Getting back to work after Thanksgiving

Yes. It takes me a week or so. I have not done much more than scan a bunch of photographs and organize my genealogy file drawer. I finally put things into family folders there instead of in a couple of general folders full of junk I copied somewhere. Luckily I was able to sort things into their proper folders without a pile of “unknowns” left over.
I’ll probably start a page about Ayrfield too, now that I have scanned a bunch of photos of the place. I have at least one that reaches back to what appears to be some time at or before 1900. I also have a bunch of photos of the ruins after the fire in 1994.
Among other things to be sorted out and posted here are some other Davis tidbits I got and a bunch of stuff about the Wisharts. As it turns out, I have hints that Williams Edwards Davis may have been born in Gloucester County and not in Isle of Wight as had been related to us in family lore. That’d go a good way to explaining why we can’t find records of him in Isle of Wight. As for the Wishart family – I have a scan of Sidney Wishart’s will and a plat of his estate on Potomac Creek in Stafford County, including notes showing the location of the home, Belle Plain.
More to come. Stand by!