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• FSID: LCMZ-9H2
• Name: Thomas Opie ;[Capt.]
• Name: Thomas Opie ;[Capt.]
• Name: Thomas Opie Capt
• Name: Thomas Opie Capt
• Name: Thomas Opie Capt.
• Name: Thomas Opie Capt.
• Name: Thomas Opie Jr
• Name: Thomas Opie Jr
• Name: Thomas Opie Jr
• Name: Thomas Opie Jr

Thomas married Grosse, Ann on 22 Jun 1672 in Gwennap, Cornwall, England. Ann (daughter of Gross, Edward and Gross, Mrs Anne) was born on 9 Oct 1649 in Truro, Cornwall, England; died in DECEASED in Northumberland, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: KZR3-2V3

Jane married Cammell, John in 1709 in Virginia, USA. John (son of Carnell, William and Kelley, Sarah) was born in 1690 in Lancaster, Virginia, USA; died in 1763 in St Marys, St Mary's, Maryland, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: L2X9-4F5

Jane married Norris, John Jr on 4 Feb 1736 in Lancaster, Virginia, USA. John (son of Norris, John and Patrick, Mary "Winnie" Winifred) was born on 1 Jun 1710 in Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA; died in 1776 in Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: L6LC-7LX
• Residence: Meat Camp, Watauga, North Carolina, USA
• Military: 1776, Virginia, USA
• Military: 1776, North Carolina, USA
• Residence: 1790, Wilkes, North Carolina, USA
• Residence: 1820, Ashe, North Carolina, USA
• Residence: 1830, Athens, McMinn, Tennessee, USA

Notes:

JOHN NORRIS is stated to have been born in Virginia. The family is stated to come from Great Britain. He is said to have had several children which include: William, John, Thomas, Gilbert and three sisters who married (Jim Dickson, David Miller and Elm Cantil). At some point he moved to North Carolina.
I have not proved the following information. Some records on line states that he was born 29 October 1750 in Lunenburg, VA and died in McMinn, TN in 1835. His wife they say was Ann Gilbert.
His father is said to be John Norris born 1710 in Charleston, SC, died 1776 in SC and his mother was Jane. John was the son of John who was born in 1762 in Charleston, SC and died there. The record goes on to state that he was married to a Mary Winifred “Winnie” Patrick who was born in Maryland in 1689 and died in Long Cane, SC in 1760. She was caught in a massacre as 150 settlers that lived on the frontier tried to escape the Cherokee lands. Tensions had increased between the settlers and the natives in the area. A number of families decided to leave. They were trying to cross a boggy area next to a waterway when it was said that 100 Cherokee Indians on horseback attacked as they were heading back to the coast. Winnie was there with her daughter in law and some of her grandchildren. Winnie, the daughter in law, Elizabeth Wrintz Norris and three of her children were killed including Sarah who was only a year old. They were “tomahawked” to death. One of her grandchildren, Robert, was able to run into the woods and escape. It was he who later placed a monument there for his lost family members. I cannot imagine what Robert saw that day. His mother, his grandmother and several siblings were killed. The reports stated that the dead had been mutilated. There may have been a guilt too that he ran and survived and they did not. They say that people found children wondering through the woods alone some with serious injuries and some scalped but alive after the attack. One man alone found nine children.
The genealogist continued with John’s father as Thomas Norris born in 1638 in St. Mary’s, MD and died in June 1683 in Kent, MD (across the Chesapeake Bay from Baltimore). He had two wives, Martha Ironmonger and Elizabeth Hozier whom is the mother of our ancestor. Thomas’s father is Thomas who was born in Congham, Norfolk, England in 1609 and died in Talbot County, MD in 1675 (this is on the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay in the middle of the state). His wife was Ann Hynson (daughter of Thomas Hynson born 1591) who was born in Nansemond, VA in 1612 and died in 1668 in Talbot County, MD. Thomas was the son of Geoffrey Noreys born in 1577. He was born in Congham, Norfolk, England. Today this is a village of 277 souls. It is on the east of England about 100 miles north of London. It is 10 miles to the open waters of the English Channel. It is directly across from Holland.
Geoffrey was the son of John Noreys (b 1549, d 1572) and Might of Gun Thorpe (b 1553 Congham, England). John is the son of Geoffrey Noreys ca 1490 who is the son of Robert Noreys ca 1460 who is the son John Norey b 1434 who is the son of Geoffrey b 1408 and Margery b 1412. This Geoffrey is said to be the son of Geoffrey who was born about 1370 who is the son of Geoffrey Noreys who was born before 1361.

1776 in Revolutionary War inVirginia served as a Minuteman from Wilkes County - war battles of Camden and Kings Mountain, Captain James Cobb Company and North Carolina in Captain Jo

John married Gilbert, Ann on 15 Apr 1772 in Virginia, USA. Ann was born on 1 Jun 1757 in Virginia, USA; died on 1 Jun 1819 in McMinn, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Jun 1819 in McMinn, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]