Edward Curd, Sr.

Biography

Edward Curd, Sr. was born circa 1674 in Curdsville, Buckingham County, Virginia and died on October 2, 1742 in Henrico, Henrico County, Virginia.

• His parents were William Curd and Elizabeth Curd whose maiden name is not known.
• Edward married Jeanette Curd. Little is known of her.
• Edward married Elizabeth Curd (Branch) in 1727 in Henrico, Henrico County, Virginia, United States. Elizabeth Branch (daughter of Thomas Branch and Elizabeth Archer) was born 1690 in Henrico, Virginia, and died November 30, 1766 in Whitby, Chesterfield, Virginia. She married (1) Robert Goode on 1710; (2) Page Punch on Bet. 1718 - 1726; (3) Edward Curd on 1727 in Goochland, Virginia.

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The Curd Family in America Eight Generations by Dan S. Curd https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=cJj_DwAAQBAJ&pg=GBS.PA105&h...
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/24493865?cfpid=1526495412...

WILL OF EDWARD CURD

• Executors: wife Elizabeth and son Edward
• To wife for life, any dwelling house and all belongings and land, only [meaning "except"] son Edward to have half, and after wife's death, all of it; also negroes to both.
• To son Edward, all my land in Goochland County.
• To son John, 2 negroes.
• To son Richard, 2 negroes.
• To Mary Mackbride, 1 negroe, and at her death to her son Edward Mackbride.
• To daughter Mary Punch, 1 negro, 1 colt, 3 pounds, & items.
• To grandson, John Curd, 1 negro.
• To granddaughter, Jane Mackbride, 100 acres in Goochland.
• To daughter Mary Richardson, 1 shilling.
• To daughter Elizabeth Williams, 1 shilling.
• Not dated
• Recorded December 1742
• Wit: James Young, John Gunn, Joseph Satchawell

Note:

1) The wording "only son" was an unfortunate choice because I first took it to mean the testator's only male child with second wife, Elizabeth. Apparently, though, Edward was his first son with his first wife, and the meaning of the sentence would have been better conveyed using the word "except," rather than the word "only."

2) He doesn't call Mary MACKBRIDE his daughter, and he already has a daughter, Mary — the one who married John RICHARDSON. Is Mary MACKBRIDE really his daughter? It occured to me that Mary MACKBRIDE might be a daughter of Elizabeth BLANCH, but Elizabeth had a daughter, Mary PUNCH, by a former marriage, so that would just shift the problem of two Mary's from Edward to Elizabeth. But Edward did named Jane MACKBRIDE his granddaughter, which means one of his daughters had to have married a Mac/Mc BRIDE. I know of a similar case where there appear to be two Mary's in one set of siblings (viz., the children of Col. Henry CLARK): one daughter was named Mary and the other Mary Ann, the latter normally referred to as Ann within the family. So it is possible that "Mary MACKBRIDE" is Edward CURD's daughter; I just wish Edward had called her his daughter in his will (as Col. Henry CLARK did in his will, leaving no doubt in that case).

• Edward CURD
• Jeanette BAYNE
• Elizabeth BRANCH
• Husband: Edward CURD
• Birth: ca. 1670s, Curdsville, Buckingham Co., VA
• Death probably: 1742, Henrico / Goochland Co., VA
• Will signed: 4 Feb 1738/9, Henrico Co., VA
• Will proved: 2 Oct 1742, Henrico Co., VA
• Father: John CURD
• Marriage-1:
• Wife-1: Jeanette / Janette BAYNE
• Marriage-2: aft. 1727
• Wife-2: Elizabeth BRANCH
• Birth: ca. 1690s
• Death: 30 Nov 1766
• Other Spouses: m1. Robert GOODE; m2. Page PUNCH
• Other Children: Francis GOODE; Robert GOODE II; Mary PUNCH
• Father: Thomas BRANCH
• Mother: Elizabeth ARCHER
• Children with Jeanette BAYNE — born Henrico Co., VA:
• 1. Edward CURD, b. 1704; m. Ann PRICE, d/o Daniel & Mary PRICE
• 2. John CURD, b. 1706; d. May 1752, Goochland Co., VA; m. Elizabeth PRICE, d/o Daniel & Mary PRICE; daughter, Elizabeth CURD, m. John BOWLES
• 3. Richard CURD; m. Sarah DOWNER
• 4. Mary CURD, b. 1710?
• 5. Elizabeth CURD, b. 1712; m1. Richard WILLIAMS; m2. Samuel ALLEN
• 6. Mary CURD, b. 1720?; m. John RICHARDSON
• Secondary sources give them a son, Harwood CURD, who married Hannah PRICE, but no such son is mentioned in Edward's will. Did Harwood die without issue, before his father wrote his will?
• Some secondary sources give Elizabeth's husband as Cuthbert WILLIAMSON, not Richard WILLIAMS.

I don't know which is correct, but as her father calls her "Elizabeth Williams" in his will, it will take strong primary documentation to prove she married a WILLIAMSON. https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/112668/P7257/edward-curd/individual calls her the daughter of this Edward and a different mother, "Frances Gerard: Birth: in Virginia, USA. Death: 1714 in Henrico County, Virginia, USA"

• Children with Elizabeth BRANCH: none

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References:

• WorldConnect / Ancestry World Trees (online at RootsWeb.com/Ancestry.com).
• LDS. Family Search: Internet Genealogy Service: AF - Ancestral File (online at FamilySearch.org).
• http://dgmweb.net/FGS/Cu/CurdEdward-JeanetteBayne-ElizabethBranch.html
• https://americanindiancoc.org/native-american-tribes-the-indian-his...
• http://www.jenforum.com/curd/messages/80.html
• Earliest known member of Curd family in America. A.J. Crawford/1971.
• http://dgmweb.net/FGS/Cu/CurdEdward-JeanetteBayne-ElizabethBranch.html
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=john_d_ne...
• https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/b/a/i/Judy-Bailey-Ga/WEBSITE-0001/UHP...
• https://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/myers-hancock-family-tree/P693.php
• https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~bobfarmergenealogy/genealogy/Farmer...
• https://archive.org/details/annalsofhenricop00moor/page/40/mode/2up...
• http://pages.suddenlink.net/phelpsdna/Southern_Phelps_Research/Virg...
• https://archive.org/details/virginiamagazine28virg/page/210/mode/2u...
• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005730182 The Curd and Allied Families (Madison, WI: Democrat Printing Co., 1927), by William B. Curd and Lucy Price Rayne Truog (page images at HathiTrust)
• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005730181 The Curd family in America, genealogy of some of the descendants of Edward Curd of Henrico County, Virginia, 1704, with brief notes on the allied families of Price and Watkins, (Rutland, Vt., The Tuttle Publishing Company, [1938]), by Frank D. Fuller and Thomas Henry Shelton Curd (page images at HathiTrust)
• https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/219401/?offset=0#...

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