Unanswered Questions

Despite many years of research by many people, there is a lot we do not know. The questions outlined below are the areas on which to focus future research.

What We Don't Know About George and Mary:
Where George was born.
The date George was born.
The name of George's father.
The name of George's mother.
The names of any of George's siblings.
The date George died.
Mary's maiden name.
Where Mary was born.
The date Mary was born.
The name of Mary's father.
The name of Mary's mother.
The names of any of Mary's siblings.
The date Mary died.
Where they were married.
The date they were married.
What religion they were.
The names of all their children.
The sequence of their children.
The birth date of any of their children.
How James Hamilton was a cousin of Peter.

Questions About Peter:

If Peter's first wife died before George or Mary, why wasn't she buried on Peter's land instead of in the Weddell cemetery?

Why was Peter's daughter named Lydia, was that her mother's name?

Why were Peter's sons name Jesse and Joseph and not George or Richard?

Lost Lines

Several of the lost lines of early descendants have been found. They include son George; James, the third son of James and Susanna; John, the third son and Daniel, the fourth son of Daniel, and their sister Mary. The ones remaining are son John and these excerpts from The Weddells of Old Westmoreland:

"We know nothing about the three daughters of George and Mary except that Dr. Oliver Weddell, in his history of the family quotes his father, George Washington Weddell -'cannot recall the first two girls' names but the third one was Margaret'."

<"Peter, the second son of Daniel, was born in 1787. He married Margaret Huston, of Washington County, PA, where they lived for a year or two, she dying in her first confinement, leaving a living daughter. Shortly after his wife died he moved to Ohio, where he again married and raised a family of several children, and remained there the balance of his life."

"Rebecca, fourth daughter of James and Susanna, married Jesse Wilson and lived near the old Weddell neighborhood. She died in her first confinement, leaving a living child."

"Susan, fifth daughter of James and Susanna married a Mr. Milligan and they located in Ohio."