I9532: John Wiley ALVIS (17 Nov 1901

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dau of John Ashe of co. Somerset.

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Daughter of Richard Barfield and Margaret Peacock.

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Clement Brooke State: MD Year: 1790 County: Prince Georges Roll: M637_3 Township: Unknown Township Page: 92 Image: 0156. Children: William Lee, Elizabeth, Moses Dillon and Hannah Dillon Brooke.

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"Daniel DuVal came to Gloucester County, VA, March 5, 1701 on the ship "Nassau", Captain Tragian commanding, having sailed from Blackwall in London on December 8, 1700. He seems to have settled in Ware Parish, and there still is standing the beautiful old church of Ware Parish, established 1650.

In the first days of this parish, almost 350 years ago, people gathered not here, but on Ware Neck. In 1680, while The Rev'd James Clack was Rector, the Colonial Court and Council in Williamsburg granted permission to construct a new church on the higher ground of the present site. The building was completed between 1690 and 1713. The early church records recording such information were lost during the War Between the States in the burning of Richmond.

The solid brick rectangular building, laid in Flemish bond, was built by local craftsmen and artisans from England. It is the only rectangular colonial church in Virginia with both North and South doors. The classic pediment doors are the earliest of their kind. The walls of the church are three feet thick and the foundations five feet thick. The whole structure is imposing yet elegant in its simplicity. Its architecture is based on the use of squares, golden rectangles, a pyramid triangle and a circle.

No doubt that the loyal Protestant Daniel DuVal was a member of this church. Too much reverence on the part of us who are his descendents cannot be paid to the memory of this Huguenot gentleman, an honored Chevalier de France, a title equivalent to the present one of Knight in England. The earliest of the name that can be traced in Normandy France is one Richard DuVal, 1260, Sieur de France, a title of respect. The spelling of the name as used by the sons and grandsons of Daniel DuVal is with a capital V and only one L.

There was an emigrant from Alsace-Lorraine by the name of Mareen Duvall who settled in Maryland, but no proof of any relationship between the two families has ever been established, although many descendents of both have sometimes thought they were of the same origin. Mareen Duvall, from brewsters or winesters in Alsace-Lorraine came to Maryland in 1659, and is the progenitor of the Maryland Duvals but no kin whatever to the Virginia Huguenot, Daniel DuVal from Normandy. Daniel DuVal and Philadelphia DuBois had four sons and one daughter, viz:
1. William DuVal of Gloucester Co., Petsworth Parrish d. 1784
2. Daniel DuVal II, Caroline Co., d. 1777
3. Benjamin, first Caroline then Henrico, d 1770
4. Samuel DuVal b. 1714, lived in King William Co. then in Henrico Co. d. 1784 at "Mt.Comfort", his plantation home in of over 400 acres, now a part of Chestnut Hill and Highland Park in the present city of Richmond.
5. Mary DuVal b. in Gloucester Co. m. Mr. Amos in Surrey Co.

Daniel DuVal soon became established as an architect and joiner in which prolific profession his son Samuel seemed to have joined him. The Huguenots, no matter how noble their blood in France, were not afraid to work. Their industry and energy soon gave them high rank in their adopted lands. They were good investors, good business men and had a rare foresight. In the early history of Kentucky, real estate developments, no less than 100,000 acres of land, passed through their hands either as exchange investments or homesteads. This we learn from recorded statistics on file in the office of the Clerk of the Civil Court of Appeals in Frankfort, KY and listed in a wonderful way in the book "Old Kentucky Land Grants. and Entries and Deeds," by Jillson. These have been copied and are now in the possession of the writer, and but for space and cost, they would be included in these records."

"Daniel Duvall came from Lorraine La Ville Remiremont in Normandy, France. As a Huguenot, he sought refuge from France after the revocation of the Edict of Nance. He sailed on The Nassau, an independent ship of Huguenots, at their own expense, from Blackwall, London, England, on December 8, 1700, landing in the York River on March 5, 1701. He is
shown in records of Ware Parish, Gloucester County, VA, in 1704, practicing his profession as an architect and "joiner"."

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Marriage 1 William Meek Gillespie b: 8 MAY 1893 in Virginia Married: 28 JUN 1916
Children:
Lucy B. Gillespie
Albert Pendleton Gillespie b: AFT. 1922
Mary DeVault Gillespie b: 9 APR 1929

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married m. David Hay 2nd Patrick Campbell.

My Southern Family

John Wiley ALVIS

17 Nov 1901 - 19 Sep 1987

ID Number: I9532

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JANE ASHE of Somerset

ABT 1530 - ____

ID Number: I55522

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Leolene BARFIELD

ABT 1870 - ____

ID Number: I16826

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Clement BROOKE

1770 - 1836

ID Number: I68126

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Lucinda Jane BURNETT

1872 - ____

ID Number: I39601

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Robert COPAS

26 Dec 1896 - ____

ID Number: I24063

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Thomas Alton COX

ABT 1890 - ____

ID Number: I77409

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Daniel DUVAL I Chevalier de France

1675 - AFT 1715

ID Number: I57892

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William Meek GILLESPIE

8 May 1893 - 1974

ID Number: I80726

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Mary PHILIPSON

ABT 1715 - ____

ID Number: I72042

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Anne WARE

ABT 1750 - ____

ID Number: I64805

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