During the 17th Century in France, the Diuguids were apparently part of the Protestant reformation that became known as the Huguenot movement. Several wars were fought, and Louis XIV persecuted the Huguenots mercilessly, and as many as 800,000 are thought to have fled France. The Diuguids received permission from the King of England to return to Scotland and re-settled in Aberdeen.http://www.phelpsfamilyhistory.com/branches/diuguid/origins.asp
On May 27, 2011, at 9:38 AM, Janice wrote:
I'm not familiar with the surname Duiguid. How is it pronounced?
Thanks
Janice
On May 27, 2011, at 8:14 AM, Bill Davidson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The Diuguid family was "associated" with at least two different Davidson families that were out of the Buckingham Co., VA area. A George Alexander Diuguid married a Paulina A. Davidson on 28 Feb 1844 in Campbell Co., VA, and Paulina was the daughter of Samuel Davidson (died about 1848 in Appomattox Co., VA) and Elizabeth Thornhill. That Samuel Davidson was a son of Alexander and Elizabeth (Unknown...but maybe "Steele") Davidson, and Alexander Davidson had moved from Buckingham Co., VA to Bedford Co., VA by the 1770s (the part of Bedford that became Campbell Co., VA in 1782). In addition, Judson Carey Davidson (born 2 Feb 1846; died 27 Apr 1914), who was also a member of the Alexander Davidson family, married an Elizabeth Diuguid in 1878. Judson Carey Davidson was a son of Jesse Thornhill Davidson and Martha M. Osborne and a grandson of the above Samuel Davidson and Elizabeth Thornhill.
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> Note: The above Samuel Davidson (son of Alexander) who married Elizabeth Thornhill, and who died in Appomattox Co., VA around 1848, should not be confused with the Reverend Samuel Davidson/Davison (pastor of Red Oak Baptist Church for many years) who married Frances Oglesby and who died in Appomattox Co., VA around 1861. Research shows that Reverend Samuel Davidson/Davison was almost certainly not related to the family Alexander Davidson.
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> Captain William Diuguid had a man named Giles Davidson in his company who was stationed at the Albemarle Baracks. Giles Davidson was a son of David and Mary (Giles) Davidson of Buckingham Co., VA, and Giles Davidson was later present at the surrender of Cornwallis in Yorktown, VA. After the war, Giles Davidson (married a Miss Pendleton) moved to Amherst Co., VA, where he died in the 1840s. DNA testing shows that the family of Giles Davidson was definitely not related to the family of Reverend Samuel Davidson/Davison (and we still need a male Davidson DNA donor who definitely "traces back" to Alexander Davidson).
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> The above were apparently three of the DOZEN or more UNRELATED Davidson/Davison/Davisson families that were in Virginia in the 1600s-1700s. DNA testing and "conventional research" continue to support that there were many more unrelated families with this surname in Virginia then I would have ever imagined ten years ago.
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