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My Paternal Grandmother's Descent From The Lamberts of Mecklenburg County, Virginia

From looking at AncestryDNA matches, I discovered another slave-owning Colonial European American ancestral family on my African American paternal grandmother Mary Alice Gaines side.  It's a Lambert family in Mecklenburg County, Virginia.  

This is not an ancestral family of my paternal European American 3rd Great Grandfather James P. Cross, and so it has to be an ancestral family of one of my African American 3rd Great Grandparents on Grandma Mary's side. All of them were slaves in the Acadiana parishes in Southern Louisiana.

Reuben Gaines (born in Virginia) and his wife Celecie Horton (born in Georgia) who were parents of my 2nd Great Grandfather Ulysses Gaines who was Great Grandpa Lawrence Gaines' father - slaves in Assumption Parish, Louisiana

Edward Riley (born in South Carolina) and his wife Dolly Jackson (born in Kentucky)who were parents of my 2nd Great Grandmother Jeannette Riley who was Great Grandpa Lawrence's mother - slaves in Assumption Parish, Louisiana

Laura Woods (born in Virginia) who was the mother of my 2nd Great Grandfather James Cross who was Great Grandma Priscilla Cross' father - slaves in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana

The unknown parents of my 2nd Great Grandmother Mary Johnson who was Great Grandma Priscilla Cross' mother. - slaves in St Mary Parish, Louisiana 

At least one of them descended from the Thigpen family (originally from Ireland), Kinsey family (originally from Switzerland), Jeter family (originally from England), Lassiter family (originally from England). My Indigenous American segments on paternal chromosomes on 6 and 9 seem to come from the Lassiter family. Robert Lassiter was married to Prudence of the Nottoway tribe.  At least one of my  African American 3rd great grandparents on Grandma Mary's side descended from the Turner family whose paternal line was Weathersbee (immigrated from England). English American Thomas Weathersbee Sr was the owner and father of John Turner who was half African on his unknown mother's side. Patience bought her husband John for 60 pounds from Thomas Weathersbee Sr in 1769 in Halifax County, North Carolina and freed him. The couple relocated to Marion County, South Carolina. John was half African on his mother's side, and Patience Smith was the daughter of an unknown half African man  and Rachel who was Irish. They're the ancestors of many European Americans, and some of them are my DNA relative matches at AncestryDNA and 23andme.  My predominantly Southeast African mixed with Filipino/Austronesian on paternal Chromosome 9 is Malagasy ancestry from Madagascar (an island in Southeast Africa). It comes from either John or Patience. Because John and Patience are the ancestors of many European Americans, my Malagasy segment is subjected to Timber algorithm that is supposed to address pileups and remove false matches.  Three of John and Patience's children were married to Martins. I descend from John and Patience's son Reuben Turner and his wife Dorothy Martin.


I already have a known Lambert ancestor. It's my 10th Great Grandmother Radegonde Lambert who was married to my 10th Great Grandfather Jean Blanchard and one of the  Acadian founding foremothers on the side of my Assumption Parish born 3/4 Acadian 4th Great Grandmother Anastasia Bourgeois who was married to my Gates County, North Carolina born English American 4th Great Grandfather Benjamin Cross who formed and owned the Orange Grove Plantation in Lafourche Parish. She was rumored to be of maternal MicMac ancestry, but mitochondrial DNA testing of female line descendants revealed that her mitochondrial DNA haplogroup was X2b4 which is European and not Amerindian.


 Aunt Carrie's AncestryDNA matches (all African Americans)

she's my father's maternal halfsister


S. Chambliss - granddaughter of Albert Lambert son of Charlie Lambert son of Sterling Lambert son of Patrick Sterling Lambert, son of Julius Edmund Lambert son of Joseph Lambert b. 1735 in Richmond, Virginia and d. 1803 in Mecklenburg, Virginia and Elizabeth Sturdivant.


H. Wall - grandson of Albert Lambert son of Charlie Lambert son of Sterling Lambert son of Patrick Sterling Lambert son of Julius Edmund Lambert 1770 - 1827 in Mecklenburg, Virginia son of Joseph Lambert b. 1735 in Richmond, Virginia and d. 1803 in Mecklenburg, Virginia and Elizabeth Sturdivant


J. Bagley - 2nd Great Grandson of Lucy Jane Lambert daughter of Louis Washington Lambert son of Julius Edmund Lambert 1770 - 1827 in Mecklenburg, Virginia descendant of Joseph Lambert b. 1735 in Richmond, Virginia and d. 1803 in Mecklenburg, Virginia and Elizabeth Sturdivant


J. Taylor - Great Grandaughter of Polly Ann Lambert daughter of Louis Washington Lambert son of Julius Edmund Lambert 1770 - 1827 in Mecklenburg, Virginia descendant of Joseph Lambert b. 1735 in Richmond, Virginia and d. 1803 in Mecklenburg, Virginia and Elizabeth Sturdivant


C. Peoples - 2nd Great Granddaughter of Polly Ann Lambert daughter of Louis Washington Lambert son of Julius Edmund Lambert 1770 - 1827 in Mecklenburg, Virginia descendant of Joseph Lambert b. 1735 in Richmond, Virginia and d. 1803 in Mecklenburg, Virginia and Elizabeth Sturdivant


D.H. - 3rd Great Granddaughter of Rebecca Juniel daughter of Nancy daughter of Julius Edmund Lambert 1770 - 1827 in Mecklenburg, Virginia descendant of Joseph Lambert b. 1735 in Richmond, Virginia and d. 1803 in Mecklenburg, Virginia and Elizabeth Sturdivant


K. Jones - 3rd Great Granddaughter of Rebecca Juniel daughter of Nancy daughter of Julius Edmund Lambert 1770 - 1827 in Mecklenburg, Virginia descendant of Joseph Lambert b. 1735 in Richmond, Virginia and d. 1803 in Mecklenburg, Virginia and Elizabeth Sturdivant


T. Kirk - 4th great grandson of Henry Lambert b. 1835 Virginia and lived in Meklenburg Virginia



my AncestryDNA matches (all African Americans)


M. Henson - 3rd Great Granddaughter of John Jackson Juniel son of Nancy Humphries daughter of Julius Edmund Lambert b. 1770 son of Joseph Lambert b. 1735 in Richmond, Virginia and d. 1803 in Mecklenburg, Virginia and Elizabeth Sturdivant


D. Brooks - grandson of Bertha Marie Lambert daughter of Sterling Lambert son of Patrick Sterling Lambert son of Julius Edmund Lambert b. 1770 son of Joseph Lambert b. 1735 in Richmond, Virginia and d. 1803 in Mecklenburg, Virginia and Elizabeth Sturdivant.



Julius Edmund Lambert
Born about  in Mecklenburg, Virginiamap [uncertain]
ANCESTORS ancestors
Son of  and 
Brother of 
Husband of  — married 13 Dec 1796 [location unknown]
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of  and 
Died about  at about age 57 in Mecklenburg, Virginia, United Statesmap [uncertain]

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