IMMIGRANT Cornelius Reynolds^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]}

Est 1620 - 1685  (~ 65 years)

• Name	Cornelius Reynolds
  Title	IMMIGRANT
  Born	Est 1620	England   [8]
  	Land Patent 640 A. New Kent Co., VA in 1664 See docs
  Gender	Male
  Died	1685	Rappahannock Co., Colonial Virginia
  Person ID	I18381	My Reynolds Line
  Last Modified	9 Aug 2022

  
  

  Family	Margery Carter [Cartor],   b. Est 1630, England ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	14 Feb 1647	Alphage London Wall Parish, London, England
  Children	+ 1. Susannah 'Susan' Reynolds,   b. Est 1649, Essex Co., Virginia Colony ,   d. Yes, date unknown + 2. William Reynolds,   b. Abt 1655, Richmond, Co., Virginia Colony ,   d. 22 Oct 1700, Richmond, Co., Virginia Colony  (Age ~ 45 years)
  Last Modified	17 Feb 2023
  Family ID	F6745	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents » Slide Show		Marriage Record for Cornelius Reynolds and Margery Carter in London mrcornelius reynolds-margery carter.jpg
  		Cornelius Reynolds, Immigrant doc18381CorneliusReynolds.jpg
  		John Reynolds of Essex Elizabeth Sthreshley 8213JohnReynoldsEssex.jpg
  		Will of Cornelius Reynolds cornreynolds.jpg
  		James Reynolds & Susannah "Sukie"Lindsay Link to Cornelius Reynolds linJamesReynolds&Lindsay.jpg
  		Historical Southern Families. Vol. IX Halbert of Essex Co., Virginia Reynolds and Halbert 23775&547451316 SouthernFamiliesIX-004915-212.jpg

  
  

  Histories

  Cornelius Reynolds in Virginia Colonial Abstracts No.15 p.9 Deed. 4 Jan 1716/17 11629 -18381-VAColonialAbstractsII-004803-84.jpg

  
  

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  [S48] Ancestry Link, https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/12433963/person/26896704919/facts. Cornelius Reynolds?1685 Birth England Death 1685, Rappahannock County, Virginia Spouse: Margaret "Margery" Carter Children: John Reynolds 1650?1705 Susannah "Susan" Reynolds William Reynolds ?1700 [S40] Will. From Wills of Rappahannock County, VA, 1656-1692 (p.120) REYNOLDS, CORNELIUS, in the ffreshes of Rappahannock. Wife Margery to be whole and sole Executrix of all and every parcel of my Estate and all moveables only the seat of land where I now live to be divided equally either of them a Plantation my son William to have the Choice and my son John the other halfe with one Plantacon. To grandson Goss the first mare foal with her increase. Wit. Thos. X Hope, Mary X Hope, Matt X Lafry. Written 9 November, 1685 Proved 21 December, 1685 [S181] Land Records, http://www.ancestraltrackers.net/va/resources/virginia-county-records-v9-10.pdf. Virginia County Records Quarterly Magazine Index to Land Grants Rappahannock County Book #6 (Continued from Vol. VI) Vol. IX March 1911 No.1 Book 7 Cornelius Reynolds Page 276; Date: 1683; Number Acres, 300. Glouchester County Cornelius Reynolds Page 264; Date: 1669 180 Acres Glouchester Co. James Lindsay Page 549, year 1674, 390 Acres James Reynolds page 601; 1676; 140 Acres [S100] Internet Source, http://www.familycentral.net/index/search.cfm. Cornelius Reynolds Birth: 1639, Old Rappahannock, Virginia Death: Nov 1685, Old Rappahannock, Virginia Father: Thomas Reynolds Mother: Mary Nicolson Marriage(s) Margery [Cartor] md. Abt 1660 Richmond, Virginia [in England] Children 1. William Reynolds, b. 1662 2. Susannah Reynolds b. Abt 1665 3. John Reynolds b. Abt 1667 [These dates are incorrect; marriage record 1647,(date) gives indication of ages of children. [S73] Deeds. Cornelius Reynolds Patent Book No. 5 New Kent County, Virginia 6 Jun 1664 [S40] Will, https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/2031152:62347?tid=&pid=&queryId=e3a640e6efaf1573a92a0cf4393f8cd9&_phsrc=iUQ5563&_phstart=successSource. Name Cornelius Reynolds Probate Date 29 Sep 1684 Probate Place Essex, Rappahannock, Virginia, USA Inferred Death Year 1684 Inferred Death Place Virginia, USA Item Description Deed Book, Vol 6, 1677-1687 Others Listed 1 [S112] Virginia Colonial Abstracts, https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/48430/images/VAColonialAbstractsII-004803-84?pId=341195. See Docs Virginia Colonial Abstracts, Vol. II Essex County, Wills and Deeds [S274] TILLMAN , Stephen Frederick Tillman. TILLMAN gives the parents of Cornelius Reynolds as WILLIAM REYNOLDS and wife, Mary #114 NO EVIDENCE FOR WILLIAM AND MARY REYNOLDS IS FOUND. [S46] Marriage Record/Certificate, dhttps://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/tree/12433963/person/26896802259/media/ca722f6e-4923-488f-93a6-94984462bc78. Marriage 1647 Margery Cartor and Cornolius Reynolds 14 Feb [S10] R.W. Ryan. Reynolds Select Reynolds Surname Genealogy The name Reynolds was a Norman import to England, from Reginald or in Old French Reinold. The earlier root is the Old Norse Rognvaldr, comprised of the elements ragin meaning "counsel" and wald meaning "rule." Reynold was a Viking leader who harried the English and Irish shores in the 10th century. Name variants have included Reynold and Reynell. The Irish MacRaghnaill derives from the Gaelic of Randal or Reginald. This name became anglicized to Reynolds. Select Reynolds Resources on The Internet Reynolds Family History in Essex Reynolds Essex genealogy. Reynolds Family Association. Reynolds arrivals in America. Reynolds Family Circle. Reynolds family genealogy. Reynolds Irish Reynolds history. R.J. Reynolds. R.J. Reynolds family tree. Reynolds Family Beginnings. John Reynolds in New Brunswick. Select Reynolds Ancestry England. The Reynolds name first appeared in Somerset where they were granted lands after the Norman Conquest in 1066. William filius Raunaldi is recorded in the Domesday Book. SW England. A Reynell family originally from Cambridgeshire transplanted themselves to Devon in the 14th century where they were substantial landowners. They were described as "men of great credit, fidelity, and service to their kings, country and state in peace and in war." Both the Reynell and Reynolds names were to be found in Devon. A Reynolds family in Plympton produced the great 18th century portrait painter Sir Joshua Reynolds. The naval Reynolds came from Cornwall. They made their home in the late 18th century at Penair near Truro. And the Reynolds name was also prominent in tin mining at St. Agnes, starting possibly with William Reynolds who was born there in the 1680?s. Owen Reynolds, a yeoman farmer from Melcombe in Dorset, was five times its mayor in the 1550?s. His nephew Edward benefited from the patronage of the Earl of Essex and died in 1623 in London a rich man. Kent. A Reynolds line dating back to the 16th century in East Bergholt in Kent included descendants who were among the early immigrants to America. From a later naval family came George Reynolds who got himself involved in the Chartist movement in the 1840's. He founded a radical newspaper, Reynolds's Weekly Newspaper, which became popular. The paper continued in a different guise as Reynolds News until 1967. East Anglia. The birth of Thomas Reynolds was recorded at Great Chesterford in northern Essex in 1569. He appeared in court in 1598 after a brawl with a neighbor. One family history dates back to the marriage of James Reynolds and Susannah Wood at Little Bardfield in 1711. In the churchyard of the nearby village of Great Sampford there are a number of Reynolds gravestones of the late 18th and 19th centuries. Just across the border into Cambridgeshire were the Reynolds of Castle Camps and the Reynolds of Leverington: Sir James Reynolds, a Cromwellian general, had taken a lease on the Castle Camps estate as a safe retreat for his family during the Civil War. His grandson Sir James was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1727. While Richard Reynolds was rector of Leverington near Wisbech in the 1670?s. His son Richard, born there, became the Bishop of Lincoln. He acquired Paxton Hall in Huntingdonshire in 1730 where the family remained for several generations. Lancashire. There was a Reynolds family in Lancashire which inherited the Strangeways estate near Manchester in 1711. Francis Reynolds from this family distinguished himself in naval actions in the West Indies and later took over the family estates at Tortworth in Gloucestershire (his home there is now a country house hotel). Lancashire received an influx of Irish Reynolds in the 19th century. Mary Reynolds from Mohill in county Leitrim settled her young family in Manchester after the death of her husband during the famine years. Her letters recently published, The Reynolds Letters: An Irish Emigrant Family in Late Victorian Manchester, present a story of Irish immigrants making good in industrial England at that time. Ireland. The Reynolds name came to Ireland at the time of Strongbow in the 1200's. These English invaders took the titles of Earls of Cavan, Lisburne and Mountmorris. A later English invasion in the 17th century gave rise to the Reynells from Devon of Reynell castle. However, the largest numbers of Reynolds have been home-grown. From early times the lands around Lough Rynn in county Leitrim were owned and settled by the MacRaghnaill clan. Sean na gCeann or John of the Heads, so called for beheading his rebellious clansmen, was their chief in the late 1500's. The next century saw the English taking over Leitrim and the Irish, including the McRaghnaills, being gradually pushed out. A second exodus occurred at the time of the potato famine. Even so, nearly half of the Reynolds in Ireland today come from Leitrim. The Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds was born in nearby Roscommon. Portugal. A Reynolds family from Kent has been in Portugal since 1820, first as cork importers and then as wine producers. America. The English Reynolds in America came first. Early Reynolds settlers in New England were Robert and Mary Reynolds and their four children who got there in 1630. Christopher Reynolds from Gravesend in Kent arrived in Virginia in 1622 on the Francis and John. Their family line is documented in Stephen Tilman's 1959 book, The Rennolds-Reynolds of Virginia and England. [Beware of this reference-mfe] Members of this family were subsequently involved in the freighting business in upstate New York. They later moved west: P.G. Reynolds became a mail contractor and stage operator in Dodge City for the trails heading south to the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles. His brother Milton, who adopted the writing name of Kicking Bird, covered Indian council meetings as a roving reporter and became an advocate for Western settlement. another Milton Reynolds, but of German origin, introduced the first ballpoint pen to an unsuspecting public in 1945. Abraham Reynolds was a poor tobacco farmer in Virginia in the early 1800's. His son Hardin started a plantation at Rock Spring in Patrick county. Hardin's son RJ, the second of sixteen children born there, embarked on a plan to build his own tobacco factory at Winston Salem. It was he who developed the huge tobacco empire that is RJ Reynolds. Irish. Irish Reynolds also came to America. John Reynolds arrived in Virginia in the 1770's. His descendants moved onto Kentucky and Missouri. Robert and Margaret Reynolds from Louth reached Tennessee in 1784 and then continued to Illinois. Their son John rose to be the fourth governor of that state. Nineteenth century arrivals were more numerous. And many Reynolds went to Canada at that time as well. Canada. Early arrivals had been Empire Loyalists, such as William Reynolds, leaving America after the Revolutionary War. William had been a coronet in the British army and led a group of Loyalists out of New York in 1796. He and his family ended up in Dorchester (near London), Ontario. Bernard and Mary Reynolds came in the late 1830's from county Leitrim and settled in Renfrew county, Ontario. Other Reynolds followed, from both England and Ireland, as the 19th century proceeded. South Africa. In 1850 two Devon farmers, Thomas and Lewis Reynolds, set off on the Justina for South Africa to seek their fortunes (their uncle Charles had previously emigrated to Australia). The brothers' business took them to sugar refining in Natal. But it was the next generation - Frank and Charles Reynolds - who are generally considered as the founders of South Africa's sugar industry. Frank built the family home of Lynton Hall at Pennington on the south coast. It now operates as a luxury hotel. Australia. Two brothers, Richard and Edward Reynolds, were convicted of petty theft in Chelmsford and were transported to Australia in 1791. They were educated and literate and Edward kept a diary of the hardships of the journey. The brothers later surfaced in Hawkesbury, NSW. Richard petitioned for a land grant: "The petitioner arrived in this colony on the Atlantic in 1791, has been free about 28 years, has endured all the hardships to which and infant colony could subject him, and has reared a family of ten children to the habits of industry." His petition was successful. He died in Wilberforce in 1837 and left a large number of descendants. John Reynell from Devon was an early settler in South Australia. He came in 1838 and started the first commercial vineyard in the colony. Meanwhile Thomas and Mary Reynolds arrived in Western Australia from Oxfordshire in 1842. Their descendants are still to be found there. Charles Reynolds from Devon came to Tocal in the Hunter valley in 1844 and worked there until his death in 1871. In his time he was recognized an an expert on horse and cattle breeding in New South Wales. [S160] Correspondence. Proposed Change: Cornelius Reynolds (I18381) jim farmer jims-email@hotmail.com via p3plmcpnl484769.prod.phx3.secureserver.net to me Proposed Change: Cornelius Reynolds (I18381) Link: https://reynoldspatova.org//getperson.php?personID=I18381&tree=reynolds1 Description: Can I share with you my research about Cornelius' life? I don't have a specific record stating a connection between him and his father and brother, but by following their trail of land patents, I feel certain they are related. Here is what I have based this on: - William Reynolds, the father of Cornelius, first arrived c1637 as a headright of Bell and Lawson. [C&P Vol I, p 58.] He acquired his own patent the same year NE of Queens Ck in Charles River Co, (i.e., in York Co.) [C&P Vol I, p 64.] and later owned land at least by 1648 across the York River at Capt. West's Creek and the Chiskyake. He was still there in 1652 [C&P Vol I, pp 180, 243.] - His son William Reynolds came a year later in 1653 and in the same year patented 92 acres up the York River on the headwaters of the Mattaponi River. [C&P Vol I, pp 284, 235.] By 1657 he had patented 650 acres on the Potomac in Northumberland. A year later, sometime before 6 Oct 1658, he brought his family to Virginia. [C&P Vol I, pp 343, 380-281.] - Cornelius Reynolds, also a son of the elder William, came with his family and used their combined headrights to patent 640 acres on the 6th of June 1664. His wife Margaret whom he married in London in 1647 is listed in the patent along with sons William and Cornelius, daughters Ann and Susan (or Susanna). Margaret and son William were also listed later in his will. The land he patented was up the York River on the Mattaponi River near to his brother William's original patent. [C&P Vol I, p 515.], Five years later, in 1669, Cornelius patented land in Gloucester County. [C&P Vol II, p 67.] Another patent shows he assigned the Mattaponi property to his son-in-law Thomas Mead (sic, s/b Meador) who married his daughter Susan. [C&P Vol II, p 168.] Lastly, he patented 300 acres of land in Rappahannock County 16 Apr 1683 before writing his will a year later in 1684. [C&P Vol II, p 259.] It was probated in Rappahannock Co. 4 Nov 1685, marking his death to be about that time. Cornelius and Margaret had a number of other children before coming to Virgina. Some are listed in the All Hallows, Barking by the Tower Parish book: Cornelius 28 Aug 1655, Elizabeth 24 Feb 1659 and Mary 19 Oct 1662. [see London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812, Ancestry.com.] I am actually descended from both brothers, one through my Dad and the other through Mom, so I am just now putting this together. Hope this helps your own research. jim farmer jims-email@hotmail.com