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Tabitha Bass I
1763–1825
✦ direct ancestor — Owen's 5×-great-grandmother · Temple line
Life
- Born
- 3 Oct 1763 · Amelia, Virginia, United States
- Died
- 4 Aug 1825 · Nottoway County, Virginia, USA
Parents
Marriage & children
Charles H Fowlkes (1784–1824)
Henry Bass Fowlkes II (1789–1865)
Tabithia Bass Fowlkes II (1790–1843)
Elisha Fowlkes (c. 1791–)
Martha Fowlkes (1794–c. 1814)
Elizabeth Fowlkes (1800–c. 1822)
John Bass Fowlkes (1802–1888)
Theodorick Fowlkes (c. 1803–1837)
Liberty Bass Fowlkes (1806–1874)
Branch P Fowlkes (1807–1816)
Timeline
- 2 Mar 1782MarriedHenry Bass Fowlkes I — Amelia, Virginia, United States
Records behind this page
Ancestry.com, Virginia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1700-1850 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012)
read the transcript
Virginia marriage abstracts (PRINTED), p. 37, LAST entry on the page. READ ON THE PAGE IMAGE 13 Sep 2026 (vamarriagerecords-001118.jpg), register K686. "March 2, 1782, Fowlkes, Henry, & Tabitha Bass." That is the marriage of [1258] Henry Bass Fowlkes and [1259] Tabitha Bass. The entry gives NO county; the surrounding entries are Foster and Fowlkes families, one of which reads "Foster, Richard, of Prince Edward". NO parent is named for either party, and the entry says nothing about any child. CONTROL, ON THIS SAME PAGE - this series DOES print parentage and consent when the underlying bond carried it. The entry IMMEDIATELY ABOVE reads "Nov. 23, 1780, Fowlkes, Jas., (son of Jno.), & Sally Foster. (d. of Mary)." The page also carries "Dec. 20, 1781, Foster, Robert, & Elizabeth Jones, (sister of Daniel Jones).", "July, 1800, Foster, Joel, & Elizabeth Hill, (d. of Sarah Lockett).", "July, 1816, Foster, Worsham, & Martha Wood. (d. of William).", and two standalone consent-giver names set on their own lines ("Edmond Walker." under the Richard Foster x Judith Walker entry, "Thomas Asselin." under the Anthony Foster x Elizabeth Asselin entry). So the silence on Henry and Tabitha is the abstracter reporting a bond that named none.
Lunenburg County, Virginia, Chancery Cause 111-1809-004, Fowlkes v. Fowlkes - Library of Virginia
bill and answer - Tabitha Fowlkes, executrix and special guardian
Research notes
Working notes from the research, kept verbatim — what was read, what it proved, what stays open. Many open with a line grading the parentage; what the grades mean.
Research note · 26 Jul 2026
Audited 26 Jul 2026 - Junction #5: birth 3 Oct 1763 per her father John Bass Sr Nottoway family Bible (Bell 1961 p. 38); m. Henry Fowlkes 2 Mar 1782, Amelia Co county record (Bell p. 7); named Tabitha Fowlks in the 1808 of the father will. See ancestry/bass-clay-junction.md.
Elsewhere
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