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Lourany

✦ direct ancestor — my children's 5×-great-grandmother · Jarrell line, the Woodall–Ramsay side — their mother's people

○ descent not proven throughout — 1 of 4 links unassessed

Marriage & children

Records behind this page

1850 U.S. census, population schedule, Hancock County, Mississippi ("Hancock county, part of"), NARA M432 (image via FamilySearch)

Hancock Co., Miss., dwellings 251-252, families 257-258, lines 13-31; FS image 3:1:S3HY-6DS7-VP9 (img 76 of 92); index arks 1:1:M4LC-FSY and 1:1:M4LC-F3H

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[Read on the image 17 Oct 2026 (register K1084): lines 13-31, columns name, age, sex, occupation, real estate, birthplace. No relationship column in 1850.] Dwelling 251, family 257: John Spears, 51, M, farmer, real estate 1000, born Ga; Lourany, 49, F, born Tenn; John, 23, laborer, born H[ancock] Co Miss; Alexander, 22; Orval, 18; Richard, 17; Martha A, 16, F; Samuel, 13; James, 12; Thomas, 8 (children born Miss). Dwelling 252, family 258: William Jarrald, 37, farmer, real estate 500, born Hancock Miss; Mary, 27, F, born Hancock Miss; John, 5; William, 4; Charles, 3; James, 2; Dennis, 1.

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 · 25 Oct 2026

AUDITED 25 Oct 2026 - LOURANY, wife of John Spears/Spiers of Hancock County, Mississippi, born about 1801 in Tennessee. 1850 census (K1084): Lourany Spears, 49, born Tennessee. In the 1870 census (K1087) a 'Lurancy' written as aged 10 is in John Spears's household; whether that is her with a mis-written age or a granddaughter is unresolved. Her maiden name is given as Perry (Louranea Perry) only by a compiled, uncited family site (spiers.net); it is NOT proven and is NOT entered as her surname. Two granddaughters carry her name: Lurany Jarrell (1870 state census, K1297) and Lurana Spears (1880 census, K1088). Attached as mother of [181] Mary Elizabeth Jarrell by ARGUMENT; see that note. Her parents are unknown.

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