Our American Family - Person Sheet
Our American Family - Person Sheet
NameMartin TAGGART 26
Birth Dateabt 1778
Birth PlacePrince Edward County, Virginia
Spouses
Birth Date1785
Birth PlacePrince Edward County, Virginia
FatherBenjamin HURT , 144 (1746-1796)
MotherJudith FORREST , 145 (1750-1803)
Family ID2524
Marr Date19 Dec 1803
Marr PlacePrince Edward County, Virginia
Notes for Martin TAGGART
Marriage-"Marriage Bonds and Minister's Returns of Prince Edward County,VA
1754-1810" by Catherine Lindsay Knorr 1950 pg. 74
Notes for Sarah Cary (Spouse 1)
HURT: English (chiefly Nottinghamshire): variant of Hart. German: topographic name from Middle High German hurt ‘hurdle’, ‘woven fence’. Dutch: nickname, presumably for a pugnacious or aggressive person, from Middle Dutch hort, hurt ‘strike’, ‘blow’, ‘attack’. Source: Dictionary of American Family Names Oxford University Press

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(1) Marriage-"Marriage Bonds and Minister's Returns of Prince Edward County,VA 1754-1810" by Catherine Lindsay Knorr 1950 pg. 74, dau. of Benjamin Hurt deceased, Guardian was Massanello Womack, Surety was Benjamin Sheppard

(2) records from Varla Wright, Phoenix, Arizona - June 1996
1. THE EARLY HURT FAMILY IN VA, Oscar H. Hurt, 1958, FHL# 854152-4, pgs. 8, 53, 80.
2. 1790 Census of Prince Edward Co., VA
3. Marriage:1803, Prince Edward Co., VA

(3) information received from Betty Lawrence in Oct 1997.

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