Individual Details
Evan Ragland Sr.
(31 Mar 1656 - 30 May 1716)
[[Category:Questionable_Gateway_Ancestors]] == Biography == Evan Raglin died May 30th 1717, the Parish of St. Peter's New Kent County, Virginia.[https://archive.org/stream/parishregisterof00stpe#page/68/mode/2up The Parish Register of St. Peter's Parish New Kent County, Va. from 1680 to 1787.] National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Publ: Richmond, W. E. Jones, Printer. (p 68) == Sources ==
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[[Category:Questionable_Gateway_Ancestors]]
== Biography ==
Evan Raglin died May 30th 1717, the Parish of St. Peter's New Kent County, Virginia.[https://archive.org/stream/parishregisterof00stpe#page/68/mode/2up The Parish Register of St. Peter's Parish New Kent County, Va. from 1680 to 1787.] National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Publ: Richmond, W. E. Jones, Printer. (p 68)
== Sources ==
[https://familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=137995&disp=The+Raglands The Raglands : the history of a British-American family]
[http://hylbom.com/family/paternal-lines/paternal-pr-to-se/ragland-1512/ Ragland #1512]
[http://kinnexions.com/smlawson/ragland.htm#ESRagland Ragland: From the files of Stephen M. Lawson]
[http://www.raglandmansion.com/ragl.en.html Who Was Reuben Ragland?]
[http://boards.ancestryclassroom.com/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=138&p=surnames.ragland Evan Ragland Facts to Share -The Immigrant - The Truth]
[http://www.castlewales.com/raglan.html Raglan Castle]
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[[Category:Questionable_Gateway_Ancestors]]
== Biography ==
Evan Raglin died May 30th 1717, the Parish of St. Peter's New Kent County, Virginia.[https://archive.org/stream/parishregisterof00stpe#page/68/mode/2up The Parish Register of St. Peter's Parish New Kent County, Va. from 1680 to 1787.] National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Publ: Richmond, W. E. Jones, Printer. (p 68)
== Sources ==
[https://familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=137995&disp=The+Raglands The Raglands : the history of a British-American family]
[http://hylbom.com/family/paternal-lines/paternal-pr-to-se/ragland-1512/ Ragland #1512]
[http://kinnexions.com/smlawson/ragland.htm#ESRagland Ragland: From the files of Stephen M. Lawson]
[http://www.raglandmansion.com/ragl.en.html Who Was Reuben Ragland?]
[http://boards.ancestryclassroom.com/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=138&p=surnames.ragland Evan Ragland Facts to Share -The Immigrant - The Truth]
[http://www.castlewales.com/raglan.html Raglan Castle]
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[[Category:Questionable_Gateway_Ancestors]]
[[Category:Common Genome of Descendants of Francis Bird]]} - Please see "Vitals" ([[#Vitals|below]]) for genealogical facts with verifiable support and [[#Research Notes|Research Notes]] for a discussion of facts lacking such support (for parents and birth). ~ [[Noland-165|Liz Shifflett]], [[Project:Virginia|Virginia Project]]
== Biography ==The facts and circumstances surrounding the arrival of Evan Ragland in America are, at best, obscure. However, from the few fragments of evidence which have survived, his removal to America would seem to suggest a pattern which during a good part of the seventeenth century was an all too common method of immigration from many of the small ports located on both sides of the Bristol Channel. Evan Ragland was probably abducted around the year 1670 (abt 14 yrs old) from the village of Watchet in Somerset by one of the captains of the hundreds of ships which traveled between the various ports of the Bristol Channel to America. Transported to Virginia under the harshest of conditions, and there undoubtedly sold into servitude for a period of from five to seven years. The only source which "sheds any light" on Evan Ragland's activities during his first ten years in America comes from family traditions which date back to at least the eighteenth century. According to those traditions, Evan was quite well educated for someone of his age. He was taken into the home of the planter who purchased him, (Stephen Pettus) and for several years he was employed as the planter's secretary. Stephen Pettus was born in Norwich England. Growing to manhood, Evan is said to have fallen in love with a daughter of the planter that purchased him. Existing evidence strongly indicates that Mr. Pettus was a moderately wealthy planter who lived along the Chickahominy River in New Kent County, Virginia. Records indicate that he patented two tracts of land in New Kent County; the first in 1655 (500 acres located on the north side of the Chickahominy River, about 25 miles above its mouth) where he made his home, the second in 1667 (450 acres on the upper reaches of the Chickahominy along the northern edge of the Chickahominy Swamp (Hanover County after 1720). Although unrecorded, the marriage of Evan Ragland to Susanna, daughter of Stephen Pettus, probably took place around the year 1680. From 1689 until his death, Evan's name appears with some regularity in the rent rolls of St. Peter's Parish in New Kent County, Virginia. He appears to have lived for the remainder of his life in New Kent County on the plantation of his father-in-law, which he acquired through marriage. The final notation relating to Evan in St. Peter's Parish register was "Evan Raglin Departed this Life May 30th 1717." Evan Ragland and his wife, Susanna Pettus, had five children and it is from their four sons that the Ragland family is descended.
Another very interesting account of Evan Ragland was provided by Dawn Griffis. Back in 1988 she was fortunate enough to travel to Raglan in Wales. As luck would have it she met a direct descendant of the Ragland family, Anna Tribe. Anna says that she is a close cousin to the Duke of Beaufort, who is part of the rich side of the family. She said that she is a direct descendant of Adm Nelson and Lady Hamilton, and that her family is descendants of the Herbert/s and Raglans. She, Anna Tribe stated that relatives of Evan Ragland's family had inherited some land in the 1500's in Somerset. "They were wealthy and had a lot of land in and around Watchet and Stogumber." "In 1656 Evan was born." "At the age of 13 he and his cousin, John Davis were playing on the docks at Watchet while Evan's father conducted business in town." "When the father went to pick them up they were gone." "He found out both had been taken onto a passing ship going to America." Legend has it, he was "shangheid." Based on the age of Evan, he was abducted in about 1669. In those days this was common practice, and how many indentured servants made their way to America. Of course there was not a record of those that were abducted this way. Seems that Evan was lucky that Mr. Stephen Pettus, (person who bought Evan), realized that Evan was educated and therefore he used him as a clerk instead of for hard labor. Evan eventually married daughter of Mr. Pettus, Susanna, who was his sole heir.
There are numerous accounts of Evan Ragland on the Vestry Rolls of St. Peter's Parish Church. It is interesting to note that this church is known as The First Church of the First First-Lady. On the sixth of January 1759 the Rector of St. Peter's Parish, the Rev'd Mr. David Mossom, solemnized the marriage of Col. George Washington and the Widow Martha Custis. St. Peter's Parish was established on April 29, 1679.
In 1697, the Reverend Mr. Nicholas Moreau, wrote the Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry that he had "got in the very worst parish of Virginia and the most troublesome." Having served here for just over a year, he packed up and returned to England. This church is still active today. Evan could have been a member of this church during this time period.
St, Peter's Parish At a Vestry held at the upper Church the 14th June, 1698.(The Vestry Book of Saint Peter's New Kent County, VA shows Evan Raglan on page 10). It states, "Mr. Hen Wyatt producing an order of Court for help to Cleer the Roads in his presints is ordered the s'd following Tithables, viz.: will makgeehe, Edw. Tony, Will Walker, Robert Allin, will Daniell, John Yeomans, Richard Scruggs, James Neenes, Thomas Ashcraft, Edw'd Flinch, Thomas Wilkinson, John Rayle, EVAN RAGLAN, Mr. Thomas Smith's quarter, Edw'd Morgan, Will Dollard, Thomas martin, Thomas Gibson, Will Gardner, Christopher Baker, William Johnson, Peter Moss, Robert Hughes, Thomas Howard, Geo. Bradbury, Hen'e Turner, Thomas minns."
At a vestry held at St. Peter's parish Church on behalf of ye St. Peter's parish this 4th day of May, 1689. (On page 11 the name RAGGLIN appears again.) Here it reads, "The several persons named in Company's y't were ordered to prosession & to Remark ye bounds of each man's land:" Due to the lengthy lists of names I am not providing them, however, the surname Ragland does appear approximately 20 more times, including the name of Evan Ragland. Many other Ragland's names appear throughout the Vestry Rolls from this time period as well as from the New Kenty County, Virginia records from 1684-1786.
Accounts of Baptism of Evan can be found on-line in various places that reads: "Bap't ye Mar 31, 1656, Jevan (Evan) Ragland sone of Thomas and Jane Ragland: Records in St. Decuman's in Somerset County, England. (See [[#Birth|below]] for discussion of this record.)
=== Vitals ===
: '''Children''': * "William son of Evan Ragling Junr Born May ye 1st & bapt ye 29th, 1709"* "John son of Evan Ragling Junr Baptised March ye 13th, 1710"
: '''Died''': Evan Raglin died May 30th 1717, the Parish of St. Peter's New Kent County, Virginia.[https://archive.org/stream/parishregisterof00stpe#page/68/mode/2up The Parish Register of St. Peter's Parish New Kent County, Va. from 1680 to 1787.] National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Publ: Richmond, W. E. Jones, Printer. (sons William & John, pp 33 & 34; death, p 68)
=== DNA Profile ===DNA information can be found at the Category link for ''Common Genome of Descendants of Francis Bird.'' [https://tinyurl.com/ro7cr9k]
== Research Notes ==
=== Birth ===:'''Purported baptism record:'''The identification of Evan Ragland as a son of Thomas and Jane Ragland by Charles Ragland depends on a baptism record of "Jevan Ragland" at St. Decumans in Somerset on 31 March 1656.Ragland. ''The Raglands: The History of a British-American Family'', vol. II. (1987). However, an examination of the original record shows that it has been mis-transcribed. The record on 31 March 1656 was for ''"Johan the daughter of Thomas Ragland"''.St. Decumans Parish Register. Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1531-1812 (database on-line, ancestry.com). [http://tinyurl.com/y9sq9c3c Image of original at ancestry.com].
}
=== Uncertain Parents ===: Below paragraph titled "Uncertain Parents" was written entirely by John Schmeeckle, who is the Magna Carta Project coordinator for Questionable Gateway Ancestors. He posted a public comment, On 8 Jun 2015, John Schmeeckle started a G2G thread to determine whether Evan Ragland and others should be recognized as Gateway Ancestors.
: There was indeed a couple named Thomas and Jane Ragland, who were having children at St Decumans from 1656 through 1674 -- per the transcriptions of parish records at [https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_queries/5ac3e8ecf4040b122aa2228e https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_queries/5ac3e8ecf4040b122aa2228e] -- with the first entry being a DAUGHTER "Johan" baptized 31 Mar. 1656, the same day as the alleged baptism of '''Evan Ragland''' the kidnapped immigrant to Virginia.
== Sources ==
*https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98910123
*American Genealogical Biographical Index
* Ragland, Charles James Jr. ''The Raglands: The History of a British-American Family'', vol. I. (Winston-Salem, N.C.: privately printed, 1978). [https://familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=137995&disp=The+Raglands Found at FamilySearch.org]
* Ragland, Charles James Jr. ''The Raglands: The History of a British-American Family'', vol. II. (Winston-Salem, N.C.: privately printed, 1987). [https://familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=137995&disp=The+Raglands Found at FamilySearch.org]
*St. Decumans Parish Register. Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1531-1812 (database on-line, ancestry.com). [http://tinyurl.com/y9sq9c3c Image of original at ancestry.com].
*Chamberlayne, C.G. ed. ''The Vestry Book of Saint Peter's New Kent County, VA from 1682-1758''. (Richmond VA, 1937). [http://tinyurl.com/y8q8osdo HathiTrust.org LINK]
*St. Peter's Parish. ''The parish register of Saint Peter's, New Kent county, Virginia from 1680 to 1787'' (New Kent County, Va.: National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1904). [http://tinyurl.com/y87ku2vy Archive.org LINK]
*Wertin, Christine. Scanned and transcribed. ''St. Peter's Church of New Kent County, Virginia, Parish Register, 1680 to 1787''. (http://www.vagenweb.org/newkent/stpete_toc.html) (Ragland: http://www.vagenweb.org/newkent/index14.html).
:: "These are the only records of the Colonial period that exist."::: "St. Peter's Parish Register from the colonial days (1680 - 1787)....."::: "Evan Raglin Departed this Life may ye 30th, 1717." (p.68, http://www.vagenweb.org/newkent/stpete04.html)::: "St. Peter's Vestry Book from the colonial days (1682 - 1758)....."
::: "St. Peter's Cemetery records."
::: (http://www.stpetersnewkent.org/Geneology/)
*Soc.genealogy.medieval Online Discussion Group: [http://tinyurl.com/yau9tvk2 Possible Lineage From Evan Ragland in Virginia to Hameline Plantagenet]. (First post 10/12/2012).
*Soc.genealogy.medieval Online Discussion Group: [http://tinyurl.com/y852msld Evan Ragland Lineage]. (First post 11/28/2008 by Marianne Dillow).
*Soc.genealogy.medieval Online Discussion Group: [http://tinyurl.com/y8bh23ag RE: Comprehensive descents from E3 - Evan Ragland, of VA?] (First post 10/24/2008 by Tony Hoskins).
*Soc.genealogy.medieval Online Discussion Group: [http://tinyurl.com/y9nljchu Comprehensive descents from E3] (First post 10/23/2008 by Will Johnson).
*Hylbom Family Ancestry Project website, [http://hylbom.com/family/paternal-lines/paternal-pr-to-se/ragland-1512/ Ragland #1512]
*[http://www.pricegen.com/immigrantservants/servant/show.php?servant=14235 Indentured Servants Database]
*[http://kinnexions.com/smlawson/ragland.htm#ESRagland Ragland: From the files of Stephen M. Lawson]
*[http://www.raglandmansion.com/ragl.en.html Who Was Reuben Ragland?]
*[http://boards.ancestryclassroom.com/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=138&p=surnames.ragland Evan Ragland Facts to Share -The Immigrant - The Truth]
*[http://www.castlewales.com/raglan.html Raglan Castle]
*New Kent County Road Orders 1684-1758. Transcribed from Vestry Book of St. Peter's Parish by Ann Brush Miller, Senior Research Scientist Charlottesville, Virginia, February, 2011.
*Christ Church Parish Virginia Records 1653-1812, death of Evan Raglin 30 May 1717
*US & International Marriage Records 1560-1900 (Susanna Pettus 1680)
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[[Category:Questionable_Gateway_Ancestors]]
== Biography ==
Evan Raglin died May 30th 1717, the Parish of St. Peter's New Kent County, Virginia.[https://archive.org/stream/parishregisterof00stpe#page/68/mode/2up The Parish Register of St. Peter's Parish New Kent County, Va. from 1680 to 1787.] National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Publ: Richmond, W. E. Jones, Printer. (p 68)
== Sources ==
[https://familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=137995&disp=The+Raglands The Raglands : the history of a British-American family]
[http://hylbom.com/family/paternal-lines/paternal-pr-to-se/ragland-1512/ Ragland #1512]
[http://kinnexions.com/smlawson/ragland.htm#ESRagland Ragland: From the files of Stephen M. Lawson]
[http://www.raglandmansion.com/ragl.en.html Who Was Reuben Ragland?]
[http://boards.ancestryclassroom.com/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=138&p=surnames.ragland Evan Ragland Facts to Share -The Immigrant - The Truth]
[http://www.castlewales.com/raglan.html Raglan Castle]
-- MERGED NOTE ------------
[[Category:Questionable_Gateway_Ancestors]]
== Biography ==
Evan Raglin died May 30th 1717, the Parish of St. Peter's New Kent County, Virginia.[https://archive.org/stream/parishregisterof00stpe#page/68/mode/2up The Parish Register of St. Peter's Parish New Kent County, Va. from 1680 to 1787.] National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Publ: Richmond, W. E. Jones, Printer. (p 68)
== Sources ==
[https://familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=137995&disp=The+Raglands The Raglands : the history of a British-American family]
[http://hylbom.com/family/paternal-lines/paternal-pr-to-se/ragland-1512/ Ragland #1512]
[http://kinnexions.com/smlawson/ragland.htm#ESRagland Ragland: From the files of Stephen M. Lawson]
[http://www.raglandmansion.com/ragl.en.html Who Was Reuben Ragland?]
[http://boards.ancestryclassroom.com/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=138&p=surnames.ragland Evan Ragland Facts to Share -The Immigrant - The Truth]
[http://www.castlewales.com/raglan.html Raglan Castle]
-- MERGED NOTE ------------
[[Category:Questionable_Gateway_Ancestors]]
[[Category:Common Genome of Descendants of Francis Bird]]} - Please see "Vitals" ([[#Vitals|below]]) for genealogical facts with verifiable support and [[#Research Notes|Research Notes]] for a discussion of facts lacking such support (for parents and birth). ~ [[Noland-165|Liz Shifflett]], [[Project:Virginia|Virginia Project]]
== Biography ==The facts and circumstances surrounding the arrival of Evan Ragland in America are, at best, obscure. However, from the few fragments of evidence which have survived, his removal to America would seem to suggest a pattern which during a good part of the seventeenth century was an all too common method of immigration from many of the small ports located on both sides of the Bristol Channel. Evan Ragland was probably abducted around the year 1670 (abt 14 yrs old) from the village of Watchet in Somerset by one of the captains of the hundreds of ships which traveled between the various ports of the Bristol Channel to America. Transported to Virginia under the harshest of conditions, and there undoubtedly sold into servitude for a period of from five to seven years. The only source which "sheds any light" on Evan Ragland's activities during his first ten years in America comes from family traditions which date back to at least the eighteenth century. According to those traditions, Evan was quite well educated for someone of his age. He was taken into the home of the planter who purchased him, (Stephen Pettus) and for several years he was employed as the planter's secretary. Stephen Pettus was born in Norwich England. Growing to manhood, Evan is said to have fallen in love with a daughter of the planter that purchased him. Existing evidence strongly indicates that Mr. Pettus was a moderately wealthy planter who lived along the Chickahominy River in New Kent County, Virginia. Records indicate that he patented two tracts of land in New Kent County; the first in 1655 (500 acres located on the north side of the Chickahominy River, about 25 miles above its mouth) where he made his home, the second in 1667 (450 acres on the upper reaches of the Chickahominy along the northern edge of the Chickahominy Swamp (Hanover County after 1720). Although unrecorded, the marriage of Evan Ragland to Susanna, daughter of Stephen Pettus, probably took place around the year 1680. From 1689 until his death, Evan's name appears with some regularity in the rent rolls of St. Peter's Parish in New Kent County, Virginia. He appears to have lived for the remainder of his life in New Kent County on the plantation of his father-in-law, which he acquired through marriage. The final notation relating to Evan in St. Peter's Parish register was "Evan Raglin Departed this Life May 30th 1717." Evan Ragland and his wife, Susanna Pettus, had five children and it is from their four sons that the Ragland family is descended.
Another very interesting account of Evan Ragland was provided by Dawn Griffis. Back in 1988 she was fortunate enough to travel to Raglan in Wales. As luck would have it she met a direct descendant of the Ragland family, Anna Tribe. Anna says that she is a close cousin to the Duke of Beaufort, who is part of the rich side of the family. She said that she is a direct descendant of Adm Nelson and Lady Hamilton, and that her family is descendants of the Herbert/s and Raglans. She, Anna Tribe stated that relatives of Evan Ragland's family had inherited some land in the 1500's in Somerset. "They were wealthy and had a lot of land in and around Watchet and Stogumber." "In 1656 Evan was born." "At the age of 13 he and his cousin, John Davis were playing on the docks at Watchet while Evan's father conducted business in town." "When the father went to pick them up they were gone." "He found out both had been taken onto a passing ship going to America." Legend has it, he was "shangheid." Based on the age of Evan, he was abducted in about 1669. In those days this was common practice, and how many indentured servants made their way to America. Of course there was not a record of those that were abducted this way. Seems that Evan was lucky that Mr. Stephen Pettus, (person who bought Evan), realized that Evan was educated and therefore he used him as a clerk instead of for hard labor. Evan eventually married daughter of Mr. Pettus, Susanna, who was his sole heir.
There are numerous accounts of Evan Ragland on the Vestry Rolls of St. Peter's Parish Church. It is interesting to note that this church is known as The First Church of the First First-Lady. On the sixth of January 1759 the Rector of St. Peter's Parish, the Rev'd Mr. David Mossom, solemnized the marriage of Col. George Washington and the Widow Martha Custis. St. Peter's Parish was established on April 29, 1679.
In 1697, the Reverend Mr. Nicholas Moreau, wrote the Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry that he had "got in the very worst parish of Virginia and the most troublesome." Having served here for just over a year, he packed up and returned to England. This church is still active today. Evan could have been a member of this church during this time period.
St, Peter's Parish At a Vestry held at the upper Church the 14th June, 1698.(The Vestry Book of Saint Peter's New Kent County, VA shows Evan Raglan on page 10). It states, "Mr. Hen Wyatt producing an order of Court for help to Cleer the Roads in his presints is ordered the s'd following Tithables, viz.: will makgeehe, Edw. Tony, Will Walker, Robert Allin, will Daniell, John Yeomans, Richard Scruggs, James Neenes, Thomas Ashcraft, Edw'd Flinch, Thomas Wilkinson, John Rayle, EVAN RAGLAN, Mr. Thomas Smith's quarter, Edw'd Morgan, Will Dollard, Thomas martin, Thomas Gibson, Will Gardner, Christopher Baker, William Johnson, Peter Moss, Robert Hughes, Thomas Howard, Geo. Bradbury, Hen'e Turner, Thomas minns."
At a vestry held at St. Peter's parish Church on behalf of ye St. Peter's parish this 4th day of May, 1689. (On page 11 the name RAGGLIN appears again.) Here it reads, "The several persons named in Company's y't were ordered to prosession & to Remark ye bounds of each man's land:" Due to the lengthy lists of names I am not providing them, however, the surname Ragland does appear approximately 20 more times, including the name of Evan Ragland. Many other Ragland's names appear throughout the Vestry Rolls from this time period as well as from the New Kenty County, Virginia records from 1684-1786.
Accounts of Baptism of Evan can be found on-line in various places that reads: "Bap't ye Mar 31, 1656, Jevan (Evan) Ragland sone of Thomas and Jane Ragland: Records in St. Decuman's in Somerset County, England. (See [[#Birth|below]] for discussion of this record.)
=== Vitals ===
: '''Children''': * "William son of Evan Ragling Junr Born May ye 1st & bapt ye 29th, 1709"* "John son of Evan Ragling Junr Baptised March ye 13th, 1710"
: '''Died''': Evan Raglin died May 30th 1717, the Parish of St. Peter's New Kent County, Virginia.[https://archive.org/stream/parishregisterof00stpe#page/68/mode/2up The Parish Register of St. Peter's Parish New Kent County, Va. from 1680 to 1787.] National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Publ: Richmond, W. E. Jones, Printer. (sons William & John, pp 33 & 34; death, p 68)
=== DNA Profile ===DNA information can be found at the Category link for ''Common Genome of Descendants of Francis Bird.'' [https://tinyurl.com/ro7cr9k]
== Research Notes ==
=== Birth ===:'''Purported baptism record:'''The identification of Evan Ragland as a son of Thomas and Jane Ragland by Charles Ragland depends on a baptism record of "Jevan Ragland" at St. Decumans in Somerset on 31 March 1656.Ragland. ''The Raglands: The History of a British-American Family'', vol. II. (1987). However, an examination of the original record shows that it has been mis-transcribed. The record on 31 March 1656 was for ''"Johan the daughter of Thomas Ragland"''.St. Decumans Parish Register. Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1531-1812 (database on-line, ancestry.com). [http://tinyurl.com/y9sq9c3c Image of original at ancestry.com].
}
=== Uncertain Parents ===: Below paragraph titled "Uncertain Parents" was written entirely by John Schmeeckle, who is the Magna Carta Project coordinator for Questionable Gateway Ancestors. He posted a public comment, On 8 Jun 2015, John Schmeeckle started a G2G thread to determine whether Evan Ragland and others should be recognized as Gateway Ancestors.
: There was indeed a couple named Thomas and Jane Ragland, who were having children at St Decumans from 1656 through 1674 -- per the transcriptions of parish records at [https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_queries/5ac3e8ecf4040b122aa2228e https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_queries/5ac3e8ecf4040b122aa2228e] -- with the first entry being a DAUGHTER "Johan" baptized 31 Mar. 1656, the same day as the alleged baptism of '''Evan Ragland''' the kidnapped immigrant to Virginia.
== Sources ==
*https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98910123
*American Genealogical Biographical Index
* Ragland, Charles James Jr. ''The Raglands: The History of a British-American Family'', vol. I. (Winston-Salem, N.C.: privately printed, 1978). [https://familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=137995&disp=The+Raglands Found at FamilySearch.org]
* Ragland, Charles James Jr. ''The Raglands: The History of a British-American Family'', vol. II. (Winston-Salem, N.C.: privately printed, 1987). [https://familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=137995&disp=The+Raglands Found at FamilySearch.org]
*St. Decumans Parish Register. Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1531-1812 (database on-line, ancestry.com). [http://tinyurl.com/y9sq9c3c Image of original at ancestry.com].
*Chamberlayne, C.G. ed. ''The Vestry Book of Saint Peter's New Kent County, VA from 1682-1758''. (Richmond VA, 1937). [http://tinyurl.com/y8q8osdo HathiTrust.org LINK]
*St. Peter's Parish. ''The parish register of Saint Peter's, New Kent county, Virginia from 1680 to 1787'' (New Kent County, Va.: National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1904). [http://tinyurl.com/y87ku2vy Archive.org LINK]
*Wertin, Christine. Scanned and transcribed. ''St. Peter's Church of New Kent County, Virginia, Parish Register, 1680 to 1787''. (http://www.vagenweb.org/newkent/stpete_toc.html) (Ragland: http://www.vagenweb.org/newkent/index14.html).
:: "These are the only records of the Colonial period that exist."::: "St. Peter's Parish Register from the colonial days (1680 - 1787)....."::: "Evan Raglin Departed this Life may ye 30th, 1717." (p.68, http://www.vagenweb.org/newkent/stpete04.html)::: "St. Peter's Vestry Book from the colonial days (1682 - 1758)....."
::: "St. Peter's Cemetery records."
::: (http://www.stpetersnewkent.org/Geneology/)
*Soc.genealogy.medieval Online Discussion Group: [http://tinyurl.com/yau9tvk2 Possible Lineage From Evan Ragland in Virginia to Hameline Plantagenet]. (First post 10/12/2012).
*Soc.genealogy.medieval Online Discussion Group: [http://tinyurl.com/y852msld Evan Ragland Lineage]. (First post 11/28/2008 by Marianne Dillow).
*Soc.genealogy.medieval Online Discussion Group: [http://tinyurl.com/y8bh23ag RE: Comprehensive descents from E3 - Evan Ragland, of VA?] (First post 10/24/2008 by Tony Hoskins).
*Soc.genealogy.medieval Online Discussion Group: [http://tinyurl.com/y9nljchu Comprehensive descents from E3] (First post 10/23/2008 by Will Johnson).
*Hylbom Family Ancestry Project website, [http://hylbom.com/family/paternal-lines/paternal-pr-to-se/ragland-1512/ Ragland #1512]
*[http://www.pricegen.com/immigrantservants/servant/show.php?servant=14235 Indentured Servants Database]
*[http://kinnexions.com/smlawson/ragland.htm#ESRagland Ragland: From the files of Stephen M. Lawson]
*[http://www.raglandmansion.com/ragl.en.html Who Was Reuben Ragland?]
*[http://boards.ancestryclassroom.com/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=138&p=surnames.ragland Evan Ragland Facts to Share -The Immigrant - The Truth]
*[http://www.castlewales.com/raglan.html Raglan Castle]
*New Kent County Road Orders 1684-1758. Transcribed from Vestry Book of St. Peter's Parish by Ann Brush Miller, Senior Research Scientist Charlottesville, Virginia, February, 2011.
*Christ Church Parish Virginia Records 1653-1812, death of Evan Raglin 30 May 1717
*US & International Marriage Records 1560-1900 (Susanna Pettus 1680)
Events
| Birth | 31 Mar 1656 | St. Decuman's Parish, Somerset, England | |||
| Marriage | 1680 | New Kent County, Virginia - Susanna Pettus | |||
| Death | 30 May 1716 | St. Peter's Parrish, New Kent County, Virginia | |||
| Death | 30 May 1717 | St. Peter's Parish, New Kent, Virginia | |||
| Marriage | Susanna Pettus | ||||
| Alt name | |||||
| Reference No | 663157 | ||||
| Reference No | 681511 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Spouse | Susanna Pettus (1656 - 1717) |
| Child | Stephen Ragland (1688 - 1747) |
| Child | John Ragland ( - 1751) |
| Child | Catherine "Katy" Ragland (1680 - 1739) |
| Child | Evan Ragland Jr. (1685 - 1739) |
| Child | Thomas Ragland (1685 - 1719) |
| Child | Maj. Gen. John Ragland Sr. (1687 - 1751) |
| Father | Thomas Ragland (1628 - 1684) |
| Mother | Jane Morgan (1628 - 1728) |
| Sibling | John Ragland (1657 - 1724) |
| Sibling | Thomas Ragland (1661 - 1685) |
| Sibling | Richard Ragland (1664 - 1711) |
| Sibling | Jane Ragland (1665 - ) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Ragland (1667 - ) |
| Father | Thomas Ragland (1628 - 1684) |