Tag: chancery

• What is a chancery? Kidd land example

  I love the genealogical treasures you can find in chancery cases! In this post, I’ll try to explain what a chancery case is, and how they help me with family history; using the chancery of Jimmy Kidd’s estate as an example. Chancery records are not “beginner genealogy”, but it’s so worth it to learn more…

  Julie Cabitto

  March 18, 2020

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  Bowers, Cannon, chancery, Clary, Cole, Gray, Jeffries, Johnson, Jones, Kidd, King, Lambert, Newman, Poythress, Rainey, Shaw, Tudor

• About Julie’s mapping project, can you help?

  I’ve been mapping out (pre-1900) deeds and plats that I’ve that been finding over the past 15 years. I’m still seeking plats. Many of the plats I found are from chancery cases, where the parents died intestate and land is being divided between the heirs. I got a few plats from a plat book at…

  Julie Cabitto

  January 31, 2020

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  cemetery, chancery, GPS, Hall, Jones, Kidd, LVA, mapping, plat, Rainey, Taylor, Thomas, Walker

• John Gray: his family, his land

  My ancestor John Gray was born in Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland about 1810. It took me at least ten years to figure out where he lived in Mecklenburg. Now I know that he raised his family and farmed on Hall Rd, near Rehoboth Church, near a curve in the road. John’s birth year fluctuates as…

  Julie Cabitto

  January 20, 2020

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  chancery, Clary, Danville, Dortch, Edenbeck, Floyd, Gray, Irish, Jones, Joyce, Kidd, Land tracing, Lynch, Mayo, Moseley, Purdy, Rehoboth-Church, Thomas, Tudor