Anne SAMMIS4,2

16703 - 29th Jan 17183,2

Life History

1667	Born in New Kent County, Virginia.1
1670	Born.3
about 1685	Birth of son Henry S STRANGE in New Kent County, Virginia.5,6
1687	Birth of son Thomas STRANGE in New Kent County, Virginia.
1690	Birth of son Alexander STRANGE in St Peters Parish, Kent, Virginia.7
1690	Married Alexander STRANGE in New Kent County, Virginia.9 Dates vary on the marriages, but several genealogies that report two wives date the first marriage to the nameless wife about 1684. They date the marriage to the second wife, Ann (Sammis), about 1690. One ofthe first sources I was analyzing early had two wives, with 4 children of the second wife. However, the fourth child, Elizabeth, under the first wife was born after the date of the marriage to the second wife. Likewise, two other children under the second wife, Anne (whose maiden name Sammis was provided by another source) were born at dates earlier than the fourthchild under the first wife, though after the date of marriage to Anne. Then Elizabeth is repeated under Anne, though with the same date as the first listing. This mess is comparatively is quite neat. I saw several on Ancestry's One World Tree that were a great mish mash. It seems most likely that Alexander had one wife, married at the original date, which is one year before the date of the fist child Henry S. Another source has a more ordered statement of the birth of the children with two wives. The unknown wife in this scenario was the mother of Henry and Thomas. The second wife, Anne (no last name) is the mother of Alexander, born in 1691, and the rest of the children.
22nd Oct 1693	Birth of son Michael STRANGE in St Peters Parish, New Kent, Virginia.
before 6th Dec 1696	Birth of daughter Judith STRANGE in St Peters Parish, New Kent, Virginia.8
1699	Birth of son Mitchell STRANGE in St Peters Parish, New Kent, Virginia.
5th Apr 1702	Birth of daughter Elizabeth STRANGE in St Peters Parish, New Kent, Virginia, USA.
1704	Birth of daughter Anne STRANGE in St Peters Parish, New Kent, Virginia.
5th Jun 1706	Birth of son Robert STRANGE in St Peters Parish, New Kent, Virginia.7,6
14th Jan 1709	Birth of daughter Elinor STRANGE in St Peters Parish, New Kent, Virginia.
20th Apr 1717	Death of son Michael STRANGE in St Peters Parish, New Kent, Virginia.
27th Jan 1718	Death of son Robert STRANGE in Hanover County, Virginia.
29th Jan 1718	Died in St Peters Parish, New Kent, Virginia.3,2

Other facts

Resident in Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County, Virginia.2

Notes

The source I have followed here had several more children than other sources. The information is fairly complete and consistent on them, so this seems credible. Henry, the first child, is the child through whom are descended the Gregories of Oklahoma, through Julia Ann Clementine Strange and Dock Patrick Gregory in Tennessee and Oklahoma. Strange descendants from this line remained in Tennessee or immigrated to Georgia, Mississippi and farther west.

Sources

1. One World Tree (sm)
- http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/pt/person.aspx?tid=113553&pid=-2105209882
2. Christ Church Parish, Virginia Records, 1653-1812
3. Ancestry World Tree
- http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm-cgi?op=GET&db=*v133t0575&id=I1176
4. One World Tree (sm)
- Dixie Oakley, http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/pt/person.aspx?tid=113553&pi
5. One World Tree (sm)
- http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=41290299&st=1
6. One World Tree (sm)
7. Millennium Files, Ancestry.com
8. Ancestry World Tree
- Ron Coleman, http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=haymor
9. One World Tree (sm)
- 2 sources for this date in One World Tree, which had an earlier wife.