Edith (Morrison) Dabney (1631 - abt. 1680)

Born 8 May 1631 in Wales

Ancestors

Wife of Cornelius Dabney I — married 1653 (to after 29 Jun 1678) in New Kent County, Colony of Virginia

Descendants

Died about Feb 1680 at about age 48 in New Kent County, Colony of Virginia

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Biography

Edith (Morrison) Dabney was a Virginia colonist.

Edith Morrison was the daughter of Col. Francis Morrison (b. 1608 in Cassiobury House, Watford, Hertfordshire, England) who emigrated to Virginia as a young man. There he married a woman whose identity remains unknown and they had a daughter, Edith, on May 8, 1631, in an area that would later become Albemarle County, Virginia; at that time it was Henrico Shire of the British colony of Virginia. An old alternate spelling of this surname is "Moryson" but most records cite "Morrison".

Edith Morrison met and married Cornelius Dabney (aka Daubney, d'Aubigné) in 1653 in New Kent County, Virginia and their first child, James Dabney, was born there in May 1657.^[1]

In June 1678, Cornelius Dabney wrote a letter to his father-in-law in which he states that his wife would gladly send one of their (younger) sons to him (Colonel Morrison) in England, in a year or two. Unfortunately, Col. Morrison seems to have died about 1679. We do not know exactly when Edith (Morrison) Dabney died but it was after June 1678 and before Cornelius Dabney's marriage to Susanna (Unknown) in about 1682. Susannah Dabney's first child, Cornelius Dabney II, was born in April 1683.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Our Research Genealogy on RootsWeb - Cornelius Dabney
2. ↑ Charles William Dabney, "The Origin of the Dabney Family of Virginia," "Virginia Magazine of History and Biography," Apr 1937, Vol. 45, No. 2, p.134. Cited on: Our Research Genealogy on RootsWeb - Cornelius Dabney and see also: Caldwell and related families on RootsWeb - Col. Francis Morrison - Note by Chet Snow There seems to be a typo for Col. Morrison's death date on this web site as the June 1678 letter shows he was alive then; I have interpreted his death as 1679, not 1669, as written. The same source has Edith Morrison dying in 1698 but again this must be a typo as Cornelius remarried around 1682. Edith most-likely died in about 1680, following the birth of her last-born daughter, Mary Ann Dabney.

• Caldwell and related families on RootsWeb - Col. Francis Morrison
• "The Origin of the Dabney Family of Virginia," "Virginia Magazine of History and Biography," Apr 1937, Vol. 45, No. 2.
• Our Research Genealogy on RootsWeb - Cornelius Dabney
• Dabney Family History on Hylbom.com
• Moryson, Edith. ancestry.com ([1]): cited 27 March 2016

Acknowledgements

• Thank you to Ronald Rideout for creating WikiTree profile Edith-6 through the import of info.ged on 30 December 2010.

• Thank you to Jennifer Gorton for creating WikiTree profile Morrison-2474 on Dec 9, 2012.

• Thank you to Travis Wagner for creating WikiTree profile Moryson-1 on May 16, and August 28, 2012.

• Thank you to Mark McKinney for creating WikiTree profile Morrison-3688 on Friday, January 10, 2104.

• WikiTree profile Morrison Dabney D'Aubigne-1 was created by Shasta Seagle through the import of Seagle Family Tree.ged on Apr 8, 2014.
• Records show that Cornelius was in Virginia in 1664 with his wife, Eedeth, and that he had at least two sons.Source: DAB>https://familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/3721783
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=clcaldwell&id=I119800
• https://www.geni.com/people/Edith-Dabney/6000000008933500084?through=6000000001396118389
• https://www.geni.com/people/Edith-Dabney/6000000008933500084?through=6000000001396118389