Katherine (Barber) Williams (1740 - 1810)

Born 1740 in Richmond, Wise, Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of Luke Williams — married 8 May 1761 in Richmond, Wise, Virginia, British Colonial America

Descendants

Died Feb 1810 at about age 70 in Halifax, Virginia, United States

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Biography

Dona Floyd Kimmons has been DNA matched to Katherine (Barber) Williams and her children: 1) Britain Barber 2) Amy Barber (born Jones) 3) Theophilus Barber 4) Plyer Barber 5) Amy Barber and her husband, Luke Williams, b. 1738 Halifax, Va. Dona Floyd Kimmons wrote a book on this family called "The Williams Family History Book" in 1972, at the request of her grandfather, Judge Alvin Luke Williams of Ft. Worth, Texas, and District Judge of Fairbanks, and Anchorage, Alaska (1961-1966). He retired back to Ft. Worth, Texas in 1966, and passed away in March, 1978. Dona Floyd Kimmons is the daughter of Frankie Bess Williams and Eva Mae Sheehan, her family is from Ireland, Richard Sheehan. The book that Dona Vance, the author, now Dona Kimmons, published in 1972, copyrited in Washington, D.C., includes many family names, Williams, Morgan, Echols, Lanes, Sims, Chapman, Irby, Barber, Sanders, Owen, Pierce, Floyd, Cornwell, and many other lines. Dona Kimmons is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, under Elijah Cornwell, and their are also DAR records on Luke Williams. Her ancestors came from England, Wales, Ireland, western Europe to America and lived in Halifax and Brunswick, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Jasper County, Georgia, Texas, California, Nevada, Utah, Oregon, Washington State, Idaho, Massachusetts. The Williams family go back to Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island, Dona is DNA matched to Luke Williams, b. 1700, Virginia and Katherine Barber (1761-1790). Her North Carolina and Georgia relatives also belonged to Americans of Royal Descent, back to Kings and Queens of England, France and Germany, the Plantagenets, Capets of France. All information in "The Williams Family History Book" was given directly to Dona Vance in 1972 by all her living ancestors, and also those in Georgia and North Carolina who had done research back further before her, and gave her their records to include in her book. The book includes birth, death, marriage records, and personal family stories of all her ancestors by direct interviews. Her books are located in the libraries of Jasper County, Georgia, Texas State Library, Ft. Worth Library, Houston Clayton Library, and they are still available with Dona Kimmons, author.

The WILLIAMS, MORGAN, REID, GREER, SANDIFER, BEARDEN, MCKENZIE, JOHNSTON, HALCOMB, MCGUIRE, CAMERON AND STEWART genealogy was done on this family before 1980, put on the old Ancestry website, 1983-1985, updated in 1994, by MORGAN AND REID. This family goes back to Morgan Williams/Cromwell, under King Henry VIII. More on Katherine Barber will be added later by Dona (Vance) Kimmons.

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Katherine was born in 1750. Katherine Barber ... She passed away in 1810. ^[1]

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Name: Katherine Barber. ^{[2] [3]} Katherine Barber. Found multiple versions of name. Using Katherine Barber.

Name-Katherine Barberried Well and Often: Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia 1649-1800" by Robert K. Headley Jr. copyright 2003. Richmond County, Virginia.

Marriage Husband @I640@. Wife @I854@. Child: @I636@. Child: @I1519@. Marriage 8 MAY 1761. Richmond County, Virginia. ^{[4] [5] [6] [7]}

Husband @I854@. Marriage Married Well and Often: Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia, 1649-1800..Luke Williams son of Jn. Williams. Katherine Barber daughter of Thomas Barber. Source: File @M2065@.

External Files

• File M1831 File: Users/wkf/Documents/Family Tree Maker/Cochran Jr. Family Tree MediaVirginia Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virgin.jpg Format: jpg. Virginia, Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia, 1649-1800. 5821, 1:25:16 PM.

Sources

1. ↑ First-hand information as remembered by Porter Conerly, Saturday, November 1, 2014. Replace this citation if there is another source.
2. ↑ Source: #S104 File @M1831@
3. ↑ Source: #S127
4. ↑ Source: #S104 File @M1831@
5. ↑ Source: #S127
6. ↑ Source: #S104 File @M1831@
7. ↑ Source: #S127

See also:

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• Source: S104 Ancestry.com Virginia, Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia, 1649-1800 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;

• Source: S127 Dodd, Jordan Virginia, Marriages, 1660-1800 Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997.Original data - Electronic transcription of marriage records held by the individual counties in Virginia.Original data: Electronic transcription of marriage records held by the individu;