BEF 1649 - Lancaster, VA
BEF 9 MAR 1687 - Lancaster, VA

Johanna Lawson

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Johanna Lawson was born in Lancaster, Virginia before 1649 to Rowland Lawson and Lettice. Her parents were some of the earliest immigrants to Lancaster County and her father one of the first justices.

Johanna married first to Lancelot Sockwell about 1665, but he died soon after. Johanna married next to Fortunatus Sydnor, an immigrant from Kent, England. Fortunatus and Johanna had at least six children. The names and birth-dates of Fortunatus' children were taken from a family Bible dated 1804 belonging to William Sydnor and had been transcribed from an earlier family Bible. In 1896 the Bible was in the possession of Burwell Starke of Hannibal Missouri, and the information was published in Tyler's Quarterly, later the Bible was destroyed in a fire. According to a 1970 article by Sydnor Thompson, Fortunatus and Johanna are responsible for the all of the Sydnors in America.

The couple was on the County tithable list in 1674 with two tithables. In 1678 Fortunatus was made a churchwarden for Christ Church Parish. In 1681 he purchased 111 acres from Thomas Keare. Fortunatus died without a will. The inventory of his estate was ordered on September 25th, 1683 and returned on March 15th, 1684 by Johanna.

Johanna married for a third time to William Lawrence of Middlesex County in December of 1683. Johanna died before March 9th, 1687 when Lawrence remarried.

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Sources:

  • Lancaster County Wills Book 5. Pg. 93.
  • Thompson, Sydnor "Sydnor of Virginia" Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine. 20.1 (1970). Print.
  • Thompson, Sydnor. The Sydnor Family Saga: The English Forebears and American Descendants of Fortunatus Sydnor (ca. 1640-Ca. 1682), the Immigrant. Charlotte, N.C: S. Thompson, Jr, 2000. Print.
  • Jett, Carolyn H, Harriett Cowen, Roger Mudd, and Dennis Montgomery. Lancaster County, Virginia: Where the River Meets the Bay. Lancaster, Va: Lancaster County History Book Committee in association with the Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library, 2003. Print.
  • Brent, Chester Horton, 1892-. The Descendants of Hugh Brent, Immigrant to Isle of Wight County, Virginia, 1642, And Some Allied Families, Curd, Doggett, Edmonds, Fleet, Lawson, Nutt & Wale: Also Lineages of Bethethland, Bernard, Bunting, Hathaway, Nevil, Newton, Savage & Vaughan Families And Notes From Some Diaries <1793-1909> of the Piedmont Section of Virginia. [Rutland, Vt.: The Tuttle Pub. Co., Inc., 1936. Print. Pg. 233.

Parents:

Spouse & Children:

  • Fortunatus Sydnor
    • 1637-1683

  • Anthony Sydnor
    • 1683-1759
  • Ruth Sydnor
    • 1671-1676
  • Fortunatus Sydnor
    • 1673-1723
  • Ruth Sydnor
    • 1676-1736
  • Joan Sydnor
    • 1678-1717
  • William Sydnor
    • 1680-

Siblings:

  • Epaphroditus Lawson
    • 1641-
  • Rowland Lawson
    • 1642-1706
  • John Lawson
    • 1643-1690
  • Joshua Lawson
    • 1646-1717
  • Richard Lawson
    • 1649-1673
  • Henry Lawson
    • 1650-1705
  • Elizabeth Lawson
    • 1656-1718

Last Updated: 10/19/2020