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.
>
> 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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