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Aka: Mary Hulse and Mary Hughs b Ireland. Mary also married (2) Richard SHORE about 1726 in Saint Mary, Maryland.

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http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/rockbridge/bios/bio-g.txt

GAY - William Gay, who fought at the siege of Londonderry, had at least six children who came to the Calfpasture. These were William, John, James, Robert, Samuel, and Eleanor. Robert and Samuel did not long remain in the locality. Eleanor married William Kincaid. William Gay, who owned 900 acres on what is wrongly called Guy's Run, died in 1755. His wife, who was Margaret Walkup, afterward married William Hamilton.

James Gay, son of the pioneer James, and his brothers-in-law were the first men to introduce cattle of an improved breed into Kentucky. The Gays of Kentucky are derived from the Rockbridge families. They are among the largest landholders in the Bluegrass region and are connected with scores of the historic families of that state. Henry Gay, who married Jane Henderson, was a brother to the pioneer Gays, or at least a near relative, and he lived a while on the Calfpasture. His son, John H., born in 1787, became a millionaire merchant of St. Louis. Edward J. Gay, son of John H., was the largest sugar planter in Louisiana, and left an estate worth $12,000,000. The sugar mills and plantation are still in the Gay family.

Source: A History of Rockbridge County, Virginia
by Oren F. Morton, published in 1920.
Transcribed and submitted by: "Marilyn B. Headley" , 1997
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Spouse: Margaret Hamilton, Father: Alexander Hamilton b. 1679
Children:
William Gay II b. About 1705 in Londerry Co. Ulster, Ireland
James Gay b. About 1710 in Augusta County, Virginia
Samuel Gay b. 1733
John Gay b. Jan 1740 in Calfpasture, Augusta, Virginia
Henry Gay
Robert Gay
Eleanor Gay b. 17 Aug 1740 in Augusta County, Virginia

From "John Gay of Sadsbury, Lancaster, Co. PA, by Robert H.Montgomery, A.B., LL.B., Cambridge, Mass. Reprinted from ThePennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, Vol. XVIII, Sept 1951, pages119 - 130
"It has been said that there was a soldier named William Gay at the siege of Londonderry and that John, William, and James who settled in the Calf Pastures were his sons. " The Siege ofLondonderry, a city on the Foyle River in Northern Ireland,occurred in 1688-89, when the forces of James II attacked and the city held out for 105 days. (Encyclopedia Brittanica)

William Gay migrated from England to Ireland to Pennsylvania and finally to Rockbridge (formerly Augusta county), Virginia. He may have been a brother of John Gay of Sadsbury, Lancaster Co.,PA.

From The Gay/Guy families of early Augusta County, Virginia and related families of Dunlap, Kinkead/Kincaid, Lockridge,McFarland, McKee, Parkinson, Rhea, Stevenson, Walters, and many others" compiled by Robert B. Walters. published by The Compiler, Cary, NC: 2001, 631 pages. Found in DAR Library,Washington. DC. The immigration record of William is found in "Original Lists of Emigrants in Bondage from London to American Colonies," Marion and Jack Kaminkon, publ. by Magna Carta Book Co. Baltimore. This is believed to be our William based on the number of people in his party, but we cannot be certain until further American records are found for William.

From "Old King William Homes and Families" by Peyton N. Clarke,we find the following account on p. 71: written by Elizabeth Shelby Kinkead, a descendant of Eleanor Gay Kinkead: "The following is copied from my father's (William Bury Kinkead) narrative: The ancestors of my grandparents (William and Eleanor Gay Kinkead) were Scotch people. They left Scotland after the Battle of Bothwell Brig, and went to Ireland, settling in the northern part of that country. My grandmother's (Eleanor Gay) people, about four miles out from Derry. They were devoted Presbyterians, but did not side with either of the extreme parties of that day. King William represented their ideas, and they held him in highest admiration. I can well remember, a little boy of 10 years of age, standing by my grandmother, and being delighted to listen to her give the history of that memorable seige, which she had heard fromt he lips of her mother, whose father was in the seige. I knew it all by heart;and when afterwards I read the splendid description by Macaulay,Browning and the Montjoy and the Dartmouth were my familiar friends. Not a great while after this the ancestors of my grandfather and grandmother emigrated to the United States. They came first to Pennsylvania, and soon after moved to Virginia, to the county of Augusta. My grandfather, William Kinkead, was born in 1736. My grandmother, Eleanor Gay, was four years younger than he was."

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6--13. John Jacquelin Ambler, M.D., C. S. A., b. 1843; m. I877, Mary Edith Fairfax, dau. of Dr. Orlando and Mary Randolph (Cary) Fairfax, and had issue: 1. Rosamond Cary, b. 1882; 2. Orlando, b. 1883; d. in infancy; 3. Randolph, b. 1886. (See Cary lineage.)

XIII. John Jaquelin Ambler Moncure((6)), b. Dec. 23, 1843. Married (1877) Mary Edith Fairfax. ^[S2128] ^[S2692]

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Second, but first surviving son and heir. He was summoned to Parliament on 8 Jan 1370/1v.p. He was licensed to voyage overseas to Jerusalem on 27 Mar 1386.
Three children:
Edmund b 2 Mar 1377.
Margaret m. Ralph Neville.
Katherine m. Michael De la Pole.

"During Richard II's Scotish expedition of 1385, ... [Hugh's son] Ralph was killed in a brawl with the Earl of Huntingdon. Deeply affected by his loss, and no doubt embittered by the King's failure to see justice done, the Earl [of Stafford, Hugh] made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and died on the return journey in 1386." (Rawcliffe, 11)."
Children:
i. Edmund Stafford, born March 02, 1377/78 in Staffordshire, England; died July 22, 1403 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.
ii. Ralph Stafford, b 1354 died 1385.
iii. Thomas Stafford, b. 1368 died 1392. He married Anne of Woodstock Abt. 1389.
iv. William Stafford, born b: 21 Sep 1375; died 1395.
v. Hugh Stafford. b abt 1382
vi. Catherine Stafford. b. abt 1376
vii. Joan Stafford. b. 1378
viii. Margaret Stafford.
maybe Humphrey b. abt 1376.

"Hugh Stafford , 3rd Baron Stafford and 2nd Earl of Stafford, followed in the footsteps of his father in those martial times, and came very early into action, for at the age of seventeen he was in the wars of France, and again when he attained majority, being then in the retinue of the Black Prince. At the period he succeeded to the honors of his family, he was twenty-eight years of age, and he was distinguished in the wars of Edward III., and in those at the beginning of King Richard II.'s time. In the 9th year of the latter monarch, he undertook a pilgrimage to the Holy Sepulchre, and on his return died at Rhodes, in October 1386."

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widow, whose maiden name was Turnbull.

My Southern Family

HELISANT

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ID Number: I65145

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Mary

21 Sep 1703 - BEF 1749

ID Number: I96604

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Roxie Mae ALVIS

1898 - 17 Mar 1900

ID Number: I48625

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Mellanie APVRIL

ABT 1560 - BEF 1610

ID Number: I20483

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ALICE BURGATE

1250 - ____

ID Number: I52541

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WEVIA de CREPON of Denmark

ABT 0942 - ____

ID Number: I33087

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Mathew DEAVER

16 Jan 1781 - ____

ID Number: I100336

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William GAY I

BEF 1668 - ____

ID Number: I98974

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William Henry GLENN

18 Sep 1821 - 27 Sep 1853

ID Number: I73829

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Rebecca HARRISON

ABT 1750 - ____

ID Number: I89691

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AVICE de LANCASTER

ABT 1084 - 1149

ID Number: I57908

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John Jacquelin Ambler MONCURE C.S.A.

23 Dec 1843 - ____

ID Number: I90349

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HUGH de STAFFORD 2nd Earl, K.G.

ABT 1342 - 16 Oct 1386

ID Number: I17166

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TURNBULL

ABT 1770 - ____

ID Number: I81066

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