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Katherine (Hone) Robinson (abt. 1659 - 1692)

Katherine "Catherine, Katharine" Robinson formerly Hone aka Beverley, Beverly
Born about in Elizabeth City County, Colony of Virginiamap [uncertain]
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married 28 Mar 1679 in Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County, Colony of Virginiamap
Wife of — married 17 Nov 1687 in Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County, Virginiamap
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 33 in Hewick, Middlesex County, Colony of Virginiamap
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Katherine (Hone) Robinson was a Virginia colonist.

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Biography

Katharine Hone


Name

Katherine /Hone/[1][2][3]
Name: Catherine /Beverly/[4]

Found multiple versions of NAME. Using Katherine /Hone/.

Birth

Date: 1643
Place: Middlesex, Virginia, USA[5]
Date: 1650
Place: Middlesex, Virginia, USA[6]

Found multiple copies of BIRT DATE. Using 1643

Marriage

Husband: @I143@
Wife: Katherine Hone
Marriage:
Date: 28 MAR 1679
Place: Christchurch, Middlesex, Virginia, USA[7][8][9]

Origin

Katherine was born about 1659. Katharine is a daughter of Theophilus Hone, and her mother's name is unknown.[10] She may have been born in Elizabeth City County. Her father was a Burgess representing that county on 25 November 1652.[10]

Parents and Maiden Name Now Resolved

The ancestry of Katherine, wife of 1) Robert Beverley, and 2) Christopher Robinson has previously been unclear. A great deal of the misunderstanding has centered around the wording of two wills which referred to Col. John Armistead and his wife, Judith. Their ancestry is particularly important because two of their descendants were Presidents William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison.

Robert Beverley's wife has been identified, erroneously, in several works, both old and new, as Katherine (Armistead) (Hone) Beverley. These include Lyon Gardiner Tyler's 1915 Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography and Darrell Rutman's 1984 A Place in Time: Middlesex County Virginia, 1650-1750. Other works have guessed correctly that she was a Hone, or have concluded her ancestry is unknown, but these were "without evidence or analysis," according to genealogist, Patricia L. Hatcher.[10]

Genealogists have discussed the meaning of the terms, "sister," and "brother-in-law," in these two wills concerning Col. John Armistead. Remembering that these words did not have the specific meanings of today, and looking at other records, Patricia Hatcher concludes that Katherine Hone, daughter of Theophilus Hone, married twice, 1st to Robert Beverley, and 2nd to Christopher Robinson.

Christopher Robinson wrote in his will of 27 January 1692/3:

I give and bequeath to my loving [brother], Col. John Armestead and to my loving sister, Mrs. Judith Armistead to each of them a ring of twenty shillings value for a remembrance of me." Executors included my loving brother Mr John Robinson my loving brother in law Coll. John Armistead.[10]

Note: The will of Christopher Robinson is in the possession of a descendant, and the meaning of the brackets around the word "brother" is unclear.[10]

The 26 August 1686 will of Robert Beverley gave his wife, Catherine,

my one half part of the one hundred acres of land and plantation in Gloster Countie, for the whole if I happen to purchase the same before my death, commonly called and knowed by the name the North River Quarter and now held in partnership betwixt my brother Col. John Armistead and myself.[10]

Additional records, including those of Christ Church, Middlesex County, Virginia were studied by Patricia L. Hatcher in an effort to resolve the question for once and for all. Robert Beverley married on 28 March 1678 to "Mrs. Katherine Hone." (Mrs was then a title used for an unmarried woman), and Christopher Robinson married on 17 November 1687 to "Mad'm Katherine Beverley." Portions of their respective wills are quoted above.[10] Both Theophilus Hone, the elder and Theophilus the younger were living when Katherine married Robert Beverley, so she could not have been the widow of either of them.[10] Robert Beverley administered the estate of Theophilus Hone, the elder, when he died intestate, (also, Katherine and Robert named a son Theophilus). Clearly, she was the daughter of Theophilus Hone, and not the daughter or sister of John Armistead.

This record from England puts any question to rest. In 1712, John Robinson, Bishop of Bristol, England, submitted testimony to the College of Heralds that his brother, Christopher Robinson had married, as his second wife, "Katherine, daur: of Theophilus Hone of Jamestown in Virginia, Relict of Major Robert Beverley."[10] Knowing this, the connections of Robert Beverley and Christopher Robinson to Col. John Armistead is clear.

They were "brothers" through their respective marriages to Katherine (Hone) (Beverley) Robinson, and Judith (Hone) Armistead. Katherine (Hone) and Judith (Hone) were sisters. They were both daughters of Theophilus Hone (his mother was named Judith). Katherine married to 1) Maj Robert Beverley, 2) Christopher Robinson, and her sister Judith married to Col John Armistead.[10]

Marriages

Katherine married twice.

  • She married 28 March 1678[9?] at Gloucester County,[11] as her 1st, and as his 2nd, to
    Maj Robert Beverley. They had at least three children.[10] He died 15 March 1686/7.[10][11]

Katherine was a member of Christ Church, Middlesex County, Virginia and therefore probably married there.[11]

Children

Children of Katherine and Robert Beverley:[10]

  1. William Beverley bpt 4 January 1680/01 (pg 16)[11]
  2. Thomas Beverley, d 20 Sept 1686
  3. Christopher Beverley, bpt 19 Mar 1686/7 (the day of his father's burial)

Above are the only children of Katherine and Robert Beverley reported by Hatcher. Others include the children below (unknown evidence, no source given here).

Child(ren) of Katherine and Christopher Robinson: at least one child, per Hatcher*[10]

  1. Elizabeth Robinson, bpt 20 Aug 1688, d 1695[12]
  2. Clara Robinson, 11 Oct 1689; m James Walker of Urbanna[12]
  3. Theophilus Robinson*, bpt 1 Jan 1690/1, bur 14 Apr 1691 (baptism and burial recorded at Christ Church)
Note: An interesting entry in The Parish Register of Christ Church ... Christenings:
William the Illegitimate Sone of Hannah Majo' Beverleys maid Jan' 8th 1681/2 [to clarify the date - entry made between a christening "17th Novemb' 1681" and one on "June 4th, 1682."] (pg 13).[11]

Death and Legacy

Katherine died 23 April 1692[10] at Hewick, Middlesex, Virginia.[13]

Sources

  1. Source: #S44 Page: Source number: 842.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: DPS
  2. Source: #S238
  3. Source: #S80 Page: Ancestry Family Tree
  4. Source: #S40
  5. Source: #S44 Page: Source number: 842.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: DPS
  6. Source: #S40
  7. Source: #S238
  8. Source: #S239
  9. Source: #S238
  10. 10.00 10.01 10.02 10.03 10.04 10.05 10.06 10.07 10.08 10.09 10.10 10.11 10.12 10.13 10.14 10.15 10.16 Hatcher, Patricia, L., (2012) "Identifying Judith Hone, Wife of John 2 Armistead of Virginia, with Hone and Aylmer Ancestry of Presidents William Henry and Benjamin Harrison." American Ancestors Journal. Boston, MA AmericanAncestors NEHGS (2012, Pages 352-64)
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 Christ Church Parish, The Parish Register of Christ Church, Middlesex County, Va., from 1653 to 1812. (Pages 13-16) Christ Church; National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. Richmond, Virginia: W. E. Jones, 1897, Archive.org accessed June1, 2015
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 (Jul, 1908) "The Robinson Family, of Middlesex, &c (Continued)." The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Virginia Historical Society JSTOR.org (Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 104-107).
  13. (Oct, 1908) "The Robinson Family, of Middlesex, &c (Continued)." The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Virginia Historical Society JSTOR.org (Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 215-217).
  • Repository: R-1780703862 Name: Ancestry.com
  • Source: S238 Author: Ancestry.com Title: Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014; Repository: #R1
  • Source: S40 Author: Godfrey Memorial Library, comp. Title: American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1999.Original data - Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library. Original data: Godfrey Memorial Library. American Gen; Repository: #R1
  • Source: S44 Author: Yates Publishing Title: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.Original data - This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was deriv; Repository: #R1
  • Source: S80 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.; Repository: #R1 NOTE This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created.

See also:

  • Genealogies of Virginia Families: From the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Volume V. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981. [The Robinson Family of Middlesex, &c., Virginia. pages 144-187.]
  • Tarter, Brent. "Major Robert Beverley (1635-1687)." Magazine of Virginia Genealogy 31, no. 3 (August 1993): 163-183.




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Hone-99 and Hone-102 appear to represent the same person because: Represent same person
posted on Hone-102 (merged) by Sabrina (Dirksen) Farr
Hone-121 and Hone-102 appear to represent the same person because: Represent same person
posted on Hone-102 (merged) by Sabrina (Dirksen) Farr
death 23 April 1692 is in Christ Church Parish register, page 53
posted on Hone-102 (merged) by Liz (Noland) Shifflett
Armistead-14 and Hone-102 appear to represent the same person because: Please see the biography in Hone-102, as we now know that Katherine/Catherine was actually the daughter of Theophilus Hone.

The merge needs to go INTO Hone-102 thus changing her last name at birth to the correct one, Hone.

Please approve if you agree. Thanks!

posted on Hone-102 (merged) by Cynthia (Billups) B
Armistead-217 and Hone-102 appear to represent the same person because: This merge needs to go INTO Hone-102, because that is the correct last name at birth. That is, if you agree that these represent the same person, and her birth name was Hone. See reference in Hone-102. Thanks!
posted on Hone-102 (merged) by Cynthia (Billups) B

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