Catherine (Ironmonger) Lea (abt. 1632 - abt. 1682)

Born about 1632 in Charles City, Charles City County, Virginia

Descendants

Died about 1682 at about age 50 in New Kent [now King and Queen], Virginia [uncertain]

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Biography

Research Notes

A daughter named Catherine is not included among the children shown in Magna Carta Ancestry and no sources could be found to support that she was their daughter, so this profile was disconnected from Samuel and Bridget (Cordray) Iremonger.^[1]

The datafields for this unsourced profile show that Catherine married a Lee of Virginia (William Lee/Lea/Leigh - see his entry in the Rootsweb tree posted by Jessee Genealogy Service). Virginia records show connections between Martha Jones, daughter of Samuel and Bridget (Cordray) Iremonger, and the Lees. The following summarizes comments posted to this profile (transferred from Bridget's profile on 3 November 2023):

Liz Shifflett found an interesting possible connection: William Lee/George Lee (brothers, if I read it right) & John Jones, their nephew; George Wale marrying Henry Lee's widow (who "may not be Marah Adkins") and Henry Lee's orphans having Thomas Haynes as guardian (see JSTOR article, pp 47-48). Kathryn Gearhart's Jones Families page connects Martha (Ironmonger) Jones with Haynes

• through her husband Robert Jone's 1675 will - Thomas Haynes is named as an overseer of the estate
• through her will - "Martha Ironmonger Jones died in December, 1677. Her will was proved on the testimony of Mrs. Elizabeth Haynes (Haines) and Mr. Thomas Haines, of Lancaster County."

Katheryn Gearhart's page also shows that Mary Jones m George Wale 1678 (Henry Lee d c1657 per JSTOR). Mary was a daughter of Robert and Martha (Ironmonger) Jones.

Although it is unlikely in the extreme that Samuel and Bridget (Cordray) Iremonger had a daughter born "1632 in Charles City County, Virginia" (according to the unsourced profile for Catherine), she is probably, if married to a Lee,* a relative of the Ironmongers and Corderoys who immigrated to Virginia in the 1600s.

* neither William's profile (also unsourced) nor this one mentions when or where they were married, and nothing I found mentions them as husband and wife, or that William married an Iremonger.

Sources

1. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), Volume 2, page 459, IREMONGER

Acknowledgments

This person was created through the import of Acrossthepond.ged on 21 February 2011.