James Bankhead Family

James Bankhead Genealogy

The James Bankhead Family Genealogy

1 Dr. James Bankhead of the British Navy came to Virginia from Scotland sometime before 1738. In that year on August 20 he married Elinor . Elinor was the daughter of Andrew Monroe and Christian Tyler(?) of Westmoreland County. James and Elinor lived in Caroline County. They had six children: Elinor, William, James, John, Jane and Elizabeth. Dr. Bankhead died in 1788.
11 Elinor Bankhead, b.1739, d. 1754. Never married.
12 William Bankhead, b.1741 m. Miss Stewart. William was also a physician.
121 Stewart Bankhead, b. ?, d.1809, m. Eve Formicula Norfleet
1211 Eliza Bankhead, m.1) Lawson Waring, m.2) Col. Henry Garnett
122 Ellen (Nelly) Bankhead, m.1796 Robert Gilchrist Robb of Orange County
1221 Mary Robb died unmarried.
1222 Ellen Robb died unmarried.
1223 Elizabeth Robb, m. Robert Waring
1224 Robert Gilchrist Robb, Captain in U.S. Navy and later in Confederate States Navy. m. Fanny Lightfoot.

13 James Bankhead, b.circa 1756, d.1785, m. Christian Miller. James was a General. He may be the General Bankhead who fought a duel in the Old Vauter’s Churchyard, as reported in Old Churches Ministers and Families of Virginia.
131 Elizabeth Bankhead, b. 1778, m. Thomas Magruder of Maryland .
1311 Eliza Magruder
1312 George
1313 Isabella
1314 Julianna
1315 John Bankhead Magruder, b. 1807, d.1871. Was a General during the Civil War.
1316 Son
1317 Allan
1318 Janetta
132 James Monroe Bankhead, b. 1780-81, d. 1856, m. 1817 Anne Pyne of Charleston,South Carolina. James had a distinguished military career–rising from a Captain of the Infantry to the rank of Brigadier General. The photograph is a daguerreotype done by the Matthew Brady studio in the mid 1800’s. The original is in the Library of Congress .
1321 James Monroe Bankhead, b.1818, d. 1855
1322 Honora Smith Bankhead, b.1820 d. 1856 m. George Guest
1323 John Pyne Bankhead, b.1821 d. 1867. John Pyne entered the Navy as a midshipman in 1838 and rose to Lieutenant. He commanded the Monitor in 1861.
1324 Smith Pyne Bankhead, b. 1823 d. 1868 m. Adaline Garth. Smith Pyne Bankhead was a lawyer by profession, but became a General in the Confederate States Army. Smith Pyne and his brother, Henry Cary, who was in the United States Army, found themselves on opposing sides during the1861-1865 war.
1325 Elizabeth Isabella Bankhead, b. 1826, m.1)Captain Ball, m.2)Frank J. Baretto.
1326 Henry Cary Bankhead, b. 1828, m. Amelia Wainwright of New York. Henry became a Brigadier General in the U.S. Army.
133 Janet Bankhead, b. circa 1785, d. 1815, m. 1799 William Dunlop of Edinbugh, Scotland who lived at Port Royal, Virginia.

14 John Bankhead John was born circa 1760. While he was enrolled at the College of William and Mary, he joined with a group of other students to protect Williamsburg at the beginning of the Revolutionary War. He later went to Scotland and graduated from the Medical College in Edinburgh. He returned to Virginia and in 1787 married Mary Warner Lewis, the widow of Philip Lightfoot. They resided in Caroline County. Dr. John Bankhead was a great friend of Thomas Jefferson.
141 Charles Lewis Bankhead, b.1788, d.1833. The first child of John was Charles Lewis Bankhead, born in 1788. He married Anne Cary Randolph in 1808. Anne Cary, born in 1791, was the granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson, who had only two children–both daughters– who lived to adulthood and had children. Anne Carey’s mother, Martha, had married Thomas Mann Randolph, who became governor of Virginia. The young Bankheads lived at Carlton, a plantation near Monticello in Albemarle County. Charles was not a good husband; he drank to excess and mistreated his wife to such an extent that both sets of inlaws tried to think up schemes to rehabilitate him, Charles once fought a duel (another dueling Bankhead) with his brother-in-law in the town square. Anne Cary died in 1826, and left four children. She is buried in the family graveyard at Monticello. The epitaph on her gravestone reads: “Mourned, till on earth, meek pity cease to dwell, With angel goodness, from thine heaven forgive, The sorrowing heart that would still hold thee here. Charles married again, to Mary Carthrae . Charles died in 1833. His sons from his marriage to Anne Cary Randoph later moved to Arkansas, Alabama, and Missouri.
1411 John Warner Bankhead, b.1810, d. 1896 The first son of Charles Lewis and Anne Carey was John Warner Bankhead, born in 1810. In 1832 he married Elizabeth Poindexter Christian, the daughter of Archibald Christian and Fanny Warren. The family moved to Pike County, Missouri, in 1842, settling in Clarksville. Several other families from Albemarle County settled in the same area.
14111 Archer Christian Bankhead, b.1833, d.1911, m.Mary Chambers.
14112 Cary Randolph Bankhead, b.1835, d.1907
14113 Martha Jefferson Bankhead, b.1837, d. 1891, m. 1858, Kinzea Howard Norris.
14114 Thomas Jefferson Bankhead, b.1839, d.1863 (Civil War) 1412 Thomas Mann Randolph Bankhead, b.1811, d.1851, m. Anne Elizabeth Pryor Thomas moved to Arkansas in 1836 and settled there under the sponsorship of his uncle, Meriwether Lewis Randolph, who was Secretary of the Arkansas territory. Tom died in La Vaca, Texas, where he had intended to settle near his wife’s Pryor relatives. He left no children.
1413 Ellen Wayles Bankhead b. 1812, d.1838, m. 1832 John Coles Carter
14131 Anne Carter, b. 1833, d. 1895, m. 1852 Henry Preston
14132 Robert Hill Carter, b. 1835, d. 1854.
14133 John Coles Carter, b. 1837, d. 1902, m. Sarah E. Calvert.
1414 William Stuart Bankhead, b.1826, d. 1898, m.1) 1850 Martha Jane Watkins m.2) 1854 Barbara Elizabeth Garth, m.3) Catherine Gilchrist Garth William moved to northern Alabama in 1846. Family history says that he was on his way to Arkansas, to settle near his brother, Thomas, but was persuaded to settle instead in Alabama where he had stopped to rest.
1415 Charles Lewis Bankhead, II (second marriage), m.1855 Mary Bankhead
142 William Bankhead, b.1795, d. 1873, m. 1829 Dorothea Minor
1421 Georgianna Cary Bankhead, b. 1830, d. 1890
1422 John Bankhead
1423 Mary Bankhead, b. 1832
1424 Bettie Bankhead
1425 Rosalie Bankhead b. 1838
1426 Ellen Bankhead
1427 Nora Bankhead , m. John Mason Lee
143 John Bankhead, m. Ann Eliza Stewart (Stuart) 15 Jane Bankhead, m. John Taliaferro of Caroline County. Jane died at 95, outliving all her nine children. 16 Elizabeth (Ellen), m. James Thornton of Caroline County. Four children.

Sources:Warren, Mrs. J.E.. “Bankhead Family.” Genealogies of Virginia Families From theWilliam and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. Baltimore: GenealogicalPublishing Co., 1982. pp. 222-233.Taylor, Olivia. “Descendants of Thomas Jefferson and His Wife Martha Wayles”.Collected Papers to Commemorate Fifty Years of the Monticello Association of theDescendants of Thomas Jefferson. Princeton: The Association: 1965. pp.67-75.Bankhead, Lowell Carey and Shackleford, George Green. Chapters 4-7. CollectedPapers of the Monticello Association of the Descendants of Thomas Jefferson.Volume 2. Charlottesville: 1984.
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