Re: Wisconsin / South Dakota Radway line
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Re: Wisconsin / South Dakota Radway line
Doreen Leo Radway 11/20/02
<< I think the s. Dakota etc. lines, the Cortland County lines and my line from Canton, St. Lawrence County NY are all related in some way ... >>
Sorry, Doreen, but as you say, your Richard Radway of Canton (who first appears in the federal census in 1850) had himself come from England. The Cortland County and South Dakota Radways, on the other hand, descend from James1 Re(a)d(a)way/Ridway (never Radway), who emigrated from Devonshire, England, to Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1637 and settled at Rehoboth in 1644.Timothy4 Redway (Capt. James3, John2, James1) of Rehoboth took his family to Putney, Vermont, in 1778. The following is an excerpt from my article on the Vermont Redways (NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER 154[2000]:446-58):
"From 1812 to 1820 the surname of Timothy's son Wilmarth, daughter-in-law Martha (son Jonathan's widow), and their respective families underwent a transition from Redway to Radway (see Putney Land Recs., 4:570, 580, 621, 5:56-622 passim, 6:62-532 passim, 7:29-361 passim; 1820 U.S. Census, Putney, Windham Co., Vt., 133, 134). Certain of Wilmarth’s descendants retained the latter spelling; others reverted to the former. All Jonathan’s descendants appear to have remained Radways.(It is ironic that this modification did not follow on the heels of the Redways' migration to Putney but occurred after more than thirty years there. Timothy’s other two sons and their respective families left Putney before the transition began and escaped it altogether.)"
As you see, a connection between Richard Radway of Canton and these other Radways (who were Redway descendants) is highly unlikely.
Gene Z.