Re: Parrish/Pettigrews in Granville/Orange/Guilford Co. NC 1700-1800s
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Re: Parrish/Pettigrews in Granville/Orange/Guilford Co. NC 1700-1800s
Leigh Stulack 8/09/14
The pre-1850 censuses are challenging, but taken as a group can reveal important clues.Even though only the head of family is named, and family members are lumped together into age groups, seeing the progression from one census to the next can show how many children there were and where their birth years should fall.Combine this with marriage records, you can sometimes figure out names of family members, even before the 1850 census.Luckily, there are numerous marriage bonds for Pettigrews in those three counties, from before 1800 into the later part of that century.
The Pettigrew/crew surnames have seen seemingly thousands of butcherings by census enumerators and indexers.The Pettigrews of Orange, Granville, and Guilford counties seem particularly cursed in this respect.Here's some of those from the Ancestry.com census index.So few were actually spelled Pettigrew, but all these family heads are related.
1790: Peddegwin
1800: Pattetgrew, Pattegrew
1810: Petigrew, Rhagraw, Rhigran, Petegrew, Pellingsons,
1820: Pettegrew, Pettigrew, Pattagren, Pettagvin
1830: Pettigrew, Petigew, Petegreen, Petigrew, Ptegrow
1840: Pettegrew, Pittorne, Petigrew,
1850: Pittingrese, Petogrove, Pettagrew, Pategren
Here is a great article about marriage bonds:
http://www.tribstar.com/history/x1155705019/Genealogy-Think-of-a-marriage-bond-as-an-intention-to-marryhttp://www.tribstar.com/history/x1155705019/Genealogy-Think-of-a-marriage-bond-as-an-intention-to-marry
A key point is that the bond was usually taken out in the county of the bride.I make this point because the marriage bond for James Pettigrew and Elizabeth Jarrett, 1796, was made in Granville County, yet James Pattetgrew was enumerated in the 1800 census in Orange County.Take a look at this post:
http://genforum.genealogy.com/pettigrew/messages/1345.htmlhttp://genforum.genealogy.com/pettigrew/messages/1345.html
Note especially that the William Pettigrew referenced, in 28 May 1795 bought 96 acres in Orange County on Granville County line.
So, imagine that maybe James was one of William's sons, and after the move in 1795 to those 96 acres James meets a Granville girl from across the county line, and they married in 1796.
In the 1800 census, James had just one child, a son, but by the 1810 census he has 5 daughters.So, in addition to the Catharine enumerated in the 1850 census, there were at least 5 other daughters.I still can't find James in the 1820 census, but by 1830 he was in Guilford County.There were a few marriage bonds in Guilford County for the 1820s, so these may be his kids.
William Apple + Betsey Pettigrew ~ 21 Aug 1821 bond ~ John Apple
Jesse Pettigrew + Lucinda Waggoner ~ 19 Jul 1839 bond ~ Camron Story
James Heath + Nancy Pettigrew ~ 21 Sep 1824 ~ William Pettigrew
Drury Goings + Sally Petgrew ~ 23 Oct 1827 bond ~ James Petigrew
Henry Goings Jr. + Rebecca Pettigrew ~ 6 Sep 1827 bond ~ Henry Goings, Sr.
Jonathan Walker + Milly Pettegrew ~ 18 Jul 1827 bond ~ Henry Goings
In the 1860 census Catharine Pettigrew is in the household of William and Elizabeth Apple, so it is an easy bet that Elizabeth was also a daughter of James Pettigrew.In addition, Sally Petgrew was likely his daughter, as a James is named as bondsman.The article on marriage bonds makes a point that the bondsman was usually a relation of the bride, usually her father or brother.
Please point me to where you saw the headstone info for Jonathan Calvin Parrish.Thanks.
Genforum is going through some changes and may not be notifying posters anymore when a reply is made to a post.I also did not get notice that you had replied to my first post to you.Just check back here now and then.I have more to say about this James Pettigrew, but it will have to wait for several days.