Henry Womack (1625)

Born 1625 in Middlesex County, Colony of Virginia

Descendants

Died [date unknown] in Middlesex County, Colony of Virginia

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Biography

The genealogy of Henry Womack of Accomack County, Virginia, and his descendants appears on a number of Internet sites, but investigation into this family has failed to find evidence of their existence. Henry and his family members are fabrications.^[1]

The following publications are cited on the Internet as a basis for the biographies of Henry and his family:

• The Womack & Allied Families by Thomas pub. 1932, p. 154
• Early Settlers of Mass. by Stull pp19-33
• Vital Records of Massachusetts by Stiles Vol 3 through 9

Robert Burke reports that he has searched the Library of Congress website, the familysearch.org catalog, and worldcat.org and has found no evidence for the existence of these publications; they are fake sources.

Supposedly Henry Womack (born circa 1652) and his wife Phoebe Rondall or Randall had many sons and grandsons in Accomack. Accomack has extant deed and will records back to the mid-1600s, but no Womack appears in the deed or will indexes. Additionally, no Womack appears in the 1704 Quit Rents of Accomack, which lists all land owners, nor do any of these Womacks appear in VA Land Patents. The 1704 list for Accomack also does not have the surnames of the families these Womack supposedly married into - Lansing, Lerner, Scranton, Creighton, etc. Furthermore, the Henry Womack genealogy has this family of Womacks moving into Augusta County, Virginia, long before that county was formed, and before there were white settlers there.

Burke states that the only known Womack family in Virginia was the one that started in Henrico County (the part which became Chesterfield County in 1749) in the 1670s and spread from there to the counties of Prince George, Goochland, Isle of Wight, Amelia, Prince Edward, Lunenburg, Halifax, etc. Yearly tax lists of all Virginia counties started circa 1782, and are complete for most counties from 1787 on, and the only Womacks that appear are the descendants of the Henrico family.

Additionally, Burke notes that the Womack genealogy is "too perfect," giving complete dates for almost all family members born in the 1600s and 1700s, and reporting maiden names for all early Womack wives.

Removed the death date of 14 Apr 1649, as he has a son connected that was born a few years after this date.

Sources

1. ↑ WikiTree G2G post by Robert Burke, March 16, 2018.

• http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=15024057&pid=4096