Sarah Dauce* maybe Dossey?? Brickwall help please.

Question

My cousin recently found notes from my GG-Aunt, the family historian, stating that her GG-Grandmother was a Dauce. This Sarah Dauce* would have been born in Virginia around 1784 and moved to South Carolina sometime either with her Dauce* family or with her husband Jarrott Walker. They lived in Union County. She died after 1850 in Barbour County Alabama. I am just wondering if the GG-Aunt might not have just heard "Dossey" through oral legend and then wrote it as Dauce as I can't find ANY Dauce families in Virginia or South Carolina around the 1800's.

Any family clues to siblings, wills, parents would be greatly appreciated.

Comments

How about Dawes? Daws?  Dausey? Deucy?  These are all possible variations of "Dauce" and they are all in Virginia.  John Daws is in Mecklenburg County, Virginia in 1782.  There are Ralegh and Rowley Dausey in Virginia in 1624 Virginia Colony, perhaps they're the start of the Dauce name?  I just put  "Dauce" as the last name and Virginia in the search box on the home page of Ancestry.com and these variations all came up when I narrowed the search to census records around 1800.  It's not much, I'm sorry, but it's a start.  (To a lot of work, I'm sorry about that, too.  Plugging in all these variations into Family Search or Google is going to bring up a lot of possibilities that will have to be winnowed out.)

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There is a Dossey/Dorsey DNA group at familytreedna.com. You would need a direct line male descendant to take the test. As of now there are two different Dossey lines as proven by DNA. We have traced my husbands line back to South Carolina (earliest census record info) but know the other group has ties to Maryland and North Carolina, not sure if any Virginia records have been found to date. Actually the most common misspelling of our name is Dorsey or just Doss.

Answer 1

I've just run an Ancestry check for Dauce.

English censuses, US Slave registers, US tax assessement,  France, Canada, NZ, US censuses 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940 including a few in Virginia.

So there were a fair number around.

Comments

Yes, I've done that also but as you can see there are none from the mid 1700's in Virginia which is the time I need. I'm looking for information that is more than a cursory search. Thank you.

Answer 2

I recently busted through my brick-wall a few weeks ago by reviewing some of my autosonomal genetic matches through FTDNA's Family Finder.  Like yourself, my brick-wall involved my great grandfather.  I therefore highly suggest that you do some DNA testing, especially autosonomal DNA testing.  I believe that the best company avaiable is "Family Tree DNA" (AKA: "FTDNA") and they currently have a special for only $99.00.  You can google "Family Tree DNA" to obtain more information.  If you do decide to get tested, I highly suggest that you purchase FTDNA's "Family Finder" for only $99.00.  FTDNA's "Family Finder" will connect you to all of your cousins and ancestors five or more generations back, assuming, of course, that several of your currenlty living cousins (your distant and unknown cousins) are being tested and are also sharing their list of known ancestral names and/or family trees.

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