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Kerenhappuch Awbrey, d/o John Awbrey & Hannah Tanner.

Kerenhappuch Awbrey, d/o John Awbrey & Hannah Tanner.

Posted: 2 Oct 2004 2:48PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 24 Jul 2013 3:20AM GMT
I'm looking for information about John AWBREY, b. ca. 1680 and d. 26 February 1745/46 in Westmoreland County, Virginia. He was married ca. 1709 to Hannah TANNER (d/o Thomas Tanner & Mary ATWELL.). Their children were Elizabeth (b. ca. 1710), Chandler (b. ca. 1711), Hannah (b. ca. 1713), Kerenhappuch (b. ca. 1717) and Jemimah (b. ca. 1725). John's will also mentions a daughter Keziah Atwell who was not of age in 1745/46.

Joann Crafton sent me some wonderful information on this family that suggests that Kerenhappuch Awbrey is the same Kerenhappuch who married James CRAFTON in King William County, Virginia in 1734.

Does anyone else have anything further on this family? I would love to be able to definitively place my Kerenhappuch Crafton in this Awbrey family.

Thanks!
Juli

Re: Kerenhappuch Awbrey, d/o John Awbrey & Hannah Tanner.

Posted: 30 Oct 2004 11:09AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 7 Jan 2005 5:28PM GMT
I have no information concerning Kerenhappuch Awbrey's marriage, but I do have some questions and comments about her father's family. According to "Wills of Westmoreland County, Virginia, 1654-1800" by Fothergill, page 87, John Awbrey, father of Hannah, Keziah, Kerrenhappuck, and Chandler, signed his will on 19 Dec 1726, and it was probated on the following 22 Feb. I wonder where you found the 26 Feb 1745/46 death date. I have the birth years of the children as: Elizabeth c1709, Chandler c1711, Hannah c1713, Jemimah bef 1716, Kerrenhappuck c1717, and Keziah unknown. These are all similiar to the dates you have except for Jemimah. I found all these dates on the internet and have no primary source for any of them. I wonder if you would share your sources for you information concerning this family, including John's parents and his son Chandler and his family? Posting a reply on this message board, or sending me an e-mail would be fine. Thanks and good hunting.
Darrell Dunlop

Re: Kerenhappuch Awbrey, d/o John Awbrey & Hannah Tanner.

Posted: 31 Dec 2011 2:51AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Awbrey, Aubrey
The mystery deepens.
I found info online that Kerrenhhappich Awbrey was out of a Cherokee mother and that she was born abt. 1730. Of course this birth date is wrong because the will records of John Awbrey (Kerren's father) list Karanhappuck in his 1725 will (looks like she was a minor) and that John's wife was still alive and turned in an appraisal of the estate and later married Mr. Chandler (Odd that John and Hannah had a son named Chandler??) Anyway...If Kerranhappich (or however you spell it) had a Cherokee mother then John committed adultery (a real bad thing back then) and I would think this would be in the record books (courts) or something. I was able to find info tracing John Awbrey's line back to before 1100ad online. Very complete records too.
So..though it would be "novel" to have Cherokee blood in us I would like to see more proof than one person's unsubstantiated claim.
John, Henry and Thomas Awbrey all came to VA from Wales. They were the son's of Sir William Awbrey.

Re: Kerenhappuch Awbrey, d/o John Awbrey & Hannah Tanner.

Posted: 23 Jul 2013 3:03PM GMT
Classification: Query
My family is descended from Kerenhappuch's daughter, Anne. Our family also has a story that we have Cherokee blood in us, although we can't locate where it might have come from. Kerenhappuch seems to be the best candidate, but this would mean that she was not an Aubry since Kerenhappuch Aubry's line is very well established on both sides of her family. In addition, there is the troubling absence of evidence that the Aubrey's were ever in the same part of VA as the Craftons. By the way, I read that the name kerenhappuch has a counterpart in the Cherokee language.
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