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December 11, 2007

Thomas & Elizabeth Coffey Fields



Susan Caroline Connelly Berry
Susan Caroline Connelly
Thomas Fields, Esq., born c1747 in Virginia, was a son of Richard Fields and Elizabeth Murrel. He married Elizabeth Coffey, a daughter of John and Jane Graves Coffey probably in the late 1760's and probably in Virginia or North Carolina.

I have not researched The Fields family, relying more on existing published works, and especially that published by Dr. Marvin Coffey (dec'd) in his work on James Bluford Coffey in 1984.

Marvin wrote that he had found "no records indicating when or where she [Elizabeth Coffey] was born." She is known to have married Thomas Fields, brother of Sally who married Thomas Coffey. Thomas Fields' 1807 will lists Betty, his wife, and children: James Crumpton, William, Reuben, Betsy Penley, Winifred Humphrey, Polly Humphrey,and Sally Penley.

I have seen other work that lists children of Thomas and Elizabeth as: William who married Susan Morgan; Jane who married Hezekiah Compton; Reuben who married first a Lee and second, Leanah [sic]Pendley; Elizabeth who married Jonathan Pendley; Winfred who married John Hemphrey; Mary who married William Humphrey; and Sarah who married James Pen[d]ley.

Recent e-mail from Paul Hermann in Australia informed me that William Fields and Susan Morgan had a son named Morgan Fields, born c1797. According to Paul's research, Morgan married Catherine Humphreys on Jan. 5, 1819 in Wilkes Co., NC. Their daughter, Frances Elvira Austin Fields, born c1836 in Georgia, married James Connelly on Jan. 2, 1860 in New Orleans, La.

James was born c1826 in London, England. After their marriage he and Frances moved to Australia where they lived out their lives. Their daughter, Susan Caroline Connelly married John Berry in Smithfield in South Australia, near Adelaide.

The photo of Caroline is courtesy of Paul.

Please contact me with additions and/or corrections. I can also provide contact information for Paul should anyone wish to contact him about his research.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hello Jack

Just a correction.
Smithfield id about an hours drive directly west of the city of Sydney. It's not in South Australia.
Frances died at Newington Asylum near Parramatta, in 1908

Regards

Paul Hermann
Australia

Jack Coffee said...

Thanks for the correction Paul!

Unknown said...

Looking for additional on Thomas Fields/elizabeth Coffey and William Fields/ Susan Morgan. Williams granddaughter was Elizabeth Jane Naylor, my gg grandmother who was part Cherokee.

Any help would be great
Thanks
Keith Townsel

Jack Coffee said...

I no longer have an address for Paul Hermann. Our initial contact was in 2007. I have a large file on the descendants of Thomas and Elizabeth, nothing on William and Susan. If there is something specifically you require on Thomas and Elizabeth, write to me at jack.coffee@gmail. If you would like to have everything I have on them, then click on tab "The Edward Coffey Project" at top of this screen.