Re: Partains are French, maybe more
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In reply to:
Re: Partains are French, maybe more
8/07/00
Doris,
I have appreciated your entries which are
pragmatic and backed up by documentation. I
am a Partin descendant of Robert I,II,and
III, William and Charles. All the above were
in the Jamestowne, Charles City, Surry and
Isle of Wight Counties of Virginia. Robert
the first arrived in Virginia in 1609. Charles, the gggrandson of the immigrant
Robert, was born in Albemarle Parish of Surry
County in 1733. He was the first in the family to leave Virginia...in 1756 for South
Carolina.It was there that the name Partin
sometimes began to be spelled Partain. Charles' wife was Ann Badgett also born in
Surry Co. Among their children were Mary
Agnes, my ancestor who married William Burgess. On her tombstone in Franklin Co.,
Alabama, is written Agnes Burgess/nee Partain
(she and her husband died in 1838). I also
had heard that Partin/Partain was of French
derivation but when I read on Genforum a
reply on the origin of the name stating that
it was Scottish, I got out my book on Scot-tish Surnames and sure enough there it is.
Charles'younger brother, Jesse, also left
Virginia, but he stopped in North Carolina
to settle. Both are mentioned in their father's will filed in Sussex Co. VA in 1787.
Perhaps your Tennessee branch originated with
him.I notice after checking your other
entries on Genforum that we share other family ties, namely Breeding and Hurst of
Virginia and Claiborne Co. Tenn. Here the
pronunciation of Partin is Part'un. My maiden
name Hooper is always mispronounced by those
from above the Mason-Dixon Line as Whoo'per
which makes me cringe.
Anyhow, your files are concerned with more
recent generations and mine stops with Mary
Agnes and her siblings, of whom Ezekiel is
one so I don't know that we can be of any
help to each other. Rather I wanted to let
you know that I admire your thoroughness.
Ann
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Re: Partains are French, maybe more
Bettie Waddle 11/25/01