Anne (Gorsuch) Oldton
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Anne Lovelace (Gorsuch) Oldton (bef. 1639 - bef. 1702)

Anne Lovelace "Johanna" Oldton formerly Gorsuch aka Jones, Todd
Born before in Walkern, Hertfordshire, Englandmap [uncertain]
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married 1657 in Hartford, Cheshire, Englandmap
Wife of — married 16 Jan 1678 [location unknown]
Wife of — married before Aug 1693 in Baltimore County, Marylandmap [uncertain]
Descendants descendants
Died before at about age 63 in Baltimore, Baltimore County, Marylandmap
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Biography

Name

Anna, sometimes called Ann or Joanna was born at Walkern Hertfordshire. [1]

1638/39 Birth and Parentage

The daughter of John Gorsuch and Anna Lovelace, she was baptized on 13 March 1638/9 at Walkern, Hertfordshire, England. [2][3] She was a daughter of Rev. John Gorsuch, rector of Walkern, Herfordshire, and his wife, Anne Lovelace, daughter of Sir William Lovelace and sister of the poet, Richard Lovelace.[2] [4]

She is believed to be identical with Johanna, named in her grandmother's Will. [5]

Rev. John Gorsuch was a Loyalist Anglican clergyman, the rector of Walkern, Hertfordshire, who had been killed by the Puritans in England in 1647.[6]

Anna Gorsuch was a sister of Richard Gorsuch (1637-1677). Richard Gorsuch had come into Maryland from Virginia in 1660, with his brothers, Charles, Robert, and Lovelace. By the time that Anna Lovelace,Gorsuch emigrated to Virginia, probably being influenced thereto by the fact that Mrs. Gorsuch's brother, Colonel Francis Lovelace, settled in Virginia Colony in or soon after May, 1650, and was of Record there in may, 1652. [7]

The Gorsuch Family arrived in Virginia prior to February 22, 1652, is found in Virginia Land Patent Book Number3, pp. 187-188. On that date one Theo.Hoane, Gent., was granted two parcels of land, eight hundred and fifty acres in all, on the north side of Rappahannock River, due him for the transportation of eighteen persons, seven of whom were: Robert Gorsuch, Richard Gorsuch, Anne Gorsuch, Elizabeth Gorsuch, Charles Gorsuch, Lovelace Gorsuch, and Kath Gorsuch. [8]

Anna Lovelace and Rev. John Gorsuch were married in or before 1628 and had a total of 12 children which are Daniel-(b.1628), John-(b.1630), William-(b.1631/32), Katherine-(b.1633), Robert-(b.1635), Richard-(b.1637), Anna-(1638/39), Elizabeth-(b.1641), Phillip, Charles, Lovelace, and Frances all of whom were born in England. [9] [1]

1657 North Point, Patapsco River, Baltimore County, Maryland

In 1657, Anna's brothers petitioned the Lancaster County Court for guardians, and Anna was not included, though she was a minor at the time.[2] This implies she was married by that date, 1657. At the time, Capt. Thomas Todd was living at Mobjack Bay, Gloucester County, Virginia.[2] A few years later, Thomas and Anna removed to North Point on the Patapsco River in Maryland.[2]

Marriages

Anna married three times.[3]

Their known children are listed here, Thomas-(1660-1724), Christopher, James, William, Phillip, Joanna, Frances, and Averilla. [11] [2]

  • She married on 16 January 1677/8, as her 2nd, and as his 2nd, to Capt. David Jones. They had no children together, though David Jones had a son, Joshua born after 1643 in Wales, by his first marriage. He died between 3 February 1686/7 (will written) and March 1, 1686/7 (probate requested by Anna, executrix).[2]

1657 First Marriage to Capt. Thomas Todd

Anna married c. 1657, probably in Virginia, as her 1st, to Capt. Thomas Todd.[10]

Thomas Todd of Toddesburg, Ware Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia, came to Baltimore County, Maryland, and settled there in 1664. He owned the original site upon which Baltimore now is located. He came originally from England in 1637; was a member of the Maryland Assembly 1674-1675; he died 30 May 1675 while on a voyage to England and was buried at sea; his will was dated 26th February, 1675, and probated 30th May, 1677.

Richard Gorsuch had come into Maryland from Virginia in 1660, with his brothers, Charles, Robert, and Lovelace. They were the sons of a Loyalist Anglican clergyman, the Rev. John Gorsuch, rector of Walkern, Hertfordshire, who had been killed by the Puritans in England in 1647.[6] They had emigrated with their mother to Virginia about 1652, had become converts to Quakerism there, and were of that group of Quakers who had been driven out of Lancaster County by Gov. Berkeley in 1660. The brothers had divided, Charles and Robert settling on the Patapsco, and Richard and Lovelace on the Choptank. [12][13]

1677 Second Marriage to Captain David Jones

She married on 16 January 1677/8,[citation needed] as her 2nd, and as his 2nd, to Capt. David Jones. They had no children together, though David Jones had a son, Joshua born after 1643 in Wales, by his first marriage. He died between February 3, 1686/7 (will written) and March 1, 1686/7, when his wife and executrix, "Ann Jones," petitioned the Prerogative Court of Baltimore to have his will proved.[2]

After the death of Captain Thomas Todd, his widow Ann Gorsuch Todd married Captain David Jones, who lived at Cole's Harbor, part of the site of the city of Baltimore. Captain Jones, who gave his name to Jones Falls, the stream which runs through Baltimore, arising in the Green Spring Valley, had a dwelling house at what is approximately the corner of High and Fayette Streets in downtown Baltimore. This tract, originally Cole's Harbor, was later repatented by James Todd, son of Captain Thomas Todd, and called Todd's Range. It extended from Broadway on the east to Howard Street on the west, the northern boundary being Madison Street and the southern boundary the Baltimore waterfront. When Baltimore Town was established in 1729 Todd's Range was subdivided into building lots.[citation needed]

1688 Third Marriage to Captain John Oldton

  • She married c. 1688, as her 3rd, to Capt. John Oldton.[3] They had no children. John died between May 4, 1709 (will written) and June 30, 1709 (will probated) (P 439).[2]

Children

Children of Thomas Todd and Anna Gorsuch (from the will of Thomas Todd, Sr and from deeds):[2] There were four daughters and four sons (P 440).[2]

  1. Thomas Todd, eldest b 1660
  2. Robert Todd living on Aug 16, 1664 (deed of gift)
  3. Ann Todd
  4. John Todd living on Aug 16, 1664 (deed of gift)
  5. Johanna Todd
  6. Frances Todd
  7. James Todd (P 433), probably the youngest son
  8. Averilla "Aberill" Todd, prob b after April 5, 1669

This child is included by some, without citation:

  1. Isabella Minor Todd
Name:Isabella Minor Todd
Father:Thomas Captain Todd
Mother:Anne Gorsuch
Birth Date:1663
State:VA
Country:USA
Spouse Birth year: 1663
Marriage Year: 1690
Marriage State: VA
Number Pages: 1

Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations 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 derived from an array of materials including pedigree charts, family history articles, querie. [3]

1671 Son John and the Howard Connection

In 1671 Cornelius Howard was named guardian to John Todd, son of Anne Gorsuch and Capt. Thomas Todd.[14]

The origin of Cornelius Howard's wife Elizabeth has been much debated among genealogists. If she was Elizabeth Gorsuch, sister of Anne, then Cornelius would have been the uncle by marriage to Anne's son John.

Such a relationship is seconded by the naming of Cornelius, in Captain John Sisson's 1663 will, of Cornelius not only as executor of his will, but as "brother." [14]John Sisson was married to another of Anne's sisters, Frances Gorsuch.

In the 1690 will of Lancelot Todd, son of Anne Gorsuch and Capt. Thomas Todd, Elizabeth is named as daughter Mary Todd's "Aunt Elizabeth Howard."[14]

Death and Legacy

Anna died between May 23, 1694, when she witnessed the will of Edith Beacher, and September 2, 1702, when John Oldton was married, as his 2nd wife, to Mary Watkins (P 439).[2] Anna may have died before November 13, 1697 when John Oldton executed a deed with no wife joining.[2] She almost certainly died at Baltimore County, Maryland, where she lived.

Anna's death date is identified as (exact) May 24, 1695, without citation.[citation needed] This is almost certainly not correct, and may simply be the day after her last known signed document, (the will of Edith Beacher on May 23, 1694).

1662 Named in Will of Grandmother Alice

Johanna Gorsuch, daughter of "my son John", was named in the July 7, 1662 will of his grandmother Alice (Hall) Gorsuch, of Weston, Co. Hertford, spinster, widow of Daniel Gorsuch, proved February 3, 1662-3 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, to receive an equal division among six grandchildren of "my lease for about five years yet to come, of about £52 a year in the parish of St. Olave, Southwark, payable by Frances Wilkinsonne and Richard Daniell. [15]

Research Notes

Note that there is considerable discussion that Anna Gorsuch and her sister Joanna were one person, rather than two. Note in this context that Joanna is named in the 1662 will of her grandmother Alice (Hall) Gorsuch, but Anna is not.

All of Rev. John and Anne (Lovelace) Gorsuch children's records have now been found, but we still have the question of whether Anna was identical to Joanna, or were they two different daughters. There was a discovery in the "Bishop's Transcripts" of the Walkern Parish Register of the baptism of Joanna Gorsuch, on March 15, 1639/40, found written in the wrong place, among the marriages for 1639 (pg 425).[2]

J. Hall Pleasants, who authored the many articles on the Gorsuch and Lovelace families in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, believes the entry for Joanna was just a duplication of the entry for Anna. He contends that the correct entry is March 13, 1638/9, because Anna must have been married when she did not join her siblings in their 1656 petition for guardians.[2]

However, there could have been two daughters, Anna and Joanna, where Anna was married while Joanna had died before the petition in 1656. It would be a complex error with both the day and year different - possible but unusual.

Note that Joanna but not Anna is named in the 1662 will of Alice (Hall) Gorsuch.

There is no separate baptism for a Joanna Gorsuch at Walkern. The record for a baptism on 15 Mar is for Anna Gorsuch, baptised 15 Mar 1638/39 so the same person as Gorsuch-26.

Alt death 18 Jan 1676 at Gloucester Virginia is unsourced and may refer to a different Joanna Gorsuch.

Sources

  1. "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J3KL-T5H : 11 February 2018, Anna Gorsuch, 13 Mar 1638); citing , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 991,399.
  2. 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 Pleasants, J. Hall, "The Gorsuch and Loverlace (sic) Families (Continued): Anna Gorsuch and the Todd Family of Virginia and Maryland." The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Oct., 1916), pp. 425-440, Virginia Historical Society, JSTOR.org accessed April 19, 2015
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Fisher, Barbara Ann, Descendancy of Barbara [--?-- (b 1653) and Descendancy of Dennis Garrett (b 1651) ...] (pp 6a2-3) March 2007, accessed December 10, 2014
  4. "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J3KL-T5H : 11 February 2018, Anna Gorsuch, 13 Mar 1638); citing , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 991,399.
  5. Musser and allied families : a genealogical study with biographical notes [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: Musser and allied families : a genealogical study with biographical notes. New York: The Company, 1941
  6. 6.0 6.1 Pleasants, J. Hall, "The Gorsuch and Lovelace Families" The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Jan., 1916), pp. 81-93, Virginia Historical Society, JSTOR.org accessed April 19, 2015
  7. Musser and allied families : a genealogical study with biographical notes [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: Musser and allied families : a genealogical study with biographical notes. New York: The Company, 1941.
  8. Musser and allied families : a genealogical study with biographical notes [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: Musser and allied families : a genealogical study with biographical notes. New York: The Company, 1941.
  9. Musser and allied families : a genealogical study with biographical notes [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: Musser and allied families : a genealogical study with biographical notes. New York: The Company, 1941.
  10. 10.0 10.1 Witcraft, John R., The Virginia Todds. Frankford, PA: Dispatch Publishing House, 1913, Archive.org, accessed December 13, 2014
  11. Maryland Genealogical and Memorial Encyclopedia [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Original data: Spencer, Richard Henry, ed.. Genealogical and Memorial Encyclopedia of the State of Maryland. Baltimore, MD, USA: Clearfield, 1919
  12. Pleasants, J. Hall, "The Gorsuch and Lovelace Families (Continued)" The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, (Vol. 24, No. 3 (Jun., 1916), pp. 317-327)
  13. Pleasants, J. Hall, "The Gorsuch and Lovelace Families (Concluded)" (Vol. 27, No. 3/4 (Jul. - Oct., 1919), pp. 379-392)
  14. 14.0 14.1 14.2 Newman, Anne Arundel Gentry, pages 261, cited by Becky Fox, Email <beckfox @ aol.com> (28 Jun 2003) at http://dgmweb.net/FGS/H/HowardMathew-Anne_.html. Accessed May 13, 2015
  15. The Gorsuch and Lovelace Families, by J. H. P., Baltimore, Md. Virginia Historical Magazine, pp. 85-86. https://archive.org/stream/jstor-4243492/4243492_djvu.txt. Accessed Feb 10, 2016

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posted by Scott McClain
Gorsuch-467 and Gorsuch-26 appear to represent the same person because: Both of these profiles represent Anna Gorsuch who married first Thomas Todd (Todd-660), then later married [2] David Jones & [3] John Oldton, as described in "The Gorsuch and Loverlace Families (Continued)," Virginia Magazine of History & Biography 24 (1916):425; image, JSTOR (https://www.jstor.org/stable/4243555 : accessed 3 Dec 2021)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4243555.

posted by Scott McClain
Isn't she related to Charlemagne the Great? Per this link, https://www.charlemagne.org/Gateway.html she is on the list of gateway ancestors to Charlemagne. I am also showing I'm her 9th great neice.
posted by [Living Witt]
Gorsuch 26 and Gorsuch 467 appear to be the same person because they have the same name and are both married to Thomas Todd
posted by Robert Gang
Gorsuch-26 and Gorsuch-411 appear to represent the same person because: duplicate person in my family tree
posted by Theresia Kennedy
Hi Hannah, I am removing the project protection from this profile as it is well-sourced and does not appear to meet the revised criteria for protection. See Help Index PPPs for more information. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you would like to discuss. Thanks for caring for this profile. Gillian, Leader, England Project.
posted by Gillian Thomas
Gorsuch-175 and Gorsuch-26 appear to represent the same person because: There is no separate baptism for Anne and Joanna. The only baptism is for Anna Gorsuch at Walkern. Unless there is a source for the death of Joanna in Virginia, these two profiles seem to represent the same person and should be merged. Thanks for reviewing.
posted by Gillian Thomas
After carefully inspecting the images of the two versions of the parish register for Walkern on Find My Past and doing several alternative searches, it seems that the only baptisms are for Anna Gorsuch on 13 Mar 1638/39, and a copy of the register with the baptism recorded on 15 Mar 1638/39. There is no record for a separate Joanna Gorsuch, and it seems that the profile for Joanna should be merged with this profile. I'll go ahead and propose the merge for review. Thanks
posted by Gillian Thomas
Is project protection still needed here?
posted by Jillaine Smith
Gorsuch-215 and Gorsuch-175 appear to represent the same person because: Both are named Joanna and both are daughters of the same parents.
posted by Jack Day

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