Edmund Alloway-Strange

Many researchers believe Edmund Strange was grandfather of the John Alloway-Strange, who later appeared, also at Fluvanna County. However, there is no contemporary evidence of a relationship and there appear to have been two or three Edmunds.

Some idea of the mess in this area can be obtained from the following:

Every branch of the Alloway family say their first known ancestor was Edmond Alloway, and we do not question this, but where he lived or where he came from, seems to be a puzzle. Capt. J. L. Strange of Kentucky, says he wsa born in Northern Scotland, and came to America in 1735, landing in Virginia, and some time after that moving to North Carolina, where in Wicks county, and in Wicksboro his great grandfather Abner Alloway, son of Edmond A., was born in 1755. The record given by Lewis A. A. Strange, is that Edmond lived at Shrewsbury, England, and that he married a Miss Rose there, and died there in 1785, consequently that his son Abner must have emigrated to America when a young man, as we find him going from Virginia to North Carolina in 1830, where he married a Miss Wilson, raised a family and died. We cannot harmonize this bit of history, but think the record of Capt. Strange the most reasonable. From this it wouild appear that Edmond Alloway was born not far from 1715, and had a brother Robert, and that he lived to be about about seventy years of age. The Edmond Strange, of the Alexander Strange, or Kent family, was born January 9th, 1729 and was baptized in Peters Parish, February 22, 1730. He was the son of Henry Strange, and the grand son of Alexander Strange. Were the two or three Edmonds named the same person, or were they of different families, is a question not solved at this time, and is left for the hunter after genealogical facts to determine. But so far as the Kansas division of the Alloway branch is concerned, it is certain that Edmond Alloway, had a son Abner Alloway and that he married and became the father of Archelaus Alloway Strange, as noticed in the next sketch. (Strange 1911, 103-04)

Sources

• Strange, Alexander Taylor, comp., Strange: Biographical and historical sketches of the Stranges of America and across the seas (1911).