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
She passed away on 17 Oct 1788 and was buried on the land of John Maupin in White Hll, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA. [3]
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.
Have you taken a DNA test? If so, login to add it. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA.
Sarah is 20 degrees from Zendaya Coleman, 23 degrees from Sting Sumner, 14 degrees from Josh Brolin, 22 degrees from Timothée Chalamet, 16 degrees from José Ferrer, 18 degrees from Frank Herbert, 16 degrees from Richard Jordan, 18 degrees from David Lynch, 17 degrees from Virginia Madsen, 19 degrees from Charlotte Rampling, 23 degrees from Patrick Stewart and 20 degrees from Denis Villeneuve on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.