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 This site has been awarded the Award of Excellence in My Blogs Spot on September 1st 2023 and has been chosen as Site of the Month. I hereby accept this award from myself knowing that I will never get another award from anyone else no matter how hard I try. Also as this is now an award winning blog, I shall give myself a pat on the back. thank you for your support and keep climbing those trees and breaking those walls. 

This site will now officially retire with the honor of having won an award, but my research and writing will continue in my other site, My Blogs Spot, linked below. I do not have time to write multiple blogs, as I make no money from them, so I will now focus my posts there. 

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unknown parents of John Ezekiel Nichols

 the unknown parents of John Ezekiel Nichols are definitely related to Lt. John Nichols and his grandfather Simon Nicholls by DNA , but who are they? 

at this point it looks like Lt. John's son, Elisha Nichols may be the father, but there is no sources to prove that. 

at first, I thought Johns father was Archibald but there is no connection to him at all. just a nagging hunch. there is a lot of documentation to show that arch never had a son named john, but maybe he was. 

you would think that he would have named a son after his father, but I cannot find a single one.

 Archibald may have married Polly Updike if his first wife died before 1819, but it is unclear if that was the case. the Updike family says that she married a John Nichols, but the marriage records say Archibald. maybe she married a John Archibald Nichols, that's what I call him any way. 

also, it seems like John and Polly moved to WV and may have had a son named john m. Nichols who married Sarah Adeline Richardson. well if arch married Polly in 19 after the death of Judith. assuming she died by then. it is unlikely he would not have taken his children with him. 

a lot of Qs and not enough As. but it looks at this point like the father of my John Ezekiel Nichols is probably Elisha. Elisha had children before 1814 so he may be the father of john e... I hope. all these wild goose chase are annoying.  

I know for sure that John e and John m Nichols are two different people as they were in different states in the same census, but as I don't know for sure if arch married Polly, I can't say for sure that he is not the father of john m Nichols. I don't think he married Polly tho, because she may have married a John and arch had a brother named john so it is unlikely. 

another point to bring up is although arch apparently moved to WV, Elisha stayed in Bedford county, which makes him more likely to be John Es father. as John E was in Franklin county in 1860 with his family. 

and one more point, it seems that a man named Elisha just might have a son named john Ezekiel. just a thought. and any way most of his brothers had Johns except apparently Archibald. 

 finally found the parents of Elizabeth Prindle Jones thanks to family search. 

elizabeth prindle married Ezekiel Jones. we knew that long ago. but now her parents have been found and outed at family search. yay. 

elizabeth is the daughter of William Prindle and Barbara Cooksey, daughter of shadrach Cooksey. sources prove that Barbara Cooksey and not Margaret Holden is the mother of Elizabeth. my previous Intel was faulty, and althought I spent some time on the Holden line, it was just a wild goose chase. there was no documents to connect Margaret Holden to Elizabeth Prindle. although Margaret may have married a William Prindle, she apparently didn't marry Elizabeth's father.  

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• Family Data Collection - Births

Record details Name Elizabeth Prindle Father William Prindle Birth Date 1810 State VA Country USA

• Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850

Record details Name Elizabeth Prindle Gender Female Marriage Date 3 Mar 1824 Marriage Place Franklin, Virginia, USA Spouse Ezekiel Jones

• Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940

Record details Name Elizabeth Prindle Gender Female Marriage Date 03 Mar 1824 Marriage Place Franklin County, Virginia Spouse Ezekiel Jones FHL Film Number 31523 Reference ID p53

• Franklin County, Virginia, Marriage Bond Index, 1786-1858

Record details Name Elizabeth Prindle Gender Female Marriage Date 3 Mar 1824 Marriage Place Franklin, Virginia, USA Spouse Ezekiel Jones

• 1850 United States Federal Census

Record details Name Elizabeth Jones Gender Female Race White Age 40 Birth Year 1810 Home in 1850 Franklin, Virginia, USA Line Number 38 Dwelling Number 1442 Family Number 1436 Household members Name Age Ezekiel Jones 52 Elizabeth Jones 40 Margaret Jones 24 Martha Jones 22 Ruth Jones 18 Sampson Jones 15 James Jones 13 Henry Jones 12

• 1860 United States Federal Census

Record details Name Elizabeth Jones Age 54 Birth Year 1806 Gender Female Race White Home in 1860 South Western District, Franklin, Virginia Post Office Long Branch Dwelling Number 270 Family Number 266 Cannot Read, Write Y Inferred Spouse Ezekiel Jones Household members Name Age Ezekiel Jones 66 Elizabeth Jones 54

• Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940

Record details Name Elizabeth Jones Gender Female Spouse Ezekiel Jones Child Ruth E. Jones

• genealogy.com

https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/prindle/389/

• Geni

http://www.geni.com/people/Martha-Jones-Nichols/6000000020077575703?through=6000000020071690050

• We Relate https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Family:Ezekiel_Jones_and_Elizabeth_Prindle_(1)

• Virginia Deaths and Burials, 1853-1912

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X5BL-N9T

Name Elizabeth Jones Sex Female Age 80 Death Date 13 Sep 1880 Death Place Virginia, United States Death Place (Original) 4th Dist., Franklin, Virginia, United States Birth Year (Estimated) 1800 Father's Name Wm. Prindle Father's Sex Male Mother's Name Barbra Mother's Sex Female Event Type Death

• Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Death Records, 1853-1912

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:DD7X-3PZM

Name Elizabeth Jones Sex Female Age 80 Death Date 13 Sep 1880 Death Place Franklin, Virginia, United States Death Place (Original) Franklin, Va Birth Year (Estimated) 1800 Birthplace Halufuse, Va Father's Name Wm Poindle Father's Sex Male Mother's Name Barbra Poindle Mother's Sex Female Event Type Death

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Prindle-94

John Ezekiel Nichols - invisible ancestor. could he be the son of Elisha???

 still no luck finding a connection between lt. john nichols b. 1720 MD - lt. john - and john ezekiel nichols b. 1814 bedford, va. 

i thought at first that maybe arch was the father, but there are no sources to back that up. john jr. had a son named john James Nichols but he moved to tenn. jesse had a son named john field nichols but he also was in tenn. it seems the only one of lt. john's sons that may be the father is elisha nichols and there is almost no sources for him either. it seems that elisha married the daughter of his uncle flayl jr., but very little is known beyond that. he had a son named elisha christopher and a daughter, but there are no connections to john 1814. elisha could be the father of john but who knows? maybe. maybe not. how can someone live his whole life and never be recorded in anything. 

the one thing for sure about john ezekiel nichols is that he is not john m nichols who married sarah richardson. those two johns are in different states in 1860 with children. where was john e between 1814 and 1860??? inquiring minds want to know....  

my family mystery. my brick wall is still unbroken. my invisible ancestor and his unknown parents. although DNA says for sure that my bloodline is the same as Lt. John Nichols, it's still unclear how we connect. 

pretty sure at this point that Elisha may be the missing link in this inquiry, but still no sources.(((

Rosamond Mallory is probably the daughter of Roger and Sarah. maybe? most likely?

 I believe my 4th GG Rosamond Mallory is the daughter of Roger Mallory and Sarah Smith and I'll tell you why... Rosa married Stephen Bourne and his sister Elizabeth Bourne married George H Mallory. Usually when two siblings marry people with the same surnames they are related. So I think Rosamond Mallory is probably George's sister... or at least a relative of his. If Rosa is the sister of George then her parents are the same as his. Roger Mallory iv and Sarah Smith. Prove me wrong.... you can't? neither can I. As Roger Mallory's family is definitely related, it is highly likely that Rosa is the daughter of Roger Mallory and Sarah Smith so although I cannot confirm these findings, I cannot deny them either. 

Lord Guilliame Malet, Norman Baron and Sheriff of York

 Lord Malet of Graville, Norman Baron and Sheriff of York is my 27th great grandfather through Col. John Washington of Jamestown. He was also an ancestor of Lord William Malet, Magna Carta Baron. He fought in the Battle of Hastings with William the Conqueror. 

Links: 

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Malet-2 

https://www.geni.com/people/Guillaume-I-Malet-seigneur-de-Graville/6000000001744886712   

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Malet_(companion_of_William_the_Conqueror)

Sunday Sourcerer Supreme

The following is a list of Sources for my family tree.... 

• http://www.brian-hamman.com/ResultsForNicholsSurnameProject.htm
• https://www.familytreedna.com/
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial
• https://www.familysearch.org/en/
• https://relativefinder.org/#/login
• http://www.geni.com/home
• https://www.ancestryacademy.com/browse
• https://home.rootsweb.com/
• https://www.genealogy.com/

Just the Facts Tuesday

•  My Great Grandfather James Ira Nichols was the son of Ezekiel H Nichols and Harriet Isabella Williams. He married Turissia Marcella King, daughter of Michael O King and Louisa Catherine Aldridge. 
• Second Great Grandfather Ezekiel was the son of John Nichols and Martha Ann Jones. He married Harriet Isabella Williams, daughter of James Williams and Clarissa Alice Richards.    
• Third Great Grandfather John Nichols married Martha Ann Jones, daughter of Ezekiel Jones and Elizabeth Prindle. He was born in 1814 in Bedford Virginia. His son, Ezekiel's death certificate said his father's name was Ezekiel, This is the only time he was not called John. My theory is that he may have been named John Ezekiel Nichols, or somebody made a mistake on that death certificate.   
• My bloodline is the same as Simon Nicholls, the immigrant, who was a town crier in Maryland. 
• Some speculated that John 3g Nichols born 1814 was the son of Isaac Nichols who married Rhoda Bond. He was not. John and Isaac were different bloodlines.
• My YDNA does not match Isaac who married Rhoda. Isaac is a different bloodline. 
• John 3g Nichols and I have the same bloodline as Simon Nichols and his grandson John, meaning without a doubt that we all have the same ancestors. 
• Ydna is handed down from father to son, so the father, grandfather, great grandfather, etc. all have the same YDNA. 
• My bloodline is the same as the immigrant Simon Nicholls meaning we have the same Ydna. 
• Simon Nicholls was the father of Thomas Nicholls of Maryland who married Ann Davis. 
• John Nichols born 1720 in Maryland was the son of Thomas and Ann. He married Martha J Payne, daughter of Flayle. John was a Revolutionary War soldier. He was a Lieutenant. 
• John 1720 had a son named John P Nichols, who was a Captain. He mentioned his son John in his will and John J Nichols who was John P Nichols' son. John J Nichols moved to Tennessee and married an adopted Indian girl named Margaret AKA Peggy Scantling. She was adopted by a Judge Scantling. 
• Lt. John Nichols had a son named Flayle Nichols who was a Captain, after the war he moved to Tennessee, near Pigeon Forge, and served for a time as a Tennessee State Senator. 
• John Ezekiel Nichols was probably the son of Archibald Nichols as John James Nichols moved to Tennessee. John E Nichols was born in Bedford, Virginia in 1814. John E Nichols and family were in Franklin County, Virginia in 1860. 
• a tree without sources is just a theory. and not a great one. 
• john Ezekiel Nichols is not the same as John m Nichols who married in Bedford county to Sarah Adeline Richardson. they were in different states in 1860. 
• there was a different Archibald Nichols who married Sarah woolington when my Arch was about eleven. Sarah and her Arch were quakers. 
• my Arch did not marry Sarah woolington, the Quaker. also, did not marry Mary Polly updike. 
• Judith Hatcher died in April 1819. Polly Updike married that Jan. different Archibalds. 
• after Judith died, her daughter raised the children in West Virginia. Archibald died there in 1860.
• john Nichols born 1814 was not the son of Isaac Nichols and Rhoda Bond, or Isaac Nichols and Polly janney. or John Nichols and Barbara McComb. 

James williams father confirmed, mother maybe. #familytreethursday

Well  it looks like my theory about Johnson Williams being the father of James is right, I found a DNA match on ancestry that appears to be a cousin through Johnson's father. it looks like Johnson is the son of Burrell Williams and Polly Morris and my DNA match is a descendant of Burrell. in theory this seems to confirm Burrell as the grandfather of James Henry williams and father of Johnson Williams. 

while I know that James is my line without a doubt, Johnson now seems to be his father and Burrell his grandfather. hopefully some kind of records will appear some day some where some how to confirm this theory. 

also, I have a theory on James' mother Malinda. and this one may be wrong. it may be very wrong or it may be right. it's almost too speculative to believe. but here goes, someone said that James was Blackfoot.... and maybe so... or maybe his skin was darker because his mother was Blackfoot. still have no records on her, but a theory of a cousin is that she was born Malinda Mills and she was a person of colour. really wish I could confirm that. apparently she may have been a native American or an African American. a record found says that she was black and she married a Williams later she married a Smith and lived out west. now if James was mixed then he could have had lighter skin toned kids right? I found a picture of his daughter and she looks pretty white so I don't know. if she was say a quarter native it may not look that way I guess. 

so this cousin found a record some where apparently that Johnson did in fact marry a Malinda Mills and she later married a Smith. so the paper trail looks pretty solid. Malinda could have married Johnson to have James then left with him and remarried. while there is no record of a James williams in their home they in fact, did have a James Smith living there. could this Malinda smith be THE Malinda smith who was the mother of James???  sure could use a flux capacitor right now. 

any way I am pretty confident about James father being Johnson Williams now and I know for sure his mother was Malinda smith. but was she Malinda Mills? that's the question. this line has been really difficult to find and I hope it's right now. 

i know James was my ancestor and am pretty sure now that Johnson and Burrell are too. Malinda Mills? maybe so. but some sources would be nice to have for this theory.