Susannah Atkinson

Isle of Wight, VA This probate record was extracted from microfilmed copies of the original Will Book.

• Remarks: Thomas Atkinson.
• Leg.-son William; son Peter; son Samuel; wife Susan; daughter Sarah; daughter Katherine; four sons. Wife Extx.
• Book: 2-281
• Prove date: 9 Jun 1688

Origins

https://sallysfamilyplace.com/robert-flake-katherine-moore/

From John Bennett Boddie in Vol 8 of HSF gives this list of children.

Children of Katherine Moore and 1st husband: [some say George Wyatt]

2. Susannah ? ca 1631 – ca 1691 married 10 Sept 1669 Thomas Atkinson died 1688

Children of Thomas Atkinson and Susannah are:

• i. +James Atkinson, b. 1660, Surry Co, VA, d. December 23, 1723, Isle of Wight Co, VA.

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Something is wrong here. Mary Martha Gwaltney is currently listed as Susannah's mother, and also as the mother of Susannah's husband Thomas. It's unlikely that two half-siblings got married. Mary Martha Gwaltney's marital career seems to be well documented, so it's probably true that she married both the father of Thomas Atkinson and the father of Susannah, and had children with both. It seems likely that Susannah had a different mother, and her marriage to Thomas Atkinson was between step-siblings not blood siblings. Her birth year is listed as 1630, which is consistent with her husband's birth year of 1629. It's reported at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gwaltney-9 that Mary Martha and Thomas Gwaltney didn't start having children together until 1655, when Susannah was 25 years old. It also says he may have had a daughter named Nancy or Susannah. There are no other details, but he was old enough to have an adult daughter from a previous marriage that didn't make it into the historical records.

References

• Atkinson Family In Virginia by Arthur Ray Rowland Publication date 1998 page 18 Archive.Org
• Southside Virginia Families Vol I. “Flake of Isle of Wight.” Page 193. < AncestrySharing >