Born in Winchester, Frederick, Virginia
Ancestors 
Daughter of Peter Julian
and Mary (Beals) Julian
Wife of
Joseph Field
— married
1760 in Rowan, North Carolina
Wife of
William Armfield Sr.
— married
1783 in Guilford, North Carolina
Descendants 
Mother of
Mary (Fields) Parsons, Anne Nancy (Field) Coltrane, Lydia (Field) Short, Patience (Field) Parsons and Joseph B Armfield
Died
at about age 73
in Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina, USA
Profile last modified
| Created 29 Apr 2013
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Biography
Lydia Julian was born in 1746, in Winchester, Frederick county, Virginia, a daughter of George Julian and Hannah Madden. About 1768, Lydia married Joseph Field, who died October 7, 1780, at the Battle of Kings Mountain, in York county, South Carolina, during the American Revolutionary War. The known children of Joseph Field and Lydia Julian are:
- William Field(s), born 1761, in Orange county, North Carolina, died 1800, in Liberty Township, Randolph county, North Carolina, married Charity York, in 1785
- Peter Field 1768-1815 m. Charlotte Vickrey, in 1788
- Mary Field 1770-1820 m. James William Parsons, a son of George Parsons
- Patience Field married Evan Parsons
- Nancy Ann Field, born April 12, 1773, in Guilford county, North Carolina, died May 26, 1818, married James Coltrane, born October 12, 1771, a son of William Coltrane
- Lydia Field, born November, 1776, died October, 1850, in Franklin county, Missouri married Samuel W. Short, a son of Aaron Short and Sarah Bird Oldham
About 1783, Lydia married, secondly, William Armfield born in 1720, in Pennsylvania, a son of John Armfield, 1695-1792, and a widower of Mary Hamilton. William had migrated with Quakers, led by his father in 1765, to Guilford, North Carolina. William furnished supplies for the North Carolina Militia and is honored for his Patriotic Service by the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution as DAR Ancestor #A003041.
Lydia and William both had children from their first marriages, and became the parents of two more sons, one who died young. The son that lived to adulthood is:
- Joseph B. Armfield, born October 13, 1785, in Pomona Guilford county, North Carolina, died December 25, 1880, in Guilford county, married Eleanor Stevenson
Lydia (Julian) Field-Armfield died in 1819, in Guilford county, North Carolina and is buried in the churchyard of the Walnut Grove Primitive Baptist Church. [1]
Sources
Acknowledgments
- Thank you to Rena Donze for creating WikiTree profile Julian-481 through the import of Bocock Family Tree.ged on Apr 20, 2013
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Lydia by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Lydia:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Lydia by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Lydia:
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~0.78%
Gale Rivers
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A790725 [compare], Ancestry member galerivers1
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~0.39%
Janice (Harper) Robertson :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A715228 [compare], Ancestry member Janlyr
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Rena (Bocock) Donze
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This profile was inherited by me. If there is confusion as to parentage, any help would be appreciated to clarify. Please don't forget to add sources of documentation. I am currently unable to see due to macular degeneration to do any research.
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