The Sydnor Family
*Fortunatus
Sydnor was born Abt 1640 in England, and died Abt 1682
in Lancaster Co., VA. m. Joanna Lawson, daughter of Rowland Lawson,
Abt 1670 in Lancaster Co., VA.
Generation 1
Notes "He was probably the Fortunatus Sydnor who as a minor received a bequest of forty pounds sterling from a kinsman, Francis Sydnor of Gray's Inn, London, in 1656. This would indicate that he emigrated ca. 1660. Fortunatus Sydnor witnessed a deed in Lancaster County, Va., on December 5, 1666 and powers of attorney on May 2, 1667, and June 8, 1668. In 1672 he was authorized to prove his ownership, in the right of his wife Joanna, to cattle from the estate of her kinsman Henry Lawson. He was commissioned to stake out a road in Lancaster County, in 1676, and was church warden of Christ Church parish, Lancaster Cty, in 1678, when he was called upon to take proof respecting a charge against another parishioner "for having a bastard child borne of the Body of" a third party. He was also a commissioner in 1679. He purchased 111 acres of land in Christ Church parish from Thomas Keare (Kerr) and his wife Sarah on December 14, 1681. The inventory of Fortunatus Sydnor's estate was filed by his widow in 1683. "The names and dates of the children of Fortunatus and Joanna Sydnor, apparently the progenitors of all of the Sydnors who later spread throughout the United States, were copied by William Sydnor in an 1804 Bible from an earlier Bible. The 1804 Bible was rediscovered in Hannibal, MO in 1896 by Walter Sydnor, attorney of Ashland, VA, in the possession of Burwell Starke and published in Tyler's Magazine 282-87. The information was subsequently confirmed by Mrs. Addie L. Sydnor of Corder MO, for F. W. Sydnor, F.A.G.S., in 1926. The Bible was later destroyed in a fire" (Sydnor Thompson, "Sydnor of Virginia." Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine, Vol. XX, No. 1, Dec. 1970, pp. 2065-2094). |
Children born to Fortunatus and Joanna were:
| 1. | Ruth Sydnor, b. 11 April 1671. |
| 2. | Fortunatus Sydnor, Jr., b. 08 November 1673, Lancaster Co., VA; d. December 1722, Lancaster Co., VA. |
| 3. | Ruth Sydnor, 2D, b. 24 August 1676; d. 1735. |
| 4. | Joan Sydnor, b. 02 August 1678. |
| 5. | William Sydnor, b. 13 November 1680, Lancaster Co., VA; d. 23 January 1751/52, Lancaster Co., VA. |
| 6. | *Anthony Sydnor, b. 18 January 1682/83, Lancaster Co., VA; d. October 1759, Richmond Co., VA. |
Children of this marriage were:
| 1. | *Epaphroditus Sydnor, I, b. 12 May 1715, d.15 March 1756. m. Mary Webb (?) |
Children of this marriage were:
| 1. | *Epaphroditus Sydnor, II, b. 18 December 1742, d. 1783. m. Alice Milner |
Children of this marriage were:
| 1. | *William Sydnor, b. 5 June 1776, d. 6 October 1852. m. Susanna Barksdale b.27 July 1785 d. 29 June 1864 |
Children of this marriage were:
| 1. | *Giles Sydnor, b. 12 December 1830, d. 5 April 1906. m. Rebecca Pleasant Royster b. 21 January 1833 d. 18 March 1902 |
Children of this marriage were:
| 1. | *Clement Adkisson Sydnor, b. 1 June 1874, d.20 July 1949. m. Rochet Venable Raine |
Children of this marriage were:
| 1. | Giles Sydnor [b. 1905] m. Mildred Morris |
| 2. | *Elizabeth Caldwell Sydnor [b. 13 March 1906] m. Arthur Clair Landis Jr. |
| 3. | Clement A. Sydnor, Jr. [b. July 9, 1908 d. 9/24/1980] m. Juanita Hockman [b. 9/28/?] |
| 4. | Charles Raine Sydnor [b. July 9, 1908 d. ?] m. Louise Starke |
| 5. | Fabian Granville Sydnor[b. Dec 15, 1910 d. ?] m. Eleanor Hawkins 1st, Margaret Peters Smith, 2nd |
| 6. | Lavelon Crichton Sydnor [b. Dec. 31, 1912] m. Anna Lee Thompson |
| 7. | Ashby Kendall Sydnor [b. June 18, 1915] m. Grace Allen Pittard |
| 8. | Malcolm Royster Sydnor [b. Dec. 28, 1017 d. ?] m. Hazel Wilkerson |
| 9. | Walker Pettyjohn Sydnor [b. Oct. 19, 1919] m. Carita King |
| 10. | John Brantley Sydnor [b. Dec. 16, 1921 d. May 9, 1938]. |
| 11. | Rochet Raine Sydnor [b. Sept. 11, 1923] m. Thom Williamson Blair |
| 12. | William Michaux Sydnor [b. March 12, 1925] m. Jean Watts 1st |