Sarah Ann (Jones) Goode - Birthdate? Parents?

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125683545/sarah-ann-abernathy__... shows dates Jan 1724-18 Dec 1801. “Age 23 Years 11 months d/o Richard (1718) & Elizabeth Chamberlayne Bette (1729) Jones 1st husband Miles Abernathy 2nd husband Philip Goode. Sarah's Listed children must have been her step children since their birthdate was after hers.”

Battee Abernathy, Sr was born April 07, 1760 so her latest birth date is 1745. That makes it very difficult for her to have those parents.

Note in Richards profile listing his children

Sarah Ann JONES b: AFT 1767 in Amelia Co., VA

Which if true makes her a second wife & not Batte’s mother.

Check wills.

Cynthia Curtis, A183502, US7875087 - it’s not my decision, she’s your relative, not mine. I can only advise suggestions.

1) your key is her birth date. Either she’s born say 1734 or she’s born 1767.

2) Richard Jones https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Jones-17695

His will was dated 19 August 1778, and it was probated in the October Court 1778. Age: 59, 1778, Nottoway Parish, Amelia, Virginia, United States

Imprimis first after my just debts are paid I lend unto my loving wife Elizabeth Jones the following slaves, Viz: Jack, Stephen, James, Jane, Nan, Stewart, Cuff Stewart & John Stewart, also the land and plantation I now live on, it being a tract of four hundred acres, during her natural life & at her decease the aforesd salves and their future increase, to be equally divided between my children Margaret Jones, Elizabeth Royall, Sarah Jones, Rachel Jones, Thomas and William Jones to them and their heirs forever, and the aforesaid tract of land to my son William Jones to him & his heirs forever …

Which means:

- he had a daughter Sarah unmarried in 1778
- so this Sarah Batte cannot have been Batte Abernathy’s mother

However, it seems clear from DAR that Miles Abernathy had a wife “Sarah Ann Jones Goode”.

So my suggestion is for you to set up a first wife as mother of his children.

The alternative is to disconnect Sarah from parents.

DNA would not be relevant unless one could possibly build maternal lines.

Disconnected from parents. The only field locked is her name (too much “no naming” to risk it).

I’ll set up a Richard Jones’ daughter Sarah as per his Will & make MP., which can be removed if it proves out they were the same person.

I wish I could say the name Batte clearly points the way, but there were a number of Battes to be honored as namesake.

You should add the Philip Goode husband now that you have a reference.

Re: He is my focus and her mother was surely a Battee. It's another clue to who she is.

I’d suggest being careful with that assumption. By this date, naming patterns were not rigid, and you get some surprising namesakes. If you’re looking for patterns, look to the Scotch Irish rhythms, where the placement in the family determined the namesake. Sarah Jones would not have been Scotch Irish most likely, but she married one, so …

scots irish naming patterns

The pattern generally went as follows:
The first son was named after the father's father.
The second son after the mother's father.
The third son after the father.
The first daughter after the mother's mother.
The second daughter after the father's mother.
The third daughter after the mother.

https://www.cotyroneireland.com/guide/NamePaterns.html

Traditional Scottish and Irish people often named their children using the following patterns , yet this was not always true

Differences I have found

The only difference between the Scottish & Irish naming patterns was that when the Irish father remarries after his first wife died, the first daughter born to this new marriage was often named after the deceased wife, and included her whole name.

Also, If a child died young then their name was then used for the next child of the same sex, thereby keeping alive the name of the relative who they were 'named for'.

There were cases within the Irish community where a child was named after a person of esteem, eg: an Aunt, or an Uncle. They have even given their child, as a middle name, the last name of the pastor/ priest of their local Parish or an influential person in the community.

Also,parents may have used the mothers or grandmother's maiden name as a child's middle name.

So - you want to make sure you have all the children entered.