MACKY, Catharine

Other Events and Attributes:

• Cause of Death: Post childbirth complications

Notes:

From Frederica Trapnell:

The third daughter of John Macky and Rebecca McGuire was born on October 20, 1822, and was named Catharine. She, too, was listed as a communicant of Christ Church, Winchester, on October 15, 1842, and as living in the “Country.”  She, also, was subsequently marked “Removed.”

Catharine married TIDBALL, A. Scott on 14 Dec 1843. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Frederica Trapnell research:

On December 14, 1843, two days after her first cousin Mary Mackey Baldwin married Joseph Tidball, Catharine Macky married A. Scott Tidball, nephew and namesake of her Aunt Millicent’s husband and a son of Thomas Allen Tidball and Susan Watkins Hill Tidball. (Thomas Allen Tidball was Clerk of the Frederick County Court for years.)

1. TIDBALL, Thomas Allen was born on 3 Mar 1847 in “Hawthorne” near Winchester, Fairfax County, VA USA; died on 28 Mar 1925 in Sewanee, TN USA; was buried in 1925 in Mount Custis, VA USA.
2. TIDBALL, Nannie was born in 1845 in “Hawthorne” near Winchester, Fairfax County, VA USA.
3. TIDBALL, John Macky was born in Jul 1849; was christened on 18 Jul 1849; died on 4 Aug 1849.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: Lieutenant in War of 1812
• Military: 1813 - 1814, Virginia, USA
• Possessions: 5 Sep 1818, Winchester, Frederick County, VA, USA

Notes:

Military:
He entered the service on the 29th of March, 1813, when he was 19 years old, and continued in active service until he resigned his commission a year later

Possessions:
On September 5, 1818, John Macky bought from John McDonald and wife Letitia, of Allegheny County, Maryland, for $200. a 50-acre parcel of land in Frederick County

Died:
A granddaughter wrote in January 1891 that her grandfather, John Macky, died in the “original Glen Gary house

Buried:
As of 1891: “Buried in Winchester in the garden (“Glen Gary”) of his mother and his remains are still there. “

John married MCGUIRE, Rebecca Holmes on 25 May 1815 in Winchster, Frederick, VA USA. Rebecca (daughter of MCGUIRE, Edward and HOLMES, Elizabeth) was born in 1798 in Frederick Co, VA; died on 4 Jul 1879 in Charles Town, WV; was buried in 1879 in Zion Church Yard, Charles Town, WV (Lot 81N). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Arrival: Abt 1844, Charles Town, Jefferson, West Virginia, USA

Notes:

From Frederica Trapnell notes:

Her great-granddaughter, Mary Meade Ewart, said that she remembered one of the Riddles of Charles Town telling her that she and her sister as little girls like to go with their mother to call on Grandma Macky.  She had such a charming home and always had cookies to give them, – “evidently they were seen and not fed when they went other places.”   Mrs Tucker (another great-granddaughter) wrote that during the War (Civil), “Charlestown was overrun with the ‘damnyankees.’ My mother (Nannie Tidball) said that many a night they would bang on their doors and demand they get up and make pancakes. They would have to grease the whole top of the stove to make enough pancakes to satisfy them. Did you ever hear the tale that a bullet came crashing through the window and took the top off Grandma Macky’s cap?” No, and Mrs. Tucker died before she could relate it for inclusion here.

What the sources were of Rebecca Macky’s income is not known, but they could not have been great.  On February 10th, 1855, when she was fifty-seven, she first applied for a pension in consequence of her late husband’s service in the War of 1819, under the Act of Congress passed in September 1850, she deposing that her husband had not during his life time received any bounty lands nor had she.  On July 13, 1878, the Hon Andrew Hunter, aged 74, and N. S. White, 60 years of age, appeared before B. C. Washington, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, West Virginia, to apply for a pension for Mrs. Rebecca Holmes Macky under a Law of Congress passed in March 1878. N. S. White, her son-in-law, swore that of his personal knowledge Mrs. Macky applied for and obtained a Land Warrant for 160 acres of land under the 1850 Law and that she sold the land for a dollar an acre.  One of the papers in this latter claim ends with the statement, “She has been known by general reputation and by her intimate friends as the widow of said John Macky and is and has ever been a lady of the highest respectability.”  The file does not show what disposition was made of this claim.  She was eighty years old and died before its probable conclusion.

On the 15th of April, 1852, “...Rebecca H. Mackey of Charlestown, Jefferson County, Virginia, for motives of benevolence and in consideration of the long fidelity of servant Thomas, commonly called Thoms Hataway, have manumitted and set free from slavery,...my negroe man Thomas Hataway and I hereby give, grant and return unto said Thomas all my right, title and claim of, in and to his person, labor and services and of, in and to all the estate and property to which he may now have or may hereafter acquire.” (Jeff. Co. Deed Bkl, 32, p272).  

Birth:
Rebecca McGuire was born at “Grove Farm,” the home of her maternal grandfather, Joseph Holmes

Arrival:
Sometime in 1844, Rebecca Macky moved to Charles Town, West Virginia, following the marriage of her daughter Frederica whose husband, Nathan Smith White, was practicing law there.

Notes:

From Frederica Trapnell research:

Rebecca Holmes McGuire was a redheaded, seventeen year old Irish lass when she married John Macky.

Married:
They were married in Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia, by Dr. Alexander Balmain, “clergyman of the P. E. Church,” on the 25th of May, 1815, and that neither of them had been married before

Notes:

From Frederica Holmes Trapnell history of John Macky:

Dr. Robert Macky had been a surgeon in the Revolutionary  War. (Va. Mag. of Hist. &  Biog., v. II, No. 3, Jan. 1895,  p. 255). The Virginia Magazine of History & Biography (v. 34,  p. 360) says that Dr. Robert Macky of Winchester was one of'  the executors of Thomas Bryan Martin, a nephew and heir of'  Thomas, Lord Fairfax.  According to the Journal of Dr. Alexander Balmain, rector of the Episcopal Church in Winchester  from 1781 to 1821, Dr. Macky was a contributing member (2  per annum) of his congregation 1n the years 1783, 1784, 1785  and 1804. These are the only years for which he gives such  information.  A portrait, reputed to be that or Dr. Robert Macky, was owned by William McDonald Neill, probably a descendant or Dr. Macky’s granddaughter Catherine S. Baldwin,  who married Simund C. Neill on July 11, 1850 (Register, Frederick Parish, Oct. 1825-1842).

Robert married SNICKERS, Catharine before 1782 in Frederick Co, VA. Catharine (daughter of SNICKERS, Edward and TALIAFERRO, Elizabeth) was born on 20 Aug 1757 in Frederick Co., VA; died in Jan 1832 in Frederick Co, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Merchant
• Religion: Episcopalian

Notes:

From Frederica Holmes Trapnell 1968 biography of John Macky

The second Edward McGuire “was born in Winchester in July 1767. He was bred to the business of a merchant, entering first the store of Col. Dowdell in Winchester with whom he remained several years.   After attaining the age of 20, he began business for himself at Battletown, now Berryville, and was so successful as to be able to also to open stores at Winchester and in North Carolina.  Desiring to retire, he sold his three stores for 8000 Virginia currency, but fraudulent behavior on the part of the purchaser prevented him from receiving any of the purchase money for a long time and brought him to acute financial embarrassment.  In 1805, he commenced keeping the large hotel in Winchester (which had been built by his father and previously rented to various innkeepers), made a very comfortable fortune, paid all his debts and supported and liberally educated his children.

“He was a quiet man, apparently stern to those who did not know him well; but in reality sociable and hospitable, and generous and charitable to the needy.  His son said, in his own old age, that his father was the most strictly truthful man he had ever known.” (Stanard, p. 32-33.)

He died on November 23 at his home in “Woodville,” near Berryville.  Standard and the Frederick Parish Register, 1825-42, both say he died in 1827, but his will was dated the 12th of November, 1828, and was proved on December first of that year.  It provided for payment of his debts and then his estate was to be divided equally among all his children, except that over and above their equal share, his daughter Rebecca Macky was to have $500., his son Edward D. McGuire, a Negro boy named Bill; his son John Samuel McGuire, $500. Towards completion of his education.  His son Hugh H. McGuire and his son-in-law Alexander S. Tidball (a lawyer and the husband of his daughter Millicent) were the executors. (Fred. Co. WIll Bk. 15, p. 19.)


From Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography:

Edward (2) McGuire, son of Edward (1) McGuire, the immigrant, and Elizabeth (Wheeler) McGuire, was born in 1768, at or near Winchester, Frederick county, Virginia. He always lived in Winchester; was a merchant and had stores in Alexandria and Norfolk, Virginia; and in Wilmington, North Carolina. Also owned large farms in Frederick county and elsewhere in Virginia. In politics he was a Federalist, and was a member of the Episcopal church. He married Elizabeth Holmes, of Winchester, Virginia. They had issue, namely: Rebecca, Milicent, Hugh Holmes, Edward D., William David, of whom more hereafter; David Holmes, John.

Died:
Standard and the Frederick Parish Register, 1825-42, both say he died in 1827, but his will was dated the 12th of November, 1828, and was proved on December first of that year.

Edward married HOLMES, Elizabeth on 10 Mar 1796 in Frederick Co, VA. Elizabeth (daughter of HOLMES, Col Joseph and HUNTER, Rebecca) was born on 24 May 1777 in Frederick Co, VA; died on 28 Mar 1828. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Betsy

Notes:

From Frederica Holmes Trapnell research notes:

Edward Snicker, "being sick, weak of Body but in perfect sense and memory,” made his last will  on the 18th of June, 1790, before witnesses Daniel Morgan,  Sigismund Stribling and Matthew Wright (Fred. Co. Will Bk., No. 5, p. 296). He left to his only son, William Snickers,  "the tract of land on which he now lives known by the the name of Clermont containing 413 acres," land in Loudoun County and  a tract of land "held under lease from Lord Farefax (sic) to  Lord Dunmore lying nere (sic) the Warmsprings in Berkeley County held by me in consideration or a sum of Money lent  Lord Dunmore… also Sundrey Negrows…”  To his daughter  Sarah Alexander, he left “the tract of Land on Which I now live containing 411 acres known by the name of Springfield,  Also Sundrey Negrows.” To h1s daughter Catharine Mackie (isc), he devised "the tract of Land Whereon John Obanion now lives which I purchased of Martin Ashby…” and to his daughter  Elizabeth Stribling, "the tract of Land whereon She now lives  known by the name of No. 1..also Sundry Negrows.” To his  granddaughter "Polly' Mackie", be gave a Negro girl named Kitty, and to his  grandson Edward Mackie, a Negro boy named Sam.  (This grandson Edward, child of his daughter Catharine must have died young for this is the only reference to him that  has been found.) The sheep on his Springfield plantation were to be divided equally' between his three daughters, Sarah Alexander, Catherine Mackie and Elizabeth Strlbling.  William  Snickers, Sarah Alexander, Doctor Robert Mackie, Thomas Stribling and General Daniel Morgan were named executors. When the  will was probated on January 4, 1791, Daniel Morgan refused to  “take upon himself the burden of the execution thereof.”

Edward married TALIAFERRO, Elizabeth in 1755. Elizabeth (daughter of TALIAFERRO, Francis) was born in 1730 in Gloucester, Virginia, USA; died in Frederick Co., VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Catholic
• Arrival: Bef 1747, Frederick County, VA, USA

Notes:

From Encyclopedia of Virginia:

Edward McGuire, son of Constantine and Julia (McElligott) McGuire, was born about 1720, in county Kerry, Ireland. He was offered a commission in the Austrian army by his uncle, John Sigismund McGuire, and left home with the intention of entering that service, but was taken ill with the plague in Lisbon, where he met Bishop Carroll, of Maryland, who persuaded him to come to America. He was in Frederick county, Virginia, before 1747, the date of his first land grant, and was active in the Indian wars, and held a commission in the Fredericksburg line in 1775. He died near Winchester, Virginia, in 1806, and was buried under the old Catholic church in Winchester, which he built and gave to that denomination. He married Elizabeth Wheeler of Prince George county, Maryland, and left surviving issue.

Arrival:
He met Bishop Carroll, of Maryland, who persuaded him to come to America. He was in Frederick county, Virginia, before 1747, the date of his first land grant

Died:
His will was dated July 19, 1806, and was proved on the first of December of that year.

Buried:
In 1806, he died in Winchester and was buried under the chancel of the old Catholic church.

Edward married WHEELER, Susannah. Susannah was born on 2 Jan 1734/35 in Prince George Co., MD; died before 1774. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Deputy-Commissioner General of Prisoners
• Census: 1782, Frederick Co, VA

Notes:

From Frederica Trapnell notes on John Macky from 1968:

There is little authenticated information about Joseph Holmes prior to his coming to Winchester, Virginia.  He is reputed to have been born at Ballykelly, Northern Ireland, on August 22, 1746. (Ballykelly is East of Londonderry on the road to Limavaddy and close to Lough Foyle.) His father, Hugh Holmes, is said to have owned an estate of 400 acres there. Many of the books about Winchester in its early days mention Joseph Holmes.  Cartmell, Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants, list the Vestrymen of Frederick Paris in 1764, among them being Edward Snickers and Joseph Holmes (p. 181) and refers to the latter as “the Deputy-Commissioner General of Prisoners,” (p. 271). “The November Court 1784, Joseph Holmes produced his commission as Lieutenant Colonel and at the May Court 1785 was sworn as Sheriff,” (p. 90). “Upon the petition of Joseph Holmes, Gent. and others, merchants in the Borough of Winchester, that they may have a portion of public ground assigned them for the purpose of building a Tobacca Warehouse, ordered that…Robert Mackey…be appointed to lay off on the public lot adjoining Water Street, 100 feet square for the purpose aforesaid, and that said land is vested in Joseph Holmes…Trustees for the purpose aforesaid…” (p. 140). Water Street is now called Boscawen Street.  It got its original name because the Town Run frequently overflowed it and made it impassable (The Streets of Winchester, Garland R. Quarles, p. 18).

Birth:
He is reputed to have been born at Ballykelly, Northern Ireland, on August 22, 1746. (Ballykelly is East of Londonderry on the road to Limavaddy and close to Lough Foyle.)

Joseph married HUNTER, Rebecca in 1767 in Frederick Co, VA. Rebecca (daughter of HUNTER, David and MCILHENNY, Martha) was born on 8 Nov 1749 in York, PA; died about Oct 1806 in Frederick County, VA, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Frederica Trapnell research notes:

Rebecca… was born in York County, Pennsylvania, on November 8, 1748. She married Joseph Holmes in 1767. In her will dated September 10, 1806, and proved October 6, 1806, she left a feather bed and bedding to each of her daughters, Elizabeth McGuire and Rebecca Contrad.  To another daughter, Gertrude Holmes, she left the remainder of her beds and bedding and one “filley known by the name of Venus.” To each of her sons, Joseph Holmes and Andrew Hunter Holmes, she left a two-year old colt.  All the rest of her property was to be sold and the receipts divided equally between her daughters, Elizabeth McGuire, Rebecca Contrad and Gertrude Holmes, and her sons, Joseph and Andrew Hunter Holmes. Her executors were Archibald Magill and Thomas Faucett.  Martin Cartmell and David Holmes gave bond in the amount of $10,000. Her daughter Margaret Holmes Legrand had died, and no mention was made of her son Judge Hugh Holmes nor of her daughter Nancy Holmes Boyd. (Fred. Co. WIll Bk. 8, p. 254-244, 1806).