Todd Family

of Dinwiddie County and Prince George County Virginia

Todd Family 144

 

By 1737, George Todd, the assumed progenitor of this family, appeared in the records of Bristol Parish, Virginia.  This was a large parish that once included Henrico, Prince George and Dinwiddie County.   The parish after 1752 lay in Dinwiddie County.    Prince George and Dinwiddie Counties lay adjacent to each other south of Petersburg, VA.

 

We have attempted to construct a family tree of this family, assuming that the Dinwiddie Todds were all kin and the fact that the DNA of Henry b 1800-1810 who settled in Fayette Co VA/WVA matches the DNA of descendants of James Todd 1765-1823 Roane Co TN.

 

The “Big Y” DNA test also revealed that the Bermuda Todds and the Dinwiddie County Todds are very closely related.  So it is conceivable that George Todd was a lost branch of the Bermuda Todds who settled there in 1651.  However, we do not show a George Todd in the Bermuda records.   So this remains just a possibility.

 

DNA also shows a common ancestor with the Christopher Todd 1616-1686 family of Pontefract, Yorkshire and New Haven CT though this may be a very distant connection.

 

George Todd b 1700-1715

          Henry Todd b 1730s/40s

                   Henry 1760s

                             John Todd b 1784-1794

                                      4 sons b 1800-1810, including

                                      Henry Todd of 1830 census b 1800-1810 w 2 sons

1825-1830 who I assume is the Henry Todd

b 1797 VA who went to Fayette Co VA by

1840.

                   David Todd 1780-1790 wife? 1800-1810?

                                      2 sons 1825-1830

                                      1 dau 1820-25

                                      1 dau 1815-20

                   James Todd 1765-1823 md Frances Cotton 1791 Prince

George County, VA

 

There should be offspring of the male Todds shown in the 1820 and 1830 census records, specifically the 4 sons of John Todd and the 2 sons of David Todd. 

 

See below for the data upon which this tree was created.  Thanks to Clyde Todd for a summary of the early records.

 

 

 Here is a more detailed tree for Henry Todd of Fayette Co VA whose descendant DNA proves a connection to the Dinwiddie Todds.

Henry Todd b 1800-10 or 1795 Dinwiddie Co VA => Fayette Co

VA by 1840 md Julia (2) Catherine Bennett b 1830

          May Todd 1857

          Jane Todd 1859

William Todd 1824 md Margaret 1822

          Henry Todd 1850

John Todd 1823-1900 md Fannie Bennett 1821-

          George Mondy Todd 1854-1904 md

1873 Amanda Plumley

Note that in 1900 George’s mother is listed as Fannie b 1821 divorced and in 1860 George b 1854 and Rachel b 1859 are listed as children of Fannie Todd without a husband and living with them is Nancy Bennett b 1802 VA.

Mary 1875

James Oliver Todd 1876

Mitty Angeline Todd 1878 md Kincaid

Sarah Emiline Todd 1881 md

Richmond

Octavia Catherine Todd 1883 md

Plumley

Walter William Todd 1885

Tolley Winfield Todd 1888

Jasper Clemon Todd 1891

Jacy Jessie Todd 1895 md 1921 Letha

May Jines in Raleigh Co WVA

          Dennie Todd 1923

          Donald Todd 1924

          Daimon Todd 1927-2014                                          Russell Todd

          Glenna Mae Todd 1929

          Bertha Todd 1936

          Gladys Todd 1943     

Lewis Lacy Todd 1898

                                                Rachel Todd 1859

                                      Md (2) Sarah Jane Todd b 1825

                                                      Matthias Todd 1856  not in 1870 census

                                                      Frances Todd 1858

                                                      Elizabeth Todd 1862

                                                      Eliza Todd 1864

 

Here is a skeleton of the family of James Todd 1765-1823.    James married Francis Hughes Cotton in 1791 in Prince George County, then moved to Snow Hill, North Carolina by 1802 and then moved to Roane County Tennessee by 1808 where he died in 1823.

 

James Todd 1765-1823 md 1791 Prince George Co VA to Francis Hughes Cotton 1773-1828;

Williamson Todd 1792-1866 Rusk TX or Lowndes AL md

Leodicea Tedder

 Holston Todd 1793-1867 Scott Co IL md Mgt McPherson

 William Thomas Todd 1795-1860 Texas md Elizabeth Steele

 Harriet L. Todd 1796-1838 Roane Co TN

Rachel Todd 1796

Coleman Todd 1798-1857 Scott Co IL md Nancy Atkinson

Elizabeth B. Todd 1800-1838 md James A.S Tedder 1789-1878

Henry Todd 1802 Snow Hill NC 1892  Scott Co IL md Leodicea

McKinney 1809-1892

George Todd 1804

Nancy Polly Todd 1806-1880 Morgan Co IL md Isaiah Sellers

Smith Todd 1808-1835 Morgan Co IL md 1820 Lucy Bohannon

Eliza Todd 1810-1861

Martin Todd 1812-1878 d Morgan Co IL buried Belton, Cass Co

MO md Mary Ann Funk

          Martha “Patsy” Todd 1814-1843 Morgan Co IL md John A


 

Summers

 

Here is a skeleton of the family of James David Todd b 1821 VA d Johnston Co NC.  We are not sure how this branch fits into the family but he had a deed transaction in Dinwiddie Co and a descendant DNA (both STR and Big Y DNA) matches the Dinwiddie family. He could be the James Todd Engineer born 1815 living in Petersburg in 1850, but the age is not quite right.

 

 

James David Todd 1823-1894 md 1864 Edith A Adams 1818-abt 1913

          James Allen Todd b 1868 r Johnston Co in 1880 d 1953 md 1890

Lula Mgt Parish

                   James Leroy Todd 1892-1967

William Norman Todd 1894-1942

Raymond Jennings Todd 1896-1992

Viola Millie Todd 1898-1975

Alam Harper Todd 1900-35

Willie Herman Todd 1902 Johnston Co NC 1991 Garner NC

                             Md 1940 Dorothy Elizabeth Pucket

                             James David Todd 1943 Johnston NC d 1994 Raleigh

                                      NC

                                      Matthew James Todd

                    Eula Frances Todd 1905=1987

                   Mildred Irene Todd 1907-1976

                   Charles Edward Todd 1909-1984

                   Annie Nobel Todd 1912-1993

                   Alton Rudolph Todd 1915-1998

          John K. Todd 1874

 

This early generations tree was built based on:

1737: George Todd appearing in the Bristol Parish records in 1737.

1761: Henry Todd appearing in the Bristol Parish records in 1761

1782: Henry Todd on a 1782 tax list.

1789-90 John Todd (wife Ann), Henry Todd and Mallory Todd mentioned in court records in 1789-1790.

1815 John Todd and Henry Todd listed in an 1815 landowners list.

1820 John and Henry appearing on 1820 census.

Henry and wife b prior to 1775 w son born 1805-1810

John and wife b. 1775-1794 w/    4 sons and 3 daus. b 1800-1810

 

1820 David Todd appearing on 1820 Prince George Co census: born 1775-1784 with sons b 1810-20 and 1815-20

 

1830 Henry and David Todd appearing side by side on 1830 census.

Henry born 1800-1810 with 2 males b 1825-30

David born 1780-1790 with 2 sons 1820-25, 1 dau 1815-20 1 dau 1820-25

 

 

There is also a Polly Todd in Petersburg, Dinwiddie Co in 1810 b 1765-1784 with a son or grandson b 1800-1810 and a daughter born 1785-1794.    We do not have any information as to the former husband of Polly Todd nor whether she is kin to the other Dinwiddie Todds.