Sarah Margaret (Herring) Doss (1685 - 1743)

Born 1685 in Essex, Virginia

Wife of Thomas Doss Sr — married 1705 in Virginia

Descendants

Died 17 Mar 1743 at about age 58 in Middlesex, Virginia

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Biography

The Marriage from Virginia that the profile has been based on Family Search Link is below. The source has this Sarah married to a Thomas but the marriage certificates are for John. The second source is from a legacy file

Christ Church Parish, Virginia Marriages, 1653-1812 ^[1]

Name: Jno Doss

Spouse: Sarah Herring

Marriage Date: 17 Jun 1735

Comment: (Banns)

• Please Note Conflation: The marriage record above does not match the marriage date in her husband Thomas Doss's biography from Find-a-Grave. The marriage record above is for a different Sarah. This Sarah would also been in her late 40s at that date. The date 1714 of their marriage is in the biography below of husband Thomas Doss.

Find-a-Grave of Spouse - Bio of Thomas Doss Baptism date Jan 9 1686 Son of Jno and Ann Doss at ye lower Chapel. HE married Sarah Margaret Herring: born about 1685 - 1743. They married about 1714 per the records I have found On ancestory.com and familysearch.org they had 6 sons James Doss Sr. being my 7X Great-grandfather.

Find-a-Grave of Son - Bio of James DossSon of Thomas and Margaret Doss he married Frances Nix(1720-1776) abt 1740 in Amelia Co. Virginia she was a daughter of Edward Nix and Eunice Gibson. They had7 children James Doss Jr being my 5X Great grandfather. Married Ann Thurman and had 6 more children. Mother's name is Sarah Margaret Herring (1685-1743) No burial location has been found. A record of marriage is found for here and Thomas Doss. 17 Jun 1735, Christ Church, Lancaster, Virginia, USA. James Doss was born circa 1715 in Virginia to Thomas Doss Sr.. Bio by: Vivian Pattee

• So in conclusion the marriage record is not for this Sarah Herring, also I see no reference to Brown connected to this Sarah's the surname should be removed unless/until a source shows up

This is a very tricky profile. Several with same names but dates are wrong for them to be valid sources. I tried checking a Find-a-Grave source for more information but was linked to a inaccessible page.

Research Notes (Questionable Sources)

Alexander Herring and Margaret Hamiliton Herring are the current parents. Johns middle name could be Thomas but no source has been found.

This is a very tricky profile several common names

U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 ^[2]

Name: Sarah Doss

Gender: Female

Filing Date: 24 Mar 1888

Filing Place: Kentucky, USA

Relation to Head: Widow

Spouse: Thomas Doss

Military and Land

• Clearly she was not the widow that collected a pension in 1861.....she was long dead before that time.

General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934^[3]

Name: Sarah Doss

Gender: Female

Place Filed: Kentucky, USA

Relation to Head: Widow

Spouse: Thomas Doss

Mayflower Births and Deaths

• She is NOT Margaret Brown

Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2 ^[4]

Name: Margaret Brown

Birth Date: 5 Jul 1687

Death Date: 6 Feb 1734

Relationship: Child

Father: James Brown

Mother: Margaret Dennison

James Brown Self (Head)

Margaret Dennison Wife

Lydia Brown Child

Mary Brown Child

Lydia Brown Child

James Brown Child

Margaret Brown Child

Peleg Brown Child

William Brown Child

Dorothy Brown Child

Mercy Brown Child

Ann Brown Child

Benjamin Brown Child

Isaac Brown Child

Sources

1. ↑ Original data: National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Parish Register of Christ Church, Middlesex County, Virginia from 1653 to 1812. Richmond, VA, USA: Christ Church, 1897. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/761:4307
2. ↑ Original data: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. T288, 546 rolls. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/11773989:4654?ssrc=pt&tid=58228972&pid=382144852294
3. ↑ Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. T288, 546 rolls. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=4654&h=11773989&ssrc=pt&tid=165299047&pid=332167633185&usePUB=true
4. ↑ This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors. Roser, Susan E. Mayflower Births and Deaths: From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Volumes 1 & 2. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1992. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=MayflowerBD&indiv=try&h=7708