My Magness/Mackaness Family Genealogy
My earliest known Magness ancestor was Peregrine Mackaness. An excellent source for the Magness family may be found in The Webb Families of Dekalb County, Tennessee and 23 Related Families, by Thomas Gray Webb. The book is out of print but might be found in a library near you. Peregrine Mackaness was probably born about 1700, and it is quite possible that he was born in Lincolnshire on the northeastern coast of England. The name Mackaness appears in the parish registers of the County of Lincoln in the late 1600s, including some who were named Peregrine Mackaness.
Webb writes that Peregrine was married to a Mary and that the couple had only one child or only one lived to adulthood: Peregrine Magness Jr. Webb also writes: His wife, like his mother, was named Mary, and her maiden name is presently not known. (Some have thought that Peregrine's wife was Sarah Hamrick, but all evidence indicates that she was definitely NOT Sarah Hamrick.)
Peregrine Mackaness World Connect Project
Individual Magness Webpages
Source Citations
Juanita "Nita" Evans Caldwell, Morris Roberts and Some of His Descendents, third printing, November 2002 (Lincolnton, North Carolina: Juanita Evans Caldwell; April 1999)
Earl Douglas Honeycutt III, "Col. John Roberts Family," in The Heritage of Cleveland County Volume I - 1982, coordinator James D. Marler (Winston-Salem, North Carolina: The Cleveland County Historical Association in cooperation with Hunter Publishing Company, 1982), 501-02.
Thomas Gray Webb, The Webb Families of Dekalb County, Tennessee and 23 Related Families (Smithville, Tennessee: Thomas Gray Webb; 2002)