Luke Williams (1738 - 1810)

Born 22 Nov 1738 in North Farnham Parish, Richmond, Virginia, British Colonial America

Ancestors

Husband of Katherine (Barber) Williams — married 8 May 1761 in Richmond, Wise, Virginia, British Colonial America

Descendants

Died 26 Mar 1810 at age 71 in Halifax, Halifax County, Virginia, USA

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Biography

Luke Williams was born the 22nd November 1738 in North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia.^[1] Luke was the son of Roger Williams and Ann Williams.

Marriage

8 May 1761, Richmond County, Virginia: Luke Williams and Katherine Barber^[2]

Census

Virginia, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1607-1890^[3]
NAME: Luke Williams
STATE: VA
COUNTY: Halifax County
TOWNSHIP: 08 05
YEAR: 1782
RECORD TYPE: Continental Census
PAGE: 23
DATABASE: VA Early Census Index

Death

Luke Williams born 1739 at Richmond County, Virginia; died 1790 at Pittsylvania County, Virginia^[4]

Children

Children of Luke Williams and wife Katherine Barber, descendants of Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island.

• Anne Williams, who married William Irby
• Rebecca Williams, b. abt. 1777, d. about 1852 who married EDMUND IRBY, b. 1765, d. August 9, 1853
• Zachariah Williams who married Frances Haygood
• Luke Williams, b. 1779, Halifax, Virginia, who married Anna Hartsfield of Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, and Texas.

Research Notes

Luke had an uncle also Luke Williams (1722-abt.1786) who appears to be the source of much conflation with this Luke born 1738.

Sources

1. ↑ Page 201 The Registers of North Farnham Parish 1663 - 1814 and Lunenburg Parish 1783 - 1800 Richmond County Virginia Compiled and Published by george Harrison Sanford King Fellow, American Society of Genealogists Fredericksburg, Virginia 1966.
2. ↑ Dodd, Jordan. Virginia, Marriages, 1660-1800, database online, Ancestry.com.
3. ↑ Virginia, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1607-1890, database online, Ancestry.com
4. ↑ Find A Grave created 30 December 2009 by Don Giddens; citing unknown burial site.

See Also

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 20 September 2018), "Record of Luke Williams", Ancestor # A126516.

• Luke Williams, is my direct ancestor, and I wrote a book on this family in 1974, author Dona Vance, daughter of Frankie Wiliams, granddaughter of Judge Alvin Luke Williams of Ft. Worth, Texas, and District Judge of Fairbanks, Alaska, 1961 - 1966, copyrited in Washington, D.C. All information in my book was given directly to me by their direct ancestors in Georgia, North Carolina and Texas. These direct interviews, all taped and recorded, transcribed, and created my book called "Williams Family History". Included in this book is the WILL OF LUKE WILLIAMS, HALIFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA, DATED MARCH 26, 1810. In his will, Luke Williams named his son, William Williams, his son, Luke Williams, his daughter Catherine (Caty) Williams, and her husband Edmund Irby, naming Edmund Irby in his will, also naming William Irby; also naming his daughter, Betsy Twidwell, his son Zachariah Williams, and John Chapman, dated February 9, 1810, Witnessed by Joseph Terry, Charles Womack, and William Synnor.

• Information on my family also was given to me by Olive Stone, of Provo, Utah.

• Information also given to me by MORGAN genealogy on the 1983 Ancestry website, of the older version, it was not founded until 1983. In the 1980's version, the first Ancestry website, MORGAN also provided that version on that website, after 1983, when Ancestry was first founded. It was not on computers until after 1985. All of that version of the older Ancestry was also printed out by me at that time after I had already finished my book.

• In Virginia, there were church records recording a second possible marriage to Mary (Bush) Parr, daughter of John Bush. Early church records.

• Dona Floyd Kimmons is a member of the "Daughters of the American Revolution" under Elijah Cornwell, also of this same family, and Luke Williams, DAR records. The Williams family are buried in the WILLIAMS CEMETERY in Monticello,, Jasper County, Georgia.