny were brother and sister and I seriously wonder if Susan who married Samuel Brewer may not have been Matthew English's sister.I know a lot of times the family surname of the wife was used as a given name for one of the children back then.Samuel and Susan named one of their children English and I have since found out that his full name was Matthew English Brewer, which leans me in that direction of thought too.I could be wrong and Samuel just honored his brother-in-law (if he was his brother-in-law) in the naming of his son, but the idea that Susan was an English is not all that far fetched either and more likely to be the case given what we know of how children were named then.In that time period, given the fact that it was the frontier and marriage possiblities were probably very limited to groups of settlers that formed small communities, it was also common for brothers and sisters of one family to marry brothers and sisters of another family as well.You have also hit on the name Olive, it and English not very common given names in that time period in the area either, yet we find Olive in both the English and Brewer families of Warren.Are your thoughts that the Brewers and English families both came out of Southampton Co., VA?
As an added note there was also a James English in Marion County in 1830, and I am not sure how he ties into the Warren County Brewer or English family or if he does at all.Also a Susannah Brewer who was married to Samuel Mauk in Marion as well...they married in Greene County, GA in 1805.Several have tried to tie her in as Samuel's daughter, but the ages don't work and then again one of Samuel's sons married one of her daughters.
Linda