Bil Brasington
Confederate-American
To avoid my babling, here are links to results from some of my research:
Cemeteries where SC Patriots are buried
SC Service during The War of northern Aggression (WBTS)
Search My Personal Pages(206857)
With the trend towards hyphenated Ethnic ID's, I was at a loss. I hate the term
WASP (White AngloSaxon Protestant). While Brasington is an Olde English name
and therefore AngloSaxon, I have lines that lead to the Norman Invasion, with
other lines to Iteland, Scotland, and Wales. The only thing that pretty well
defines me is a recoginiton of my Rebel Roots
Over time, my 2 interest in US History and tracking my family trees have become
intertwined, which makes sense since my family's history is but a sub-set of US
History. The first documented Brasington in what would become the USA,
according to "The Records of the Virginia Company of London" was Thomas
Brasington, who unfortunately was killed in the "Massacre of 1622" at Captain
John Berkley's Plantation seated at the Falling Creek, some 66 miles from James
City Co (Jamestown), Virginia. Another of my lines is Richard Owings, who was
in Anne Arundel County Maryland by 1684/5. He served as Captain of the Rangers
on the Potomac River until the Rangers were disbanded. The duties of the
Rangers were to protect the inhabitants of the area from attacks of "unfriendly
Indians".
I have a probable connection to Samuel Brasington who was a tailor to a
Virginia planter in the 1760's and 1770's who was named George Washington. Mrs.
Brasington was a mid-wife to the Washington's slaves.
The younger brother of my wife's 5th great grandmother's younger brother was a
signer of the Declaration of Independence while one my cousins, 4 times
removed, was one of the signers The Ordinance Of Secession Of South Carolina on
December 20, 1860.
I have direct ancestors who fought in the American Revolution, with the
Virginia Line, North Carolina Line, South Carolina Militia, as well as the
Continental Army and Continental Artillery. One was at Valley Forge and
Yorktown.
My Confederate lines are rich, including 2 great grandfathers, and two great
great grandfathers. One was killed at Gettysburg, 1 surrendered with the Army
of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House, VA, another in North Carolina
with the Army of the West, and one NEVER surrendered at all.
My research has led me any many directions and I have gathered much data that I
am more than willing to share with others. I have scattered it around the
InterNet a bit and this page is more to tie it together.
I hope you find value in it and if you can add to it, drop me a line.
Got data you would like to share to the world? Let me know and I will help you
put it on the WEB.
Bil
The following are the pages I have produced, most for me but also for others:
This is the first page I put together and it contains all the data I have
compiled on
My Family
A major source of data for me is Census records and Lancaster County is where
my paternal lines come from so I built
CatawbaWateree Census Data
page
My paternal grandfather (John Samuel Brasington) entered active service in
defense of South Carolina as a 16 year old boy in the
Last CallUp
of the available manpower (and boy power) in a last ditch effort.
While looking for data on John, I found his application to reside in The
Confederate Home, in Columbia. I was born and raised in Columbia and
remembered where the cemetery was. I surveyed the cemetery and added data from
the Application files at the SC Archives and published the
Expanded Confederate (SC) Cemetery
I became very interested in all of those units that no one else seems to
research
SC Reserves 61-64
since for the most part that did not participate in the Big Battles
I stumbled across references to the Militia's use as Guards of POW's. I
"discovered" that they guarded Union Officers at
Columbia CSA POW Camp,
and possibly one of my great grandfathers was a guard of these POWs