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1. Dieder Remy. Born about 1500 in France. Dieder died in France in 1556, he was 56.

Children:

2 i. George (~1520-)

ii. Francis.

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2. George Remy. Born about 1520 in Ivoy, Lorraine, France.

George married Beatrix De Rosieres. Born about 1525 in France. They had the following children:

3 i. Jaques (1550-1586)

ii. Sir Pierre De.

iii. Jean.

iv. Nicholas.

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3. Jaques Remy. Born in 1550 in Ivoy, Lorraine, France. Jaques died in Ivoy, Lorraine, France in 1586, he was 36.

Jaques married Magdalene.

They had the following children:

4 i. Pierre (~1585-)

ii. Matthias.

iii. Jacques.

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4. Pierre Remy. Born about 1585 in Ivoy, Dept of Ardennes, France.

Child:

5 i. Jacques Remy (~1630-1721)

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5. Jacques Remy De Ivoy. Born about 1630 in Picardy, Lorraine, France. Jacques Remy died in Virginia in 1721, he was 91.

JACQUES REMY DE IVOY, was the original Huguenot immigrant ancestor. He was a French Huguenot refugee of nobel birth , son of Pierre REMY. Jacques was born about 1630 in Picardy, Lorraine, France. He died I 1721 (age 91) in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Jacques married Francoise Haldt, daughter of Antoine Haldat II, Seigneur de Bonnet and his wife Madelaine Marchand. Fleeing from France on account of Huguenot persecution, he got to England. He came from England to Virginia in 1654 under the "Indenture System", bound to "Nicolas Spencer, Esq., who was appointed Secretary of the Colony of Virginia, during the pleasure of King Charles II (1606-1702) - Mar 2. (1654)."

Original Lists of Emigrants, Vol.1-1600 to 1637: Vol.2-1662 to 1700 by John C. Hotten, 1874, p.271, Vol. 1 "Fra (Francois) REMY to Westmoreland Co., Va., was indentured by John Drayton (or Brayton), 1654. Francoise apparently did not survive the trip to Virginia. Jacques married for a second time in 1671 to Mary Miles?? The name Jacques became recorded as Jacob by English writing in Virginia.

"Westmoreland Co., Va., Court Records, Deed Book 5, p.628; Francis Spencer vs. Corderoy Vaughn, July 27, 1715; Deposition of JACOB REMY that in the year 1661 he carried chains in a survey that was made on the land, which Nicholas Spencer, Esq., his then master afterward purchased, and lived on by aforesaid Nicholas Spencer, Esq., and one Richard Wright, etc. We find the by oaths of Mary Taylor, Mary REMY, and aforesaid JACOB REMY, that John Armsbys' successors did live in the old field a little above where we began the survey, etc., That they (Jacob and Mary REMY) never knew the aforesaid John Armsby, but they heard and always understood that he lived there and that the land was called his, etc."

Forthergills Wills of Westmoreland Co., Va., p.4; "Will of John Armsby dated 1659." Note: As John Armsby died in 1659 and the above depositions shows JACOB REMY living there in 1661, this places his importation at 1654 or before.

Under this Indenture System large land owners and other influential men in the colonies made a contract whereby many men and women were obligated to work out their passage money as servants to their "Masters by Indenture." These so called Masters received from the crown 50 additional acres for each person so imported.

Westmoreland Co., Va., Deed Book 1, p.403; "Jacob REMY is deeded by William Pierce, 200 acres of a 1200 acres in Nominee Forest in Cople Parish July 21, 1671. Deed recorded Nov. 28, 1671." (Nominee Forest was the wooded land adjacent to Nomini River and its branches.

Westmoreland Co., Va., Deed Book 3, p.72; "John Spencer godfather of John Thomas on April 29, 1702 deeds to John Thomas 50 acres of land, being part of the 200 acres formally sold to Jacob REMY unto my father Nicholas Spencer, Esq., dec'd., being in Nominy forest, bounded as follows; a path leading from Jacob REAMY's to Richard Doziers," also French who lived next to the REMY plantation.

Original Lists of Persons of Quality, etc., from Great Britain to America; "Entries from 1606-1702, March 2, Nicholas Spencer is appointed Secretary of the Colony of Virginia, during the pleasure of King Charles I" (Reign 1600-1649). Vol. 31, p. 6.

State of Virginia, County of Westmoreland, Deed Book 3, p.94;

Westmorland Co., Va., Will Book 7, p.254. Also Fothergills Wills p.75; "Will of Jacob REMY, dated July 1702, proved Dec 5., 1721; To loving wife Mary, the furniture in her room. To eldest son William, one shilling on demand. To youngest son Jacob, 200 acres of land, the land on which I now live."

Westmorland Co., Va., Will Book 7, p.366; "Abraham Smith on Sept. 27, 1721 deeds to John RAMEY, 50 acres, being part of a deed of 200 acres of land bought of Jacob RAMEY, Sr. , by Coll. Nicholas Spencer, and afterward made over to John Spencer, Gent., by deed of gift to Abraham Smith, his godson, etc., land commonly called and known by name of Beatles Neck, and bounded on the land of Jacob RAMEY, Sr."

THE REMY FAMILY IN FRANCE AND VIRGINIA

The ancient French family of Remi (Remy) was originally a tribe of Gaul (Northern France and Belgium). The family was represented in French history by Bishop Saint Remi of Rheims (437-533), Abbot Remi of Strasbourg who died in 768, Archbishop Remi of Rouen who died in 771, the King of the Lombards (750-800), and many other famous people. Didier Remy of this French family was ennobled 13 Sept. 1554 and died in 1556. His son George Remy was also ennobled. George's son Jacques Remy was born in Ivoy in the Department of Ardennes about 1545-7. Jacques Remy became a Huguenot and was killed in Ivoy. His son Pierre Remy who was born about 1600 was also a Huguenot and was killed. Pierre's son Jacques Remy was born about 1630 in Picardy, Lorraine. Jacques Remy married Francoise, daughter of Antoine Haldat II, Seigneur de Bonnet, and Madelaine Marchand. Jacques and Francoise fled to England because of Huguenot persecution. Jacques Remy, a huguenot refugee and a nobleman by birth, was brought to Virginia in 1654 by Nicholas Spencer, Esg., under the indenture system. His wife Francoise started for Virginia under indenture to John Brayton also in 1654, but died at sea. Jacob (his name was anglicized in Virginia) Remy served his indenture in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Then he worked as a free man for other people until he was able to become a landowner in that county in 1671, and married Mary Miles that same year. Jacob died in 1721.

Jacob was naturalized in 1680. The following is a copy of his Naturalization Papers:

State of Virginia, County of Westmoreland, Deed Book 3, pg. 94

Remy's Naturalization Papers

By the Deputy Governor of Virginia

Whereas the King's most Excellent Majesty in his most Special Grace and favour hath been graciously pleased for the Greater promotion and propagationof this his Majesty's Colony and Dominion of Virga: by Act of Assembly, to enact and declare all Aliens coming into this country and here residing, taking the Oath of Allegience, to be invested with all rights and privileges of any, of his Majesty's natural born subjects within the said Colony and, Whereas by the said Act is enacted and declared that the Governor and Commander in Chief for the time being in said Colony, by a public Instrument under the broad Seal thereof to declare any Alien or Sovereign being settled and inhabiting this Colony having taken the Oath of Allegience before the Governor and Commander in Chief for the time being to be to all intents and purposes fully and completely naturalized, and the person or persons so approved of and named in the letters Patent to have and enjoy to them and their heirs, the same immunities and rights of and unto the laws and privileges of their colony, and as fully and amply as any of his Majesty's natural born subjects of this colony have or enjoy within the same. Therefore I, Sir Henry Chichley, Knight, his Majesty's Deputy Governor and Commander in Chief, do by virtue of the said Act, hereby certify and declare that Jacob Remy, a Natural born subject of the French King, Hath taken the Oath of Allegience before me. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused this Colony Seal to be hereunto affixed. Dated in James City, Sept. The nine and twentieth, 1680, and in the two and thirtieth year of his Majesty's Reign.

He: Chichley.

Recorded: Octavo die Octobris, 1702. Pr: Ja: Westcomb

Civ. Comm. Westmoreland Co., Va."

Copy by Deputy Clerk; Richmond Co., Va.

Jacob and Mary's children --

1. William Remy b. 1672 - d. 1737

2. Jacob Remy, Jr. b. 1675 - d. 1726

In 1671 when Jacques Remy was 41, he married Mary Miles, daughter of Marmaduke Miles, in Virginia. Born about 1640.

They had one child:

6 i. William (1672-1737)

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6. William Ramey. Born in 1672 in Westmoreland Co VA. William died in Westmoreland Co VA in 1737, he was 65.

WILLIAM REMY, b. in 1672, m. abt 1693 Catherine, daughter of Henry and Mary Ashbury, receiving his inheritance when he married. He lived in Westmoreland Co., Va., and d. in 1737. Westmoreland Co., Va., Deed Book 81 p. 448; "William REMY is deeded 100 acres of land from the heirs of Peter Duncan, and enters into possession of same in 1693."

Westmoreland Co., Va., Order Book 1698-1705, p.9; May 25, 1698, Benjamin George is bound as apprentice to William REMY."

Westmoreland Co., Va., Deed Book 2, p.186; "May 30, 1699, William REMY witnessed deed from Edward Ransdell to Jacob Remy, Jr., his brother.

Va. County Records by Drozier; Proprietor Deeds of Grants, Book 2, p.291; "William Reamy, 123 acres of land - 1698."

Westmoreland Co., Va., Order Book 1698 - 1705, p.110; William REMEY, appointed Constable April 30, 1701."

Va. County Records, by Crozier, Book 3, p.47; "Henry Asbury Received Grant for 80 acres ofland in 1704."

Westmoreland Co., Va., Will Book 4, p.249; "Mary Ashbury, widow, gave unto Mary REMY, her granddaughter, daughter of William and Katherine REMY, a yearling heifer marked with a crop on the right ear and cross and nick under the left and branded with the figure 3, which at the said Mary Ashbury's request is entered on the records of W. Co., Va., the 19th day of June 1709. Pr. Ja: Westcomo. Clerk Court."

In 1693 when William was 21, he married Catherine Asbury, daughter of Henry Asbury & Mary Durrant, in Westmoreland Co VA. Born in 1680 in Va. Catherine died in Westmoreland Co VA in 1740, she was 60.

They had the following children:

i. William. Born about 1696 in Westmoreland Co, Va. William died in Frederick, Co. Va in 1758, he was 62.

William married Barbara Byram.

ii. Jacob. Born about 1698 in Westmoreland Co, Va. Jacob died in Westmoreland Co, Va about 1735, he was 37.

Jacob married Ann Carr.

iii. Ashbury. Born about 1700 in Westmoreland Co, Va.

iv. Mary. Born on June 19, 1709 in Westmoreland Co, Va.

Mary married William Sanders.

v. Katherine. Born about 1710 in Westmoreland Co, Va.

vi. John. Born about 1712 in Westmoreland Co, Va. John died in Henry Co, Va in 1791, he was 79.

On April 6, 1740 when John was 28, he married Mary Linton.

7 vii. James (~1715-~1760)

viii. Daniel. Born about 1720 in Westmoreland Co, Va. Daniel died before 1763, he was 43.

Daniel married Darchus Brickey.

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7. James Ramey. Born about 1715 in Westmoreland Co VA. James died in Frederick Co VA about 1760, he was 45.

In 1735 when James was 20, he married Elizabeth, in Frederick Co VA.

They had the following children:

i. Phillip. Born in 1740.

ii. William. Born in 1742.

iii. Daniel. Born about 1743.

iv. Mary. Born about 1744.

8 v. David (1745-)

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8. David Ramey. Born in 1745 in Frederick Co Va.

Children:

9 i. Jacob Sr (1775-1860)

ii. Daniel Sr. Born in 1778 in Frederick Co, Va. Daniel Sr died in Scott Co, Va on May 6, 1862, he was 84.

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9. Jacob Sr Ramey. Born in 1775 in Frederick Co, Va. Jacob Sr died in Wise Co Va in 1860, he was 85.

about 1800 when Jacob Sr was 25, he married Rebecca. Born in 1776 in North Carolina. Rebecca died in Wise Co Va in 1860, she was 84.

They had one child:

10 i. Jacob Jr (1808->1880)

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10. Jacob Jr Ramey. Born in 1808 in Russell Co Va ? Jacob Jr died in Wise Co Va after 1880, he was 72.

about 1822 when Jacob Jr was 14, he married Sarah Blevins, daughter of Daniel Blevins, in Russell Co Va. Born in 1807 in VA. Sarah died in VA in 1880, she was 73.

They had the following children:

11 i. Lucinda (1825-)

12 ii. Daniel (1829-)

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11. Lucinda Ramey. Born in 1825 in Scott Co Va.

In 1845 when Lucinda was 20, she married Daniel Hall, son of Ely Hall & Lydia Dotson, in Scott Co Va. Born in 1825 in Russell Co Va. Daniel died in Wise Co Va in 1869, he was 44.

They had the following children:

i. Susan. Born in 1847 in Scott Co Va.

ii. Louisa Jane. Born in 1848 in Scott Co Va.

iii. Polly Luemma. Born in 1852 in Scott Co Va.

iv. Malinda M. Born in 1854 in Wise Co Va.

v. George. Born in 1856 in Wise Co Va.

vi. Jacob C. Born in 1857 in Wise Co Va.

vii. Ellen. Born in 1858 in Wise Co Va.

12. Daniel Ramey.1,2 Born in 1829 in Scott Co Va.1 Daniel died in Wise Co, Va.

In 1847 when Daniel was 18, he married Catherine Hall, daughter of Ely Hall & Lydia Dotson, in Scott County VA. Born in 1832 in Russell Va.

They had the following children:

i. Dave. Born in Wise Co, Va.

On November 3, 1896 Dave married M.L. Henley, in Wise Co, Va.

ii. Jacob T. Born in 1848 in Russell Co, Va.

On November 3, 1881 when Jacob T was 33, he married Mary Tolbert, in Wise Co, Va.

iii. Wayne Tivis. Born in 1854 in Russell Co, Va.

On September 17, 1873 when Wayne Tivis was 19, he married S.L. Carico, in Wise Co, Va.

13 iv. Lucinda C (1856-1892)

v. Samuel Livingston. Born in 1858 in Wise Co, Va.

On November 24, 1883 when Samuel Livingston was 25, he married Susan Phipps, in Wise Co, Va.

vi. John. Born in 1862.

vii. Mary Columbia. Born in 1863 in Wise Co, Va.

On June 30, 1881 when Mary Columbia was 18, she married James F Branham, in Wise Co, Va.

viii. Mariah Arlis. Born in 1869.

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13. Lucinda C Ramey.2 Born on January 11, 1856 in Wise Co, Va. Lucinda C died in Wise Co VA on June 3, 1892, she was 36.

On October 28, 1876 when Lucinda C was 20, she married John M Blanton, son of Catherine Blanton, in Coeburn, Wise Co VA.3 Born on June 14, 1853 in Wise County, VA.4 John M died in Coeburn, Wise Co VA in October 1930, he was 77.

They had the following children:

i. Egbert. Born about 1876 in Wise Co Va.

ii. Catherine Dove. Born about 1878 in Wise Co Va.

iii. Martha. Born about 1880 in Wise Co Va.

iv. Livingston. Born about 1883 in Wise Co Va.

v. Edward. Born about 1885 in Wise Co Va.

14 vi. Litchfield B (1887-1953)