Jeremiah Darnall - Mother of Jeremiah Darnall

Hi Barbara Price, A509195 & Private User

Cynthia Curtis, A183502, US7875087 asked me to explain why Geni shows Jeremiah Darnall (who married Catherine Darnall) as a son of Waugh Darnall, Gent. & Elizabeth Wright Apparently the Germanna database has her as “Elizabeth unknown.”

In fact, it is Jeremiah’s own will and litigations that help establish his mother’s identity.

See, for example:

https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~warejamesbakercalder/genealogy/bron...

The text was studied by Robert N. Gran in his publication, The Identification of 1809 William Wright of Franklin County, Virginia, As the Son of 1792 John Wright of Fauquier County, Virginia, And Elizabeth (Bronaugh) (Darnall) Wright.

It states that James Wright and Jeremiah Darnell were half brothers:

This record clearly identifies James Wright as the half brother of Jeremiah Darnall. For James Wright, the son of 1792 John Wright of Fauquier County and his wife Elizabeth, to be the half-brother of Jeremiah Darnall, the son of Waugh Darnall and his wife Elizabeth Darnall, then James Wright's mother would have had to have been the wife of both Waugh Darnall and 1792 John Wright. With the listing in Jeremiah Bronaugh's will of his daughter as Elizabeth Wright, the identification would seem complete that 1792 John Wright's wife was Elizabeth (Bronaugh) (Darnall) Wright.

Elizabeth Bronaugh was named “my daughter Elizabeth Wright” in the will of Jeremiah Bronaugh, of King George County written on 14 Apr 1736, proved 5 January 1749/50:

Item: To my daughter Elizabeth Wright I give four ewes and no more because she has had her full share of my estate already.

We know that her first husband, Waugh Darnall, Gent., desired, in his Will written 1726, that “ Likewise I desire if Thomas Stone should die that my chldren should be brought under the family of Bronaugh.”

(Thomas Stone was possibly his mother’s husband.)

The identification of Elizabeth Darnall as later the wife of John Wright, of Fauquier County is not new. Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1922) thought Elizabeth was Waugh Darnell’s daughter. However, the most recent Darnell book (1979) also examined the litigation between Jeremiah Darnell (son of Elizabeth and Waugh Darnell) and his Wright half siblings, and concluded Elizabeth was Waugh’s widow.

So that’s another published study:

Conley, Avlyn Dodd. The Darnall, Darnell Family, Vol. 2. Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, 1979.

Hope this makes sense.

Thank you.

Here’s the 1922 citation (it was cited “off” at Wikitree)

• Tyler's quarterly historical and genealogical magazine - v. 4, no. 3 January 1922. Page 220. < FamilySearch >

(There’s quite a bit about Germanna families in the article.)

I used to be related to this Darnall family, so had spent some geni time on it, and freshened my knowledge and notes with this project. Dr. David Darnall & his wife Margaret ‘Margritt’ Darnall are the “lime starters” of no known origins. He’s unrelated to other Darnell families, I think. There’s a comment: : “ According to the Darnall /Darnell Family Project, R-M269. Eight of the fifteen Darnall DNA samples show up in this group.”

Check Jean, please.

No one has uploaded Y DNA to geni. You are welcome to look for the project and add the link to profile and discussion.

(I’m falling behind in answering requests, and this is something anyone can do.)

Yes, please.