Dorothy Strother

Family

Dorothy, named as the wife of William STROTHER in his 1702 probated will in Richmond county, Virginia.
1702 Probate of 30 December 1700 will of William STROTHER of Richmond County, Virginia

"Abstracts from Records of Richmond County, Virginia. Will Book 2" Published in William and Mary College. Quarterly Historical Magazine Volume XVII October 1908 No. 2 Page 82.

"STROTHER, William, Sen.

• [1] Eldest son, William STROTHER; sons
• [2] James,
• [3]Robert
• (4[ Benjamin
• [5] Joseph
• grandson, William STROTHER.

Son Joseph to be put to school and kept there for one year and a half and be free at the end of his own disposing at 16;

wife Dorothy [SAVAGE] Strother .

My sons, James, Jeremy, Robert, Benjamin and Joseph.

Wife Dorothy and son James, Executors.

Brackets added by contributor. Also, son "Jeremy" does not appear in the first listing by his father; but does appear when Willaim STROTHER named all his sons at the end of the Will

Some Prominent Virginia Families, Volume 4By Louise Pecquet du Bellet, Edward Jaquelin, Martha Cary Jaqueli

William Strother1, the pioneer of the family in America, came to Virginia in 1650, and settled in Citterboone, or Cotterborne Parish, near the present Port Conway, King George Co. He was a man of great prominence in the community, and married Dorothy Savage. William Strother1 died 1702. Will probated, Nov. 4, 1702.
"From this ancient family the Strothers of Virginia claim descent through William Strother,1 who came from Northumberland County, England, to America, and settled on the Rappahannock River, in Virginia, prior to 1673. Iiis will is dated 1700, his death occurred about 1702. His wife was Dorothy Savage. To them were born six children."

Dau. of his neighbor, Capt. Anthony Savage and Sarah Constable. (?)

Notes

From https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/193567/I4241/anthony-savage/individual

Note: Esq., Justice of Gloucester Co, VA, and High Sheriff in1660. OnNovember 20, 1678, Anthony Savage, of the upper precinctof Sittinburneparish, conveyed to Francis Thornton and AliceSavage Thornton, his wife,300 acres to be divided from the tracthe then lived on of 1,000 acres,called Mongoheocala withdivision to granddaughter, Margaret Thornton,who afterwardmarried Wm. Strother, Jr., son of the first William andhis wifeDorothy. In 1727, William Strother, Jr., and his wife,MargaretThornton, conveyed this land to their son, WilliamStrother, of"Stafford," (who married Margaret Watts) (Register,KY Hist Soc, May1911).probate by his son-in-law, Francis Thornton, exec; will missing.

Disputed Origins

From https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/strother/1629/

Although many family trees claim that the immigrant William Strother's wife was Dorothy Savage, there is NO proof of her maiden name. William and Dorothy Strother were probably married in England or Scotland before arriving in the Colony of Virginia probably between 1669 and 1673. However, there is a Savage connection when their son, William Strother, who died in 1726 in King George County, VA, married Margaret Thornton, the daughter of Francis Thornton and Alice Savage. Alice was the daughter of Anthony Savage, who resided in Virginia.I understand that William Strother's (II) will in 1726 listed his children as William, Francis, Anthony, Benjamin, Margaret, and George.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Savage-920

Dorothy's maiden name and origin are uncertain. According to the William Strother Society (about 10 years ago), we clearly do not have any evidence for her maiden name. According to the 1903 Register of Kentucky State Historical Society article, William's wife is known only as "Dorothy."

Possibly the earliest source of "Savage" as her maiden name may have been The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy ... by Virkus, but even there it is followed by "(?)."

Interestingly, the summary of the "Strother Family Genealogical Papers," at the Atlanta History Center, reports that William married "Dorothy Savage," (no parents stated).

Comments

from Re: Edward I Unbroken Female Descent to Staffords of Eyam post by Brad Verity 2005

"The latter website (On the Bradshaws and Staffords of Eyam with a Notice of the Old Hall by Peter Furness, Esq. This article was published originally in The Reliquary, Vol. 2, 1861-2; pp219-226. This transcription by Paul Bradford © 2001) seems especially well-researched. It debunks the theory that Alice Stafford, purported wife of gateway ancestor Capt. Anthony Savage (d. 1695), of Virginia (and mother of his dau Dorothy Savage, wife of William Strother), was dau of Humphrey Stafford of Eyam and Lucy Eyre of Holm Hall."
"I was excited thinking for a moment that Virginia-born Dorothy Savage was a direct female-line descendant of Edward I, but it just ain't the case."

Links

• Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775 AncestryImage
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=monkeys&i...
• http://www.strothers.com/strother_genealogy.htm
• http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/montgomery/bios/strother.txt
• http://virginiaplantation.wordpress.com/2012/06/19/back-to-the-begi...
• http://genforum.genealogy.com/stafford/messages/4985.html