I95809: Mary ANDERSON (18 Aug 1759

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Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume II, VII--House of Representatives: James Madison Hite Beale born at Mt Airy, Shenandoah county, Virginia, February 7, 1786; pursued preparatory studies; elected as a Democrat to twenty-third and twenty-fourth congresses (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1837); elected to thirty-first and thirty-second congresses, serving from March 4, 1849, to March 3, 1853, and then declining a renomination; died in Putnam county, now West Virginia, August 2, 1866.

IV. James Madison Hite Beale. Married (Oct. 2, 1808) Mary Steenbergen. James M. H. Beale was a member of Congress, 1833-1837.

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I. Kate Louise Noémie Pecquet du Bellet, b. May 22, 1853, at the Hameau de Longchamps, near Paris, France. She was educated at Mt. Carmel Convent, New Orleans, La. Kept house for her father after the death of her mother and assisted in the raising of her young brother. Since the death of her father, she has been teaching, first in public schools in Louisiana, and afterwards as French teacher in several schools and academies: St. Katherine, Bolivar, Tenn.; Greenville Seminary, Miss.; St. Mary's College, Dallas, Texas; Private French Lessons in Baltimore, Md., and Wytheville, Va.

Louise Pecquet du Bellet Great-Granddaughter of Colonel John Ambler, of Jamestown, Va., and Granddaughter of Henry W. Moncure, of Richmond, Va.

Louise Pecquet du Bellet visited Monumental Church, June 21, 1904, and Mrs. Robert H. Fisher showed her this baptismal font. This is the inscription engraved under the vase: Given by Martha, the wife of Edward Jaquelin and Edward their son, for the use of the Church in James City. The last dyed at Hackney, Interred in Shadwell Churchyard, Aged 18 years. 1733-4.

Louise Pecquet du Bellet was in Richmond, Va., June, 1904. On the eighth Miss Emily Harvie, granddaughter of John and Mary Ambler Marshall, accompanied her to Shockoe Hill Cemetery. We found the graves in good conditions. Miss Pecquet du Bellet copied the following inscriptions:

Miss Louise Pecquet du Bellet, Marco, La.

I am informed by C. E. A. Marshall, of Shepherdstown, W. V., that you are writing a history of the "Ambler" family, and was told by him that probably you could be of assistance to me (or rather us) in our work in preparing a history of the Bickerdike family, for the two have come together on one or two occasions.

find from old Virginia records that John Ambler married Elizabeth "Bikadike," both of York, England, and that their son Richard Ambler, of Virginia, acted as executor for the estate of Arthur "Bikadike," his uncle, in 1720, etc., etc. How the descendants of this Richard Ambler came to spell their maternal grandmother's name Burkerdike I have not yet discovered, but think it is due to an error in spelling, as the name "Bikadike" is evidently misspelled in the records; but the latter spelling, it is well known, refers to the name which is now universally spelled Bickerdike, with the exception of one solitary branch from the East Riding, Yorkshire, England, which persist in the old and indifferent spelling-Bickerdyke. This branch is represented in America by the family of the celebrated Civil War nurse, "Mother Bickerdyke," of which only a few remain.

In the United States there are six different Bickerdike families; one in Ireland, two in Canada, and many in England, most of them in Yorkshire. All originally of Yorkshire. There is a Chas. Bickerdike living in Bakersfield, Cal., who belongs to a branch of the family who had an Elizabeth Bickerdike marry a John Ambler May 18, 1682. Also an Arthur Bickerdike, son of Cornelius Bickerdike, who was baptized May 15, 1684. [These from Eng. Parish Registers.] As these names do not appear again in the register I am curious to know if they may not be the same who appear in Virginia shortly after these dates.

If you can throw any light on the subject in hand, and are so disposed, I would be very grateful for any information or suggestions along this line and would be more than pleased to render any assistance, if in my power, to you in your undertaking.

Very respectfully, R. J. Bickerdike.

Mme. Louise Pecquet du Bellet, Box 169, Wytheville, Va.

Having been for many years a collector of family lore, I am pretty well posted on your connection with my people. Your letter should have received earlier attention, but for having gotten mislaid and forgotten in the multiplicity of matters just now overwhelming me.

As a critical genealogist, I must state that I deal only with established facts, and pay little heed to traditions, etc., etc., unless they harmonize

Mrs. Mary Ambler Née Cary, daughter of Wilson Cary, Esquire, of Ceeleys, Elizabeth City County, Va., who was descended from one of the noblest families in all England thoroughly with historical events. These will o' the wisp "English Fortunes," so far as I have ever had anything to do with tracing them, have proved absolutely mythical. They seem, however, to have great tenacity of life, the result of the tireless rascality of certain English and Yankee swindlers, and the boundless gullibility of impecunious descendants. "There is absolutely nothing in any of them." "The Cary fortune" was the flimsiest of frauds. [Hon. William Marshall Ambler studied the question; his opinion was the same as Mr. Cary's. See Volume II, Chapter III.]

I took the pains, while I was in London many years ago, to make inquiry of reputable lawyers and men well versed in the records of English Chancery cases, and satisfied myself thoroughly that there was not the slightest ground on which to base the magnificent superstructure, erected by visionary proceedings, as an examination of the English laws of inheritance should at once have dispelled the abused speculations in which the imaginary heirs so long indulged and do still.

Our Virginia ancestor, Col. Miles Cary, never possessed any land in London, though in his will of 1669, he left certain houses in Bristol (whence he emigrated about 1640) to his three daughters, which long since legally passed out of their and their heirs' hands. But even had there been anything in the "Cary Fortune," of course your great grandfather, Col. John Ambler, could never have inherited such fabulous amount as eighty-two millions, even though he had two streams of Cary blood, for he certainly had no primogenital rights, being the great grandson of one of the daughters of William Cary, who certainly had no land in England; the fourth son of the emigrant; and his mother, Mary Cary, being one of the daughters of Col. Wilson Cary, eldest son of the third son of the emigrant.

I trust you will not give further circulation to the absurd Mary (Cary) Ambler Washington Story, as there is positively nothing in it. Washington's extant letters, written after the marriage of Mary Cary to Edward Ambler, 1754, show conclusively that the object of his attachment was her elder sister, Mrs. George William Fairfax (Sally Cary), and Mary Ambler died in May 1781, several months before Washington passed through Williamsburg, "at the head of the American Army" (about October 19, 1781).

Both Mrs. Fairfax and Mrs. Ambler appear to have been women of strong sense, and it is the height of "romantic" silliness to suppose either could have fainted "at the sight of the victorious Washington," who had then been twenty-two years a benedict. While Mrs. Fairfax was fifty-one, and Mrs. Ambler in her grave, and even had she been living, would have been near thirty years married.

I regret that I have so little ability to be of service to you at present, Very truly yours, Wilson Miles Cary. ^[S2692]

My Southern Family

Mary ANDERSON

18 Aug 1759 - ____

ID Number: I95809

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ALICE d' AUBIGNY

ABT 1140 - 11 Sep 1188

ID Number: I33180

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James Madison Hite BEALE

7 Feb 1786 - 2 Aug 1866

ID Number: I25943

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BRAWNER

ABT 1780 - ____

ID Number: I42463

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Benjamin BROWN

ABT 1690 - ____

ID Number: I55067

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ELIZABETH DESPENSER

1322 - 13 Jul 1389

ID Number: I38547

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HUGH (Eoghin) de FIFE of Fife

____ - ____

ID Number: I88896

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William FITZHUGH

12 Dec 1719 - ____

ID Number: I73922

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Col. Robert OSBORNE

ABT 1700 - ____

ID Number: I86526

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Kate Louise Noémie PECQUET DU BELLET

22 May 1853 - ____

ID Number: I90442

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Donna Lynn ROBINSON

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