THE RANDOLPHS OF VIRGINIA A COMPILATION OF THE DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM RANDOLPH OF TURKEY ISLAND AND HIS WIFE MARY ISHAM OF BERMUDA HUNDRED BY ROBERT ISHAM RANDOLPH OF CHICAGO PREFACE y COPY of '' The Page Family in Virginia'' is inscribed on the fly­ leaf, as follows: '' This book is one of a package sent to me for dis­ Mtribution by Dr. Richard Channing More Page, now a resident of New York, but a native of Albemarle County, Virginia, whose father was my father's first cousin, their mother being a daughter of Coln. Archibald Cary ( Old Iron) of Ampthill. In compliance with which collllmission, I present it to my grandson, Robert Isham Randolph, now an infant of months. (signed) Robert Carter Randolph, :M:. D., of New Market, Clarke County, Virginia, November 13, 1883." Having been thus inoculated with the genealogical virus before I was a year old and having lived all of my life apart from my father's people, I have always been interested in the ramifications of the tribe and have been engaged for a good ;many years in cataloguing and indexing them for identification in my own mirid. For this purpose I have used a genealogical data sheet published by the Lefax Company of Philadelphia and ordinary three by five inch file cards for an alphabetical-index. For the purpose of indexing the data sheets, I adopted a numerical system which I thought I had invented or adapted from the Dewey Decimal System of indexing in common use in all reference libraries. Later, I found a manuscript copy of a genealogy of the family of Sir John Randolph, compiled by Col. William Allan about 1889, in which he had used the same system of nlll]llerical index. He separated his numerals by periods or decimal points, just as I did, and numerals of more than one digit were therefore isolated without confusion. In the Magazine of American Genealogy, April, 1930, Professor Henry S. Jacoby of Cornell University, presented an exposition of the same scheme of indexing. It remained for Reginald Buchanan Henry, M. D., in his '' G'enealogies of the Families of the Presidents" to improve upon the scheme by substituting lower case letters for two-digit numerals, thus making it possible to eliminate the decimal points or periods be­ tween the numerals, thereby condensing the space and making it easier to read the index numbers. This scheme of indexing consists in numbering the children in each generation in the order of their birth. The numbering begins with the children of the colonial ancestor. The first digit represents the child in order of birth in the second generation. The second digit represents the· child of the preceding unit in the order of birth in the third generation, and so on. Each successive digit represents the child in the order of birth in each successive generation. Lower case letters are used for nUlmerals above nine, thus; 10 is x, 11 is a, 12 is b, 13 is c, and so on. [ 5 ] 6 PREFACE As an illustration, taking any name from the alphabetical index, but selecting one as far removed from the colonial ancestor as possible, such as Roosevelt, we find that Kermit Roosevelt, Jr., has an index number 237x21111. There are nine numerals, so he is in the tenth generation. His place in the chart is easily found by reference to the index numbers at the upper out-side corner of the text pages. It happens to come on page seventy-one of the manuscript, but the page number has no signifinance. His Randolph ancestry is developed as follows: 237x21111 Kermit Roosevelt, Jr., is the first child of 237x2111 Belle Willard, m. Kermit Roosevelt. She is the first child of 237x211 Joseph Willard, m. Belle Layton Wyatt. He is the first child of 237x21 Antonia Ford, m. Major Joseph Willard. She is the first child of 237x2 Rodolph Ford, m. Julia Ford (23791). He is the second child of ·237x Charles Fleming Ford, m. Patsy Butler. He is the tenth child of 237 Elizabeth Keith, m. Edward Ford. She is the seventh child of 23 Mary Randolph, m. James Keith. She is the third child of 2 Thomas Randolph, m. Judith Fleming, and he is the second child of William Randolph of Turkey Island, m. Mary Isham of Bermuda Hu'ndred. There can be no duplication of names or index numbers under this system and the alphabetical index serves to locate any name in the tables. The numerical index shows the straight line descent and the collateral relationships. All names with the same number of digits in the index, differing only in the terminal digit, are brothers and/or sisters. Those that differ only in the last two digits are first cousins. Those that differ in the last three digits are second. cousins, and so on. Intermarriages and cross-connections are indicated by the index nu,mber in parenthesis after the name of the person appearing else­ where in the tables. See the illustration above, 237x2 Rodolph Ford, m. Julia Ford (23791), his first cousin. Many names may thus be traced back to the colonial ancestor through more than one line. I am indebted to many people, living and dead, for assistance in col­ lecting and compiling these data and I hereby acknowledge the debt to; Robert Carter Randolph, M. D. (deceased), my grandfather, for original notes and correspondence; to Wilson Miles Ca,ry ( deceased) for original notes and correspondence with my grandfather; to W. G. Stanard, late secretary of the Virgiiµa Historical Society, for assistance by correspondence and for much data, of which he was the author, which I have collected from the Virginia Magazine and from other sources; to Brigadier General Jefferson Randolph Kean, U. S. A., for assistance by correspondence and for annotated copies of the bulletins of the Monticello Association of which he is historian; to Henry Harrison Wil­ son ( deceased) for assistance by correspondence and for his extension to the Keith chart of the .Ancestry of Benjamin Harrison; to Marian Carter Oliver for the Carter Family Tree; to Walter Winston Price for the Price Faimily Tree; to Richard Morris Nelson who sent me a copy of Colonel William Allan's compilation of the line of Sir John Randolph; to Roy Bird Cook of Charleston, West Virginia, for data [ 6 ] PREFACE 7 on the Ford family; to Harrison Randolph, President of the College of Charleston, South Carolina, for data on the Edward Randolph line; to Dr. Bessie Carter Randolph, President of Hollins College, Roanoke, Virginia, for data on the Florida and Virginia branches of the family; to John Stewart Bryan, President of the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, for assistance with the Bryan line; to Reginald Buchanan Henry, M. D., for his book on the Genealogies of the Families of the Presidents and for his improvements to the decimal index system; to Merrow E. Sorley, Captain, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., for the manuscript of his book '' Lewis of Warner Hall, the History of a Family; to William MacFarland Jones of the Genealogical Bureau of Virginia for professional assistance ; and to all of the following for gracious and patient compliance with my requests to fill out numerous and frequent genealogical data blanks: Laura Carmichael Alford, Chicago; Dr. William Allan, Charlotte, N. C.; Rosalie P. Archer, Richmond, Va.; Moncure Biddle, Devon, Pa.; Mary Randolph Blain, Louisville, Ky. ; Albert S. Bolling, Charlottesville, Va. ; Colonel George Mercer Brooke, Lexington, Va. ; Jane Watt Brooke, Little Rock, Ark.; Ellen C. Burke, Alexandria, Va. ; Ida Mason Burke, Alexandria, Va.; Mrs. Jefferson Burke, Chestnut Hill, Mass.; William Byrd, New York City; John R. Cautley, South Bend, Ind.; Katherine L. Churchman, Penllyn, Pa.; Charles William Dabney, Cincinnati, Ohio; Virginia Fleming Dickirni, Washington, D. C.; Anne Randolph Dozier, Tallahassee, Fla. ; Dorothy Fordney, Lake Bluff, Ill.; Eliza dunningham Harrison Goddard, Washington, D. C.; Mary Randolph Gordon, Arcadia, Mo.; Bernard Harrison, New York City; R. Randolph Hicks, New York City; Julien Harrison Hill, Richmond, Va.; Marie W. Hodgkins, Wash­ ington, D. C.; Rev. Peyton H. Hoge, Pewee Valley, Ky.; Juliette Henry Jones, Millwood, Va. ; Katharine Isham Keith, Warrenton, Va.; Joseph G. Kent, Pasadena, Cal.; Mrs. Samuel Adams Lynde, Chicago, Ill.; Hell Moon Maury, Charlottesville, Va.; Elizabeth Harrison McLean, Balti­ more, Md.; Mrs. John Bassett Moore, New York City; Mary F. Page, Boyce, Va.; Rosewell Page, Beaver Dam, Va.; Ann Hull Prentiss, Wash­ ington, D. C.; Anne Brooke Purcell, Richmond, Va.; Helen Maury Quarles, Richmond, Va. ; Beverley Heth Randolph, Richmond, Va.; Buckner Magill Randolph, M. D., Charlottesville, Va.; Hollins Nicholas Randolph, Atlanta, Ga.; Margaret D. Randolph, Keswick, Va.; Mrs. Robert Carter Randolph, Boyce, Va.; Roberta Lee Randoiph, Casanova, Va.; Charles Russell Robins, Richmond, Va.; Sally Walthall Ruffin, Petersburg, Va.; E. A. Williams, Baltimore, Md.; and Walker L. Well­ ford, Memphis, Tenn. I make 110 claim that these tables are complete or that they are with­ out error. I thank all of those who have contributed to the publication of the book by subscribing for it in advance and I invite corrections or additions which may be sent to ROBERT !SHAM RANDOLPH Riverside, Illinois. [ 7 ] BIBLIOGRAPHY The Page Family in Virginia, by Richard Channing Moore Page The Randolph Family, by W. G. Stanard, William and Mary Quarter- ly, Vol. VII. History of Bristol Parish, by Rev. Philip Slaughter, D. D. 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