Sarah Barbary
1730–1782
Life
- Born
- 1730 · King George, King George, Virginia, United States
- Died
- 11 Mar 1782 · Fall Branch, Washington, Tennessee, United States
Marriage & children
Timeline
- 1754MarriedNathan Crouch — King George, King George, Virginia, United States
Records behind this page
"Crouch and related Families from Washington County, TN" — compiled family website, rootsweb freepages (~crouch), last edited 2007
Elijah Crouch (1770-1825) of Washington and McMinn Cos., TENNESSEE — the page this tree's gens 7-8 were copied from (read from the live site, controls run)
read the transcript
READ FROM THE LIVE SITE 31 Jul 2026, http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~crouch/genealogy/p3.htm, with controls on the same fetch: Crouch x245, Tennessee x11, Washington x14. "Elijah Crouch M, b. 1770, d. 1825. Father: John Crouch b. c 1727, d. c 1811. Mother: Sarah Barbury b. 1729, d. 1782. [grandfather] Joseph Crouch d. 1742. Birth*: Elijah Crouch was born in 1770 at VIRGINIA. He was the son of John Crouch and Sarah Barbury. Marriage*: Elijah Crouch married MARY ELLIS on 16 January 1792 at WASHINGTON, TENNESSEE. Death*: Elijah Crouch died in 1825 at McMINN, TENNESSEE. Family: Mary Ellis b. 1772" ⭐ FOUR OF THIS TREE'S VALUES MATCH THIS PAGE EXACTLY — Elijah 1770/1825, Mary Ellis b. 1772, Sarah Barbary b. 1729/30, and a John Crouch above him. That is a copy relationship, not a coincidence. ⛔ THE MECHANICAL CAUSE OF THE ERROR IS ONE WORD: 'Washington' was resolved to the WRONG STATE — Washington Co., PENNSYLVANIA instead of Washington Co., TENNESSEE. ⭐⭐ AND IT LOCATES THE FABRICATED JOINT: here SARAH BARBARY IS THE WIFE OF JOHN CROUCH (c.1727), an age-appropriate pair, and Elijah is THEIR son. This tree interpolates a 'Nathan Crouch b. 1750' between them and hands him a wife twenty years his senior. Independently, a search of the Somerset Co., Maryland records finds NO NATHAN AT ALL (control: 'Nathan' returns 1,066 hits in the same tax files). ⚠️ ELIJAH IS LISTED HERE WITH MARY ELLIS AND NO CHILDREN, and 'Benedict' appears nowhere on the site — so the Benedict->Elijah link was NOT inherited from this source; it was made separately, on a name. Mary Ellis is given NO DEATH DATE here, so this tree's d.1810 is unsourced, and a SECOND Mary Ellis (b. c.1765, wife of Edmund Bean) sits in the same compilation. ⚠️ THIS SOURCE IS A COMPILATION WITH NO CITATIONS. It proves what was copied. It does not prove the Tennessee facts.
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 · 31 Jul 2026
Audited 31 Jul 2026 — her first. ⛔ 'BARBARY' IS ALMOST CERTAINLY NOT A SURNAME. It is a colonial GIVEN name, a variant of Barbara: in the published 1790 censuses it appears 13 times in Virginia and 6 times in Maryland, and EVERY SINGLE OCCURRENCE IS IN GIVEN-NAME POSITION — zero as a surname in either state. Read this as a mis-parsed 'Sarah Barbara'; HER FAMILY IS UNKNOWN, not 'Barbary', and 'of King George Co., Virginia' rests on nothing. ⚠️ COMPOUNDING IT, she is recorded b. 1730 — TWENTY YEARS OLDER than her recorded husband [115] Nathan b. 1750. That impossibility dissolves in the source this tree copied, where she is the wife of JOHN Crouch (b. c.1727) and Elijah is their son. She belongs one generation up, to a different man, in Tennessee — she died 1782 at Boone's Creek, Washington Co., TN. Memo: ancestry/crouch-branch-research.md. ⛔ NOTHING WAS DELETED AND NO LINK WAS CUT: a negative removes support, it does not supply a replacement. Flags are 3=DISPUTED rather than 2=disproven because the case rests on a COMPILED WEBSITE plus census ABSENCES, not on a primary record naming someone else.
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