Hij is getrouwd met Eliza Cox.
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Zij zijn getrouwd rond 1708 te Exeter, Devonshire, England.
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Sometime between 1716 and 1721 the family moved to Milltown, Cavan Shire, Province of Ulster in Ireland. It appears they came to America about 1734.
AfterEliza's death, William and some of the family moved in 1742 to Augusta Co, VAand lived on Whistle Creek Road (near the creeks' juncture with the North River, now the Maury River, two miles west of Lexington) He died there the same year(the present day site is along US Highway 60)
Source York Co Gen. and His Soc. "The Quarterly". Vol . V, No. 5, Dec 1993. presented by Thurlo V. Byers,
7432 Woodland Way, St. Louis, MO 63121., author of a 550-page book about David and his brother Capt. William Byers.
Source: Kinnexions.com/smlawson (Steve Lawson's web site.
From reasearch of Deanna Byers Thomas and the web site of Ken Crouse in Jan 2000.
After Eliza's death, William and some of the family moved in 1742 to Augusta Co, VA and lived on Whistle Creek Road (near the creeks' juncture with the North River, now the Maury River, two miles west of Lexington) He died there the same year (the present day site is along US Highway 60)
"William and Elisabeth (Cox) Byers
William BYERS - b. May 6, 1687, St. Ives, Cornwall, England; d. Apr. 8,
1742, Lexington, Augusta Co., VA; bur. New Monmouth Cem., Augusta Co., VA.
Son of William BYERS and Louisa KINKADE. The family relocated from Exeter,
Devon, England to Milltown, Co. Cavan, Ireland about 1717, to North Oxford,
Chester Co., PA in 1734, and to Lexington, Augusta Co., VA by 1742. Seven
children were born in England, four in Ireland, and son William was born
shortly after the family arrived in America. Family sources record that the
BYERS family sailed on Jun. 4, 1734 from Dublin, Ireland aboard the
'Friendship', arrived at Philadelphia, PA on Oct. 16, 1734, and settled at
North Oxford District, Chester Co., PA on Nov. 3, 1734. William's brother
Robert BYERS also lived in Chester Co., PA. William BYERS and Elisabeth COX
were married in 1708 at St. Mathew Chapel, Exeter, Devon, England.
Elisabeth COX - b. Sep. 4, 1688, Exeter, Devon, England; d. Aug. 19, 1741,
North Oxford, Chester Co., PA; bur. Sycamore Presbyterian Church Cem.,
Chester Co., PA. Daughter of James COX (b. Jun. 7, 1649) and Agnes Virginia
BEST (b. Aug. 8, 1654). Elizabeth may have had two younger sons, Joseph and
Nathan, who died as infants
http://kinnexions.com/smlawson/porters.htm#Byers
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