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I am looking for the ancestors of:

William Matchett, Sr.
His father is supposed to be John Matchett who married a woman whose given name was Jane.

Before the American colonies the origin of the family may have been Ireland, Scotland or France.

William Matchett, Sr. married in Feb 1796 in Duplin Co., NC to:

Anne Wells
Her parents were Frederick Wells b. 1747-d. 1812. The surname of his wife was Holden/Holdren, and her father was Jeramiah Holden/Holdren).

Their son was:
Wells Matchett
m. Susan Williams in 1828 in Duplin Co., NC.
Her ancestry was Byrd Williams and Zilphia ____?,Jospeh Williams, Sr. and Mary Phoebe Little, John Williams, III and Mary Keeling, John Williams II and Ann Watkins, and John Williams, I.

The child of Wells Matchett and Susan Williams was:

Elizabeth Ann Matchett 1831-1917
m.
William Stephen Fussell 1837-1862
His ancestry is:
Arnold Benjamin Fussell 1806-1857 and Mary Whitman 1815-1853, Benjamin Fussell, Jr. 1768-1842 and Lucretia Collins b. abt. 1770, Benjamin Fussell, Sr. 1708-1784 and Elizabeth James b. ? d. 1784-91, William Fussell and Elizabeth ____? both born in the latter part of the 1600s and died in the first half of the 1700s.

I have lots more details on the other lines mentiuoned above, but need to learn about the life and origin of my earliest Matchett family.


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Blessings,
Claudia Newell

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