My Scots-Irish Blackburn Ancestors
Bernard Pyron
See: https://www.houseofnames.com/blackburn-family-crest
"Further to the north in Scotland, the name was derived from "one or other of several small places so named. Willelmus de Blakeburne was witness in 1243 to the ratification of the gift of the church of Lescelyn to Lundors. Robert de Blakeburne of Berwickshire rendered homage in 1296 [to King Edward I of England]. William de Blakburne appears as Abbot of Cambuskenneth, 1394."
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Blackburn-759
"Benj. Blackburn, Date: 23 Oct 1765 Location: Augusta Co., VA Property: 79 acres. Notes: This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley. Remarks: 131. Delivered to Robert Steel, 15 Mar 1813, by order of John Wier. Description: Witness Book: 12-485 Source Information Chalkley, Lyman. Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800."
Lets look at my grandmother Virginia Blackburn's grandfather, Edward Blackburn,1773-1847.
http://joepayne.org/aol/black.htm
"Robert BLACKBURN, was born in 1742 in Winchester, Virginia. " "He also married on May 9, 1843, Sophia GRAVES."
Among the children of Robert Blackburn and Sophia Graves Blackburn is listed "Edward BLACKBURN... was born May 29, 1775 in Augusta, Va, and on Sep 29, 1803 in Davidson Co., Tennessee, married Martha KEARNEY. Edward died on May 18, 1847 in same."
In 1775 my Blackburns were living in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and moved to Davidson County, Tennessee in 1803. Edward Blackburn married Martha Kearney in Tennessee, and their children included Gideon Blackburn and John L.D. Blackburn, both of whom went to Texas.
Virginia Blackburn Pyron, 1856-1943, is the daughter of Gideon Blake Blackburn, 1817-1881, who became a citizen of the Republic of Texas between 1836 and 1846. According to http://www.lavacacountyhistory.org/biographies5.htm Gideon Blackburn,"... a native of Tennessee, Mr. Blackburn came to Texas about 1840 or '41, and located on the Mustang Creek, now in Lavaca County. "
Look at the site,https://www.ancestry.com/gen…/records/martha-carney_45865873
https://www.ancestry.com/genea…/records/naomi-knox_124659915
This site is about Martha Carney Blackburn, 1783-1871, mother of Gideon Blake Blackburn and grandmother of my Pyron grandmother, Virginia Blackburn Pyron.
On this Martha Carney site are listed Edward Blackburn, 1773-1847. husband of Martha Carney and their children, including Gideon Blake Blackburn. The dates of great-grandfather Gideon Blackburn are listed at:
https://www.findagrave.com/…/53358672/gideon-blake-blackburn as being 1817 to 1881.
The wife of Gideon Blake Blackburn and mother of Virginia Blackburn, my grandmother, is listed as Mary Ann Duffner Blackburn, 1826-1906, who was a German Catholic and a recent immigrant to this country at that time.
On the Martha Carney site, her mother is said to be Naoma Knox, but no information is given there about this Naomi Knox.
https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/knox/1013/
"Naomi Knox b.abt 1750 m. John Carney By Fred Lindeman April 22, 2000 at 02:07:36 Seeking information on ancestors of Naomi Knox b. abt 1750 NC m. John Carney abt 1770 children Elijah,Vincent,William, Martha, Lucy."
See also: https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/carney/1309/
"Martha Carney, Edward Blackburn By Lavinia Bell March 20, 2001 at 08:03:09 I am the great,great.great granddaughter of Edward Blackburn and Martha Carney, they were married September 29, 1803. Edward Blackburn(brother of Rev. Gideon Blackburn) was born May 29, 1775 in Virginia died May 18, 1847 in Maury County,Tennessee
Martha Carney born April 4, 1783 in Davidson County, Tennessee, died in Lavaca County, Texas. I believe my great, great, great grandmother parents were John Carney and Naomi Knox, and related to President James Knox Polk. I would like to hear from my cousins and anyone researching this family
Sincerely, Lavinia Bell"
That the Naomi Knox who is the mother of Martha Carney is also the sister of Jane Gracy Knox Polk born in Iredell county, N.C in 1776 is a possibility, but not clearly shown by evidence I have seen. Jane Gracy is the mother of President James Knox Polk. She married Samuel Polk in Mecklenburg county, N.C. in 1794. Her father on the site - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6659665/jane-gracy-polk - is listed as James Knox, 1752-1794, and one of their children is James Knox Polk, 1795-1849, another Scots-Irish President following Andrew Jackson.
Then, on the site, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8582171/james-knox
Only one child of Captain James Knox, born in 1752 in Mecklenburg county, N.C. is listed - Jane Gracy Knox Polk 1776-1852. The mother of Jane Gracy Knox Polk is listed here as being Jean Sinclair Gracy Knox, 1708-1772.
Yet the Naomi Knox who is the mother of Martha Carney if not the aunt of President James Knox Polk, may be connected to a Mecklenburg county, N. C. Scots-Irish family and possibly a descendant or relative of John Knox, the Scottish Protestant Reformer.
Bernard Pyron
See: https://www.houseofnames.com/blackburn-family-crest
"Further to the north in Scotland, the name was derived from "one or other of several small places so named. Willelmus de Blakeburne was witness in 1243 to the ratification of the gift of the church of Lescelyn to Lundors. Robert de Blakeburne of Berwickshire rendered homage in 1296 [to King Edward I of England]. William de Blakburne appears as Abbot of Cambuskenneth, 1394."
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Blackburn-759
"Benj. Blackburn, Date: 23 Oct 1765 Location: Augusta Co., VA Property: 79 acres. Notes: This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley. Remarks: 131. Delivered to Robert Steel, 15 Mar 1813, by order of John Wier. Description: Witness Book: 12-485 Source Information Chalkley, Lyman. Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800."
Lets look at my grandmother Virginia Blackburn's grandfather, Edward Blackburn,1773-1847.
http://joepayne.org/aol/black.htm
"Robert BLACKBURN, was born in 1742 in Winchester, Virginia. " "He also married on May 9, 1843, Sophia GRAVES."
Among the children of Robert Blackburn and Sophia Graves Blackburn is listed "Edward BLACKBURN... was born May 29, 1775 in Augusta, Va, and on Sep 29, 1803 in Davidson Co., Tennessee, married Martha KEARNEY. Edward died on May 18, 1847 in same."
In 1775 my Blackburns were living in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and moved to Davidson County, Tennessee in 1803. Edward Blackburn married Martha Kearney in Tennessee, and their children included Gideon Blackburn and John L.D. Blackburn, both of whom went to Texas.
Virginia Blackburn Pyron, 1856-1943, is the daughter of Gideon Blake Blackburn, 1817-1881, who became a citizen of the Republic of Texas between 1836 and 1846. According to http://www.lavacacountyhistory.org/biographies5.htm Gideon Blackburn,"... a native of Tennessee, Mr. Blackburn came to Texas about 1840 or '41, and located on the Mustang Creek, now in Lavaca County. "
Look at the site,https://www.ancestry.com/gen…/records/martha-carney_45865873
https://www.ancestry.com/genea…/records/naomi-knox_124659915
This site is about Martha Carney Blackburn, 1783-1871, mother of Gideon Blake Blackburn and grandmother of my Pyron grandmother, Virginia Blackburn Pyron.
On this Martha Carney site are listed Edward Blackburn, 1773-1847. husband of Martha Carney and their children, including Gideon Blake Blackburn. The dates of great-grandfather Gideon Blackburn are listed at:
https://www.findagrave.com/…/53358672/gideon-blake-blackburn as being 1817 to 1881.
The wife of Gideon Blake Blackburn and mother of Virginia Blackburn, my grandmother, is listed as Mary Ann Duffner Blackburn, 1826-1906, who was a German Catholic and a recent immigrant to this country at that time.
On the Martha Carney site, her mother is said to be Naoma Knox, but no information is given there about this Naomi Knox.
https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/knox/1013/
"Naomi Knox b.abt 1750 m. John Carney By Fred Lindeman April 22, 2000 at 02:07:36 Seeking information on ancestors of Naomi Knox b. abt 1750 NC m. John Carney abt 1770 children Elijah,Vincent,William, Martha, Lucy."
See also: https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/carney/1309/
"Martha Carney, Edward Blackburn By Lavinia Bell March 20, 2001 at 08:03:09 I am the great,great.great granddaughter of Edward Blackburn and Martha Carney, they were married September 29, 1803. Edward Blackburn(brother of Rev. Gideon Blackburn) was born May 29, 1775 in Virginia died May 18, 1847 in Maury County,Tennessee
Martha Carney born April 4, 1783 in Davidson County, Tennessee, died in Lavaca County, Texas. I believe my great, great, great grandmother parents were John Carney and Naomi Knox, and related to President James Knox Polk. I would like to hear from my cousins and anyone researching this family
Sincerely, Lavinia Bell"
That the Naomi Knox who is the mother of Martha Carney is also the sister of Jane Gracy Knox Polk born in Iredell county, N.C in 1776 is a possibility, but not clearly shown by evidence I have seen. Jane Gracy is the mother of President James Knox Polk. She married Samuel Polk in Mecklenburg county, N.C. in 1794. Her father on the site - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6659665/jane-gracy-polk - is listed as James Knox, 1752-1794, and one of their children is James Knox Polk, 1795-1849, another Scots-Irish President following Andrew Jackson.
Then, on the site, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8582171/james-knox
Only one child of Captain James Knox, born in 1752 in Mecklenburg county, N.C. is listed - Jane Gracy Knox Polk 1776-1852. The mother of Jane Gracy Knox Polk is listed here as being Jean Sinclair Gracy Knox, 1708-1772.
Yet the Naomi Knox who is the mother of Martha Carney if not the aunt of President James Knox Polk, may be connected to a Mecklenburg county, N. C. Scots-Irish family and possibly a descendant or relative of John Knox, the Scottish Protestant Reformer.
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