Thomas Joyner III (abt. 1619 - 1698)

Born about 14 Nov 1619 in Bere Regis, Dorset, England

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Robins) Joyner — married about 1645 in Isle of Wight, Virginia [uncertain]

Husband of Sarah Elizabeth (Edwards) Joyner — married 1 Jun 1653 in Isle of Wight Co. Virginia,

Descendants

Died 21 May 1698 at about age 78 in Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight, Virginia

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Biography

Official Records show that Thomas Joyner lived in Isle of Wight County, Virginia Colony in the late 1600s.

Unofficial Family Genealogies state that Thomas Joyner (possibly James Thomas Joyner) was born 14 Nov 1619, in Bere Regis, Dorset, England, son of Thomas Joyner and Maud Marye. Thomas Joyner married twice, Elizabeth Robbins and Sarah Edwards. He died 21 May 1698.

Name

Name: James Thomas Joyner^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]}

Disputed Origin

The name Thomas Joyner is the only name proven in Official Isle of Wight, Virginia records. There is unofficial information that states that he may have been named James Thomas Joyner which needs to be sourced to a recognized official source such as municipal, county, state, federal, country records. Unofficial sources like family genealogies, DAR records, Ancestry.com Trees, Web sites are useful and should be included and cited as unofficial records. The parentage of Thomas Joyner is unofficial and unproven., There is a Joyner family in Bere Regis, Dorset, England, and a is plausible line, but there is no proven connection beyond family genealogies.

Research Notes

From Joyner of Southampton, Ulysses P. Joyner, 1975, Pages 70-71:

Thomas Joyner (1619-1694)

Children with Sarah Elizabeth Edwards:

1. Thomas ( 1658-1708), m. Elizabeth ?,
2. William ( -1698), m. Mary Boddie,
3. John ( -1745), m. Probably unmarried,
4. Bridgeman ( -1719), m. Ann Harris,
5. Theophilus (1660-1739), m. Elinor Mann, m. 2nd Henrietta Griffin
   

Comments:

-Thomas Joyner in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, 1665 (PB 5/183).

-Thomas Joyner died in Isle of Wight, 1694 (IDE 1/164).

-Thomas Joyner, Jr., appointed administrator of estate of his father

-Thomas Joyner, 1695 (IDE 1/63).

-Nuncupative will of Thomas Joyner leaves property to son John (IDE 1/64).

-Will proved by affidavits of Theophilus Joyner, age 35; Thomas Lucas, age 34; Ann Lane, age 50; and Elizabeth Cookes, 1695 (IDE 1/64).

-Bridgeman Joyner conveys lands "given me by my father Thomas Joyner" (IDE 1/305).

-Theophilus Joyner affidavit in re will of "my father Thomas Joyner" (IDE 1/64).

-William Joyner patented lands "adjoining Thomas Joyner" in Isle of Wight (PB 7/311).

-Thomas Joyner & descendents described in Lineage Book 30, page 248, Sons and Daughters of Patriots in America.

-Thomas Joyner mentioned in Accomac County, Virginia, in 1637 (Virginia Colonial Abstracts Vol. 32, Accomack Co., p. 7).

-Thomas Joyner sailed from London, England, on the "Dorst," Captain Flowers, Master, for "Bermudoes" in 1635, at age 16. (J.C. Hotten, Original Lists of Immigrants, 1600-1700.)

-Thomas Joyner a headright of Ratchell & Elizabeth Robins, orphans of Edward Robins, for patent in Northampton County, 1646. (Cavaliers and Pioneers, page 167; PB 2/91.)

-Thomas Joyner mentioned often as "agent" "servant" and "attorney" of Edward Robins and as storekeeper in Accomac County between 1637 and 1646. (Virginia Colonial Abstracts, supra.) (County Court Records of Accomack-Northampton Co., Va., 1640-45, Ames, 1973.)

-Lineage Book, supra, shows Thomas Joyner married Elizabeth Robins, daughter of Edward in 1646 and that she died in 1683. This is contradicted by Whitelaw, who asserts that Elizabeth Robins married William Burgess. (Whitelaw Vol. 1, page 199.)

-Thomas Joyner, agent of Edward Robins, presents evidence of goods miscarried when shipped on the "John & Barbaric." Goods ordered restored. (Accomack-Northampton Records, 1640-46, supra)

-"Mr. Thomas Joyner" and others appointed to appraise estate of Daniel Cuylie, 1640. (Ames, supra.)

-Thomas Joyner, "late servant and attorney unto Edward Robins, merchant, deceased" presented his final accounting to court and was discharged of further responsibility to the estate, 1641. (Ames, supra.)

-Court approves land grant to orphans of Edward Robins, deceased, for ::transportation of Thomas Joyner, Nicholas Raynehard, Edward Robins, Abraham Boothe, Anthony James, Lawrence Glonfield and "Oliver," 1642 (Ames, supra).

-Affidavit of Edward Bennett, who owned lands in I, gave affidavit in High Court of Admiralty, London 8/24 1635, asserting that goods returned from Virginia on the "Revenge" belonged 1/2 to Edward Robins and 1/2 to Edward Bennett. Goods apparently claimed by Nicholas Raynehard, et als (see above) (affidavit quoted in Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight, Boddie, p. 273-4).

-Edward Bennett was member of London Co. and came to Virginia in 1626. Settled in I. Soon returned to England. (Boddie, supra.)^[10]

An entry in the Lineage Book of the National Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America, Volume 30, page 248, for Sadie Joyner Ganaway of Tennessee states that Thomas Joyner was born in England in 1619, came to America in 1646, married Elizabeth Robins in 1646/47, and died in Isle of Wight County in 694^[11]

The origin of Thomas Joyner of Isle of Wight, though in doubt, seems to lie in the "West Country" of England in the County of Dorset. In the central section of County Dorset lies a small market town called "Bere Regis," identified in Hutchins History of Dorset, as a bustling crossroads of trade as early as the reign of King John. There is to be found in the records of the Perrogative Court of Canterbury, Somerset House, London, the will of one "Thomas Joyner, Tailor of Bere Regis, County Dorset." This will was dated August 18, 1657, and probated in 1658. (See Appendix.) The will of Thomas Joyner mentions a wife Maud and a son William. The will is witnessed by "Thomas Joyner" although he is not mentioned in the will.^[12]

Thomas Joyner III was born in Bere Regis, Dorset, England.

Sept 30 1635 (From London) on the Dorset; with Master John Flowers bound for Bermuda. At the age of 16. From Bermuda he became a sailor with Master John Flowers for 15 years. He settled in Isle of Wight Co. VA in 1650.

He married Sarah "Sallie" Edwards June 1, 1653. Together they had 5 children;

1. Mary 1673-1729,
2. Thomas 1653-04/21/1708,
3. William 1658-05/21/1698,
4. Theophilus 1660-1739,
5. Bridgerman 1650-1719

Sources

1. ↑ U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s;Author: Ancestry.com; Publication: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.;
   • Page: Place: Virginia; Year: 1646; Page Number: 167
   • Page: Place: Virginia; Year: 1646; Page Number: 189;
   • Page: Place: Virginia; Year: 1646; Page Number: 242
2. ↑ Title: London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812; Publication: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc; Author: Ancestry.com; Page: London Metropolitan Archives, St Bride Fleet Street, Transcript of register of baptisms, 1587 - 1626, P69/BRI/A/016/MS06545, Item 001
3. ↑ Source title lost: Description: Page: Place: Gillingham, Kent, England; Date Range: 1559 - 1676; Film Number: 1042490
4. ↑ Title: U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 Publication; Author: National Park Service; Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc.
5. ↑ Title: American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI); Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Author: Godfrey Memorial Library, comp.
6. ↑ Title: Millennium File Publication: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Author: Heritage Consulting;
7. ↑ Title: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900; Publication: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Author: Yates Publishing; Page: Source number: 8236.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: CCC
8. ↑ Title: Family Data Collection - Deaths; Publication: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Author: Edmund West, comp.;
9. ↑ Title: Family Data Collection - Births; Publication: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Author: Edmund West, comp.;
10. ↑ Jouyner of Southampton, Ulysses P. Joyner, 1975, Pages 70-71
11. ↑ Joyner of Southampton, Ulsyess P. Joyner. 1975, Page 42
12. ↑ Joyner of Southampton, Ulysses P. Joyner. 1975, Page 3

• London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812

• London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812

• Birth of a child

• Historical Southern Families. Volume V, Joyner of Isle of Wight, Virginia and North Carolina, pp. 34-35

• Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly

• Virginia, Colonial Abstracts, 1632-1810

• Historical Southern Families. Volume V

• International Genealogical Index (R) Title: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index (R) (Copyright (c) 1980, 2000, data as of January 2000).

See Also

• Find A Grave: Memorial #74187254
• Ancestry Family Tree. Family Trees are not considered a source
• Thomas Joyner II in an Ancestry Family Tree. Family Trees are not considered a source
• MyHeritage.com family tree; Author: Gary Nelson; Title: Nelson Web Site. Family Trees are not considered a source

Acknowledgement

http://www.haywoodcountyline.com/ once page opens scroll down to the name Joyner