Eleanor (Womack) Weaver (1710 - 1737)

Born 24 Jun 1710 in Augusta, Colony of Virginia

Wife of Thomas Weaver — married 20 Nov 1731 in Augusta, Virginia

Descendants

Died 1737 at about age 26 in Halifax, Halifax, Virginia

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Biography

Eleanor is supposedly a member of the family of Henry Womack of Accomack County, Virginia. The family's genealogy appears on a number of Internet sites, but investigation has failed to find evidence of their existence. Henry and his family members, including his are fabrications.^[1]

The following publications are cited on the Internet as a basis for the biographies of this family:

• The Womack & Allied Families by Thomas pub. 1932, p. 154
• Early Settlers of Mass. by Stull pp19-33
• Vital Records of Massachusetts by Stiles Vol 3 through 9

Robert Burke reports that he has searched the Library of Congress website, the familysearch.org catalog, and worldcat.org and has found no evidence for the existence of these publications; they are fake sources.

Supposedly Henry Womack (born circa 1652) and his wife Phoebe Rondall or Randall had many sons and grandsons in Accomack. Accomack has extant deed and will records back to the mid-1600s, but no Womack appears in the deed or will indexes. Additionally, no Womack appears in the 1704 Quit Rents of Accomack, which lists all land owners, nor do any of these Womacks appear in VA Land Patents. The 1704 list for Accomack also does not have the surnames of the families these Womack supposedly married into - Lansing, Lerner, Scranton, Creighton, etc. Furthermore, the Henry Womack genealogy has this family of Womacks moving into Augusta County, Virginia, long before that county was formed, and before there were white settlers there.

Burke states that the only known Womack family in Virginia was the one that started in Henrico County (the part which became Chesterfield County in 1749) in the 1670s and spread from there to the counties of Prince George, Goochland, Isle of Wight, Amelia, Prince Edward, Lunenburg, Halifax, etc. Yearly tax lists of all Virginia counties started circa 1782, and are complete for most counties from 1787 on, and the only Womacks that appear are the descendants of the Henrico family.

Additionally, Burke notes that the Womack genealogy is "too perfect," giving complete dates for almost all family members born in the 1600s and 1700s, and reporting maiden names for all early Womack wives.

Disputed Parents

Eleanor is said to be the daughter of Daniel Womack and Sarah (Liston) Womack however there is no reliable source/evidence that supports the parent-child relationships to Daniel or Sarah Womack

1. See the documentation in the biography of this profile
2. See the G2G discussion WikiTree G2G post by Robert Burke, March 16, 2018.
3. Impossible dates and relationships
4. A mother's death date (Womack-47 died 1737) should not be before one of her children's birth dates (Weaver-619 born 1738) . (365)
5. Sources referenced in bio can not be validated - Evidence indicates the sources do not exist
6. There are no reliable sources that support the parent-child relationship to Daniel Womack, or Sarah (Liston) Womack

Daniel Womack and Sarah (Liston) Womack are being de-linked as the parents of Eleanor (Womack) Weaver for lack of reliable sources to support their parent-child relationships

Sources

1. ↑ WikiTree G2G post by Robert Burke, March 16, 2018.