Elizabeth (Fort) Wall (1762 - abt. 1845)

Born 25 Sep 1762 in Albemarle Parish, Sussex County, Colony of Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of Andrew Newsom — married 1780 in Sussex, Virginia, United States

Wife of Burwell Wall — married before 1785 in Wake, North Carolina, United States

Descendants

Died about 1845 at about age 82 in Wake County, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Elizabeth (Betsy) Fort was born 25 September 1762, and christened 7 November 1762 in the Episcopal Church, Albemarle Parish, Sussex County, Virginia.^[1][2] She is the daughter of Frederick Fort and Mary his wife. Her sponsors were John Knight Jr., Eliz. Knight, Amy Harwood.

She died in 1845.

Name

Name: Elizabeth /Fort/^[3]

Death

Date: ABT 1845

Place: Wake County, NC, USA^[4]

Research Notes

Birth

The below record was previously in the Biography:

Date: 25 SEP 1762

Place: North Carolina^[5]

North Carolina is clearly incorrect unless these 3 records sharing the same Ancestry link are for a different person and conflated with this profile.

The link is broken and attempts to use the tree id to find the tree on Ancestry failed.

Spratlin-29 21:25, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

Christening Sponsors

Elizabeth has two aunts named Elizabeth Knight:

• Elizabeth (Stokes) Knight (1740-1785)
• Elizabeth (Unknown) Knight (1740-)

Sources

1. ↑ Albemarle Parish, Episcopal Church, Sussex County, Virginia, Parish register of Albemarle Parish of Surry and Sussex counties, 1739-1778; database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4C-29B), images 55 (Betsy).
2. ↑ John Bennett Boddie, Births, Deaths and Sponsors, 1717–1778, from the Albemarle Parish Register of Surry and Sussex Counties, Virginia (Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1958, 1992, 1998), pp83-84; online, Google Books (https://books.google.com/books?id=lnD8tlRsj-UC&q=45+John+Knight#v=snippet&q=9%2F17%2F45%20John%20Knight&f=false).
3. ↑ Source: #S3 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Catherine (Kitty) Wall LINK http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=6952525012&indiv=try
4. ↑ Source: #S3 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Catherine (Kitty) Wall LINK http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=6952525012&indiv=try
5. ↑ Source: #S3 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Catherine (Kitty) Wall LINK http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=6952525012&indiv=try

See also:

• "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HV3W-246Z : 29 January 2020), Elizabeth Fort in entry for Andrew Newsom or Newsum, 1780.
• Source: S3 Author: Ancestry.com Title: Public Member Trees Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006; Repository: #R2
• Repository: R2 Name: www.ancestry.com.