I have a Lydia Vincent who married Anthony John Ward or John Anthony Ward.

Currently I can only find a few sites seriously dedicated to Vincent / Vinson families. My hope is to bring all such sites and collected genealogies under one roof or at least conveniently searchable. Apparently, I'm not the first to attempt this. Here's a Vincent / Vinson Web Ring, though it only has two sites listed (one of which is mine):
Vinson Family Ring: http://rings.redoaktree.org/vinson/index.htm
"This web ring is to bring together web sites and web pages that have genealogy and/or family history of the VINSON or VINCENT family or other variants of this surname."

Some Vincent or Vinson web sites are:
- Ancestors of Nolan Twain Vinson
http://redoaktree.org/family/nolan/index.htm
- George Vincent's Family (1897-?)
http://www.myroots.co.uk/paynter/vincent/vincent.htm
Vincent Family Genealogy Forum on GenForum
- http://genforum.genealogy.com/vincent/
Linkpendium Vincent Family: Surname Genealogy, Family History, Family Tree, Family Crest, Genealogy and Family History (a commercial site that has lists of other sites by state)
- http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/sur/surc-V/surc-Vin/sur-Vincent/
Sheridan Vincent's excellent old Vincent Family web site of New York state:
- http://www.vincent-family.org/ (be sure and check out his Queries page)
- http://www.vincent-family.org/Queries.html
Vincent's in Newfoundland
- http://members.tripod.com/~Al_Beagan/vintree.htm
The Vincent Family of Alabama & Texas
- http://theoldentimes.com/vincent_family.html
Vincent / Gish Family
- http://www.angelfire.com/in/tamaraspage/page5.html

There are probably many more. These may be just a few of them. What would be really neat if we could focus on bringing all Vincent / Vinson trees onto one site and somehow interconnect them as much as possible. For now, this group and other sites seem to be focused on seeing what's out there and who is interested. -rv-

I'm glad to see other Vincents join the group. Welcome Julie. Please feel free to post whatever your asperations are for this group or this site. I can't say much for the site since I have nothing to do with it but I think it may become helpful in the long run. For now, these groups are just an area for discussion. Hopefully the site's creators (Paul Allen CEO) will eventually add features we can use to collaborate and share source-based records. That's my hope anyway. What hopes do y'all have for this group / site?

My mother's maiden name was Virtue Vincent, born in Bristol, GLS, ENG in 1913. I have only been able to trace her family back to the 1841 census with any certainty when the interchange between Vincent/Vinson becomes confusing.

My family changed their surname from Vincent to Vinson and back to Vincent around the time of the American Revolution. Some have suggested this was because the name "Vincent" was associated with the Norman French (aka British overlords). You're a lucky man to have been able to trace your Vincent ancestors all the way back to the "old country."
I'm assuming you found your mom as a child of George and Vitue Vincent in the record listed below:
Name: Virtue Alice Vincent
Residence: Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Christening date: 1879
Christening place: TEMPLE, BRISTOL, GLOUCESTER, ENGLAND
Birthdate: 1877
Father's name: George Vincent
Mother's name: Virtue
Gender: Female
Batch number: C17295-4
Date range: 1813 - 1902
Record group: England-VR
Film number: 1597124
Collection: England Baptisms 1700-1900
I found this record at:
http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#start
The full path is:
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=recordResults;givenName=Virtue;searchId=38295584344551290000;surname=Vincent;searchType=standard

Oops! I just read your post again and noticed your mom couldn't be the same as the person below if she was born in 1913. Sorry. -rv-

Thanks for the welcome, Ron. I am a VINCENT by marriage.

Julie,
I'm sure your in-laws will appreciate any research you do for them.
-rv-

I am also interested in this group. My gr grandaddy was William Henry Vincent/Vinson. His family went from Vincent to Vinson and back again. He was born in 1832 in Spartenburg SC. He married Martha Kennedy/Canady, born 1843. They lived their latter years in Calhoun County, Al. I think it is odd how both families changed their names so often, usually from one census to the next. We think his dad was Jesse Vinson but I have not seen the actual papers that say this. If anyone can help me here, I would appreciate it.

I see your difficulty with a name like William. I found 7 "William" or "Henry" Vincents on South Carolina censuses from 1850 to 1900. It is always more difficult when the name changes back and forth. I am fortunate to have many family records dating back to the early 1800s which helped us confirm what we found in census records.
I think many name "changes" were from illiteracy or poor or careless spelling which is frequent in documents of earlier periods. Names on many records were spelled according to the writer's discretion.

Another reason the names and in the case of one of my gr granddad's, the dates of birth were changed from census to census was to avoid being known and thus found to be "Indian". My Hunter line did just this. He did so many things to avoid anyone knowing who he was, when he was born and who his parents were. At least with my Vinson's I have some idea of their line. It is just proving it. Jesse is also a family name that was passed around from Grandfather to one of his kids to their nephew, to their son and so forth. Makes it real difficult for us in this 21st century.
My grandparents are buried in the Vinson cemetery in Anniston, Al.

I didn't know there was a "Vinson" cemetery in Anniston. My Vincents were from Talladega which is not far from there. What are directions to the Vinson cemetery? John Vincent (1787 - 1871) was born in Johnston, NC. He fought in the Indian Wars aka the war of 1812 under Andrew Jackson, and with Nicey Hawes (1794 - 1851) of Wetumka, AL became the parent of 16 children. They buried him near Vincent, AL (no relation) in the cemetery of the Salem Presbyterian Church (formerly Resin Hill).
His 14th child was Aaron Vincent (1835 - 1901) who owned nearly 600 acres in Talladega County. Aaron was my great-grandfather. John Vincent's 15th child was Louisa Catherine Vincent (1837 - 1898). Louisa was grandmother of Maud McLure Kelly (1887-1973), the first woman to practice law in Alabama, an avid genealogist who was instrumental in setting up the Alabama Archives. Ms. Kelly gave her vast collection of papers to the Samford University Library on Lakeshore Drive in Birmingham. It was to this collection I donated John Vincent's family bible (pub. 1828) which lists his 16 children. John's father is Aaron Vinson of Johnston County, NC.

Hi,

My name is Brenda Joiner. William Henry Vincent and Martha Elizabeth Kennedy Vincent were mt GGGrandparents.

I found two very interesting articles about the Vincent/Kennedy's, in a book, entitled, "Pioneer Families of Calhoun County, Alabama." , a few years ago, in our local (Talladega, Alabama) library.

One of the articles was about William Henry and Martha Elizabeth. It includes their parents (as far as any information is known), their brothers and sisters, their birthdates. It also gives the names and birthdates of their children. It was written by Richard Brennan, who was Aldolphus Leslie Vincent' s GGGrandfather.

The other article was about Martha Elizabeth's brother, William Francis Kennedy. It contains his birthdate, facts about his being born in Pickens District, South Carolina, as well as a few brief facts regarding his service during the Civil War. It also contains information about his wives (He was a widower who married again), his children, as well as other interesting facts.

This article was written by Vincent descendent.

I'm sorry, but I do not know when this book was written, or wrote it. I would enclose more information here, but thought it might be too long. I'm afraid I've "rattled on" too long, already.

If you want anymore information, let me know.t .

Hey Brenda, good to see you here! I will try to find that book at the Auburn Library. How have you been? We need to get Ron here up to Anniston and let him check out the family cemetery. There may be some of his people there.
Ron, you can get directions from the Anniston Library on how to get to the Cemetery. There used to be a homecoming there once a year but I don't know if they still do that or not.

Brenda, I do have a group here for Martha Elizabeth's side of the family as well. It is listed under Canady, Cannaday, Canaday and Kennedy.
Ron, have you any connections with that family?

I have no Canady, Cannaday, Canaday, or Kennedy connection, Sorry. I also don't seem to have any connection with the Vincent's buried in the Vincent/Vinson cemetery near Annison. It's puzzling to me that there seems to be a number of unrelated Vincents who all settled in that part of Alabama after the native Americans were forced to leave their homes.

Hi Barbara,

I THINK I've discovered who Jesse Vincent's wife was. Her name was Sarah Willis, born 1809 in South Carolina. I came upon this information on the Message Board of Genealogy.Com's Message Board. It was included in a post from a lady who wa s looking for Benjamin Vincent. She said she "thought", but "wasn't sure" this information was factual, but everything I found on Ancestry, indicated it is true.


Oh, by the way, did I mention Sarah's Mother's name? (Just teasing!) Anyway, her name was Sarah "Cherokee Woman" Willis. Haven't found her maiden name or parents yet. That might be a little tricky.

This is the main information you were looking for, wasn't it? I mean the name of Jesse's wife and the fact that, we are, apparently,of Native American Descent?

If you have any questions, let me know. I will try to answer them.

Yes Brenda, this is exactly what I need!!!!!!! I had Sarah Willis on my Legacy papers, acrtually have her father listed simply as B. Willis. I have just started my research on this family and it was leading me in this direction but this is wonderful! Could you send me the link to the Genealogy.com board ths is on? Oh, I am sooooo excited. Thank you so much for posting this.

Hi Barbara,

I'm so glad this was what you were looking for.

Here's the link as far as I can tell. About all I know about a computer is how to turn it on and off.

http://www.genealogy.com/genforum.com/Vincent/messages/326/.html.

Something tells me this is not right. Google has me so spoiled. I just type what I want and it usually takes me right there.

Good luck!