Ann Tanner

ANN FLOYD ( FLOYD1) was born ABT 1662 in Henrico County, Virginia, and died BEF 1688 in Bermuda Hundred, Henrico County, Virginia.

Family

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She married JOSEPH TANNER II ABT 1682 in Henrico County, Virginia, son of JOSEPH TANNER and MARY BROWNE. He was born ABT 1662 in Bermuda Hundred, Henrico County, Virginia, and died BET OCT AND DEC 1698 in Bermuda Hundred, Henrico County, Virginia.

	  Children of ANN FLOYD and JOSEPH TANNER II are:

• 2 i. Mary TANNER was born BET 1682 AND 1688 in Bermuda Hundred, Henrico County, Virginia.
• 3 ii. Joseph TANNER III was born ABT 1684 in Bermuda Hundred, Henrico County, Virginia, and died ABT 03 OCT 1757 in "Coxendale", Chesterfield, Virginia, USA. He married Jane (Osborne or Turpin ?). She died AFT 1757 in "Coxendale", Chesterfield, Virginia, USA.
• + 4 iii. THOMAS TANNER was born ABT 1686 in Bermuda Hundred, Henrico County

Notes

The proof of the first marriage, to Ann Floyd, is as follows: 28 Xbris 1682, William Byrd prayed to be relieved as security for estate of Ann Floyd, an orphan in the wardship of James Forrest, - - - - - - -"an acquaintance from Joseph Tanner, who married the said orphan."

Ann Floyd in 1682, at age 22, married Joseph Tanner, while she was the ward of James Forrest, who may (or may not) have been her stepfather. In 1683 when Joseph came of age, he became the guardian of her [HIS] brother and two sisters and the court discharged Gilbert Platt's guardianship; Richard Ward was his security. At even this young age he was referred to as "Mr. Joseph Tanner."

The question raised as to what was the exact degree of relationship existing between JAMES FORREST & THOMAS TANNER by the fact that FORREST is called grandfather to said TANNER when it seems a settled fact that Tanner's mother was ANNE FLOYD, is not definitely settled by any item in the Henrico Records, but, FORREST may have been in all probability stepfather to ANN FLOYD (who appears to have been his ward, see Henrico Records, vol. 1677-92, p. 228; quoted ante), and hence is reality step-grandfather to THOMAS TANNER. Of course it is not impossible) that Forest may have been grandfather (maternally) of Anne Floyd and great grandfather of Thomas Tanner, though the former theory seems the probable solution. At any rate the connection was through Thomas Tanner's mother for all of the women on the Tanner side whose availability to have produced such a connection were married to other parties than James Forrest.

Sources

• Early Generations of the Tanner Family of Henrico County, Virginia William Clayton Torrence The William and Mary Quarterly Vol. 25, No. 2 (Oct., 1916), pp. 87-95 Published by: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture DOI: 10.2307/1915191 Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1915191 Page Count: 9
• Virginia County Records, Volume 9, Parts 1-4 edited by William Armstrong Crozier
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