Anna (Lee) Eustace - Two different Anna Lees

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Research Notes

In the past, researchers have assumed that Anna and Anne were identical.[2] A very well-written article by James R. Hancock, using primary documents, has solved the question of Anna and Anne Lee.[1] He shows they are two different women, half-sisters.

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Hancock, James Reid, 2010 http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/mayflower-descendant-the... Ann (Lee) Eustace, Daughter of Hancock Lee of Northumberland Co., Va. and His Second Wife Sarah Allerton: Genealogical Summary. The Mayflower Descendant ... (Vol 59, Page 13) Boston, MA: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1899- . (Online database accessed 13 February 2016: AmericanAncestors.org, NEHGS, 2010).

So fixing this affects:

Hancock Lee of Ditchley & his wives Mary Lee & Sarah Lee

And the two husbands married to different Anna Lees, William Armistead, III & William Eustace

Miles Files had that correct all along - but then, they would. :-D

I’m still having issues about

Francis “Elizabeth” Whiting

http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/mayflower-descendant-the... Ann (Lee) Eustace, Daughter of Hancock Lee of Northumberland Co., Va. and His Second Wife Sarah Allerton: Genealogical Summary. The Mayflower Descendant ... (Vol 59, Page 13) Boston, MA: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1899- . (Online database accessed 13 February 2016: AmericanAncestors.org, NEHGS, 2010).

  • 69. Will of James Burwell 1718 (he married Mary Armistead) - “mother” Mrs Anne Armistead, “sisters” Ann, Joyce and Francis Armistead.
  • 74. WMQ, 6, [1897/8]: 99; Colonial Gloucester, 2: 89-90, deed of land from Anna Armistead to dau. Frances Whiting.

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Cannot find an Elizabeth Armistead. Even though Encyclopedia of Virginia has her.

https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/burwell-lewis-d-1743/ for Hon. Lewis Burwell, IV

And certainly no Martha Armistead as in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burwell_family_of_Virginia

It would have been helpful had either source bothered to list all the Burwell sons and daughters, instead of just assuming that everybody knew them.

Miles Files no help here either, except to show no Martha or Elizabeth among the children of William Armistead and Anna Lee.

Miles Files shows another Armistead-Burwell marriage, but in the *other* direction: Mary's brother John married one Elizabeth Burwell (parents not specified).
http://espl-genealogy.org/MilesFiles/site/p938.htm#i93712
http://espl-genealogy.org/MilesFiles/site/p937.htm#i93664

Who was Martha Armistead?

https://www.ancestry.com/boards/surnames.sheppard/717?viewType=FLAT...

SAMUEL SHEPPARD, II ANNE BURWELL

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Posted: 01 Apr 2018 12:21 PM
Classification: Query
Surnames: Burwell
I notice that your posting is from 2008, so my information might no longer be relavent for you. I am a decendent of John Moring and Ann Burwell through their son Burwell. Researching the Burwell family is not easy as so many had names that were consistently repeated throughout the years and many remarriend within the family. I think that the mother of Ann Burwell might be Martha Armistead , not Elizabeth Armistead.. Lewis Burwell was married to both women ,who were sisters. He married Martha around 1715 and Elizabeth much later, likely around 1744. Therefore, if Ann was born in the early 1720's, Elizabeth is unlikely to be her mother.

We know the reference is that Lewis Burwell married his brother’s sister in law, his brother James Burwell having married Mary Armistead.

Mary Lightfoot

But maybe these words are being bandied about.

lizabeth Armistead
1699–1745
BIRTH 1699 • King William, King William, Virginia, USA
DEATH 10 OCT 1745 • Gloucester County, Virginia, USA

Parents

Anthony Armistead III
1645–1726

Hannah Lee Ellyson
1654–1727

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/12165173/person/17...

And Geni has a competing Elizabeth Hatchell daughter of Anthony Armistead lll.

I didn’t find Lewis Burwell in the Armistead book.

Ancestry.com. The Armistead family, 1635-1910 [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
Original data:Garber, Virginia Armistead.. The Armistead family, 1635-1910. Richmond, Va.: Whittet & Shepperson, 1910.

There’s a lot wrong with the Armistead tree on Geni, actually.

This is the source I’ll follow.

http://www.ancestraltrackers.net/va/resources/family-armistead-virg...

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