52 Ancestors 52 Weeks An interesting name

 I just found a new ancestor with a rather interesting name. Buller. Do you say Bueller? I think so, not Bull-er

Buller Herbert was born sometime in 1695, at Puddledock Plantation, Prince George, Virginia. This meant there were probably slaves working on tobacco fields. His father John Herbert was an active trader with connections in London UK.

Buller married 18 August 1720 to Mary Stith. Mary had been born around 1709 and died 17 Aug 1801.

Buller and Mary had children:

John Herbert, b. 4 April 1724, d. 1760

Ann Herbert Temple, b. 21 Mar 1726

Mary Buller Herbert Claiborne, b. 1728, d. 6 May 1801, who became my 6th great grandmother

Ancestry has listed some other children, but they don't have dates connected to their names.

Buller died in Nov. 1730. His wife Mary remarried to Charles Fisher in 1735 and had a child:

Elizabeth Fisher (1737-1801)

Buller and Mary Stith Herbert were my 7th great grandparents, with their daughter Mary Buller Herbert Claiborne my 6th great grandmother.

And yet there's even more to the story of my ancestry. 

Mary Stith Herbert's father was Lt. Col. Drury Stith, Sr. (1670-1741). His sister (aunt to Mary) was Anne Meriwether Stith Bolling (1660-1709) who became my ancestor as well. Her husband (his second marriage) was Col. Robert Thomas Bolling (1646-1709). They are my eight greats grandparents. 

Incidentally Col. Robert Thomas Bolling was married first to Jane Rolfe Bolling (1650-1676) who was the granddaughter of Capt. John Rolfe (1585-1682) and Pocahontas Matoaka aka Rebecca Rolfe (1595-1617).

I am so sad to see how many trees on Ancestry are completely wrong, without any references besides more wrong information. 

I am not a descendant from Pocahontas/Rebecca Rolfe...her son Thomas did have a son (Thomas) and a daughter Jane Rolfe Bolling (1650-1676) who married Col. Robert Thomas Bolling as his first wife. My ancestry comes from his second wife, Anne Meriwether Stith Bolling.

So I have double ancestry in Virginia of the Herberts, and through the Stiths to the Bollings.

 

OK, I also want to know how these lines came together to be grandparents of mine...or something .

Col Robert Bolling and second wife, Anne Meriwether Stith Bolling had a daughter Mary Agnes Bolling Kennon who married Richard Kennon, Jr. 

Their daughter Mary Kennon Clack married Col. John Clack, judge. Their son Lt. Spencer Clack of Sevierville TN is the basis of the Spencer Clack chapter of the DAR there. Besides fighting in the Revolutionary war, he was my 5th great grandfather. He married Mary DeBeauvillers/Beavers Clack and their daughter Catherine Clack Rogers married Rev. Elijah Rogers.

Their son Micajah Clack Rogers married Cyntha O. Cannon, and their son George Washington Rogers married Lucinda Benson Gibbs Rogers. Their son William Sanford Rogers married Elizabeth (Betty) Bass Rogers. And she was a descendant of the Stith family! Incidentally they were my great great grandparents! (see the following quick descriptions of the other side of this line.)

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Now let''s follow the Stith line, from Lt. Col. Drury Stith, to my 7th great grandmother Mary Stith Herbert Fisher, who was first married to Buller Herbert.  Their daughter Mary Buller Herbert Claiborne  married Col. Augustine Claiborne. 

Their daughter Suzanna (Sukey) Claiborne Jones married Frederick Jones. Their daughter Sarah Skelton Jones Traylor married Champion Travis Traylor, Sr.  Their daughter Nancy Jones Traylor Powell married James Moore Powell.

The Powell's daughter, Mary Ann Elizabeth (Mae) Powell Bass married Col. Richard (Dick) Bass.

Their daughter Elizabeth (Betty) Bass Rogers married William Sandford Rogers, my great great grandparents! 

This isn't all that amazing, as many families had first, second or third cousins marrying. It does make for interesting trees, however!