Margaret Scott

In 1752 Rev. Joseph Rhea married Elizabeth McIlwaine, born 1732, daughter of John and Margaret Scott Anderson McIlwaine.

Margaret married two times. The first, to Thomas Anderson and had three Anderson children.

She married second to John McIlwaine and had at least three more children, making the Andersons and the McIlwaines half-brother and half-sisters. To make a very long story brief, their kids intermarried a generation later. Surnames involved were Dysart, Scott, Anderson, McIlwaine, Breden, McAlister, Beattie, Rhea and others.(2)

Children

1. Joshua Anderson.
2. Thomas Anderson.
3. Frances Anderson b.abt 1710 who married c.1732 Samuel Dysart c.1710 d.1750 in Western Pa. Samuel is believed to be the son of Joseph Dysart and Maria Martin. Samuel Dysart had a possession in the Londonderry area known as Brook Hall. They had 7 children.

After Thomas Anderson died, Margaret Scott married secondly John McIlwaine (McElwane). They had three children:

1. William McIlwaine married Nancy McElwane ???
2. Margaret McIlwaine married John Guinn.
3. Elizabeth McIlwaine born ~1732 d.12-19-1793 married Rev. Joseph Rhea in about 1752 in Ireland. Elizabeth was of Liffannau, near Londonderry, county of Donegal.

McIlwaines and Rheas were both Presbyterian. They came to this country and eventually reached Sullivan County, Tennessee which is just across the Virginia border. Two of the Rhea children, Matthew and Margaret, married Robert and Jane Preston, brother and sister married brother and sister.

Links

1. http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/o/l/Dr-ed-Foley/GENE1-...
2. http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/STEWART/1998-01/08861...
3. http://www.suddenlink.net/pages/fpreston/mcelwane.htm
4. http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/t/o/b/Warwick-R-Tobias/G...

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• Updated from FamilySearch Family Tree via brother Edward Scott by SmartCopy: Feb 9 2015, 23:06:50 UTC