Elizabeth (Henby) Lamb (1697 - 1771)

Born 1697 in Perquimans County, North Carolina

Ancestors

Wife of Henry Lamb — married 1723 in Nansemond County, Virginia

Descendants

Died 13 Sep 1771 at about age 74 in St Lukes Parish, Rowan County, North Carolina

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Biography

Elizabeth (Henby) Lamb was a North Carolina colonist.

Notes

Elizabeth Henby (or Henly, etc.) is often seen in family trees as the wife of Henry Lamb. This is not proven and the birth name of Henry's wife Elizabeth is unknown. In Marshall Styles' book (source: #S20) on the descendants of Elizabeth and Henry Lamb he shows no known parents for Elizabeth. The lone official record I have found is for the purported parents' marriage and does not even support them having a daughter named Elizabeth (source: #S22). The source for her as their daughter is a user-submitted record which gives no source for this information.

Name

Gulielma Elizabeth /Henly/^[1][2][3]

Birth

Date: 1701

Place: New Kent, New Kent, Virginia, USA^[4][5]

Notes

Maiden Name and Parents: I have removed all references to Elizabeth's maiden name and her parents because there appears to be no documented evidence of either. Many user submitted trees give her name as Henby, Henly, Henley, Hanley, Hanbey, and occasionally Newby. Most of those trees provide no sources for these names or her parents. The following quote is from page 15 of Marshall Styles' book on Henry, Elizabeth and their descendants:

"The maiden name of Elizabeth is disputed by many, and I doubt there is anyone who can document who and when a connection was first made that her maiden name was Henley, or perhaps Henby, as some suggest. There is also much dispute as to whether Elizabeth was Henry's only, or second, wife. Some researchers place Henry's first marriage to a lady whose name was Gulielma, or something of the sort. Again, there appears to be no documentation of this, other than in personal computer files, notebooks and filing cabinets scattered and proliferating across the continent, all of which make it increasingly more difficult to refute the unsubstantiated. Further, there are virtually no descendants of Henry who bear the name of Gulielma... What it boils down to is that the Quaker records identify Henry as having a wife whose name is Elizabeth."

Birthplace: Similarly, I have seen no evidence for Elizabeth's birthplace. From the Quaker records, it is known they were members of the Nansemond Meeting in Virginia and transferred to the Perquimans Meeting in North Carolina. That Elizabeth was born in Nansemond County (today, the independent city of Suffolk) is an assumption based on that. If someone has solid evidence otherwise, I'd love to see it.

Marriage: Their place of marriage is also an assumption based on their known membership in the Nansemond meeting. I have not seen a record of their marriage, but it was supposedly around 1723.

Place of Death: Her death in Rowan County was reported by the meeting in Guilford County, and I suspect that is where the confusion arose, with some trees showing Guilford County as place of death. Rowan and Guilford counties are currently about 30 miles (50 km) apart, separated by Davidson County, but Davidson County was formed from a part of Rowan County in 1822, so Rowan and Guilford counties bordered one another in Elizabeth's lifetime.

From Styles, p. 23: "She died on 13 Sep 1774 in St Lukes Parish, Rowan, NC. Her death was reported by the Quakers of Guilford County in the Center Monthly Meeting; Hinshaw, Vol I, NC, p. 660."

The Center Monthly Meeting stills exists, as it has since 1754, and is located in Greensboro, Guilford County.

All notes above, excepting quoted segments, are mine. - FR

Birth

Date: abt 1700

Place: prob. Nansemond County, Virginia.

Source: Descendants of Henry and Elizabeth Lamb of North Carolina

Date: 1700

Place: New Kent, Virginia.

Date: ABT 1700

Place: Perquimans Precinct, Albermarle, North Carolina.

See notes on birthplaces in Notes section, above.

Marriage

Date: abt 1723

Place: prob. Nansemond County, Virginia

Source: Descendants of Henry and Elizabeth Lamb of North Carolina

Relocation

Date: 4 February 1739

Place: From Nansemond MM, Nansemond County, Virginia to Perquimans MM, Perquimans County, North Carolina

Source: Descendants of Henry and Elizabeth Lamb of North Carolina

Date: 29 Nov 1760

Place: From Perquimans MM, Perquimans County, North Carolina to New Garden MM, Rowan County, North Carolina

Source: Descendants of Henry and Elizabeth Lamb of North Carolina

NOTE: Both of the above moves, with dates, are documented in Hinshaw's Quaker Records.

Death

Date: 13 Sep 1774

Place: St Lukes Parish, Rowan County, North Carolina

Source: Descendants of Henry and Elizabeth Lamb of North Carolina

Date: 13 SEP 1774

Place: Guilford County, North Carolina, USA

See notes on place of death in Notes section, above.

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S630 Page: Source number: 1725.055; Source type: Family group sheet. Birth date: 1696. Birth place: VA. Marriage date: 1720. Marriage place: NC.
2. ↑ Source: #S651 Birth date: 1700.
3. ↑ Source: #S790
4. ↑ Source: #S630 Page: Source number: 1725.055; Source type: Family group sheet. Birth date: 1696. Birth place: VA. Marriage date: 1720. Marriage place: NC.
5. ↑ Source: #S651 Birth date: 1700.

See also:

• Source: S20 Author: Marshall L. Styles. Title: Descendants of Henry and Elizabeth Lamb of North Carolina: A Quaker Family Legacy, 1697 - 2000. Publication: Salem, MA : Higginson Book Co., ©2000. p. 15.

• Source: S22 Title: North Carolina Marriages, 1759-1979. Marriage record for Elizabeth's purported parents (see Notes, above). Gives his surname as Hanley.

• Source: S21 Title: Ancestral File on Family Search.org. User submitted, provides no sources for data.

• Source: S630 Title: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900. Publication: Yates Publishing. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.

• Source: S632 Title: Family Data Collection - Individual Records. Author: Edmund West, comp. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.

• Source: S651 Author: Godfrey Memorial Library, comp. Title: American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) Publication: Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.

• Source: S790 Title: Ancestry Family Trees. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.

Acknowledgments

• WikiTree profile Henby-3 created through the import of Remus Wikitree.ged on Feb 12, 2012 by Fred Remus. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Fred and others.

• WikiTree profile Henly-21 created through the import of MYERS-EVEY Family WikiTree.ged on Apr 18, 2013 by Jon Myers. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Jon and others.

• Marriage records

• Source: S20 Title: Descendants of Henry and Elizabeth Lamb of North Carolina: A Quaker Family Legacy, 1697 - 2000. Author: Marshall L. Styles. Publication: Salem, MA : Higginson Book Co., ©2000, pp. 15-16, 23.

• Source S28 Title: Ancestral File. User submitted.

• Source: S3082719147 Title: Ancestry Family Trees. Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA : The Generations Network. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147807724/gulielma-elizabeth-lamb : accessed 19 October 2021), memorial page for Gulielma Elizabeth Henly Lamb (1700–13 Sep 1774), Find a Grave Memorial ID 147807724, ; Maintained by Tim Adams (contributor 48715378) Non-Cemetery Burial, who reports a NC burial location unknown.