The last note was examining the 1739 Orange Co., Virginia tithe list. Two successive names in the list are Robert Tanner and George Tanner. Robert is the name of the immigrant, but the name George Tanner is not to be found in the Tanner history. Probably the two are related but living in separate households. If George had been living with Robert, he would have been counted as a tithe in the Robert Tanner household without being named.
Nowhere in the list are Criglers to be found, but this is not a problem. The father of Nicholas and Christopher Crigler was Jacob Crigler, who married Susanna (Clore) Weaver, a widow. Jacob died and Susanna married Nicholas Yager. Nicholas Yager has five tithes in his household, and two of these may be his Crigler stepsons.
In another instance of name duplication (see the previous note), there are two Theobald Christlers. Both of them are south of the Robinson River, on the list prepared by James Pickett. One is given as Daywall Cristler, and the other, only seven names away, is given as Daywat Cristler. What are we to make of this pair of names? Did James Pickett make an error and list one man twice? Or were there two individuals of the same name? Until we can give a reasonably sound answer to questions like this, we do not understand the community.
In this same area, northwest of the modern town of Madison, there was a tithe, Henry Crowder, of whom we know nothing. The spelling as Crowder is what Pickett wrote, but the German name perhaps would be something like Krauter. But, spelled in any similar way, the name is not one that is in the history books. He is a complete mystery. A very remote possibility is that the name was Sauder or Sowder.
There is a mystery involving the Broyles family. Two sons of John Broyles are expected, Conrad and Jacob, and they are in the list. But another name is found, Christley. This is probably a nickname for Christian, a perfectly good German given name. Broyles researchers are now inclined to believe that Christley is another son of John Broyles, but no further information is known for him. Previously researchers had commented at length on how the names, Conrad and Christian, or their nicknames, could be merged into one set of names. It appears from the tithe list that they should be distinguished as two individuals. But one dreads the abbreviation, " nfi ", for " no further information ". In 1739, Christley was the head of a household and probably married. Did he leave any children?
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