Edward Bryan of Elizabeth City County

Notes

An Edward Bryan was recorded in the 1623 census of Virginia as living in Elizabeth City.[6] No other Bryan(t) was listed for Elizabeth City or the entire colony for that matter. [7] No record can be found for this Edward or Anne in Virginia. There is no record of their deaths in Virginia. [8]

Disputed Origins

English children found attached to this profile have been moved to Edward Bryan

https://www.findagrave.com/virtual-cemetery/483827?page=1#sr-50049914 Claims:

A VIRTUAL CEMETERY CREATED BY ANGELA RIVERS

Bryant Family in America

These are the decendents of Edward Bryan, son of Edward John Bryan and Annie Bignold. Edward was born 1590 in Denbigh Wales and died 1660 in Elizabeth City, Va. He married Anne Boteler abt. 1609. Anne was born Jan 1593 in Walton on Stone, Hertfordshi

Comments

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bryant-366

The birth dates/deaths for most of these people is 1 June. Clearly incorrect. Edward is said to be in Virginia by 1618/1623 but he continued to have children baptized and in Bitton, Gloucestershire. Are we supposed to believe that he and Ann abandoned their children in England? A search of the Bitton parish register shows numerous Bryant baptisms, but not any of the children listed as Edwards are found in those records. [5]

At ysearch.org the owner of YVXUD says the following:

The emigration was by a son of Edward [Bryant] who was born in 1590 in Denbigh, Denbighshire, Wales, and who died 1 Jun 1660 in Elizabeth City, Virginia; he married Ann Butler of Herfordshire, England. We have solid pedigree information to William Bryan b. 1762-1823 who married Ann Hundley in Amelia County, VA and moved to Washington County Kentucky in the mid-1790s. Ross Bryan YDNA test [same as C76AH] shows William's earlier ancestry is to a family whose pedigree includes Richard Bryant the Immigrant, son of the younger Edward who immigrated. It is unclear whether the common ancestor was in Virginia or in Britain.

9DXZB, claiming descent from James William Bryan (1844-1915) is the same as C76AH.

Sir Francis Bryan was from Dorset, and did have children by his first wife (but not by his second wife, the countess of Ormond, from whom many falsely claim descent through Morgan Bryan)

YDNA test showed our branch not descended from Thomas Bryan son of Immigrant Morgan/Martha Strode nor from possible brother of Morgan, Immigrant William Bryan. (emphasis added)

References

Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s about Edward Bryan

Name: Edward Bryan

Year: 1623

Place: Virginia

Source Publication Code: 1272

Primary Immigrant: Bryan, Edward

Annotation: Provides names only, arranged under places of residence. Includes many more names than the census of 1624-1625, cited in no. 3520. Published by the Joint Committee on Library (Senate Document, Extra); State Paper Office, Colonial, vol. 3, no. 2. Originall

Source Bibliography: COLONIAL RECORDS OF VIRGINIA. "Lists of the Livinge & the Dead in Virginia, February 16, 1623." In Colonial Records of Virginia, Richmond, VA: R.F. Walker, Superintendent of Public Printing, 1874, pp. 37-66.

Page: 52

https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=7486&h=411...

Virginia, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1607-1890 about Edward Bryan

Name: Edward Bryan

State: VA

County: Elizabeth City County

Township: Virginia Pioneer

Year: 1624

Database: VA Early Census Index

Notes: Source: https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/edward-bryant_18644598

Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s- https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=7486&h=411...

Bryant Family in America - https://www.findagrave.com/virtual-cemetery/483827?page=1#sr-50049914