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Anne Waring
1747–1820
✦ direct ancestor — Owen's 5×-great-grandmother · Temple line
✦ A story has been written about this person: Finding Ann Waring — A 150-year-old argument about whose daughter she was, closed by two free documents.
Life
- Born
- 1747 · Gouldborough Goldberry Plantation, Essex County, Virginia
- Died
- 27 May 1820 · Langlee Plantation, Essex County, Virginia
Parents
Marriage & children
John Latane (1777–1802)
Lucy Latane (1778–1838)
Samuel Peachy Latane (1779–1794)
Henry Waring I Latane (1782–1860)
Thomas Lewis Latane (1787–1837)
William Catesby Latane (1788–1846)
Ann Susanna Latane (1791–1822)
Elizabeth Latane (1794–1827)
Susan Latané (1797–1809)
Timeline
- 5 Jul 1776MarriedWilliam I Latane — Essex County, Virginia
- 1803MarriedWilliam I Latane — Richmond and Essex, Virginia, USA
Records behind this page
Ancestry.com, Essex County, Virginia, Marriage Index, 1655-1900 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 1999)
Book: W 16,; Page: 250
Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 12 (1762-1775) — original register
pp. 431-433
read the transcript
Will of Francis Waring of Essex County, Essex Co. Will Book 12, pp. 431-433, read on the original register image (FS DGS 007645973 item 2, imgs 234-235; local copies ancestry/sources/essex-willbook12-pp43*.jpeg): "all the rest of my estate ... be equely devided betwen my seven Children her after named ... Thomas Gouldman Waring, William Waring, Henry Waring, Elizth. Ball, Lucy Robb, Ann Waring, & Susanna Waring." Will signed Oct 1770; codicil 5 Oct 1771; proved 21 Oct 1771 (exors Thomas & William Waring; Teste John Lee Cl.). CORROBORATION of her married identity: LVA Essex chancery cause 057-1817-002 (read 3 Aug 2026), where the sisters of Thomas Waring (d. 1803, son of this testator) are "Ann Latane & Susanna Lewis" — the two daughters unmarried in 1771. Direct statement + corroboration: parentage PROVEN class.
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 · 13 Sep 2026
PROOF CLASS: MOTHER = UNDERDETERMINED (Owen graded 13 Sep 2026, ring-7 E2). Francis Waring's 1770/71 Essex will names seven children and NO WIFE. Reopens on an Essex dower release naming his wife, or on son Thomas Waring's 1803 estate.
PROOF CLASS: FATHER = DIRECT (relabel 13 Sep 2026; flag 1 unchanged). Francis Waring's 1770/71 Essex will, read on the original register image (cit 6999), divides his estate among seven children named, 'Ann Waring' among them.
Audited 13 Sep 2026 - [56] Anne Waring's FIRST audit, written in ring 7's E2 triage pass (E2-ring7-triage-2026-09-13.md; register K662, K663).
WHAT IS IN HAND. Her father's own will - Essex Co., Va., Will Book 12, pp. 431-433, signed Oct 1770, codicil 5 Oct 1771, proved 21 Oct 1771 - READ ON THE ORIGINAL REGISTER IMAGE (FS DGS 007645973 item 2, imgs 234-235; local copies ancestry/sources/essex-willbook12-pp43*.jpeg; cits 6999 and 7000). It divides the residue among "my seven Children her after named ... Thomas Gouldman Waring, William Waring, Henry Waring, Elizth. Ball, Lucy Robb, Ann Waring, & Susanna Waring".
WHY THAT DOES NOT REACH THE MOTHER. The same instrument names sons, daughters and two sons-in-law (Spencer Mot. Ball, James Robb) and NO WIFE (cit 7000, recorded expressly). So the document that settles the father is silent on the mother. [1760] Lucy Cocke is named as the mother nowhere in anything attached to either of them. The half is unlabelled for want of evidence - no record has been read that contradicts it, so this is NOT a reviewed no and must not be recorded or restated as one.
WHO SHE IS, settled independently of the will and not by the name alone: Essex chancery cause 057-1817-002 (read on the manuscript, 3 Aug 2026) divides the residue of Thomas Waring, d. 1803, son of this testator, between his sisters "Ann Latane & Susanna Lewis" - precisely the two daughters still unmarried, and so still surnamed Waring, in 1771. The married-surname pair matches the unmarried pair.
REFUSED, DELIBERATELY, SO IT IS NOT REDISCOVERED AS A LEAD: the same will devises a tract called "Cocke land". A TRACT NAME IS NOT A MARRIAGE. The surname echo against [1760] Lucy Cocke is a coincidence of the exact kind the two-shapes test exists to refuse, and it may not be used to upgrade this half.
THE FATHER HALF IS NOT CLASSED HERE, AND THAT IS DELIBERATE. Its flag is 1 and it carries no class line. Writing one is a relabel of an already-flagged half, which runs only when Owen asks for it by name (/ancestry review); proposal-lint refused it as a triage proposal and was right. The evidence for it is the will quoted above, ready when that lane runs.
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