Arthur Whitehead, Sr.

Biography

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Arthur Whitehead, Sr. was born in 1625 in Rochdate, Lancastershire, England and died in 1655 in Isle of Wight, Virginia.

Arthur left England in 1643 when he was 18 years old. He arrived in Virginia 22 March 1643 aboard the ship Guiding Star. He was listed as one of the Head Rights of Obedience Robins who received a patent for 450 acres in Northampton County, Virginia. [1]

Arthur, Sr. settled in Northhampton County, where county property records show him living there until about 1650. [2]He then migrated to Isle of Wight County, Virginia as recorded in land records.

Arthur was probably married twice but his first wife is unknown. She is the mother of Arthur, Sr.'s only child, Arthur, Jr. born about 1648. (Arthur, Jr. went by Arthur, Sr. after his father's death in 1655.) This first wife died between 1648 and 1654. Arthur, Sr. married Katherine Ruffin just a year before he died in 1655. His son was only about seven years old. It is presumed that Katherine adopted him after Arthur's death and he is named in her will as son, Arthur Whitehead whom she said was "unnatural to her". [3] Katherine had married two more times after Arthur's death, once to Edward Thornton and then to John Bathe.

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There is no record of Arthur Whitehead Sr. in Virginia, there is for his widow, Katherine, & their son:

The headright grant of Obedience Robins dated March 22, 1643 for 450 acres in Northampton Co Va names the transportation of nine persons: John Coleman, Henry Edwards, Arthur Whitehead, Nicholas Every, John Ellis, Henry Baston, Stephen Horse, Thomas Chapman and John Carter.

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•ID: I28157
•Name: Arthur WHITEHEAD 1
•Sex: M
•Birth: 1620 in Lancashire, England 1
•Reference Number: 2205
Marriage 1 Katherine RUFFIN
•Married: 1654 in Isle of Wright Virginia 1

Children
1. Arthur WHITEHEAD b: 1654

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Name: Arthur Whitehead
Arrival Year: 1714
Arrival Place: Virginia
Primary Immigrant: Whitehead, Arthur
Source Publication Code: 6223
Annotation: Abstracts of Virginia Land Office patent books 9 through 14, covering the early decades of the eighteenth century.
Includes numerous references to land patented by "French refugees," the Protestants (Huguenots) who fled France after Louis XIV revoked the
Source Bibliography: NUGENT, NELL MARION, abstractor. Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants. Vol. 3: 1695-1732. Richmond [VA]: Virginia State Library, 1979. 578p. Indexed.
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U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
Name: Arth Whitehead
Arrival year: 1643
Arrival Place: Virginia
Primary Immigrant: Whitehead, Arth
Source Publication Code: 2772
Annotation: Includes 25,000 names from records of the Virginia State Land Office.
Excerpts of the Irish names from the Greer list were published in no. 6258, O'Brien, Early Immigrants to Virginia....
Source Bibliography: GREER, GEORGE CABELL. Early Virginia Immigrants, 1623-1666. Richmond [Va.]: W.C. Hill Printing Co., 1912, 376p.
Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1978. Repr. 1982.
Household Members: Name Relation Arth Whitehead ________________________________________________________________-

Virginia Immigrants, 1623-1666

Name: Arth. Whitehead Arrived By: 1643
Sponsors: Mr. Obedience Robins
Residence Place: Northampton, Virginia
Reference: Early Virginia Immigrants; 1623–1666 W _____________________________________________________________

Virginia, Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 1639-1850

Name: Arthur Whitehead
Location: Isle of Wight
Notes: This probate record was extracted from microfilmed copies of the original Will Book.
Remarks: Katherine Bathe.
Nuncupative, proven by Arthur Smith, age 49 years, Henry Clarke and John Watson.
Leg.-son-in-law Stephen Horsefield, his wife and children;
son Arthur Whitehead, whom she declared was unnatural to her.
Description: Son
Book: 2-271
Prove date: 11 Oct 1687

Ancestry.com. Virginia, Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 1639-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2004.

Original data:

Chalkley, Lyman. Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800.
Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1965. Originally published in 1912.

Crozier, William Armstrong, ed. Virginia County Records - Spotsylvania County Records, 1721-1800. Being transcriptions from the original files at the County Court House of wills, deeds, administrators' and guardians' bonds, marriage licenses, and lists of revolutionary pensioners. New York, NY: Fox, Duffield & Co., 1905.

The will abstracts for Isle of Wight and Norfolk counties were taken from microfilmed copies of the original Will Books. Some of these records may be found at the Family History Library as well as other libraries and archives. The originals may be found at the appropriate county courthouses.

For individual sources please see the Notes section listed with each record. _____________________________________________________________________
Chapter 5, "Arthur Whitehead, 1625-1706, of Isle of Wight County,"
provides the detailed biographical sketches of 30 known ancestors and descendants of Arthur Whitehead of Isle of Wight County up to 1899, and an additional listing of at least 40 more Whitehead descendants of these primary 30 Whiteheads.
While Chapter 4 listed only the members of this line who actually lived in Virginia, and only those living as late as 1799, this chapter extends the Arthur Whitehead family tree another 100 years, to 1899, including ancestors from England and descendants who lived well beyond the Virginia borders in several other U.S. states.-

Important Note about the Whitted Family Line:
one of the biographies in this chapter is of Thomas Whitted Sr, Esquire, b. 1754.
Many researchers believe Thomas Whitted was the son of Robert Whitehead, b. 1720, descendant of Arthur Whitehead.
The biographies of these two men, included in this chapter, support the plausibility of this Whitehead/Whitted family connection.

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CHAPTER 4 --
Virginia Whitehead Biographical Sketches,1620-1799
The following Whiteheads, including all of those already discussed in Chapter 3, are known to have lived in Virginia from 1615 to 1799.
Many Whitehead family lines who originated in Virginia, and certainly the best documented family lines, are
descendants of either Arthur Whitehead, 1625-1706, of Isle of Wight, County
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CHAPTER 5 --
Arthur Whitehead, 1625-1706, of Isle of Wight County,
His Ancestors, and His Descendants
Arthur Whitehead of Isle of Wight, 1625-1706
Arthur Whitehead arrived from England in Virginia in 1643 from Lancashire
County, England. He is listed [19. 24] as one of 9 guests brought to the Virginia colony
by Obedience Robins who was granted 450 acres in Northampton, Va by England, in
exchange for bringing these new colonists to England’s American colonies [19, 23].
This was a common method that England used to transport new colonists to its
American colonies. He was descended from Edmund Whitehead of Rochdale,
Lancashire Co, England.
Information about this line is listed below, beginning in chronological order
with Edmund Whitehead, Arthur’s grandfather.
1571: Edmund Whitehead of Whittington, Lancastershire, England
Edmund Whitehead was born in 1571 in Whittington, Lancastershire,
England, and died Jan 21, 1596 in Lancashire England. On January 21, 1595, at the
age of 24 years old, he married Isabell Burrow, in Whittington. Isabell was born about
1575 in Whittington. Edmund and Isabell had one known child, Arthur, born on
March 30, 1595, in Rochdale, Lancastershire, England [28].
The record seems to indicate that Edmund had a brother, “William Edmund
Whitehead,” born ca. 1574, and their father’s name was also “Edmund Whitehead.”
[29]
b. 1595: Arthur Whitehead, aka Arthure Whitehead of Rochdale,
Lancastershire, England
Arthur Whitehead, aka Arthure Whitehead, born on March 30, 1595, married (possibly) Dorothy Lightowlers, daughter of Robert Lightowlers of Windy Bank in Rochdale [30].
Early records in the history of the parish of Rochdale in the county of Lancaster [31] show that a certain Arthur Whitehead was required to pay 1 shilling of taxes to support the war against France: “Tax for raising money by a poll, payable quarterly for one year, for carrying on a vigorous war against France. Arthur Whitehead, 1 s.”.
Arthur appears to have two known children:
1. Edmund Whitehead, b. February 07, 1617/18 in Rochdale, Lancastershire,
England. Edmund Whitehead married Susan Heaton on November 12,
1639.
2. Arthur (Sr) Whitehead, b. 1625 in Rochdale, Lancastershire, England (note:
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b. 1625: Arthur Whitehead Sr, b. in Rochdale, Lancastershire, England (son
of Arthur Whitehead & Dorothy Lightowlers), migrated to Isle of Wight
County, VA. m. Katherine Ruffin
Arthur Sr left England in 1643, at the age of 18. He arrived in America on
March 22, 1643 aboard the ship Guiding Star and landed in Virginia. He was listed as
one of the Head Rights of Obedience Robins, who on that day received a patent for 450
acres in Northampton County, VA.” [27]. The other eight people listed as one of the
Head Rights of Obedience Robins were: John Coleman, Henry Edwards, Nicholas
Every, John Ellis, Henry Baston, Stephen Horse, Thomas Chapman and John Carter.
Arthur Sr. settled in Northampton County, where County property and cattle
records [33] show him in there up to 1650. He migrated to Isle Of Wight Co., VA. as
recorded in land transfer records.
He died in 1655, at the age of 30.
Arthur had one
child:
1. Arthur Whitehead Jr. (went by “Sr” as an adult), born 1648 in James
City Co, VA; Died 1710/11 in Isle of Wight Co, VA. [27]
Arthur was married likely twice, although the name of his first wife is
unknown. She may have died on the passage to America. This first wife was the
mother of Arthur Jr. In 1654, only one year prior to his death, Arthur Sr married Katherine Ruffin in Isle of Wight County, VA.
Katherine was born in 1634 in British Isles or Gravesend, Kent, England, and died August 24, 1687 in Isle of Wight Co., VA.
After Arthur Sr’s death in 1655, Katherine Ruffin was married two more times.
First, she married a man named Edward Thorton, with whom she had a daughter Rebecca (some records “Katherine”).
Rebecca Thornton later married and had children with Stephen Horsefield, whom Katherine [Ruffin] Thornton named in her will as her “son-in-law.” [35]
Arthur Jr. referred to Rebecca as his sister when he gave her cattle via a 1673 deed of gift witnessed by Robert Ruffin and William Gidis.
Robert Ruffin was the only son of William Ruffin.
Katherine’s husband Edward Thornton died and she then married a third time to John Bathe.
Katherine’s name was recorded as Bathe (Bothe) in 1687 when her nuncupative will was proven in Isle of Wight Court.
However, Barnaby McKinnie (whose sister Rachel married William Whitehead, b. 1672) gave her name as Booth when he used her as an importation head right in 1713.
In her nuncupative will recorded in Isle of Wight County, Katherine left her legacies to her...
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Arthur Lazarus Whitehead in the Geneanet Community Trees Index
Name: Arthur Lazarus Whitehead
Gender: M (Male)
Birth Date: 2 févr. 1623 (2 Feb 1623)
Birth Place: Lancashire, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
Death Date: 1706
Death Place: Isle of Wight, British Colonial America, Virginia, USA
Father: Arthur Whitehead
Mother: Dorothy Lightowlers
Spouse: Katherine Ruthven
Child: Arthur Whitehead
View on Geneanet: https://gw.geneanet.org/kathysexton?n=whitehead&oc=&p=arthur+lazarus

Ancestry.com. Geneanet Community Trees Index [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2022.

Original data: Geneanet Community Trees Index. Paris, France: Geneanet.

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• Arthur Whitehead in the U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
  • Name: Arthur Whitehead
    • Gender: Male
    • Birth Place: England
    • Birth Year: 1620
  • Spouse Name: Katherine Ruffin
  • Marriage: Year: 1654
  • Marriage State: VA

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