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About Margaret DeVane
http://genforum.genealogy.com/devane/messages/477.html
So, here are some fact and conjectures that I have put tohether about these two from various genealogy forum posts, stories and documents on ancestry.com, and internet searches. If anyone has anything evidence to add, confirm/verify, or contradict any of this I would really like to know. As I said, most of this is conjecture that I have put together, but I think I have a theory about who they were and where they came from (to be explained below as well).
1. If Margaret was a DeConde from France, then I think the general consensus (from family trees I have found) is that she would have been a child of Francois Louis Bourbon DeConde and Marie Therese DeBourbon (yes they were both Bourbons as those royal folks liked to keep it all in the family, so to speak). However, when I have done research on this couple and found lists of their issue/children, there is no daughter named Margaret, let alone one born around or about 1703. From the documentation I find, Francois and Marie Therese only had 3 children who survived infancy and only their son, Louis Armand DeBourbon, ever had children.
2. No matter how many searches I do about Thomas Devane, France, etc, I come up empty handed. A story that I found posted on Ancestry.com suggests that Thomas Devane might have been a descendant of Martha DiVigean, the great love of Louis DeBourbon, Prince of Conde, also known as The Great Conde. Louis and Martha never had children as he was forced to marry someone else, but it got me thinking that if Thomas was a descendant of Martha, then perhaps this explained why our Thomas and Margaret would have been running in the same circles. After all, Louis DeBourbon would have been her great great uncle if she had been the daughter of Francois and Marie Therese. So far, working this angle has proven fruitless as I can't find anything about whether she eventually married and had children. (Her real name was Marthe Poussard, but her father was Baron du Vigean, so she went by Madamoiselle DiVigean).
3. A post on this form from 2008 regarding Margaret DeConde lit up another possible avenue to investigate. The poster said that he had found a deed from Bath Co, NC where a David Lee and his wife Mary, who was the daughter of Darby Sullivan(t), gave 120 acres to his brother in law, Thomas DeVaughan, because the land had been the property of Darby Sullivan and half belonged to his daughter Mary (Lee) and the other half belonged to his other daughter, Margaret DeVaughan (wife of Thomas). I'm assuming they did it this way because women were not allowed to inherit land at that time, but that's just a guess. Anyway, this leads to the conclusion that Margaret DeVaughan was born Margaret Sullivan(t) and was the daughter of Darby Sullivan(t). A side note to this is that the post also mentions that in 1727, Thomas DeVaughan sold all of his land in Bath CO - will reference this later.
3.2 Because I had this guess that Darby Sullivan(t) was actually Margaret's father, I started doing some research on his name. An Ancestry.com search yielded a starting framework - several family trees had a Darby Sullivan born 1669 and died 1715 in Bath Co, NC (the same place the land was). Interestingly enough, a series of Ancestry.com and internet searches yielded two potential matches: Records from Christ Church in Barbados, an English colony, cite that a Darby Sullivant, the son of Humphrey and Alice Sullivant, was baptised 18 October 1668 AND a Derby Sullivant, the son of Owen and Catharine Sullivant, was baptised 11 April 1669. Considering a decent margin of error when it comes to birth dates, either of these children could be the Darby Sullivan(t) who was the father of Mary and Margaret in NC about 30 years later. What really got my wheels turning though was the fact that he was born in Barbados, the very same place that Thomas and Margaret DeVane claim to have been before arriving in North America.
4. As noted in #3, Thomas DeVaughan supposedly sold all of his land in Bath Co to a John McDowell in 1727. About the same time (1727-1729) he pops up in the newly formed New Hanover Co, NC and is granted land from the king in 1735 and somewhere in there David and Mary Lee also left Bath Co and came to New Hanover Co where both families settled in the Black River District.
SO - what is my theory based on all of these pieces of information? I think that Margaret DeConde was really Margaret Sullivan(t) and that somehow over the course of time the legend/myth was disseminated that she was of the House of Bourbon and that she and Thomas had fled France because of religious persecution. How or why this story came about is a mystery to me, though it seems entirely plausible that because they were new to the New Hanover area that it might have been fairly easy to make up a history about oneself. At first I thought maybe Margaret was the only one who lied about her history, however, in light of the fact that Thomas DeVaughan (my probably Thomas DeVane) knew his brother in law and sister in law, that he had to have been a party to the deception as well. Not to say anything bad about this couple who raised two sons who fought in the American Revolution, but the fact of the matter is that anything is possible. Maybe they had a good reason to hide who they really were, or maybe the legend got cooked up through no effort of their own.
https://ethnicelebs.com/meat-loaf
His fifth great-grandmother, Margaret de Vane, had French ancestry. Through her, Meat Loaf is also descended from Anne Marie Martinozzi, who was Italian, of half Sicilian descent, and was the niece of Cardinal Mazarin, a diplomat and politician, who served as the Chief Minister to the Kings of France, Louis XIII and Louis XIV.
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Margaret DeVane's Timeline
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Barbados
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New Hanover County, NC, USA
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1723
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New Hanover, NC, United States
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1725
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New Hanover, North Carolina, United States
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New Hanover County, North Carolina, USA
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1728
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New Hanover County, North Carolina, United States
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December 25, 1730
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New Hanover, NC, United States
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1730
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New Hanover County, North Carolina, USA
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