Hello!
For the McDoles and McDowells who have wanted to reach me, I have an email "slhfamily" at the following company--"aol.com".
I hope to hear from you.
Sharon
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Sunday, September 15, 2013
I Found Them, I Found Them, I found Them through Facebook!
I made the leap from White, Tennessee to Fairfield Co., South Carolina because the S.C. Archives are online and a lady on Facebook pointed it out to me.
I thought I should tell you how I was helped on Facebook. I found there is a South Carolina Genealogy Network Facebook page. I put a couple queries there about John and Andrew McDowell arriving in Sparta, TN in 1810. I told them the best match-up seemed to be between my family and the family names seen in Fairfield Co.,S.C. Within two days I had an answer to look at the South Carolina Archives online. Here is the website: www.archivesindex.sc.gov
Begin by entering the last name into the search, and the site will show you the first names they have. Be sure to try different spellings.
When I lined up all the data I had about Andrew and John McDowell who seemed to come from South Carolina by October 1810, it most closely matched the McD Family in Fairfield County. There were name similarities: Andrew, John, James. (I also had repeated names of Elizabeth and Smith.) There was an Andrew in Fairfield Co. who had been a corporal in The Revolution, and was in the 1790 and 1800 census. However, he was gone in 1810. He seemed to have a brother James because they enlisted in 1776 and were discharged on the same days. There was a John McDowell in the 1800 census who was 16-25, with a young wife and two daughters.
I can't stand all the explaining:
Alexander McDowell and 2 sons, Andrew and James, came to South Carolina about 1766 or 67. We know that because they were applying for their headright plats in 1767. Alexander applied 9/23/1767. Andrew applied on 7-7-1767 and James applied on 7-8-1767 in FAIRFIELD CO., S. CAROLINA.
Andrew was a surveyor and has many surveys on record in Camden/Fairfield Co. from 1773-1807. He left there with his son John by 1810. John McDowell registered his land in the land Office in Sparta, Tennessee in October 1810. There is no Federal Census remaining for Tennessee for 1810, so we will never know if John and Andrew were already in TN in the summer of 1810 or just arrived in October.
So that's where my McDowell's came from! Whether they sailed from Ireland or Scotland, I do not know, YET, but I will know one day.
I thought I should tell you how I was helped on Facebook. I found there is a South Carolina Genealogy Network Facebook page. I put a couple queries there about John and Andrew McDowell arriving in Sparta, TN in 1810. I told them the best match-up seemed to be between my family and the family names seen in Fairfield Co.,S.C. Within two days I had an answer to look at the South Carolina Archives online. Here is the website: www.archivesindex.sc.gov
Begin by entering the last name into the search, and the site will show you the first names they have. Be sure to try different spellings.
When I lined up all the data I had about Andrew and John McDowell who seemed to come from South Carolina by October 1810, it most closely matched the McD Family in Fairfield County. There were name similarities: Andrew, John, James. (I also had repeated names of Elizabeth and Smith.) There was an Andrew in Fairfield Co. who had been a corporal in The Revolution, and was in the 1790 and 1800 census. However, he was gone in 1810. He seemed to have a brother James because they enlisted in 1776 and were discharged on the same days. There was a John McDowell in the 1800 census who was 16-25, with a young wife and two daughters.
I can't stand all the explaining:
Alexander McDowell and 2 sons, Andrew and James, came to South Carolina about 1766 or 67. We know that because they were applying for their headright plats in 1767. Alexander applied 9/23/1767. Andrew applied on 7-7-1767 and James applied on 7-8-1767 in FAIRFIELD CO., S. CAROLINA.
Andrew was a surveyor and has many surveys on record in Camden/Fairfield Co. from 1773-1807. He left there with his son John by 1810. John McDowell registered his land in the land Office in Sparta, Tennessee in October 1810. There is no Federal Census remaining for Tennessee for 1810, so we will never know if John and Andrew were already in TN in the summer of 1810 or just arrived in October.
So that's where my McDowell's came from! Whether they sailed from Ireland or Scotland, I do not know, YET, but I will know one day.
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
My McDowell Family Tree
It's been awhile since I laid this out for new readers of this blog.
A Group:These men were in White County, Tennessee in 1810, possibly sooner:
1. Andrew McDowell born before 1775 by his age in 1820 census. Andrew is not listed in the 1830 census.
2. *John McDowell probably born by 1775, because he was a parent in 1795. Died about 1819 in White County, Tennessee. His estate was settled in White County.
B Group. A younger generation than Andrew and John:
1. Smith McDowell: he shows up in 1827 in a deed between him and Andrew McDowell. Andrew sells him 200 ac. for 2 cents per acre. In NO census records.
2. Jane McDowell/McDole, born in South Carolina about 1796. A widow with a daughter Elizabeth.
3. Elizabeth McDowell born in South Carolina about 1795. Daughter of John McDowell married to James Elrod. Mother of many children.
4. *Andrew McDowell, who often used Mcdole, born about 1800. We don't know where he was born because he died before the 1850 census.
C Group: Descendants of Group B.
1. Jane McDowell/McDole was someone's widow, possibly Smith's. She has a daughter Elizabeth, and possibly a son, James. James seems to stay close to her residence in the censuses. He marries Eliza Clouse. They die too young.
2. *Children of Andrew McDole: John and Smith seem to be the oldest, born by 1820.
There may be daughters Cynthia and Sippy. The youngest son may be the James McDowell living in McMinnville area in 1850 census. There are other children.
D Group: Descendants of Group C.
*I am descended from Andrew's (b. about 1800) son *John (b. about 1819). John marries Hester Ann, and we don't know her last name. They have several children. The ones we know of are Emmeline, Owen, James,and Nancy Ann.
E Group:
I am descended from Nancy Ann McDowell. She was born in Taney County, Missouri in January 1850. Evidently her father died, and Hester Ann McDowell went to live with her sister.
A Group:These men were in White County, Tennessee in 1810, possibly sooner:
1. Andrew McDowell born before 1775 by his age in 1820 census. Andrew is not listed in the 1830 census.
2. *John McDowell probably born by 1775, because he was a parent in 1795. Died about 1819 in White County, Tennessee. His estate was settled in White County.
B Group. A younger generation than Andrew and John:
1. Smith McDowell: he shows up in 1827 in a deed between him and Andrew McDowell. Andrew sells him 200 ac. for 2 cents per acre. In NO census records.
2. Jane McDowell/McDole, born in South Carolina about 1796. A widow with a daughter Elizabeth.
3. Elizabeth McDowell born in South Carolina about 1795. Daughter of John McDowell married to James Elrod. Mother of many children.
4. *Andrew McDowell, who often used Mcdole, born about 1800. We don't know where he was born because he died before the 1850 census.
C Group: Descendants of Group B.
1. Jane McDowell/McDole was someone's widow, possibly Smith's. She has a daughter Elizabeth, and possibly a son, James. James seems to stay close to her residence in the censuses. He marries Eliza Clouse. They die too young.
2. *Children of Andrew McDole: John and Smith seem to be the oldest, born by 1820.
There may be daughters Cynthia and Sippy. The youngest son may be the James McDowell living in McMinnville area in 1850 census. There are other children.
D Group: Descendants of Group C.
*I am descended from Andrew's (b. about 1800) son *John (b. about 1819). John marries Hester Ann, and we don't know her last name. They have several children. The ones we know of are Emmeline, Owen, James,and Nancy Ann.
E Group:
I am descended from Nancy Ann McDowell. She was born in Taney County, Missouri in January 1850. Evidently her father died, and Hester Ann McDowell went to live with her sister.
I am contacting S.C for McDowell Information
I have formed a table of data about the McDowell's in South Carolina. I have lined up the McDs in Fairfield County, Laurens County, and Union County to list the adult men in all records from the Revolutionary War time until 1830. I am going to send this to SC along with family tree information,and get local researchers to search Mcdowell history and court records.
My experience has been that there are local genealogy centers in some of the larger cities, as in the Pioneer Library in Bedford County, PA. I have been there three times. Also, near Rockville, Maryland, there is a genealogy center. However, this does not seen to be the case in South Carolina. I am going to take the advice of a couple others on the Internet and I have emailed the librarians in Winnsboro, S.C(Fairfield Co.), Union Co.,and Laurens, Co.
So, something is being done! I don't know what people will find, but we are establishing new connections that have never been proven before, so we have to look in several places to find our answer.
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