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Dennis Madden
–c. 1798
✦ direct ancestor — Owen's 6×-great-grandfather · Catchings line
Life
- Died
- before 28 Dec 1798 · Wilkes County, Georgia, USA
Marriage & children
Spouse(spouse unknown)
Records behind this page
Wilkes County, Georgia, loose court records — Georgia Archives Virtual Vault (original images)
Estate of Dennis Madden, Wilkes Co., Ga. - estate return sworn in open court 25 Feb 1801 (Georgia Archives Virtual Vault item 26796, image 26791)
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Dr. The Estate of Dennis Madden dec[ease]d in Acc[oun]t. with Richard Madden Adm[in]s[trato]r. Cr. / To p[ai]d Ann Trail her Legacy estimated at $334.06 / To p[ai]d David Madden do do $334.06 / To p[ai]d Isaac Wilkins do do $334.06 / To p[ai]d Meredith Catching do do $334.06 / To Richard Maddin adm[r] part $334.06 / [Sub-total] $1670.30 / By am[ount] of appr[aisement] $2007.06 / The above return duly Sworn in Open Court by the Oath of Richard Maddin adm[in]st[rato]r Feb. 25th 1801 - Richard Madden, D. Terrell C.C.[O.] -- transcribed from the image 22 Sep 2026; brackets are uncertain readings. K782.
Estate of Dennis Madden, Wilkes Co., Ga. - the four-scrap distributee receipt page (Georgia Archives Virtual Vault item 26796, image 26793)
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[top-left, 25 Feb 1801] Feby 25th 1801. Then Rec[eive]d of Richard Maddin Administrator of Dennis Maddin Deces[e]d my Distributive Sheer of said estate to say Rec'd by me - Anastacy Catchings [and, below, with mark] Meridith Catchings [his] mark. Test: Sn. Branham || [bottom-left, 1 Dec 1799] Rec'd of Richard Maddin adm[r] my full distributive share of my Father's Estate, Dennis Maddin dec'd, for which I acknowledge myself fully satisfied. Dec[ember] 1st 1799. David Maddin. Test: D. Terrell || [top-right, 23 Feb 1801] Then Rec[eive]d of Richard Maddin Administrator of Dennis Maddin Deceast my Distributive Sheer of s[ai]d estate to say Rec'd by me - Meredith Catching[s], Attorney for Isaac Wilkins. Test: Sn. Branham || [bottom-right, 15 Aug 1801 or 1802] wet-damaged, two signatories, not fully legible -- transcribed from the image 22 Sep 2026. K782.
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 · 23 Sep 2026
AUDITED 22 Sep 2026 - created by rm-apply-2227-maddin-father-argument-20260922.py as the father of [2227] Anastasia Catching. The proof argument lives in HER Audited note, not here.
DENNIS MADDEN - spelled "Maddin" in the Georgia Archives vault index, "Madden" in the manuscript - died intestate in Wilkes County, Georgia, before 28 December 1798, the date of the earliest receipt on his estate. His son Richard Madden administered it.
THE ESTATE FILE: Georgia Archives Virtual Vault, Wilkes County Estate Records collection p17154coll10, item 26796, GRG2-267 = microfilm 10130-030, 12 loose pages, child ids 26784-26795, read on the image 22 Sep 2026 (register K782). The return sworn in open court 25 February 1801 enters five legacies of $334.06 each - Ann Trail, David Madden, Isaac Wilkins, Meredith Catching (that is [2227]'s share, paid to her husband) and Richard Maddin as administrator - against an appraisement of $2,007.06. The $336.76 difference is a sixth share, matched by Jeremiah Fletcher's August 1801 receipt (GAGenWeb "Original Papers M-S" abstract, register K783).
HE LEFT NO WILL. The Wilkes County wills index 1794-1819 carries no Madden or Maddin will; the sweep was run with a positive control, the "Catching, Unestacy" row being present in the same index (register K785).
HIS WIFE IS UNNAMED AND WAS PREDECEASED - no widow's third is claimed anywhere in the file - which is why the mother slot of this family is left empty.
ORIGIN UNTESTED: a Rootsweb-lodged Elbert County query gives him a Frederick County, Maryland origin. One compiled claim, no record; recorded here as a lead, not as a fact.
HIS WIFE - A HYPOTHESIS ONLY, RECORDED 23 Sep 2026 (round-4 triage A1, Owen). The DAR Ancestor Database entry A072996, as read by the round-4 dossier (agent-report-3440-dennis-madden-2026-09-22.md), gives him a wife 'Anestascia/Anestacy'. The daughter [2227] is not in doubt: she took an equal distributive share of his estate in her own signature, 25 Feb 1801. The reading carried here is that he had BOTH a wife and a daughter of that name, the wife dying before him - no widow's third is claimed in the file. A DAR application is a compiled statement, so no wife is entered; the empty mother slot stays empty until a record names her. TO TEST HIS MARYLAND ORIGIN FIRST: the Maryland Prerogative Court wills index 1634-1777 under M, then Frederick County wills and administrations, then tax lists.
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