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Isabella (Unknown) Teague (1693 - aft. 1751)

Isabella Teague formerly [surname unknown]
Born in Baltimore County, Province of Marylandmap [uncertain]
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of — married 1714 in Cecil County, Province of Marylandmap
Descendants descendants
Died after after age 58 in Rowan County, North Carolinamap
Profile last modified | Created 6 Aug 2010
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Disambiguation

Information regarding the wife of William Teague is disputed. Until adequate documentation resolving the issues becomes available, these three profiles are being maintained separately:

  • Isabella Unknown. Information and documentation related to Isabella, wife of William Teague, who may or may not also be Isabella Loftin and/or Isabella Pennington.
  • Isabella Loftin Information and documentation related to Isabella Loftin, who may or may not also be Isabella Pennington and Isabella, wife of William Teague.
  • Isabella Pennington Information and documentation related to Isabella Pennington, who may or may not also be Isabella Loftin and Isabella, wife of William Teague.

Biography

Birth and Parents

The maiden name of Isabella, wife of William Teague of Maryland, is not known. Her maiden name has yet to be found in any documents of the period. With her maiden name unknown all information regarding her date and place of birth is speculation and undocumented.

William Teague's wife Isabella is sometimes identified as Isabella Pennington, Isabella Loftin, Isabella Pennington Loftin or Isabella Loftin Pennington. See discussion below and under the separate profiles for Isabella Pennington and Isabella Loftin in order to keep facts associated with each name distinguishable.

1715 Marriage

When Isabella was in her early twenties, she married William Teague. The marriage took place Sep 01, 1715 in Spesutie Hundred, Baltimore, Maryland [1]

Alternatives dates for Isabella's marriage range from 1705 to 1715, e.g., 1715 in Cecil County,Maryland; and between 1705 and 1710 in Cecil County, Maryland[2]

Children

Isabella bore William numerous children, perhaps as many as thirteen. In order to avoid conflicts between her profile and her husband's, their children are discussed on William's profile.

Death

A record of Isabella's date and place of death has not been found however it would appear it is most likely she died in Rowan County, North Carolina. Dates of death range from 1751 to 1762 and some sources claim she died in Rowan County, Maryland which has ever existed.

Research Notes

Disputed Origins

The maiden name of the wife of William Teague is Unknown. There are claims that she is a Pennington, claims that she is a Loftin, and nowhere has her maiden name been found recorded. All claims regarding her parentage are conjecture. Please do not reattach parents to this profile without discussion with the profile managers, relevant project leaders, and primary source documentation. All purported parents including William Loftin and Elizabeth Innes have been detached from this profile.

Was Isabella Unknown really Isabella Loftin or Isabella Pennington?

At http://www.teagueonline.freeserve.co.uk/R&B/MD1002.html (archived at Wayback Machine) we find this statement... Steve Connolly (connolly AT twics.com) writes: "Occasionally, the following is published on various genealogy sites as fact: William Teague b. ca 1693, Cecil County, MD, wife Isabella Loftin b. 19 Dec 1693. However, several very assiduous researchers have been UNABLE to verify that. It is also possible that the wife referred to was Isabella Pennington (ca 1697, Cecil County, MD). One of those researchers, Ashley Loftin, was kind enough to send me photocopies of records that he had examined during his years of hands-on research. Indeed, there is no reference to anyone but an Isabell/Isabella. This is an on-going unsolved gap in our information. Unless solid evidence has come to light (evidence many of us would love to examine), please be advised that this controversy exists for both the Loftin/Lofton researchers and the Pennington researchers. We all have to remain vigilant about publishing conjecture as fact."Lynette Jester

Some records show that Isabel was married first to John Pennington, her maiden name was Isabell Loftin so she was Isabell Pennington, a widow when she married William Teague. All the Pennington confusion arises from this first marriage if, in fact, it took place. I have chosen to list Isabella in my files with her maiden name, Loftin. [1]

"Some sources, including Family Search Ancestral File, have Isabella's surname as Pennington, but according to Patsy Elaine Morin (a descendant of Elijah Teague and Sarah Morgan) who has court records from Benton (now Calhoun) County Alabama, her understanding is that Pennington was a married name and that Isabella was widowed when she married William Teague. [3]

An extensive Internet posting by Ed Bergeron at www.Genforum.com listing 6 generations of descendants of Edward Teague (1655) shows Isabella Pennington as the daughter of Abraham Pennington and his wife Mary. After evaluating all the sources I have personally seen, I believe Isabella was a Loftin by birth. Abraham and Mary Pennington were possibly her 1st husband's parents?

I have seen no sources with real evidence that she was the daughter of Abraham Pennington, and the Loftin family has more than one source which connects her to William Loftin as father. These same sources show she was the sister of Thomas Loftin who was the father of Elizabeth Loftin who married Moses Teague (Isabella's son) - i.e., Moses Teague and Elizabeth Loftin were 1st cousins.

An Ashley Loftin pedigree chart lists Isabella (shown as Isabell) w/death date of 1731. I have seen another approximate death date (unconfirmed) of 1737. Another unconfirmed Internet source has a death date/place for Isabella as 1762 in Rowan County, North Carolina. I have posted an Email to this source (listed only as "Kathleen" requesting more sources on this (as of 9-15-99)." More About William Teague and Isabella Loftin:

Information related to Isabella Loftin or to Isabella Pennington is posted on their separate profiles.

Speculation from Naming Patterns

According to Dutch/German naming patterns, the first son is named after the Paternal G-father (Edward) and the second son after the Maternal G-father. (Moses?) If either Isabella Pennington or Isabelle Loftin was the Mother, then the second son should be William or Abraham.

Granted, this naming pattern was not followed 100% of the time, and is really more of a clue than a definitive guide. But the first son was Edward...

I am not having any luck with finding "First" sources thus far, but I have found some convincingly documented websites listing Land Transfers and Church Records. One such website, Ancestors of Sherry Lynn Sorrells makes clear that Isabella Teague signed off her dowery* on land transfers up until Sept of 1736. All else is speculative. With the scarcity of records available, I feel it is too presumptuous to assume that the 2 eligible Isabells we have records for are the only 2 Isabells of the given time period. We know Isabella E. Pennington married in 1714. We know Isabelle Lofton was born in 1696. We don't know if either married William Teague to become the Isabell Teague that signed the land records.

To speculate either way is to take the tree in a completely different direction than the other. Both women exsisted. Both Families exsisted. But either and/or neither could be the spouse of William.

That being said, wouldn't it be most appropriate to leave the spouse of William as "unknown" and notate possible connections to the consolidated profiles of both Isabelle Loftin and Isabella E. Pennington in his Bio? Phillip Rich

Was Isabella born Isabella Pennington?

It is also possible that the wife referred to was Isabella Pennington (ca 1697, Cecil County, MD).

Was Isabella born Isabella Loftin?

U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 View Record Name William Teague Gender Male Birth Place MD Birth Year 1693 Spouse Name Isabella Loftin Spouse Birth Place MD Spouse Birth Year 1693 Marriage Year 1714 Marriage State MD Number Pages 1 Household Members Name Age Isabella Loftin William Teague

  • She didn't sign off her dowery, she signed off her DOWER or Dowager Rights, aka Widow's share or 1/3 of the value of the estate with the children splitting 2/3 in most cases. Signing off on Dowager Rights usually means the husband is selling the land, so the wife agrees that once the sale is made, she has lost all rights to a widow's share of that property.

And at http://www.teagueonline.freeserve.co.uk/R&B/MD1002.html (archived at Wayback Machine) we find this statement... Steve Connolly (connolly AT twics.com) writes: "Occasionally, the following is published on various genealogy sites as fact: William Teague b. ca 1693, Cecil County, MD, wife Isabella Loftin b. 19 Dec 1693. However, several very assiduous researchers have been UNABLE to verify that.

One of those researchers, Ashley Loftin, was kind enough to send me photocopies of records that he had examined during his years of hands-on research. Indeed, there is no reference to anyone but an Isabell/Isabella. This is an on-going unsolved gap in our information. Unless solid evidence has come to light (evidence many of us would love to examine), please be advised that this controversy exists for both the Loftin/Lofton researchers and the Pennington researchers. We all have to remain vigilant about publishing conjecture as fact."Lynette Jester

DNA

William Teague and Isabella are the MRCAs for all three descendants.

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 Jerry Scott, Contributor. Find A Grave: Memorial #109776879 Profile for William Teague. Note: this memorial contains some references but no grave marker image.
  2. Isabella Lofton, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900", Yates Publishing, Date: ?. Page: Source number: 24032.002; Source type: Pedigree chart; Note: this index by itself is not documentation.
  3. From Ancestors of William Teague Gedcom file 574081.ged, posted on Find a Grave

See also:

  • Early Anglican Church Records of Cecil Co, MD, St. Mary Anne's Parish Register 1709-1799; North Elk.
  • Henry C Peden, Jr., Marylanders to Carolina, BIBL Henry C Peden, Jr.
  • U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900", Yates Publishing, Date: ?.
  • Joseph F. Mullane, Lloyd B. Swain and Marjorie Decker Johnson, comps. The Swaim-Tysen Family of Staten Island, New York, New Jersey, and Southern States, Vol. I copyright 1984. Vol. II copyright 1987.
  • The National Archives; Washington, D.C.; Ledgers of Payments, 1818-1872, to U.S. Pensioners Under Acts of 1818 Through 1858 From Records of the Office of the Third Auditor of the Treasury; Record Group Title: Records of the Accounting Officers of the Department of the Treasury; Record Group Number: 217; Series Number: T718; Roll Number: 18
See also (Family Trees and Gedcom Files):
  • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File. Data as of 5 January 1998.
  • Barbara Susan Jones, GEDCOM File : arimathwaite.ged Note: 807 Chestnut St , Everson, WA 98247. Data as of 18 Mar 2004.
  • SR[1].ged. Date: 18 Mar 2004.
  • TEAGUE3.ged. Date: 18 Mar 2004
  • TEAGUE2.ged
  • GEDCOM File : 2837505.ged Data: Date: 29 Mar 2004
  • GEDCOM File : 2842984.ged Data: Date: 3 Apr 2004
  • GEDCOM File : 2922919.ged Data: Date: 11 Jul 2004
  • Ancestry Family Trees.

Merge Notes

Please don't remove

  • Another merge completed May 15, 2017 on top of the ones below
  • Profile involved in a bad merge. Several merges have taken place although note placed on profile about not merging. Note was merged along with the merges so there have been at least two more merges since.

Penington-7 (name)Isabella Penington (birth)1696 (parents) Edward Pennington (Pennington-1092) & Sarah Jennings (Jennings-1214)

Loftin-40 (name)Isabella Elizabeth Loftin (Birth) 1693-12-19 Baltimore (Death)1751-11-12 Chatham Co (parents)William Loftin(Loftin-37) Elizabeth Innes (Ives-105)mother was innes-6

loftin-29 Father William Teague(Teague-169) Mother Isabella Loftin (Loftin-29)

Unknown-75774 Had father as William Teague (Teague-223) Mother Isabella E. Unknown (UNKNOWN-75774)

' Merges

Penington-7
Loftin-3
UNKNOWN-75774
  1. 3 Loftin-40 into Loftin-3
  2. 2 Loftin-29 into Loftin-3
  3. 4 Penington-7 into Loftin-3
  4. 1 Loftin-141 into Loftin-3
  5. Loftin-31

Changes Tab

Acknowledgements

  • Thanks to Michael Welborn and Paula Marksman
  • WikiTree profile Loftin-29 was created through the import of Paula's family 5-28-2011.GED on May 29, 2011 by Paula Marksman.
  • WikiTree profiles UNKNOWN-75774 and Loftin-32 were created through the import of Pool.ged on Jun 8, 2011 by Herb Poole.
  • WikiTree profile Loftin-36, Loftin-40, and Pennington-697 were created through the import of Shurtliff Family.ged on Jun 20, 2011 by Mark Shurtliff.
  • WikiTree profile Penington-7 was created through the import of edd2a4e7-6f96-40c4-bc6e-fb0f4f3bcbd3.ged on Aug 20, 2012 by Michael Welborn.
  • Lofton-149 was created by Andrea Bulgier through the import of Jonathan Frost.ged on Jan 27, 2015.




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Not sure if it helps or you’ve already seen it, but here’s a birth record for Isabell Lofton daughter of William Lofton born at Muskets Creek the 19th day of December 1693. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS3L-Z9R7-D?from=lynx1UIV8&treeref=L8WX-VP3
posted by Mary (Odgers) Wandler
I've re-edited this profile to (1) try to restrict it to information related to the Isabella we know as William Teague's wife and (2) to reduce the confusion about children by moving all the documentation of children to her husband William's profile. Any information related to Isabella as a Pennington or Isabella as a Loftin needs to be on their separate profiles, as we have no proof as to which, if either, was William Teague's wife.

I left intact some speculative comments from other sources regarding Isabella, whether a Pennington or Loftin or both, since it's hard to assign that to one of the three profiles and it may contain thoughts useful to guide our continuing research.

posted by Jack Day
Please remove Teague-490 (Franky Teague (Watts) McDaniel as a child of this mother. She isn't a child of William Teague, but probably his (and Isabella's) grandchild since she is supposed to be Isaac's daughter, if we can figure him out. Thank you
I'm confused; I can't see that she is a child of this mother.
posted by [Living Prickett]
That is because another profile manager already removed the connection.
posted by Ellen Smith
This family has become quite confused because of the lack of documentation. If you have reliable sources for who was and was not a child of William Teague, they would be most welcome!
posted by Jack Day
9 of the 12 listed above are found in St Anne's Parish Register. It's been a while since I checked that register. I do not know if the register is considered complete. One of those not found died in childhood--at least according to what is commonly seen.
posted by T Stanton
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posted by Amy (Lancashire) Barlow
edited by Amy (Lancashire) Barlow
deleted by Amy (Lancashire) Barlow
Amy, please review the Disputed Origins section of this profile and the notes in the Comments below. Her maiden name is presently unknown. What I have seen by those favoring one possible surname vs the other is that they take bits and pieces to make their case (i.e., Smyth and Find-a-Grave) but I have yet to see conclusive documentation. People will take, for example, a baptismal record and say this shows it to be Loftin but then have no primary source documentation to show that that baptismal record belongs to Isabella ____________ who married Wm Teague. This profile has been Project Protected to prevent the introduction of a maiden name for the wife of William Teague until there is conclusive and irrefutable proof of a maiden name. If you want to explore all of the available documentation in detail (for either frequently seen maiden name), may I suggest you start a G2G post where all documentation can be reviewed and discussed.
posted by T Stanton
I deleted my comment as to reduce the headache. I will take your advice and start a G2G when time permits to review documents found to date. Thanks for the quick reply.
The Genealogy of Duke-Shepherd-Van Metre family is online https://archive.org/details/agenealogydukes00smytgoog/page/n220/mode/2up?q=teague. It has information about daughter Rachael, possible daughter of William Teague, as well as Elijah, on page 189-190, but there is nothing in that source about Isabella and the conflicts with her name.

William's Find a Grave page has quite a few items mentioned, but it also has nothing like a 'primary' source for Isabella parents. There are several 'family tree' type sources mentioned.

I have added Research Notes section on the other Loftin profile so it has a reference to this profile.

Pennington-5248 and Loftin-3 appear to represent the same person because: Isabella Pennington has been researched and disputed (see Disputed Wives section on Isabella Loftin profile). Please merge these profiles with Loftin information being the resulting profile. Thanks!! :-)
posted on Loftin-3 (merged) by Amy (Lancashire) Barlow
It's best at the moment to keep separate profiles for Isabella Pennington, Isabella Loftin, and Isabella Unknown, so that information clearly connected to each can be kept separate until their identities have been resolved. It's much easier to merge than to un-merge. At this moment, Isabella Unknown should be the repository for information clearly related to Isabella, wife of William Teague, regardless of what her family of origin may have been!
posted by Jack Day
Loftin-525 and Loftin-3 appear to represent the same person because: same name, dates and relationships
posted on Loftin-3 (merged) by Amy (Lancashire) Barlow
I have been doing research since the 1980s and this confusion and disputes on Isabella has been something I have encountered since then. I hope someday it will be cleared up and we will know for sure the facts. RJTeague
posted on Loftin-3 (merged) by rj Teague
I've been at it that long too, and I've even made the same mistakes myself on this.
posted by Lynette Jester
It seems that extensive research into the wife of William Teague has produced no primary source documentation of her maiden name whether it was Loftin or Pennington or something entirely different. Primary source documents appear to only show her as Isabella __________. If there is a christening record for this person dated 19 Dec 1693, what documents that this is the person who married William? The Ancestry database of International Marriage Records and Find-A-Grave are not accepted sources for pre-1700 profiles. A couple of family genealogy books are cited on this profile. What primary source documentation do they site as showing William's wife was Isabella Pennington or Loftin?
posted on Loftin-3 (merged) by T Stanton
One of them is attached to the wrong parents, then.
posted on Loftin-3 (merged) by K. Cathey
Loftin-221 and Loftin-3 do not represent the same person because: Different spouse and different death date
posted on Loftin-3 (merged) by Patricia (Long) Kent
We don't have an established marriage date, to Teague or Pennington. Too many people want to rely on old research. I have read the old Teague Online site and not ONE of them had found a marriage.
posted on Loftin-3 (merged) by Lynette Jester
Loftin-463 and Loftin-3 appear to represent the same person because: appearant duplicate
posted on Loftin-3 (merged) by Lynette Jester
Loftin-221 and Loftin-3 appear to represent the same person because: Clear duplicate
posted on Loftin-3 (merged) by K. Cathey
Loftin-221 and Loftin-3 appear to represent the same person because: same name, parents, similar dates, discrepancy in first name of spouse.
posted on Loftin-3 (merged) by [Living Prickett]
Loftin-221 and Loftin-3 are not ready to be merged because: The profiles have different death dates and different husband, Edward vs. William Teague. Perhpas, not the same woman. Need to check out the birth dates of each. Though they are the same; perhaps, the date only works with William's wife or Edward's wife.
posted on Loftin-3 (merged) by David Hughey Ph.D.
Lofton-149 and Loftin-3 appear to represent the same person because: same name and birth
posted on Loftin-3 (merged) by Karen Lowe

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