Miss Rice, Rhuys (Welsh spelling)[1] Phoebe may have been her given name. Her name may also have been Catherine Phoebe Rhuys. There is evidence of a marriage between Thomas Lacy and Catherine Rice/Rhuys in 1680 in Virginia.[2]
Origin
Miss Rice was born c. 1660 at Wales. She was a daughter of Thomas Rice. Her given name may have been Phoebe, but proof is lacking.[3]
Family
Miss Rice was engaged to Thomas Lacy while still in Wales. He immigrated to Virginia a few years prior to the Rice family, and the couple married in about 1683 in Virginia.[3] This is proved by the document written c. 1850 by Rev. William Sterling Lacy which recorded the words of "old William Rice" in about 1828 or 1829. Rice definitely stated that Thomas Lacy was engaged to Miss Rice, daughter of Thomas Rice, in Wales, and then preceded (by a few years) the Rice family to Virginia, where the couple married. "Old William Rice" was a grandson of the immigrant, Thomas Rice[3].
Record of only one child (may have been others):[3]
Thomas Lacy (II) born c. 1683/4 New Kent County, Virginia.
Death and Legacy
Mrs Thomas Lacy died in 1686 at Hanover County, Virginia.[4]
Lawler, Hazel Potter, The Stephen Lacy Family of Goochland County, Virginia, With Forebears, Descendants and Some Allied Families, Second Edition 1998, Copywright @ Hazel Potter Lawler, Contact: H. Elton Lacey, 4058 Deerfield, College Station, TX 77845
Lacey, Hubert Wesley and Lacey, Howard Elton, The William Lacy and Elliott Lacy Families of New Kent and Chesterfield Counties, Virginia with forebearers and descendants, Copywright @ Howard Elton Lacey, 1996, Contact: H. Elton Lacey, 4058 Deerfield, College Station, TX 77845
Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records. 1560-1900, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004, Provo, UT, USA
Lacy Family History
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Phoebe 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 Phoebe:
Also spelled Pheobe.
Some evidence of a marriage between Thomas Lacy and Cathrine Rhuys/Rice; Spouse born 1660, marriage in 1980 VA
Parents might have been Thomas Rhuys 1650-1711 and Ann Marcy Hewes 1660-1686
No info on dod; place of death likely New Kent or Hanover County
Basically, beyond family records as recorded by Hazell Lawler, Hubert Lacey, and Elton Lacey, no documentation is available on Phebe.
Other info is based on Ancestry Family Trees.