The Proeger Family · Generation 9 — Earl's earliest known

Frances Tandy

Probable mother of Jane Burris · wife of Thomas Burris

Frances Tandy

Probable

Probable mother of Jane Burris · wife of Thomas Burris

Died
Not found
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. The DAR Lineage Book entry for Miss Lilla May Duncan (no. 112604) gives the line “James Quisenberry m. 1776 Jane Burris (1759–1811). Thomas Burris m. Frances Tandy”, Thomas a sergeant in the 3rd Virginia regiment who died in Virginia in 1789 S751. Thomas Burrus's own will of 1788 names his wife Frances, a son William Tandy and a daughter Frances Tandy Bush, besides “my daughter Jane Quisenberry” S645. A 1940 SAR application by another Burrus descendant, Ollie Ezekiel Reed, was read too, but the image is only its cover and references sheet S856. What is weak: only compiled lineage books give her maiden name as Tandy; the will names Thomas's wife Frances without a surname and does not say she was Jane's mother; FamilySearch has no independent record.

Evidence: DAR Lineage Book no. 112604 names Frances Tandy as Thomas Burris's wife in Jane Burris's numbered line, and Thomas Burrus's 1788 will names his wife Frances, a son William Tandy and a daughter Frances Tandy Bush. Weak or missing: Only compiled lineage books give her maiden name; the will gives no surname and does not say Frances was Jane's mother, and no original record has been found. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

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Birth
Her birth and death dates, and the middle name some online trees give her, are not in any record read and are not used here

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Probable
Probable mother of Jane Burris, and so grandmother of Colby Burris Quisenberry; wife of Thomas Burris (Burrus) of Orange County, Virginia, whose will was written on 2 October 1788 and proved on 23 March 1789 S645

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Frances Tandy · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this card

3 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.

  1. S645Will of Thomas Burrus, Orange County, Virginia, Will Book 3, pp. 190–191. Ancestry record 2478859. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Dated 2 October 1788, proved 23 March 1789. It names “my daughter Jane Quisenberry” and “my grand Daughter Frances Quisenberry the Daughter of Jane Quisenberry”; his wife Frances; sons Thomas, William Tandy and Roger; daughters Mourning, Fanny Embry, Mildred Embry(?), Elizabeth Brockman, Sally Tribble and Frances Tandy Bush.
  2. S751DAR Lineage Book, p. 197, no. 112604: Miss Lilla May Duncan. Ancestry record 3494636. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Probable Descent through Joyce Quisenberry (b. 1777) and James Duncan to “James Quisenberry m. 1776 Jane Burris (1759–1811)”, daughter of Thomas Burris and Frances Tandy; Thomas Burris a sergeant in the 3rd Virginia, died in Virginia in 1789. A compiled lineage book.
  3. S856U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications — national no. 59852 (DC Society), Ollie Ezekiel Reed, descendant of Thomas Burrus, 1940–41. Ancestry collection 2204, record 1241690 (image 32596_242525-00115). Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Probable Filed 30 December 1940, approved 6 February 1941. The image is the cover and references sheet: DAR nos. 214648, 274802, 257708 [228504], Gleanings of Virginia History p. 193, the Henley Genealogy (W. B. Henley, Amherst County, 1880), and the 1782 Virginia census p. 19. The lineage page is not on this image, so it does not itself name Frances Tandy; it points to the references a later search can use.

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