Beddow Researcher in England

BEDDOES/OWS HISTORY: I am writing a history/compiling a record of the Beddoes/ows of south Shropshire which spans from c.927AD to (where possible) the present day. They descend from Thomas ap Bedo alias: Bedowes of All Stretton, Shropshire, son of Maredudd ap Hywel (alias: Bedo) of Dref Escob (i.e. Bishop's Castle), Shropshire. The ultimate founder of the family is Elystan Glodrydd King of Rhwng Gwy a Hafren ("Between Severn and Wye" - the rivers), otherwise known as Prince of Fferlys; he is buried at Trelystan (i.e. Elystan's township) on Long Mountain on the Shropshire-Wales border.
They spread to Staffordshire, Yorkshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Warwickshire, U.S.A., Australia, Fiji and Canada.
The Beddow / oe family of Bransley and Withypool near Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire who had descendants who emigrated to the USA appear to be a part of the family. Some ended up at Sabinetown, Texas; Albert Freiland Beddoe wrote a history of the American Beddoe family in the early 1900s.
There are some places which bear the family's name: Lake Beddoes in Southland New Zealand, Beddows Mountain, Colorado USA, Beddows Hollow, Iowa and Beddoe Springs at Sabinetown, Texas. Two schools have been named after members of the family: John Beddoes School, Presteigne (Wales) and the (former) Beddows School at Southfield (Detroit).
I would be delighted to hear from any Beddoes/ows/owes interested to share their research with me and would like to include all branches, even those which appear not to be linked to the family I am researching - this is because they may well be related (many I thought were not related have subsequently turned out to be so) and also because the history may then act as a useful point of reference for many others - those branches I cannot find a link for to the main line are included in an extensive Appendix.
The intention is to publish it amongst family and to ensure copies are available at local history libraries/archives.
Philip Beddows
beddows@btinternet.com

Brief Family History

"Spelling variations of this family name include: Beddow, Beddoe, Bedoe, Bedows, Bedlow, and many more. First found in Shropshire where they held a family seat from ancient times, some say long before the Norman Conquest in 1066 A.D. Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: William Beddo who settled in Virginia in 1727; Alice Bedow settled in Virginia in 1660; John Bedow settled in the Barbados in 1660. "

Thomas Beddow, Revolutionary War Notes

·  ID: I06666

·  Name: Thomas BEDDOW

·  Sex: M

·  Birth: 9 JAN 1761 in Prince George Co., Maryland

·  Death: 11 NOV 1851 in Galina, Ohio

·  Note:

http://66.225.216.7/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I0686&tree=1
From the Revolutionary War record of Thomas Beddow (Beddo): "I was born Ja nuary 23, 1761, in Prince George County, Maryland, where I resided duri ng the revolution near Nottingham and in the direction from there towar ds where the Federal City now is about 22 miles from Marlborough.
I was enrolled in the militia a year or two after the Declaration of Indep endence. A year or two after being enrolled was drafted or called into act ual service for nine months. This was about the first of April; I cannot r ecollect the year, but I think it was a year or two before the taki ng of L. Cornwall is at Yorktown, Virginia. I served under Capt. Thomas a nd Lt. Jack Green. This company to which I belonged, [Truman] first muster ed at a little town or place called Grubtown; and one company the neare st to our permanent station a little below Hannah Brown's Ferry on the Pat uxent River in Maryland. We were stationed here with 2 or 3 other compani es under the command of Col. Benjamin Skinner.
This place was near headquarters during my whole tour of nine months of se rvice. During the whole time we were stationed there, the enemy was hoveri ng about us, and we were compelled to keep an active guard on patrol. Whi le we were stationed at the Ferry, the enemy in the night attacked, Marlbo rough and plundered and burnt some part of it. We marched to the reli ef of this place, but the enemy had made its retreat before we arrived the re. Some time before the attack on Marlborough., I was one night standi ng sentry at the Ferry. The alarm was given and all our sentries were call ed in to our station. Our whole force was mustered expecting an attack fr om the enemy. At this time our Lt. Green left his post and secreted himse lf in a hay marsh, until the alarm was over. For this con duct Lt. Green w as afterwards tried by a Court Marshal for cowardice, and was dismissed fr om the army. After I had served my tour of nine months I was discharg ed at our station near the Ferry about the last of December. Some time aft er the revolution I left Prince Georges County and settled in Albemarle Co unty, VA. near a place called Port Republic about 11 miles from Charlottes ville. I resided
there until the month of August, 1828. I went to Rockingham Co., and le ft t here in 1831. When I left there and removed to the state of Ohio, I s ettled in Delaware County, September of 1831."

The war record of Thomas Beddow also shows that August 1852, his widow, Sa rah applied for a widow's pension. According to the report, Sarah was th en about ninety three years old. Thomas had tied November 10, 185 1. He h ad received a pension in 1832, when he was 71. She asked for a
continuance of the pension of $30 per year. She stated that she married Th omas in Prince George County, Maryland in 1777, the month and date she cou ld not recollect. The pastor was one Reverend Thomas Cliggit (sp) of the P rotestant Episcopal Church. She supplied affidavits since she had no reco rd of her marriage.

William, her son accompanied his mother, and declared that he was bo rn in 1780 -- the Bible page shows 1779 ... a census of 1850 shows 1781. F rom Theo Beddow's history.

Marriage 1 Sarah SULLIVAN b: ABT 1759

• Married: 1777 in Prince George Co., Maryland

Children

1. William BEDDOW b: 13 OCT 1779 in Maryland
2. Nathaniel BEDDOW b: 4 JUN 1782 in Albemarle Co., Virginia (  great grand father of James Edward Beddow)
3. Sandy BEDDOW b: 10 MAY 1785 in Albemarle Co., Virginia
4. Thomas BEDDOW b: 8 AUG 1787 in Albemarle Co., Virginia
5. Richard BEDDOW b: 21 JUN 1789
6. Elizabeth BEDDOW b: 24 DEC 1791
7. Fielding BEDDOW b: 17 AUG 1794 in Albemarle Co., Virginia
8. Michael BEDDOW b: 17 AUG 1794 in Albemarle Co., Virginia

Searching the Web

Ancestry.com and Genealogy.com continue to yield information on the names in the Beddow and Breeden genealogies. Today I followed Carrie's Breeden side.

1. Carrie Lee Breeden (1902-2004), daughter of
2.  George Monroe Breeden, born in 1877, who was the son of
3. William (Roll) Monroe Breeden (1844-) son of
4. Beverly (Bromley) H. Breeden ((1814-1870) son of
5. Ezekiel Fields (Breeding) Breeden (1791-1868), son of
6. Ezekiel Field Breeding, ( 1775-), son of
7. Abner Breeding (-), son of
8. Richard Breeding (1716-1773)

The Richard Breeding family has a very large listing --I think around a thousand pages of descendants!--on Genealogy.com with a contact, whom I have emailed for more info. I will get the information in more readable form when I can.

3. William Breeden (1844, above) was descended from the Morris family of Orange County on his mother's side. His mother, Mary (Polly Ann) Jane Morris (1825-1890) was the daughter of Blu(e)ford Morris, (1799-1850) who was descended from father and grandfather William Morris, the latter born 1730 in Virginia.

4. Beverly Bromley Breeden (1814) was descended from Elizabeth  (Betsy) R. Haney (1799-1868 ) on his mother's side.   Her father was James Bazil Haney (1758-) of Orange County and  her mother was Nancy "Nance" Petros (1766-) of Virginia. Her grandfather was Jeremiah Haney (1749) of Orange County and her maternal grandparents were Matthew Peatros (1738-1797) of Caroline County, Virginia and Jane Rayburn.

4. Mary Jane Morris was the daughter of Mary (Polly) Dunnivan (1800-) born in Orange County who was the daughter of John Dunnivan.

Oldest Daughter Maxine Moore Shares Memories

About Dad--when we were very little he would come home early from work and take us on a

cookout party at a river in Earlysville.  We would swim --he would try to teach us to swim--Pervis (oldest son) was a good swimmer.  I was not as daring as he.  We would cook out --steaks, potatoes cooked in the fire.  That's what I

remember-- then marshmallows cooked in the fire--also potato chips.  He also would take us to a lake

on Sunday -- I remember one summer--I sat in the Sun--actually it was cloudy--and I did not realize

that the sun could burn you as badly as it did. 

He (Edward)  really was a good person --Although he did not want

me to get up above my raising.  I am glad I did.  Somewhere there was alcoholism in the family.  When we drove out in the country on a Sunday afternoon,  Dad would take every kid who came

around asking to ride with us.   I hated that.  I guess I was selfish.  I wanted to have a family trip.  He wanted

to give the children in our neighborhood a chance to have an experience they could not have with anybody.

These are some of the good things that I remember  right away.   Maybe I can  remember some others. --dated December 2010.

 Questions to follow up: would Grandma come along on the picnics? Do you remember Grandad going hunting with his dogs? What would he bring home? I seem to have a memory of eating squirrel at the house on Todd Avenue in Charlottesville, and I remember a pen of hunting dogs, 'coon hounds.

At Yancey's Mill, Grandad kept chickens that laid the most delicious eggs when they were fried up in a black iron skillet on Grandma's big black wood-burning stove. He kept two or three pigs (a dreaded horror: pig-killing time in the fall), and some cows for milk. There were always cows muching away at the lush bottom-land grass and the bucolic clang-clang of cow bells. There was an apple orchard that supplied delicious fried apples too.

Photos and info comin soon.....

Mom, Dad and J you are authorized to make posts or comments. If you like you could invite Angye, Billy, David, Michael or others like Suzanne or Sharon to contribute and I will authorize them to make posts if they  like. I have my scanner now so will be posting photos soon. (yay!) FYI, Eppaphitous (Eppa) Rhodes Marshall is apparently descended from the Rhodes, Rodes, ancestor who accompanied William the Conqueror on the channel crossing of 1066, the Norman Invasion. He is mentioned in the Domesday Book. Eppa was a gggrandfather(?) of James Edward Beddow.

Beddows seeking Beddows: DNA Project

Just in case it is of any help to those trying to connect themselves with any Beddow/ows/oe/oes/owes families (mostly originating from Shropshire), there is now a Beddows/oes/ow/oe DNA project that can be joined via:
https://www.familytreedna.com/surname_join.aspx?code=E70753&special=true