It’s been awhile since I’ve written on this blog.  That’s not because I’ve been inactive in my genealogical research.  Probably the biggest thing of late has been the use of the site “Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia’s Northern Neck Counties” by Mike Marshall.  Mike has a tremendous amount of documented research on this site.  His work used to be on RootsWeb.

I have long been confused about the Susanna Waters who married George Robertson as described by my great grandfather, William Edwin Muncaster, in an article he wrote about his grandmother in the yearbook of the American Clan Gregor Society: “She went to live with him at his home, Milton Farm.  This place was bought by his father, George Robertson, in 1772.  The following year he married Susanna Waters, daughter of Samuel 3^rd, who with his brothers, William and Richard, came to Western Maryland in its early settlement.”

Somehow I had this Samuel Waters married to Phebe Manning, daughter of George Manning and Joanna Wallys.  I don’t have any dates or anything on any of these folks.  Looking on RootsWeb I found a lot of references to these folks, but none of them had Samuel marrying Phebe, it was always a James Waters.  Moreover, George and Joanna were in the 1500’s over in England.  So I am deleting all these folks from my database.

The question then, is who was Susanna’s father?

I've always included a second wife for Edward May Magruder because the 1921 Yearbook of the American Clan Gregor Society mentioned a second wife named Elizabeth Frances Allen, but I've never been able to find any more information on her.  She's not in any census nor the family graveyard.  Dr. Magruder wrote an extensive autobiography which was included in an ACGS yearbook and there is no mention of her.  I did find that Dr. Magruder's wife, Mary Cole Gregory, had a grandmother named Elizabeth Frances Allen.  I believe she got mixed up somehow, so I am eliminating the second wife from Dr. Magruder.

After watching a genealogy show on television I remembered my grandmother was accepted by the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR).  I searched for days and finally found my grandmother's application and acceptance dated 1919.  I was able to log on their website and using my grandmother's number found out a few more tidbits about my ancestors.

Mom died Nov 13 at 94 years old.  In going through her things I found out that her father died on Dec 23.  I'd been missing the date. That's the same date my dad died on in 2014.  I also found that my Aunt Elizabeth remarried in 1981, but I have been unable to find any documentation of that or any further documentation of my aunt.

I did decide to go with the Find A Grave site for my Uncle Frank. The birth year on his grave was within one of the 1940 census, the year of his death is roughly right, he's listed as Frank G Morris - which is correct and he's buried in the same section as Aunt Mollie - his mother-in-law.

Found William Edward Magruder, Jr., his wife, and son.  All were on the Find A Grave site.

Added Ann Maria Hancock's parents William Hancock and Susannah Grigsby.

I've never been able to find any reference to a son James to James Muncaster and Rachel Ann Gray, so I deleted him. Everything I've found shows sons Zachariah who went to Montgomery Co, MD and John who went to New Orleans and three daughters: Rachel, Sophia and Sarah.

My grandfather wrote an article on Muncasters in Maryland which confirms that James Copper Muncaster married a Hancock:

There seem to be no family records of the Muncasters of Maryland and the story is very 
incompletely gathered from the court records of the province of Lord Baltimore and the State of 
Maryland.

The first mention known is the record of marriage of James Monkister to Elizabeth Charmion in 
1671. She owned some land in Charles County Md. and at her death it passed to her son William 
Monkister. In later records her name was spelled "Shearman" and his became Muncaster as it is 
now spelled. 

William lived from 1675 to 1717. In 1707 he patented a tract called "Muncaster Croft", 100 
acres. This seems to be all the land he ever owned though his wife's land was added to this. 
The next owner was William Muncaster (1702-1750) and when he died it descended to his son James 
(1735-1805) and the plantation had grown to about 400 acres at the time of his death. James 
left it to his four children: Zachariah, John, Sarah and Sophia. He had another daughter 
Rachel, but she had married Walter Stone of Frederick Co. against his wishes and he left her 
out of his will.  John (1769-1829) bought the shares of his brother and sisters in the farm in 
1810, paying them 541.71 apiece. He lived on the farm. In 1796 he married Elizabeth Copper who 
owned property in Alexandria, Va. His brother Zachariah was married in 1804 and moved to 
Montgomery County where his wife Harriet Magruder owned a 200 acre farm and a group of slaves. 
Their descendants are found in Montgomery County, Md.

In 1819, John sold his farm and everything on it, and moved his family (wife and five children) 
to Louisiana, settling in Carrolton, near New Orleans.  Charles Wallace, Christiana, Cyrus 
Copper and Harriet Sophia reached New Orleans, a daughter, Mary was born afterwards, and a son 
Dr. James Copper was left at Henderson, Ky. where it is said to have married a Miss Hancock and 
set up the practice of medicine.  He was about 22 years old and he held a diploma from Medical 
College of Maryland, and license to practice in that state granted in 1818. 

He practiced medicine in Henderson until his death in 1829, when he left a widow and three 
children, but there is no record of their names, and they seem to have been lost to the 
Maryland family until about 1877 when a letter from the oldest son gave the names of his 
children as John, George, Thomas and three girls whose names he did not give. From this 
descendants have been traced in Kentucky, largely up to date.