Frances Thornton

Evidence needed to support as child of Richard Buckner, Sr.

Frances

• Birth: ABT 1684 in Petsworth Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia
• Death: before 5 APR 1745 in King George County, Virginia - Probate
• Parents: disputed
• Married: 1) William Bernard, 2) Col. William Thornton

Bernard Children

1. Robert Bernard b: ABT 1700 in Purton, Gloucester County, Virginia
2. William Bernard b: ABT 1702 in Purton, Gloucester County, Virginia

Thornton Children

1. Alice Thornton b: ABT 1710 in King George County, Virginia
2. William Thornton b: ABT 1718

Disputed Identity

https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~mysouthernfamily/genealogy/myff/d00... Has married to William Garrett

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Buckner-3 Shows married to Garrett and questions parentage:

Research Notes

I think this profile should be considered very dubious. The uncited secondary/tertiary source that it appears to derive from is not very good (DeGidio's Ware Family History (2003), p. 440-and I just have to guess what the source is because nobody bothered to put it down when creating the profile) and it's got a lot of red flags, like an anachronistic middle name and all-too-precise but unsourced birth years in poorly documented historical contexts. The proposed birth date of 1680 is extremely inconsistent with all known primary source information about the ages of Richard and Elizabeth Buckner's children. She would be the oldest of them by close to 4 decades. It's possible this "Frances Elizabeth" could be from a first wife, but Richard might not have even reached the age of majority by 1680. I think if anyone knowledgeable of the period reads DeGidio's book, it's going to be obvious to them that this is not a very reliable source, regularly garbling and misunderstanding basic geography and common place names, and it lacks even casual references or citations to the sources for the above information.

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Will

• 1721-1752 King George County, Virginia Will Book A-1; [George Harrison Sanford King]; Page 176-177
• WILL OF FRANCES THORNTON
• In the Name of God Amen. I Frances Thornton of the Parish of Brunswick and County of King George, Widdow, being sick and weak in body but of sound perfect and disposing mind memory and understanding praised be Almighty God for the same, do make and declare my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following.
• Item: I give and bequeath to my two granddaughters Elizabeth and Frances Bernard, the daughters of my son Robert Bernard of Glocester County, Decd, the principal sum of Two Hundred Pounds Current Money of Virginia now at interest in the hands of my only son William Thornton to be equally divided between them.
• Item: I give unto my granddaughter Margaret, the daughter of my said son Robert Bernard (who was born since the death of my said son Robert Bernard), all such interest as shall become due for the said sum of Two Hundred Pounds till my said two granddaughters Elizabeth and Frances Bernard shall attain the age of Eighteen years or Days of Marriage and all such money as I shall be possessed of at the day of my decease. And if it should so hap-pen that any of my said granddaughters shall die before they shall attain such age or days of marriage that then my will and pleasure is that the said Two Hundred Pounds and interest and such money as I shall be possessed of at my decease shall be equally divided between the survivors or survivor of my said three grandchildren and lastly I make ordain constitute and appoint my only son William Thornton and my Loving Brother Francis Thornton Executors of this my Last Will and Testament and hereby revoke all former and other wills heretofore by me made and declare this alone to be my Last Will and Testament Signed with my hand and Sealed with my seal this
• 7th day of January 1743.
• Frances Thornton *Seale*
• Sign'd Sealed Published and )
• Declared in the Presence )
• of )
• Ignatius West Jn° Hobby William Ficklin
• At a Court held for King George County on Fryday April 5: 1745.
• The Last Will and Testament of Frances Thornton, Deceased, was presented into Court by Francis Thornton her Executor who made oath thereto and the same was proved by the oaths of the witness-es thereto and admitted to record, the said Francis Thornton having with Samuel Donne entred into Bond in the sum of Five Hundred Pounds for the same.
• Cop. Test
• Harry Turner Cl: Cur:

Contributed by: James Hughes

Links

• Stanard, W. G. “The Thornton Family.” The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 2, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1895, pp. 89–93, https://doi.org/10.2307/1915047.
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mrmarsha&...
• https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I2375...