The Widney / Udny Family of Scotland and Ireland

Copyright 2014, 2020
Loretta Lynn Layman, Author of "Barony of Lynn", The Scottish Genealogist,
Vol. LVII No. 1, The Scottish Genealogy Society, Edinburgh (March 2010)
Lynneage @ comcast . net

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Origins

Generation 1

Generation 2

Generation 3

Generation 4

Generation 5

Generation 6

Generation 7b

Note: The lineage from Generation 1 to Generation 4 is believed but not absolutely proven to be a direct lineage, but they are doubtless of the same family.  Generations 4-5 are proven by original documentation of the period to be a direct paternal relationship.  Generations 5-7 almost certainly represent a direct lineage given that the man in Generation 7 sold the property owned and passed down by Generation 4.

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Generation 7a

James Widney of Killymurry, IRELAND
and Concord, Pennsylvania

JAMES WIDNEY, son of John Widney and Mary (Wilson) Widney, was born in 1753 in Killymurry, County Monaghan, Ireland and died in 1835 in Concord, Franklin County, Pennsylvania.  He married Ann Erwin in 1775 and had one child before leaving Ireland for America.  James "was a man of action, quick to think as well as act, and he resolved to surrender the comforts of an established home, and erect another hearthstone among the wilds of America."1/

                             

Thus, in 1784, James Widney sold his lease for Killymurry, County Monaghan containing 39 acres, 3 rods, and 15 perches.  The sale was witnessed by John Wilson, gentleman, and Ann Wilson, both of Emyvale, presumably relatives of James's mother.2/  This was the very year that James and Ann (Erwin) Widney crossed the Atlantic.  The deed was memorialized and registered in 1785.

In northern Franklin County, Pennsylvania, James and Ann made a new home and helped to found the village of Concord, where another five children were born before death parted the couple.  A widower, James married the widow Ann (Burd) Wilds in 1809.

1/	A History of a Fragment of the Clan Linn, Dr. George Wilds Linns (1905), pp. 23, 27
2/	Registry of Deed Grantors Index, 1708-1785, Book 368, pp. 65/66, Registered No. 246042

The children of James Widney IV and Ann (Erwin) Widney are :

i.	JOHN WIDNEY, b. 10 November 1779 in County Monaghan, Ireland; d. aft. 1861 in Perry County, Pennsylvania; m. Joanna Patterson; b. abt. 1790 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania; d. 1 November 1866 in DeKalb County, Indiana.
ii.	ANN ERWIN WIDNEY, b. 22 December 1785 in Concord, Pennsylvania; d. 25 April 1865 in Concord, Pennsylvania; m. HUGH LINN II, b. 10 May 1785 in Ireland; d. 3 April 1870 in Concord, Pennsylvania.
iii.	MARY ANN WIDNEY, b. 1787 in Concord, Pennsylvania; d. unmarried 4 November 1852 in Concord, Pennsylvania.
iv.	JAMES WIDNEY, b. 1791 in Concord, Pennsylvania; d. 15 March 1855 in Concord; m. Ann Smiley, b. 1789-1790; d. 1865 in Concord.
v.	SARAH WIDNEY, b. 1793 in Concord, Pennsylvania; d. unmarried 4 January 1860 in Concord.
vi.	JANE WIDNEY, b. 1800 in Concord, Pennsylvania; d. unmarried 1 September 1872 in Concord.

 

For a complete record of the Widney family of Ireland through the end of the 18th century, the evidence of their Scottish roots, and a discussion of Widney origins as told by Dr. George Wilds Linn, see :

Widney/Woodney/Udny

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Conclusion

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