Samuel Barclay (1726)

Ancestors

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Biography

Samuel was born in 1726. Samuel is the child of a John Barclay and Margaret Ker. ^[1]

Research Notes

Samuel's father has previously been shown on WikiTree as John Barclay of Ury d.1731. This stemmed from a presupposition that it was this John Barclay who married his mother Margaret Ker. There is no evidence for this relationship. A Y-DNA exercise completed October 2020 shows that this John Barclay of Ury was not the father of Margaret Ker's sons. In addition Douglas Richardson gives only one marriage for him, to Katherine LNAB Unknown, and names just one son, John.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ A source for this information is needed.
2. ↑ Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. I, p. 101, BARCLAY 18.ii, Google Books

{Source 1 Jonnie Adams Sisler at barjs@cybernet.com sent info from a bible in VA of James Barclay Carlsile of Loudon Co. VA stating the following births: Margaret Kerr b 6 Jul 1695 (NOTE should be 1691) Margaret Barclay b 9 Jan 1710/11 ( my ancestor Margaret m Richard King in grandfather, Walter Ker’s old Tennent Church ) and they removed to Rowan Co. NC, Elizabeth Barclay b 10 Jun 1716, Catherine Barclay b 24 Apr 1718, Robert Barclay b 3 Mar 1722/23, Samuel Barclay b 23 Mar 1725/26, Walter Barclay b 14 Feb 1728/29, Martha Brown b 5 Sep 1737 and Mary Brown 18 Nov 1740.

Source2 Margaret Kerr Barclay m James Brown after the death of her husband ??? Barclay. She left a will dated 1765, proved 1769 in Hunterdon Co. NJ. (used Barkley spelling) that named the 3 sons and Brown daughters but none of the Barclay daughters. ( moved away ?)