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- David Ridings' Father's name of John was listed on Pulaski Co KY death
Anna Nancy (Gentry) Ridings (abt. 1754 - abt. 1800)
Born about 1754 in Lunenburg, Virginia [uncertain]
ANCESTORS
Daughter of Joseph Gentry and Agnes (Shelton) Gentry
Sister of Samuel Gentry, Shelton Gentry, Elizabeth (Gentry) Speer, Agnes (Gentry) Hodges, Sarah Gentry and Susannah Gentry
Wife of John Ridings — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
DESCENDANTS
Mother of Agnes (Ridings) Williams, Judith (Ridings) Miller and Isaac Ridings
Died about 1800 at about age 46 in Rowan, North Carolina, United States [uncertain]
Profile manager: B Miller
Gentry-3562 created 23 Sep 2020 | Last modified 4 Jan 2023
Biography
Anna Nancy was born in Lunenburg Co., VA, about 1754. She was the daughter of Joseph G. Gentry and Agnes Shelton. Anna Nancy reached 46 years of age and died in Rowan Co., NC, about 1800. John Ridings married Anna Nancy Gentry in 1775 in Rowan Co. They had eight children and possibly more: Jesse, Agnes, John, Sarah, David, Judith, Isaac and Dicie.
Anna was the second of eleven children of Joseph and Agnes (Shelton) Gentry of Lunenberg County, Virginia. Her date of birth was approximately 1754, making her seventeen years younger than John Ridings. But this calls into question the 1757 marriage date used by some researchers, since Anna would have been just three years old. Perhaps it’s possible that John was married in 1757 to another Gentry, but John’s first child, Jesse, arrived in 1777. So the first marriage would have been childless, and John didn’t have any children for twenty years. Given all this, it should be presumed that the marriage date was actually 1775; this would fit Anna’s birth year as well as the dates of the children's births. It would mean that John was in his late thirties at his wedding. See the discussion below from a Gentry family website.
THE SONS OF SAMUEL-II GENTRY Part 6. Samuel Gentry Jr. and OTHER SPARTANBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA, GENTRYS by Willard Gentry Revised July 2014
The Curious Case of Polly Gentry
We would be remiss in not mentioning a Polly Elizabeth Gentry who appears in some genealogy records as marrying John Ridings in North Carolina in 1757, and proposed as a daughter of Samuel Sr<9>. This writer has tried to find the source of this published information, which was passed on by a member of the Ridings family. There are several problems with the information as published in the cited publication. A major concern is the listed date of marriage, during a time when Samuel Gentry was in Lunenburg County, Virginia, and there were no Gentrys of any description living in North Carolina. The family of John Ridings is badly mangled, the children do not at all correspond to reliable family listings for John Ridings, and marriage dates are quite inappropriate for a marriage of John and Polly to have been in 1757. Considering the listed parents for John, this family does not seem to represent a different John Ridings than the one who lived for many years in Surry County, North Carolina, rather it was a case of misidentifying the members of his family.
It appears that this citation has combined a number of facts concerning the Gentry and the Ridings families in a completely haphazard fashion. The known facts are that John Ridings did indeed marry a Gentry, but it was Anna Gentry, who was a daughter of Joseph-III Gentry. Anna's brother was a Samuel, but a nephew of Samuel-III. Joseph and his son Samuel were also involved in a sale of land to John Ridings. These combinations of circumstances may have led someone to put together their "facts" in an inappropriate manner.[1]
Sources
↑ http://www.gentryjournal.org/archives/jgg0303.htm
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Abt 1737 - 1825 (88 years)
