John A. Fowlkes

A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA. DAR Ancestor # A205436

SAR Patriot #: P-161266

"GABRIEL FOWLKES, I" MARRIED "Elizabeth---" in 1718.

They had 5 CHILDREN:

JOHN A. FOWLKES (1722-1799)

• BIRTH 1722 Hanover County, Virginia, USA
• DEATH 1799 (aged 76–77) Nottoway County, Virginia, USA
• 1. m: Sarah Jennings (1730-1782) = daughter of Col. William Henry Jennings & Mary Jane 'Polly' Pulliam Jennings. 10 children from marriage to Sarah Jennings Fowlkes.
• 2. m: Judith Penick (1747-1823) = daughter of John Penick & Mary Mallory Penick. No children from marriage to Judith Penick Fowlkes.

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Children of Sarah Jennings and John A.Fowlkes:

1. John Field Fowlkes (1745 - 1824)
2. Jerusha Fowlkes Ellington (1747 - 1789)
3. Henry Bass Fowlkes (1750 - 1808)
4. William Fowlkes (1752 - 1835)
5. Sarah Fowlkes Thompson (1755 - 1828)
6. Mary Fowlkes Thompson-Hudson (1757 - ____)
7. James Fowlkes (1760 - 1833)
8. Nancy Fowlkes Betts (1763 - 1804)
9. Elizabeth Fowlkes Price-Van Amburgh (1764 - 1823)

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National Register of Historic Places Registration Form - “Hyde Park” PDF

The core of the main house at Hyde Park is a three-bay, three-story, vernacular interpreted Federal-style, central passage building with exterior gable end chimneys. The earliest portion of the house, likely built between 1762 and 1782 by John Fowlkes, exists solely in the Flemish bond portions of the first story and English bond portions of the cellar brick walls. Paschal J. Fowlkes significantly rebuilt and/or enlarged the house around 1840, with further changes between 1840 and 1860, resulting in the core of the building described below.

“OLD HOMES AND FAMILIES IN NOTTOWAY” By W. R. Turner link

HYDE PARK, not far from Oakland, was the home of Paschal Fowlkes, who

married Martha Hyde. This is one of the handsomest homes in the county. It is of very unusual construction in that it is part frame and part brick. The original part of the house built by Paschal Fowlkes is frame. The grounds and lawn are very beautiful with immense trees and formal gardens. Dr. Frank Fowlkes, who married his cousin, Lucy Fowlkes, later lived here. The property afterwards passed to a Northern man, a Mr. Scott, who greatly enlarged the house, which consists now of twenty-five rooms, one of which is an immense ball room.

Origins

JEM Genealogy

The earliest known Fowlkes ancestor, Gabriel Fowlkes, was born about 1690 in Wales and came to America from Denbigh County, Wales. By May 1721 he settled in St. John's Parish, King William (now Caroline) County, Virginia. He was living on land he acquired on the north side of the North Anna River near Hawkins Creek. He was a neighbor of Thomas Dickenson and his brothers, William Dickenson and Griffith Dickenson. Thomas Dickenson later bought land from Fowlkes.
Gabriel and his wife, whose name we do not know, had at least six children: Gabriel Jr., John, Joseph, Richard, Mary, and Sarah Fowlkes. Gabriel's name appeared in the 1756 accounts of the Thomas Partridge & Co. General Store in Hanover, across the North Anna. His purchases included six plates, a dish, two basins, some lace, and a prayer book. Gabriel died in Caroline County before 1775. In the early days of Amelia County, they pronounced “Fowlkes” as though it was “Fulks”. Many Virginians still pronounce it this way. The history of Gabriel's family has been created from a variety of sources. The incomplete records of Nottoway County limit the dependability of this history.

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• https://www.reynoldspatova.org/getperson.php?personID=I3701&tree=re...
• Henry Bass Fowlkes, Sr 1808 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/118924026/henry-bass-fowlkes
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Fowlkes-105