The Faulconer Family of Virginia

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Note: Information on the Lewis Family before Walden Lewis b. c. 1774 in Virginia comes from assumptions based on multiple sources. Therefore, the information on this page is not reliable for genealogical purposes.

The Faulconer Family of Virginia

The Faulconer Family is important to this research; as they connect to the Lewis family of Culpeper and Spotsylvania Co VA, and to the Kennedy family of Culpeper and Orange Co VA, and to the Burgess family of Orange Co VA. [Research]

Further research indicates that:
-Ursula Faulconer married Reuben Kennedy. And,
-Nancy Faulconer married Joseph Lewis. And,
-Samuel Faulconer, Jr. married Nancy Burgess. And,
-Cousin Samuel Faulconer married Sarah Burgess.

This branch of research started some time ago with the following genealogical communiqué from over a hundred years ago:

Contents for July, 1896. 

45. Want to know of the brothers and sisters of Joseph Lewis, who married Nancy Faulconer about 1793 and came from Virginia to Kentucky in 1818 with members of his wife's family and one Richard Vivian (or Vernon), who married Miss Davis. Joseph Lewis had a son, Burton R., who went as a substitute for his father into the army between 1812 and 1815. Tradition says he had two brothers, Charles and James. The latter settled near Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Would also like the antecedents of Nancy Faulkoner, the wife of Joseph Lewis, who had brothers Thomas, Newman and Edward. My grandfather [Joseph Lewis] was nine years old at the time of the battle of York town and remembered hearing the cannon on that occasion. J. W. L.

    "Lewisiana, the Lewis Letter," v. 7, p.16. <http://www.ebooksread.com> 2 June 2013.

Samuel Faulconer, Sr. s/o Nicholas Faulconer (#1) and Martha Greenhill was born 1742 in Essex Co VA. As the Faulconers lived in the vicinity of Loretto VA, they would have been just down the Tidewater Trail from Port Royal and the Lewis family.

In 1765 in Essex Co VA, Samuel Sr. married Elizabeth Moseley Newman b. 1744 Prince William Co VA. We know that the Faulconers were in Culpeper by 1801. And, Samuel, Sr. died in 1804.

    Select Children of Samuel Faulconer, Sr. and Elizabeth Moseley Newman

Children: 1. Ursula Faulconer. 2. Reuben Faulconer. Settled in Harrison Co., KY 3. Thomas Faulconer. 4. Frances Faulconer. 5. Nancy Faulconer. 6. Lucy Faulconer. 7. Robert B. Faulconer. 8. Samuel Faulconer, Jr. 9. Newman Faulconer m. Maria Newman 10. Carter B. Faulconer 11. Edward S. Faulconer.

    1. Ursula Faulkner

Was Ursula really 36 years-old when she was married? And, was her husband eight years younger than her? What if Ursula was pregnant and Daddy paid for someone to marry her?

    2. Samuel Faulconer, Jr. (1C of Samuel Faulconer)

Peggy [Bennett Burgess] died in Orange Co VA, between Mar. of 1815 and 15 Mar. 1816 when the orphaned children of her step-daughter, Sarah Faulconer, were adopted [9/10/1815] by Samuel Faulconer, Jr.; by 1816 the Moses Burgess estate was dropped from the Orange Co tax lists, and the first settlement of the estate was made by Samuel Faulconer, Jr.

    "Moses Burgess," The House of Burgess, p. 367. <https://books.google.com/books> 11 June 2015.

    3. Nancy Faulconer

In about 1795 probably in Culpeper Co VA, Joseph Lewis married Nancy Faulconer of St. Anne's Parish, Essex county. As the Faulconers lived in the vicinity of Loretto VA, they would have been just down the Tidewater Trail from Port Royal and the Lewis family.

    Select Children of Nicholas Faulconer (#2) and his wife Mary

    1. Samuel Faulconer (1C of Samuel Faulconer, Jr.)

Peggy [Bennett Burgess] died in Orange Co VA, between Mar. of 1815 and 15 Mar. 1816 when the orphaned children of her step-daughter, Sarah Faulconer, were adopted [9/10/1815] by Samuel Faulconer, Jr.; by 1816 the Moses Burgess estate was dropped from the Orange Co tax lists, and the first settlement of the estate was made by Samuel Faulconer, Jr.

    "Moses Burgess," The House of Burgess, p. 367. <https://books.google.com/books> 11 June 2015.

 

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