Sarah (Jennings) Dabney
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Sarah Ann (Jennings) Dabney (1702 - 1788)

Sarah Ann Dabney formerly Jennings
Born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, Englandmap
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of — married 1 Apr 1721 in Anna River, St Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Colony of Virginiamap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 86 in White Hall, Albemarle, Virginia, United Statesmap
Profile last modified | Created 5 May 2011
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Biography

Baker-53780 The maiden name of Sarah wife of Cornelius Dabney- is Unknown

Baker-53780 This following statement is just pure fake: Sarah Ann Jennings was born on 22 January 1688, in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, her father, Charles Jennings, was 25 and her mother, Elizabeth Burdett, was 26. She had at least 3 sons and 10 daughters with Cornelius Dabney. She died on 17 October 1788, in White Hall, Albemarle County, Virginia, United States, at the age of 100, and was buried in Albemarle County, Virginia.

Baker-53780 Sarah's son John Dabney was born in 1708, Cornelius in 1710 & William in 1712- thus the marriage date of 1721 is and always has been fake.

Sarah Jennings married on 01 Apr 1721 in Anna River, St.Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Virginia to Cornelius Dabney, Jr. [1] [2] [3]

Baker-53780 According to the will of her husband, Cornelius Dabney - his wife Sarah had 3 sons & 3 daughters: John, Cornelius, William, Mary, Anna, Frances. And Cornelius had another 3 daughters who married Daniel Maupin, William Johnson & Matthew Brown. Their children: Baker-53780 This list includes Dabney's WHO WERE NOT THEIR CHILDREN

  1. Isaac Dabney (aft.1720-1766)
  2. Thomas Dabney (abt.1720-)
  3. Cornelius Dabney III (abt.1721-bef.1765)
  4. John Dabney (abt.1723-bef.1821)
  5. Sally (Dabney) Winston (abt.1724-)
  6. Sarah Dabney (1724-1815)
  7. Elizabeth (Dabney) Maupin (1726-abt.1794)
  8. Mary Elizabeth (Dabney) Harris (1729-bef.1762)
  9. William Dabney (abt.1730-abt.1810)
  10. Ann Elizabeth (Dabney) Miller (abt.1732-abt.1809)
  11. Frances Jennings (Dabney) Maupin (1732-1806)
  12. Agnes Dabney (aft.1737-)
  13. Susanna (Dabney) Brown (abt.1737-)
  14. Mary-Frances (Dabney) Collier (1744-bef.1815)

She passed away on 17 Oct 1788 and was buried on the land of John Maupin in White Hll, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA. [3]

Research Notes

She was just plain "Sarah". Her dates are all wrong in the above. She had a son JOHN in 1708!, Cornelius in 1710 & so on.

The 2nd wife of Cornelius Dabney was Sarah __. But in all the ensuing years of research. her maiden name is unknown. She could be or maybe was a Jennings but proof?? There was a Jennings family in Hanover some of whom fell victim to the Jennings Flim-Flam

THE GREAT JENNINGS FLIM-FLAM

After the Civil War, men came from England to perpetrate one of the great flim-flams. They claimed there was a vast sum of money to be inherited by American cousins of this English Jennings who died childless in England. These men from England just needed some money to follow this claim - to distrubate the fortune.

Taken from Dabney's of Virginia (1888) [4]

Some of the Dabneys (and other Tidewater families) fell for the Jennings flim-flam. Alas, records were altered, bibles created etc. Alas, this line of Cornelius produced "believers". EXAMPLE - this was submitted by:

"Charles William Dabney (1809-1894) of Dalton Junction, Hanover Co., Va. Charles fell totally for this vast fake inheritance story & he writes -

"He remembers seeing a Court Record in Hanover Court House, unfortunately destroyed in the fire of 1865. In the first minute book of this Court House, at the beginning of the entries (when the county was cut from New Kent) under the date of ____ April 1726, the following entry: Ordered that it be recorded that on the ___ day of April 1721, Cornelius Dabney late of England, intermarried with Sarah Jennings or Jennens, also of England"

Reubin Dabney Brown b 1777 - another believer - wrote about 1830 that his great grandfather, Cornelius Dabney was twice married, his 2nd wife being Sarah Jennings...and by his first wife (name not remembered) had several children.

Other Dabneys refuted those statements. (see Dabney's of Virginia)

According to her husband's will she had 3 daughters and 3 sons. - John, Cornelius, William, Mary, Anna, Frances.

Sources

  1. 1st minute book
  2. "Huguenot Refugees to Virginia in 1700" by Dorothy Maupin Shaffett of Kansas City, Kansas; Gateway Press Inc. of Baltimore, MD in 1994; p140-144; record#184
  3. 3.0 3.1 History of Genealogy of the Families of Miller], Woods, Harris,Wallace, Maupin, Oldham, Kavanaugh and Brown by William Harris Miller of Richmond, Kentucky in 1901; p140 story of Gabriel and Marie Hersant Maupin; At the death of Cornelius Dabney, his widow made her home with John Maupin, living to a great age. She was buried in the yard of his homestead and her grave could still be located in the days of Dr. S. Maupin. It cannot be identified at this time; p276, p303, p408, p541; res: Albemarle County, VA; widow Dabney went from Hanover to Albemarle, made her home with daughter Frances and John Maupin. She lived to be very old, close to the century mark; buried: near the then residence of John Maupin
  4. William H. Dabney, Sketch of the Dabneys of Virginia (Printed in 1888 by the daughter of William H. Dabney, after his death in 1887. William H. Dabney was of the New England Dabney family, but had collected information from the Dabney's living in Virginia. reprint by Heritage Books, 1999).
  • Magazine of Virginia Genealogy (published quarterly by The Virginia Genealogical Society, Richmond, Virginia), VGS Vol 20; #2 - pages 59-61.
  • Miller, W.H. "History and Genealogies" Richmond, KY: Press of Transylvania, 1907
  • Sketch of the Dabneys of Virginia, with some of their family records; Third Branch of the Virginia Dabneys
  • The Daubin Family, genealogical history and descendants of Moore M. Daubin (1824-1898) compiled by Meredith Mahlon Daubin, b: 1900; published in 1952 Washington, DC; Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center; p15 Dobbin family
  • "Danny Family of Early Virginia", Cornelius Dabney (b: 1630) and his descendants
  • Record#352 by Nell (Watson) Sherman in 1962; Albemarle County Library in Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Virginia
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42781664/sarah-ann-dabney: accessed 29 November 2021), memorial page for Sarah Ann Jennings Dabney (3 Apr 1702–1790), Find a Grave Memorial ID 42781664, citing Sandridge Cemetery, White Hall, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA; Maintained by 47117651 (contributor 47117651) Unknown.




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Jennings-857 and Jennings-415 do not represent the same person because: Dates one generation apart, nothing in common
posted by Neal Parker
Jennings-9080 and Jennings-415 do not represent the same person because: Different birth/death dates AND locations; appears to be a different person or there are errors on the Ancestry.com family tree noted as the source.
posted by Jim Miller
Jennings-9080 and Jennings-415 appear to represent the same person because: Duplicate Profile
posted by Daniel Ange
The birth date shown was 1710 which would mean she was 11 years old when she got married. The death date needs to be checked also.
Jennings-6314 and Jennings-415 appear to represent the same person because: same spouse, similar dates
Jennings-3477 and Jennings-415 appear to represent the same person because: Same mame, same husband, similar dates
posted by Bob Tonsmeire
Another Arborist, and others have determined that Jennings-415 is NOT a match with Jenning-857, having been born ten years and an ocean apart.
posted by Tom Bredehoft
This profile has been identified as a duplicate by an Arborist. Please review the proposed merge with Jennings-857 (see below). If they are duplicates, please approve the merge. If you have questions or would like assistance please ask me or any other Arborist. Thank you.

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