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.

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.

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).

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.

Bill Davidson 

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