UPDATED MAY 22, 2016 THE HUME FAMILY - Bill …

1 UPDATED MAY 22, 2016 . THE hume FAMILY . The hume FAMILY is our tie to nobility. I have charts going back as far as Sir Thomas hume of hume , eldest son of Sir John hume . This takes us back to about the year 1000 which is probably further than most of us really care to go. Sir Thomas hume was thirteenth in the direct male line from Crinian, Lord of the Isles, who was slain in 1045. This line, which is that of the Earls of Dunbar, is given in Paul's Scots Peerage III, Page 239. A rather extensive History of the hume FAMILY was put together in 1903 by John Robert hume of St.

2 Louis, Missouri. Most of the early line is extracted from that work. The hume FAMILY home was Wedderburn Castle in Scotland. It was here in Wedderburn that the hume who came to America was born. This brief genealogy begins with George hume who came to America in the early 1700s. Our American line went from George hume to George hume II to John hume to Stanton hume who married Sarah Breckenridge. Their daughter, Ann Elizabeth hume married Lemuel James Patterson in St. Louis County, Missouri. This is the connection of the hume line with my mother's Patterson line, and how they became a part of my direct lineage.

3 GEORGE hume . George hume was born at Wedderburn Castle in Scotland on May 30, 1698. Together with his father, Sir George, and his uncle Francis, he participated in the Jacobite rebellion of 1715. The Jacobites were supporters of the Stuart claim to the throne of England after the expulsion of James II in 1688. They supported James son, Prince James Francis Edward. When the Stuarts were defeated in Battle by the English the Humes were stripped of their power and made to pay for supporting the losing side. George's uncle, Sir Francis hume was banished to the colonies in 1715.

4 Sir Francis died a few years later. After two years in prison, George hume was deported to join him in Virginia. George's cousin was the Colonial Governor Spottswood in Williamsburgh. Governor Spottswood had remained loyal to the Crown and young George hume was placed under his care. George hume arrived in Virginia in 1721 and in 1723 became a royal surveyor. In 1727-28, he laid out the present city of Fredericksburg, Virginia. George served as a lieutenant in the Colonial Troops of Spottsylvania County under Captain William Bledsoe. He produced his commission in open court and took oath on September 2, 1729.

5 This service will entitle descendants to membership in the Society of Colonial Dames and the Society of Colonial Wars. On February 16, 1727 George hume married Elizabeth Proctor, daughter of George and Mary Proctor. Elizabeth was living in Fredericksburg in Spottsylvania County while George was establishing his reputation as a surveyor here. In 1731 George hume received his commission as Deputy to the King and with a marriage dower of 2,000 acres he and his FAMILY took up residence in Fredericksburg, Virginia. From the ages of 16 to 18, George Washington studied surveying as an apprentice under George hume in Fredericksburg.

6 George, like all the Humes, was an Episcopalian and was a vestryman in St. George's Parish. George was King's surveyor for Lord Fairfax from 1743 to 1750 in Orange County, Virginia. The latter part of his life was spent in Culpeper where he was surveyor during the 1750s. George hume died in Culpeper which at the time was in Madison County, Virginia in 1760. George and Elizabeth hume had six children: GEORGE hume JR., Francis, John, William, James and Charles hume . The following is what I know of these children. George hume II. George hume the second was born in Culpeper County, Virginia in 1729.

7 In 1754, he married Jane Stanton, the daughter of Thomas Stanton. This is my lineage, and the life of George hume II is covered in the next section. Frances hume Frances was the second son. He was born about 1730 in Culpeper County and was a farmer there until his death in 1813. He married Elizabeth Duncan who died in about 1822 at the home of her daughter Nancy hume Sharp in Boone County, Missouri at the age of 94. Francis served in the French & Indian War with Captain John Field. He also served with Field in the American Revolution. He received bounty lands in Culpeper County for this service in 1811.

8 Frances and Elizabeth had two daughters and four sons: ELIZABETH hume who married John Almond of Spotsylvania County. NANCY hume who married Lewis Sharp of Culpeper. JAMES hume who married Catherine Barnes on October 2, 1797. ARMISTEAD hume who married Priscilla Colvin on December 25, 1798. He died in Culpeper County January 19, 1815. Priscilla then married the Reverend Abner Baughan on November 17, 1817. CHARLES hume who married Celia Shumate on June 1, 1803. He was in Fauquier County, Virginia when he served in the War of 1812, and was commissioned an officer.

9 He served with his cousin, Joseph hume and was discharged at Fredericksburg on December 17, 1814. He moved to Madison County, Kentucky in 1818. The majority of the lands were in Madison County, but the house itself was in Garrard County. In the early 1820s they moved to Trimble County, Kentucky on the Ohio River. He lived there until his death in 1838 or 1839. Their children were: James Armistead hume born about 1804 in Fauquier County. He married Mary Nicholson and died young without children. Mary remarried and went west. Sarah Elizabeth hume was born November 8, 1808.

10 She married Zachary Taylor, a cousin of the President on January 13, 1830. She lived into her eighties. Lewis hume a Reverend. He was born in Fauquier County on June 22, 1814. He switched from the Episcopalian faith to the Scotch Presbyterian and became a minister in that church in Louisville, Kentucky. He married Lamira Douglas McGee on June 6, 1843. He died in Spencer County, Kentucky on his farm on May 22, 1888. Lamira died there on May 22, 1886 exactly two years before her husband. Lucinda hume was born about 1824 and died unmarried February 2, 1895.