Anna ‘Hannah’ Candler

Documentation of "maiden name" of Fiske needed.

The fourth son, Daniel Candler (b. about 1695) married Anna (other sources say Hannah), an Irish woman whose surname is not known. Unfortunately for Daniel and Anna, the English gentry of Ireland frowned deeply on marriages between English gentry and local Irish women. So Daniel and his Irish wife emigrated to America in 1735. They settled briefly in North Carolina but soon moved to Virginia where they settled in Bedford County, a few miles from Lynch's Crossing on the James River. Allen Candler reported that Daniel and Anna became Quakers _after arriving in Virginia._ Daniel died in 1765 but Anna lived to 105, dying in Lynchburg sometime around 1800.

Daniel and Anna Candler had five sons and two daughters who survived to maturity. The first two, John and Elizabeth, were probably born in Ireland. William, Thomas, Henry, Zedekiah and Eleanor were born after the Candlers arrived in America.

• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Oct 29 2018, 1:12:31 UTC