Ancestry of
James Kay

(1787–1859)

Dorothy -----

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of James Kay — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 21 
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  • AFT 4 Apr 1716 
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  • William Strother
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  • ABT 1651 
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  William Strother

  Robert Strother (Ahnentafel No:10 )

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  • There appears to be an ongoing debate as to whether or not Dorothey's maiden name was Savage. There was a neighbor of William and Dorothy Strother named Anthony Savage, but there appears to be no evidence to support the claim that Dorothy's maiden name was Savage.

• Sources for Dorothy -----

  • ¹ New England Ancestors Magazine, 2004, Vol. 5, No. 2, p. 42.
  • ² Publications of the Southern History Association, 1898, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 150-151.
  • ³ Register of Kentucky State Historical Society, 1927, Vol. 25, No. 75, p. 294.
  • ⁴ Carter, Jeff, Ancestors of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, Inc. (2012), 72.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 229.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 572.
  • ⁷ Strother, Edward L., The Strother Family: 300 Years from Virginia to Louisiana, Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press (2002), 2-6.