Sarah Ann Billingsley, daughter of William and Sarah (Bowman) Billingsley, was born in Virginia in 1652. She married John Billingsley in 1669. They had two known children (William and Mary). Sarah Ann died in 1712.
Said to have married a cousin, Davis shows her husband's parents as Francis and Ann (Hale) Billingsley. As of 30 Jan. 2019, WikiTree connections show no connection between Francis Billingsley-74 & Sarah Ann Billingsley-45 and shows her and John Billingsley-58 as third cousin, twice removed.
"Billingsley Book" by Colonel Davis. The Billingsley Family (Billingsly - Billingslea) in America, by Harry Alexander Davis, Washington, D.C., 1936 (available online; archive.org link - 2016 capture by the WayBack Machine, accessed 20 November 2020)
comments in GenForum about accuracy of Davis's book include these posts: #1281 and #907.
S17: Ancestry Family Trees (Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members).
S40: Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Individual Records Publication (Ancestry Online publication, 2000). Text: Birth 1652, VA
Acknowledgements
The WikiTree profile Billingsley-45 was created through the import of breesefam.ged on 09 May 2011. It included the user ID 2D4B1658-7EE4-440F-9B8B-715D0C6908BB and the record ID number MH:I354.
The WikiTree profile UNKNOWN-103096 was created for Sarah Ann through the import of Hughes Family Tree.ged on Aug 26, 2011 by Kenneth Hughes.
The WikiTree profile UNKNOWN-245332 was created by David Higgs through the import of Brown-12 Generations_2014-07-23.ged on Jul 23, 2014. Source citations: S17 and S40.
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Hi Profile Managers & others. I've added Linda as a manager of this profile, as she has fresh insight on the Virginia Billingsleys. To facilitate her work, I have detached John Billingsley-58, grandson of Henry Billingsley and Agatha Houtsman, as Sarah Ann's husband. Existing evidence does not support that the children of Henry & Agatha's son John left descendants. (I thought John's son John was the best candidate for her husband, being of the right age/in the right place and a more distant cousin than the other candidate, Francis's son John - Francis being the brother of her father William.)
see notes I posted about Davis's Billingsley book on http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Billingsley-74 (Davis book says Sarah Ann married a cousin... questions I have about two Francis Billingsleys - one m Ann Hale & one married Susan Gover - may, when verified, show that Sarah Ann and John shared a name but not lineage, although the Davis book seems pretty solid in its information once in America - the book's available online at http://thebillingsleys.net/theBillingsleys/THE%20BILLINGSLEY%20FAMILY.htm ). Cheers, Liz
Cheers, Liz
edited by Liz (Noland) Shifflett