Margaret (Duncan) Thompson (abt. 1790 - bef. 1890)

Ancestors Descendants

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Marriage 1.2 Death 2 Sources

Biography

No original source records have been located to confirm birth or marriage records. It appears that some erroneous information may have been published, and perhaps republished/reported, making the “actual facts” obscure. These dates need further research/clarification before taken as "fact".

There is a great deal of conflicting information surrounding the Duncan Family – Many Source-to-Source discrepancies; co-mingling, Lack of records; conflicting family stories; number of Duncans with the same names; Birth date discrepancies versus Census Records.

Peggy Duncan daughter of John Duncan and Elizabeth Holtzclaw
Birth Estimate 1790 Montgomery Co. Virginia

Marriage

Peggy married Henry Thompson May 12 1813 , Montgomery, Virginia ^[1] Peggy Duncan married Henry Thompson May 12, 1813, in Montgomery County, Virginia.^[2] They migrated to Scott County, Tennessee.^[3]

IJ-198: 25 June 1825, John Duncan Sr. (signed John (X) Dunkan, no wife) to Henry Thompson and Peggy his wife, for love and affection to his dau. and son-in-law, 200 acres on Little River, and another tract "containing an unknown quantity of acres" on Sorrell Creek branch of Little River, except portion deeded to John Duncan Jr. from John Duncan Sr. Wit. John Bishop, William (X) Thompson, Henry Bishop. (FHL film 32,612)

Death

Estimated before 1890 in Virginia

Sources

1. ↑ Montgomery Co Records
2. ↑ Ancestry.com. Virginia, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1740-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. Original data: Dodd, Jordan R., et al.. Early American Marriages: Virginia to 1850. Bountiful, UT, USA: Precision Indexing Publishers.
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   Name: Peggy Duncan
   Gender: Female
   Spouse Name: Henry Thompson
   Spouse Gender: Male
   Marriage Date: 12 May 1813
   County: Montgomery
   State: Virginia

3. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCD1-X1D : accessed 7 October 2015), Margarett Thompson in household of H Thompson, Scott county, Scott, Tennessee, United States; citing family 249, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• Mary Ann Duncan Dobson "Duncan Research Files" (Consolidated, sourced and acknowledged); and the many Duncan Researchers that have provided information.
  

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See also:

• Digital Copy The Elbert Howell-Bertha Burnop Family of Floyd, Smyth and Montgomery Counties, Virginia: Including the Burnop, Duncan, Fischbach, Hanks, Heimbach, Holtzclaw, Howell, Hylton, Morricle, Otterbach, Pratt, Stuell, Vaughan, and Weddle Families by Greg Roseberry iUniverse, May 1, 2002 - History - 600 page (p.61-63)
• Grose, S. J. Floyd County Virginia Heritage p.91-93