Thomas Lewis's Page

You will have to give me your email for me to add you.  SInce everyone seems to know my email, you can send me a note to rkat91@aol.com.  Put Lewis in the subject heading so I don't delete it with unknown mail.

The Lewis link you send was not liked by my computer security, so beware. I have ancestry world, which is safer.  I have had a lot of problems research through European sites, and received a lot of European span in the past.  I have a few Welsh sites I can share that are safe.

I have found that at least one Lewis/Lewellyn line in Wales was related to Tudor, and goes back to Charlemagne on the women's line.. I am interested in seeing if different Lewis lines in Virginia can be separated. 

I have no real proof Henry Lewis of Virginia descended from Henry Lewis in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and I am hoping DNA  can solve this problem.  I think Lewis will have to be tested to 111 markers to show anything.  More individual markers may be required.  This will take dedication by Lewis descendants.  The most important thing at the moment is to get this DNA contributed, even at a low level of markers.

I will share the Welsh sites with you, but right now I am going to GENTREK in the chat room at this site which occurs every Monday night.  I invite you to join us.  I have learned a great deal at GENTREK over  the years I have attended it here and atother sites on the web.

Take care,

Rosemary

Most of the Browne ancestors I found at Ancestry.com, but I had to google to find confirmation of some claims of ancestry.  I have Ancestry World Explorer now.  I worked a lot on Brown/Browne because I have several lines of Brown in the US.   I researched other Lewis ancestors too.

Catherine Tywman was not the mother of Simeon Buford Lewis.  She was his (step)grandmother.  The Simeon Lewis of that generation was also in Kentucky, but he was older than ours, and he had a son who was younger than ours.

Email me and I can send you some information.  rkat91@aol.com

I think the Black people named Lewis in Barren County, KY were freed slaves of the Lewis family, freed before the Civil War.  I have seen no proof.

The son of Henry Lewis and (Mary) Anne Buford (Beaufort is correct) in our line of descent was William Lewis (1763-1851), lived Culpeper County, Virginia.  He married Mary Brown (1767-1829).  They are the parents of Simeon Buford Lewis, born 1795-1799, Culpeper.  There were two lines of Brown in Mary's ancestry.  One of the Brown / Browne lines went back to Francis Browne, the immigrant, born 1609, England; died 1682, Old Rappahannock County, Virginia. Francis Browne was a younger son of  Anthony Maria Francis Browne (1574-1629), 2nd Viscount Montague,  Before him were several men named Anthony Browne, including Anthony Sir Knight Browne, all having titles.  Anthony Maria Francis Browne married Jane Sackville, my 9th great-grandparents.  Between these two families, they were related to many of the nobility and early royality of England and Europe.  Anthony Brown was Catholic which was out of favor in the court, and probably influenced his son in deciding to immigrate to Virginia..  There is a painting of the Browne Brothers, and Anthony Browne.  You look a bit like him.  He lived in London during the time of Shakespeare.  We have at least two direct lines through different children to Henry Plantagenet, King Henry III of England (1207-1272), and Eleanor of Province, my 20th great grandparents, and your great-grandparents also.  All these people married in the set of their social equals, and it is a royal mess to research.  I thought you should know about this.

You were correct that some Lewis were Black people.  Some of the Lewis in Barren County, Kentucky were Black, and they carried the same names as the Lewis who were White.  This is a heads up to anyone concerned.

You were right about Catharine Katie Twyman.  She married Henry Lewis 27 Nov 1794, Madison County, Virginia. (Mary) Ann Buford Lewis had died in 1790.  I found Henry Lewis' estate papers that names all his living sons (in 1804 or so), and his daughters' living husbands.  It was the same as what I had, except I added Catharine Twyman.  Catharine was mentioned as his widow.  This has all been proved.  It sure is slow work.

Genealogy is confusing for anyone.

I am sorry about your computer..

I have seen the claim that Henry Lewis married Catherine Twyman, but I have seen no proof anywhere that this Henry married her.  I fail to see why Simeon Buford Lewis was named that if he did not have Buford ancestors.  It is things like this that kept me from finding Simeon B.'s parents for years.  I think I researched every Lewis in the country.

Sarah J. "Nettie" Lewis would have died before 1930, as she was not listed in Julia B. Thornhill Lewis' obituary.  My mother had the obituary from a Rolla newspaper, but it is missing now.  I transcribed it by hand years ago, as no photocopier was available.  It said she was born in Bedford County, Virginia, and listed her 7 living sons. That was all it said.

See previous comment on Sarah "Nettie" Lewis.