My interest was piqued about the Hazelwood family
recently when I came across a DNA match to a Hazelwood on Family Tree DNA. When
I did a search for all the Hazelwood matches in the database there was only one
match that was in the search results, and that was a fifth cousin. That is match,
even though it is a distance cousin that I will gladly look at. I will contact
the fifth cousin match, share information, and try to identify our most recent
common ancestor. I would like to identify the parents of Benjamin Hazelwood,
and their births and places of birth and the DNA match might help to do that.
Benjamin Hazelwood is a fourth great grandfather on my
maternal line. Mother’s mother was a Ramsey, John Scott Ramsey married Nancy Hazelwood,
daughter of Benjamin Hazelwood. I have researched Benjamin Hazelwood, and found
censuses that were of value in placing him at a certain location at a certain
time. However, Now, it is time to get out the Hazelwood research binder and
look over the information to determine if there is any relevant information for
this family. There was little
information of value that would help move this line back another generation. I
need to come up with a plan for researching the Hazelwood family.
The first thing was to make a list of what I know
about the Hazelwood family. My Hazelwood maternal line is one that I haven’t
researched for very long, and the reason is there are other family lines easier
to research. What do I know about Benjamin Hazelwood? Benjamin Hazelwood’s
daughter Nancy married John Ramsey. How do I know this? I found their marriage
in the Early American Marriages: Virginia to 1740 – 1850. Very few records for
Benjamin Hazelwood from Charlotte County, Virginia. I found censuses for
1810-1830 with Benjamin as head of house. However, as you know pre 1850
censuses only have the head of house and age categories on them. There isn’t a
probate record for Benjamin on Ancestry, so what a dilemma! What am I to do? I
know that Benjamin married Sara Cox because I found a marriage record for them
where they married in Campbell County, Virginia 20 Sep 1790.
The records I have searched are: Compiled trees on
Ancestry (I won’t use the information from them, there were no sources); census
records for the years 1810-1830. a marriage record for Benjamin and Sara; a DNA
Hazelwood History from the YDNA Hazelwood Project; a FTDNA YDNA Project list
that was on Hazelwood Familial Lineage. What records do I need to look at
next? I have had success in the past
when researching on the DAR database so I tried it again. Bingo!
William Hazelwood provided goods for the war that is
called patriotic service. On the application for William his son Benjamin was
mentioned, another son William and a daughter Catherine Hazelwood. Catherine
Hazlewood married Ezekiel Ramsey according to the DAR application. This information was on separate applications
for William Hazelwood born in Virginia and died in Charlotte County, Virginia,
3 May 1824. Now, I have names of
children and birth dates, place of birth, and death dates I can research each
of them. Armed with this information I will be researching the Hazelwood
maternal line for a while.
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