Lathey Family

FAMILY BACKGROUND

John Lathey, the progenitor of most Lathey families in America, is estimated to be born about 1750. By the 1770’s, he had immigrated to America since he was renting land in Fauquier County Virginia as early as 1778. He cannot be found on any documentation from 1810 forward and it is assumed he died before 1810.

Family legend claims the Lathey family was of Scotch-Irish or Irish origin, and many believe the name may have been McLatha or MacLatha. There is a Lathey clan in New York State that claims descent from another John Lathey who was born before 1816 in Ulster, Ireland and immigrated to America during the 1800's. One theory is that both families are connected and came from the northern part of Ireland, although there is a span of fifty or sixty years be­tween immigrations

John Lathey married Susannah Burton and had a son, William Lathey. William was born in Fauquier County, Virginia in late 1783 or early 1784. Some 22 years later, William made an application for a marriage bond on January 13, 1806 in Fauquier County to marry Elizabeth Hudnall. Elizabeth was the daughter of Thomas and Mary Ann Strickler Hudnall, born circa 1783 in Fauquier County, Virginia. William Lathey was listed on the 1810 Census with one male child and one female child between the ages of 1 and 10 years.

William and Elizabeth migrated to Ohio sometime during the years 1815 and 1816. The 1820 Athens County, Ohio census shows William Lathey with a family of five female children, four between 0 and 10 years old and one between 10 and 16 years old.

FAMILY INFORMATION

Click on the following links to view information on the descendants of John Lathey to the present. The first link is generated by the Legacy Genealogy program and the 2nd link is to a digitized copy of a book first published in 1981 by Carmen Lathey Barron, the GGGG Granddaughter of John Lathey. It is a collection of her research and findings concerning the ancestors and descendants of George Wilman Lathey (1878-1945), Carmen’s grandfather.

Lathey Family Descendant Book (1750 - Present) - a privatized (dates & places of living people omitted) Descendant Book, with index, of John Lathey descendants (PDF)

"Our LATHEY Family" by Carmen Lathey Barron, originally published 1981

The book is a PDF file that represents the original book. It has not been updated and contains all the original errors. It is not the intent to update the book but to make it available to any family researcher that has a connection to the Lathey lines and related families. Carmen passed away on 2 Jun 1987 and the original book is now out of print.