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Excerpt from "From the Chickahominy To The Caney Fork" Ancestors and Descendants of John Vaden. By: Anise and John Vaden, Edmond and Emmogene V. Bevelheimer
To answer your question about the MEANING of "VADEN" I can submit a quote from page 9 in this book, Copy #363 of only 500 copies ever printed in First Edition. My Mother's Mother was born Jewel Vaden in Tennessee. Other family Members of her time were Wilbur and Virgil Vaden. Virgil was my Grandmother's Father.
The Vaden Name and Immigrants
The Vaden family is of French Huguenot origin and lived on the Island of Jersey in the English Channel before coming to America. They had fled religious persecution in France.
The first recorded reference to the arrival of "Vodins" to America was as headrights under a general grant of 1200 acres to Mr. William Drummond, March 26, 1662. In this Drummond grant are mentioned the names of Abram Vodin, Marice Vodin, Isaak Vodin and John Vodin. Paul and Clara Varnin were mentioned as headrights in a land patent to John Fowler in Henrico County, October 30, 1673. In 1685, John and Isaac Vodin each obtained a land patent of 300 acres, both on the North side of the Chickahominy River, in James City County where they had lived since their arrival.
Henry Vaden is the earliest of the Vaden ancestors who has been identified and documented, and was living in Henrico County, in that part which later became Chesterfield County. His name appears several times in the records as a juror, and as a witness to deeds and agreements. Henry Vaden and his wife Elizabeth had a son named Henry, a daughter, and a son named William, who had a daughter born September 18, 1728 named Frances, aalso the name of William's wife. This William is the second ancestor from which the John Vaden line descended, his father Henry being the first.
Although V-A-D-E-N has been the accepted spelling of the name for this family if immigrants, it has been spelled in many ways................Could Abram and Marice be the ancestors of the New Kent Vaidens who retained that spelling for centuries both in New Kent and later in Mississippi? Two Vaiden homes, Dureath Abbey and Orchard Grove, are among the important dwellings in New Kent which have survived until the present time."
Of course the book reads on with much more interesting information, I hope this helps for now. I typed it exactly as worded in the book on Page 9 except where I left a few sentences out to get to the bottom. My goal is to attempt a REPRINT of this book. Or, at least see who among the Vaden Family heirs may have one of the 500 copies? Please advise.
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