Robert Rowley Duncan (1692 - bef. 1793)

Born Jun 1692 in Perthshire, Scotland [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Ann (Gallop) Duncan — married 1735 in Culpeper, Virginia

Descendants

Died before 21 Oct 1793 before age 101 in St Marks Parrish, Culpeper, Virginia, United States

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Discrepancy

�Unverified Parents/Children - Lineage Needs To Be Proven
There is a great deal of conflicting information surrounding the Duncan Family – Many Source-to-Source discrepancies; co-mingling, Lack of records; conflicting family stories; number of Duncan’s with the same names; Birth date discrepancies , etc. Name Variations Duncan - Dunkin - Doncom etc.

• Fauquier Co. VA Formed 1758 from Prince William

Possible brother of MARSHALL I who is definitely related to John Duncan I of Fauquier Co. VA. Robert and Marshall I both in Prince William same timeframe.

Biography

Robert Duncan is a member of Duncan Clan.

Robert Duncan
Estimated Birth 1692 Exact date and location Unknown; probably Scotland. (A merged profile showed his birth date as Jun 1717.)
Estimated Marriage (1710-1712) Before 1735 Ann Gallop, daughter of Robert Gallop and Unknown. Presumed mother of Ann Gallop is Eleanore (Unknown)^[1]
Death per Will probated 21 Oct. 1793

Possible parents of Robert Duncan speculation

Surname: DUNCAN
Forename: ROBERT
Parents/ Other Details: JAMES DUNCAN/JANET PROVAND FR545 (FR545)
Gender: M
Date: 10/06/1692
Parish Number: 488/
Ref: 20 44
Parish: St Ninians
^[2]

Marriage

Married by 1735 Ann Gallop, one of the four daughters of Robert Gallop who died 20 May 1720 leaving a nuncupative will which failed to take effect as to his landed estate. ^[3] Marriages of Richmond Co. VA

Will

Culpeper Co. VA Will Book D ^[4] D-91/3: Will of Robert (R) Duncan, 7 June 1788, of Culpeper Co., Parish of Saint Mark; probated 21 Oct. 1793 .

Children

11 Children Named in Will (6 sons - 5 daughters)
Estimated Children Births

• son Robert Duncan married Sarah Turner (Louisa Co VA) and moved to SC (unproven relationship). (Robert is found in Fauquier Deeds before 1766 in conjunction with his Father Robert)

• son John Duncan Speculation

See notes on John's of Fauquier. (parents unknown/unproven). The only records located thus far for John Duncan, son of Robert, was in Prince William Co. in 1753 [according to Burke's 'Distinguished Families of America', pedigree # 2665 (Unsourced)] (Wife Unknown).

John I of Fauquier may be correct son, but unproven relationship.

John Duncan III married Elizabeth Holtzclaw - parents unknown/unproven relationship; seems unlikely due to DNA tests which are inconclusive at this time.

John IV m. Wilkey as attached - Not a likely son (unproven relationship); is likely a "1st arrival"

• son Charles Duncan m. Unknown Speculation

Two likely Charles Duncans;

one Charles from Culpeper Co. VA married to Elizabeth Dillard (daughter of George Dillard and Pricilla Major) in 1772

one Charles m. Mary Roberts - died in Davis Co. KY Most likely son Charles; circumstantial only.

(Both Robert and Charles of Davis Co appear to have had land on Summer Duck Run).

• son Sammy (Samuel) Duncan married Nancy Withers
• son Joseph Duncan reportedly m. 2X (2nd marriage) unproven as son of Robert.

1st m. about 1767 Sarah (aka Hannah ) Fletcher, presumed daughter of John). Charles and James Jett (m. sister Rosey) were Witnesses to marriage of Joseph and Sarah Fletcher ^[5]and

2nd Hannah Freeman 1771- Harris Freeman to "Joseph" Duncan, bond filled in "Joseph Duncan", 21 Aug. 1771, bond Joseph Duncan, pg.43^[6]

• son Gallop Duncan died in 1813 - m. 1805 Lucinda 'Lucy' Covington

• daughter Mary (1st married Joseph Hackly (2nd) married Thomas Grinnan (parcel of land to the said Thomas Grinnan and Mary his wife)
• daughter Phillis Barbee m. John Barbee son of Thomas BARBEE and Margret WILLIAMS (2nd wife)
• daughter Ann Pope wife of Thomas Pope
  
• daughter Rosey Jett wife of James Jett,
  
• daughter Lavina Lightfoot wife of John Barrow Lightfoot

My wife Ann Duncan keep possession of the house and lot . . . . equally divided amongst my eleven following children Robert Duncan, John Duncan, Charles Duncan, Sammy Duncan, Joseph Duncan, Gollop Duncan, Mary Grinnan, Phillis Barbee, Anne Pope, Rosey Jett and Lavina Lightfoot; . . . .the remainder sold and money divided amongst my eleven children or legal representatives: . . . Appoint son-in-law James Jett and John Lightfoot and son Gollop Duncan executors;. . . . Wit. William Lawson, John Amiss, Amos Trane?. Exhibited at court 21 Oct. 1793 by James Jett, one of the executors; proved on oaths of John Amiss and Amos Crane.

YDNA

Y-DNA is showing this family is part of Duncan Subgroup B and is in halogroup R-M269 (no Big Y-DNA test done yet). This test shows the following family lines are confirmed by Y-DNA:

• Robert Rowley Duncan (1692-bef.1793)
• son of Robert: Robert Duncan (abt.1736-abt.1832)

Sources

1. ↑ Genealogies of Virginia Families: From Tyler's Quarterly ..., Volume 1; By Genealogical Publishing Company, Incorporated p.380 (Richmond W.B.4 p.161
2. ↑ https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/record-results?page=4&search_type=people&event=%28B%20OR%20C%20OR%20S%29&record_type%5B0%5D=opr_births&church_type=Old%20Parish%20Registers&dl_cat=church&dl_rec=church-births-baptisms&surname=duncan&surname_so=exact&forename=Robert&forename_so=starts&from_year=1600&parent_names_so=exact&parent_name_two_so=exact&record=Church%20of%20Scotland%20%28old%20parish%20registers%29%20Roman%20Catholic%20Church%20Other%20churches&sort=asc&order=Date&field=year
3. ↑ WB#4,p.161; King George County DB#2,p.1.
4. ↑ Culpepper Will Book D
5. ↑ From Fauquier Co., VA Marriage Bonds:

   Joseph Duncan to Sarah Fletcher, 18 Feb. 1767, bond Samuel Duncan; consent John Fletcher, wit. James Jett, Charles Duncan, pg.23

6. ↑ Presumed daughter of James Freeman see Will of James Freeman in Fauquier Records - grandson Gallop Duncan aka Freeman)

• Full text of "The Duncan family register of Lewis Duncan and Harriet Kinnaird" Digital Copy
• Historical Notes by Green & Slaughter
• Virginia Records

See also:
Mary Ann Duncan Dobson "Duncan Research Files" (Consolidated, sourced and acknowledged); and the many Duncan Researchers that have provided information.
The Genealogy Bug

• Research Books by Nancy Reba Roy]
  • Descendants of William Duncan, the elder – 1959; by Nancy Reba Roy (Author)
• Duncan family marriages, mostly before 1850 with other information Author: Nancy Reba Roy; Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1983.
• 1887 "KY, a History of the State" by Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 5th and 6th Edition, Pg.783: DUNCAN FAMILY (Discrepancies)
• Digital Copies of Culpeper Histories:
  
• A History of St. Mark's Parish, Culpeper County, Virginia; with Notes of Old Churches and Old Families by REV. PHILIP SLAUGHTER, D. D.; 1877
  
• Genelogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper County, Virginia, Embracing a Revised and Enlarged Edition of REV. PHILIP SLAUGHTER's; History of St. Mark's Parish by RALEIGH TRAVERS GREEN; 1905
  
• Digital Copy History and genealogies of the families of Miller, Woods, Harris, Wallace, Maupin, Oldham, Kavanaugh, and Brown (illustrated); with . . . . Covington, Browning, Duncan, Yancey, and others; by Miller, William Harris, 1852-
  
• Duncan, Finch, Gary & Weed with allied families
• 1735, Virginia, Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia, 1649-1800, http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=5063&h=2057&indiv=try

• 1779, Virginia, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1607-1890, http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=3578&h=32746950&indiv=try

• 1788, Will of Robert R. Duncan, 7 June 1788, of St. Mark's Parish, Culpeper, Virginia., will

Acknowledgement

This person was created through the import of Anderson.ged on 08 September 2010. Ancestry Family Trees Source S00044 Anderson2.FTW NOTE Anderson2.FTW, Source Medium: Other

WikiTree profile Duncan-1619 created through the import of Gorham Family Tree.ged on Jan 27, 2012 by Dale Gorham. See the [http: //www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Special:NetworkFeed&who=Duncan-1619 Changes page] for the details of edits by Dale and others.

• Ancestry Family Trees, Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=3737&h=3924849&indiv=try