Edward
Maxey
Sr.
Born in France
[uncertain]
[uncertain]Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Elizabeth Woodhouse
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Husband of
Elizabeth Ann (Wyatt) Maxey
— married
1668 [location unknown]
[children unknown]
Died about
at about age 78
in Goochland County, Colony of Virginia
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Biography
This profile may represent a person who does not actually exist. It is not the profile for Edward Maxey (abt.1674-abt.1740), as documented in Edythe Maxey Clark’s exhaustive and well sourced book, “THE MAXEYS OF VIRGINIA: A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Edward and Susannah Maxey.”
Nor does this profile represent the father of that Edward Maxey (abt.1674-abt.1740), as there are no actual sources to indicate who his father was.
This profile seems to have been created from a variety of unsourced family trees and an unsourced FindAGrave entry.
The FindAGrave page for Edward Maxey Jr. (1650-1725) [1] says that this Edward Maxey was buried in the Huguenot Cemetery in Manakin, Goochland County, Virginia. However, there is no photo or inscription of the tombstone provided. At least two sources [2] [3] indicate that there are no Maxeys buried in the Manakin Huguenot Cemetery.
The Person Page in FamilySearch [4] for the Edward in this profile simply uses three references to the above errant FindAGrave page as its source.
According to Highland Pioneer Sketches and Family Genealogies[5] “Bede Maxey … was the daughter of William and Elizabeth (Sublette) Maxey and the granddaughter of Edward Maxey, Sr., who was born in France in 1650. He came to America in 1700, where he died in 1728.” The family relationship described here would indicate that it is referring to Edward Maxey (abt.1674-abt.1740). However, there is no source provided for this statement and the birth and death dates are not even close to the ones that are well-established for that Edward Maxey.
This unsourced family tree [6] says that Edward Maxey (abt.1674-abt.1740) was the son of Edward Maxey and Elizabeth Ann Wyatt. However, there is no source provided and it is rife with factual errors (e.g., children's birthdates and multiple children born before marriage).
Sources
- ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112440174/edward-maxey
- ↑ http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/powhatan/cemeteries/manakin.txt
- ↑ https://virginiagravestones.org/cemetery.php?cemID=2510
- ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/LDY7-LDX
- ↑ Ayres, Elsie Johnson. Highland Pioneer Sketches and Family Genealogies. United States: H.K. Skinner & Son, 1971. P. 743 http://www.bishir.org/misc/AyresHighlandPioneerSketchesExcerpt.pdf
- ↑ http://www.albemarle-callaway.com/genealogy_pages/henry_maxey/d1.html#g1
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Rejected matches › Edward J Maxey › Edward Maxey Jr. › Edward Maxey Sr. (1730-1816) › Edward Preston Maxey (1832-) › Edward Maxey (abt.1550-) › Edward V Maxey (1841-) › Edward Maxey (abt.1873-) › Edward Maxey (bef.1699-) › Edward Maisey (1866-) › Edward Maisey (1845-) › Edward Macey (abt.1763-) › Edward John Macey (abt.1854-) › Edward Mazey (abt.1816-) › Edward Macy (1798-1827) › Edward B. Mackey (abt.1864-) › Edward Meeks (1800-) › Edward Mackey (1896-) › Edward Hugh Mackey (1862-) › Edward Mackey (1877-) › Edward Key (abt.1842-)
Categories: Estimated Birth Date | Uncertain Family
Why is it duplicated on the father's profile?
BY WALTER S. MAXEY LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 1925" "In the latter part of the 1600’s Walter Maxey, a rug weaver, emigrated from Wales to France, married a French woman and reared a family there. Three of his sons were named John, Edward and Horatio. Mark Twain, in his history of Joan of Arc, speaks of the village of Maxey nearby, where Joan of Arc and her friends often visited. Whether this village was founded by and named for Walter Maxey we have no way of knowing, but it is probable. In northern Georgia there is a town of about 300 population named Maxey. Some of the Maxeys of that place have been prominent on county affairs. By correspondence with them, find they emigrated from Virginia and settled there, and are a branch of our family.
About 1725 the three sons of Walter Maxey, John, Edward, and Horatio, emigrated to America and settled on Soms Creek in Frederick County, Maryland, near the town, or city, of Baltimore. Afterward John went to Maine, Horatio to Nor thwest Territory and settled in what was afterward the state of Ohio. There were many descendants of these two brothers, with some of whom I have corresponded" There is extensive genealogy of descendants. Think these Maxey's may have gotten mixed up with the Walter who came over earlier. Have a copy of this document and "the saga of Jesse Maxey" who was one of the signors of the Cumberland compact May 1 1780 and an early settler of Tennessee/Kentucky will see if I can sort it a little. Also have copy of list of signors Cumberland Contract which were several families, Maxey, Moore, Newell, Cox, Gibson, Crockett, Ratliff, Burgess, White, Green, Smith, Luney, Rentfro, Evins, Evans,Johnson, Anderson, Wood, Price, Cameron, Campbell, Buchannon, Simpson, Williams, Montgomery, King and many more. About one third of these signors had been killed by hostile indians by 1784.
Much of the text in the Bio comes from Edythe Maxey Clark's "THE MAXEYS OF VIRGINIA", which actually refers to Edward Maxey (abt.1674-abt.1740). However, no parentage of that Edward Maxey has been proven. The death date in this profile is that of Edward Maxey Jr (abt.1696-1726). This profile’s reference #3 (https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L6S8-B81) is to a profile that has been deleted there. The first source provided (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LDY7-LDX) uses FindAGrave as its source. However, FindAGrave is not actually a source without a tombstone or cemetery burial record. The second source is the same unsubstantiated FindAGrave entry (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112440174/edward-maxey). The remaining two sources are incomplete.