Born in Bristol, Prince George, Colony of Virginia
Ancestors 
Daughter of Thomas Spain
and Martha Mary (Haskins) Spain
Sister of
Francis Spain, Prisilla D (Spain) Gray, David Spain, Anne (Spain) Thompson, Frederick Spain, Mary Spain, Martha Spain, Thomas Spain, John Claiborne Spain, Elizabeth Spain and William Spain
Wife of
John Mays
— married
17 Jun 1753 in Amelia County, Colony of Virginia
Descendants 
Mother of
Mary Mays, William Mays, John Mays, James Mays, John Mays, Frances Ann (Mays) Fields and Mary Mays
Died about
at about age 91
in Franklin, Mississippi, United States
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Biography
Alternate Mother for Frances Ann Spain is Martha (Porter) Spain
Frances Ann(e) Spain was born December 9, 1729, in Bristol Parish, Charles City County, Colonial Virginia, a daughter of Thomas Spain and Mary Martha Haskins. [1] On June 4, 1753, in Amelia, Virginia, Frances married John Mayes (aka Mays). [2] Frances and John became the parents of as many as seven children:
- John Mayes, born 1758, in Wake county, North Carolina, married Elizabeth Mays Gray
- William Mayes/Mays, born between 1755 [3] and 1760, who died 1824, in Whitley, Kentucky, married Obedience Terrell [4]
- James Mayes, born 1762, died young in Virginia
- Mary Mayes, born 1764
- James Mayes, born 1768, died in Kentucky
- Frances Ann "Fannie" Mayes, born 1769, died January 8, 1851, in Russell, Virginia, married Hiram Lansford Fields
- Mary Mayes, born 1770, in Wake county, North Carolina, died September 8, 1849, in Sumter, Alabama
Frances Anne (Spain) Mayes died in 1821, in Franklin county, Mississippi.
Sources
- ↑ "Virginia Births and Christenings, 1584-1917", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VR51-3S2 : 28 January 2020), Frances Spain, 1730
- ↑ https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LDMB-FC7/frances-ann-spain-1729-1821
- ↑ https://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A211398
- ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53477515/william-mays
- Source: S390 Title: Michelle Moore Bardin 7510 Dartmouth Dr., Rowlett, TX, 75089 Medium: Book
- http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=20176766&pid=216
- http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=20176766&pid=317
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Frances Ann 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 Frances Ann:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Frances Ann 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 Frances Ann:
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~0.78%
Mari-San Vaught
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch a334915 [compare], Ancestry member rmr17
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~0.78%
Penny (Fields) Gardner :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A587392 [compare], Ancestry member terfie
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~0.78%
Sandra Blair :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Robert Glenn :
AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
Bruce Preece :
AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
Matthew Blair :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member Jmatthewblair
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~0.39%
Bill Herron :
MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch H752325 [compare]
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Unmerged matches › Francis Spain (1729-1821) › Anne (Spain) Thompson (abt.1733-abt.1802)
Rejected matches › Anne Mays › Anne Mays › Anna Maria (Becker) Moos (1727-)
Frances Ann is 13 degrees from Maria Mitchell, 22 degrees from Carl Sagan, 20 degrees from Tycho Brahe, 28 degrees from Nicholaus Copernicus, 21 degrees from Eise Eisinga, 18 degrees from Caroline Lucretia Herschel, 22 degrees from Thomas Maclear, 13 degrees from Simon Newcomb, 14 degrees from Isaac Newton, 22 degrees from Pierre Henri Puiseux, 22 degrees from Beatrice Tinsley and 14 degrees from Edith Woodward on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
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We know that Frances Spain, daughter of Thomas and Martha, was born December 9, 1729 and christened March 30, 1730. Her christening records are here: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VR51-3S2
If you want this profile to represent Ann and NOT Francis, then I will help you find out who she was married to, but it was not John Mays.
edited by Janne (Shoults) Gorman
Mother of William Mays, who requires merging