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[Norvan L. Johnson.ged]

CONFLICT or ERROR: "John Bailey Calvin Nicklin was mistaken about the husband of Katherine Debnam Grymes being Henry Deadman. The records of York Co VA, which he did not consult, prove his error. William Debnam and the marriage of his widow Katherine to Charles Grymes who was also the guardian of her children make it clear. I made the same mistake in "Gone to Texas" - as will anyone else who fails to check ALL the primary records. William (Henry?) Dednam or Deadman died 1657. "William (Henry?) first appears in Virginia records in a land patent recorded on 6 May 1636 for Christopher Calthorpe, In the fall of 1648 he was one of four men ordered to appraise the estate of his neighbor Abraham Turner. Dednam had acquired land on Ware River in "Mojack" Bay, Charles River (later Gloucester) County by 10 Oct 1642, when his property is mentioned as abutting a patent granted to Abraham Turner. He himself patented two parcels in Mockjack Bay ten years later: 600 acres on 6 May 1652 (one of the headright names listed is__Dickinson), and 1500 acres on 26 May 1653, both these patents were renewed, after his death, on 13 Jan 1661.

While Henry (William?) Dednam's residence probably was in Gloucester County 'at Seavern River,' he also owned land south of York River which he had bought from Christopher Calthorpe. Henry (William) died during the summer of 1657.

There is no direct record of his widow's name; that it was Katherine becomes clear later from a record of her as the widow of her next husband, Charles Grymes."

The VA Genealogist" Vol. 41, 1997, #3.
The first article was on Katherine Debnam and Robert Taliaferro.
I Debnam Family
1. William Debnam m. Katherine. William died 1657. "William first appears in Virginia records in a land patent recorded on 6 May 1636 for Christopher Calthorpe, In the fall of 1648 he was one of four men ordered to appraise the estate of his neighbor Abraham Turner. Debnam had acquired land on Ware River in "Mojack" Bay, Charles River (later Gloucester) County by 10 Oct 1642, when his property is mentioned as abutting a patent granted to Abraham Turner. He himself patented two parcels in Mockjack Bay ten years later: 600 acres on 6 May 1652 (one of the headright names listed is__Dickinson), and 1500 acres on 26 May 1653, both these patents were renewed, after his death, on 13 Jan 1661. While William Debnam's residence probably was in Gloucester County 'at Seavern River,' he also owned land south of York River which he had bought from Christopher Calthorpe. William died during the summer of 1657. There is no direct record of his widow's name; that it was Katherine becomes clear later from a record of her as the widow of her next husband, Charles Grymes." "William Debnam and his wife had four known children (birth order unknown): Katherine, William, Anne and Mary. Katherine married by 1658, thus was born, say, in the late 1630's (perhaps not long after her father arrived in Virginia). William was not of age in 1658, thus was born after 1637. Mary married about 1664, thus could not have been born as late as mid-1640s. There is room for Anne (and others?) between and after those dates. That the young women bore the surname Debnam and presumably were his daughters is concluded from those three deeds that Nicklin found which recite that Charles Grymes in his will bequeathed land to them."
Children: .i Katherine Dednam b. ca. 1638. ii Ann Dednam m. Edward Hoyle. Edward: Immigrated to Virginia by 1666. iii Mary Dednam b. ca. 1629. iv William Dednam b. aft 1637.
Second Generation 2. Katherine Dednam b. ca. 1638, Igtham, Kent Co., England, m. (1) ca. 1654, in Hampton Parish, York Co., VA, Robert Taliaferro, b. 11 Nov 1626, Stepney, Co. Middlesex, England, 19 Nov 1626, (son of Francis Taliaferro and Bennett Haie) d. 1670/71, m. (2) abt Dec 1672, Cadwallader Jones, b. ca. 1652, d. aft 1699. Katherine died Gloucester Co., Virginia.

Robert: Robert Taliaferro immigrated to Virginia

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