Descendants of William Hobday
WILLIAM HOBDAY
Born:  about 1700 in Abington Parish, Gloucester Co. VA
Died:  before 1770
Married:  before 1726 to Ann – b. before 1695-1710 d. before
1770
Children:  Richard Hobday b. 1720
Elenor Hobday b. January 1722/23
*John Hobday b. April 1726 d. between 1783-1784
Thomas Hobday b. September 11, 1728 d. about 1790
JOHN HOBDAY
Born:  April 1726 in Gloucester Co. VA
Died:  between 1783-1784 in Gloucester Co. VA
Married:  between November 1758 – February 1759 to
Hannah Green
He was married twice and Hannah was his second wife.  She
was a descendant of William Howard, an early Gloucester
settler.  She has a twin sister named Joanna.
Baptism:  May 19, 1746 in Gloucester Co. VA

Children of John and Hannah:
Thomas Hobday
John Hobday Jr. - b. November 2, 1759
Frances Hobday - b. 1760 d. 1806
Francis Hobday – b. May 28, 1761 d. about 1793
*Howard Hobday – b. 1765 d. November 1844


The society for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge (in VA)
awarded the first medal for a practical invention to John Hobday
of Gloucester Co., who invented a machine for threshing wheat.  
This was the first recorded invention of a thresher in the United
States – well before Cyrus McCormick invented the reaper in 1831.
From “the Colonial Craftsman”, University of Chicago Press:  “In
1772 John Hobday of Gloucester Co. VA, invented a cheap and
simple machine for separating wheat from the straw that would
daily beat out 120 bushels with the aid of three horses.  He
announced in the newspapers that any tolerable carpenter could
easily make the machine and that he would attend at several
places on the York and James to demonstrate it while his brother
performed the same services on the Rappahannock.  Despite
enthusiastic endorsements from prominent gentlemen like
Jaquelin Amler and Fanny Hobday who married John Seawell.  
The Hobday home over looked the Severn River near Glass Post
Office.  He was known to be a mechanical genius and understood
and could set up any kind of machinery.”
HOWARD HOBDAY
Born:  1765 in Gloucester Co. VA
Died:  November 1844 in Gloucester Co. VA
Married:  about 1785 to Mildred Fleming – b. 1764 d. August
1843
(they had 7 slaves)

Thomas R. Hobday – b. about 1785
Girl F. Hobday – b. between 1786-1810
Girl G. Hobday – b. between 1786-1810
Mildred Hobday – b. between 1786-1810
Molly Hobday – b. between 1786-1810
*William Howard Hobday - b. January 5, 1797 d. May 25,
1885
Mary Green Hobday – b. about 1800 d. between 1860-1880
Frances Mildred Hobday b. between 1800-1812
WILLIAM HOWARD HOBDAY
Born:  January 5, 1797 in Gloucester Co. VA
Died:  May 24, 1885 of Dropsy (Edema)
Married:  October 31, 1818 to Ann Ballentine – b. July 8, 1794
d. October 27, 1870
Occupation:  sailor
Military service:  War of 1812
Owner of Plantation called “Little England”
1836-1856        300 acres purchased from John Goodall by
William Hobday.  
John Goodall named the estate “Little England.”  William’s wife,
Ann, renamed the estate to “Fairview” because she didn’t like
the way the
British treated the Colonies.
1857-1865        William Hobday now owns 200 acres.  
1866                John R. Cutchins and his wife Emaline (daughter
of William and Ann Hobday) inherited 200 acres.
Children of William and Ann:
*Mildred Frances Hobday – b. February 29, 1821 d.
February 19, 1898
William Howard Hobday – b. March 4, 1823 d. July 4, 1859
John Vincent Hobday – b. March 17, 1825 d. August 1, 1851
Mary Elizabeth Hobday – b. May 6, 1827 d. May 11, 1882
James Fleming Hobday – b. December 5, 1829 d. May 3, 1865
Malvenia Greene Hobday – b. October 18, 1831
Virginia Elizebeth Hobday – b. January 15, 1834
Emeline Matilda Hobday – b. March 6, 1837 d. September 10,
1917
MILDRED FRANCES HOBDAY
Born:  February 28, 1821 in Gloucester Co. VA
Died:  February 19, 1898 in Gloucester Co. VA
Married:  about 1840 to James William Fleming – b. 1815
d. November 11, 1886
Buried:  Little England Cemetery
Children:  Mary E. Fleming – b. 1841 d. March 12, 1867
*Joseph Columbus Fleming – b. July 24, 1843 d. January
15, 1902
James Henry Fleming – b. April 8, 1844 d. in Baltimore
Maryland
John W. Fleming – b. July 19, 1845 d. August 21, 1864
George Washington Fleming – b. June 20, 1847
Alice Alexander Fleming – b. November 21, 1882 d. January
21, 1883
JAMES WILLIAM FLEMING
b. 1815
d. November 11, 1886 at 71 years from Bronchitis
m. Abt. 1840 to Mildred Frances Hobday
Nickname:  Jas
Occupation:  Sailor & Farmer
Buried:  Little England Cemetery

Prior to the Civil War, service in the county militia was
required by all able-bodied men in Gloucester.  William
Fleming served in “The Gloucester Invincible for Guinea” led
by Lt. Col. Powhatan Robertson Page.
JOSEPH COLUMBUS FLEMING
b. July 24, 1843 in Prince William, VA
d. January 16, 1902 in Norfolk VA
m. December 25, 1867 to Catherine Alice Teagle b.
November 1847 d. May 3, 1916
by Rev. J.L. Shipley
child:  Mary Maude Fleming m. George Washington
Hogge

She was 21 years and he was 25 years when they
married.  She died in 1916 from Cancer at 69 years.

His middle name could be “Costin”
Occupation:  Waterman, Sailor
Military service:  Co. F 26th Virginia Inf. – Civil War

Joseph enlisted in the CSA 26th VA, Infantry, Company
F on March 1, 1863
in Gloucester County.  He was listed in the “Ord &
Circulars Guard Report” for guard duty on December 10,
1863 to January 6, 1864.  He served at Appomattox
Courthouse on May 3, 1865.  (paroled in Richmond)  
Joseph was present with General Robert E. Lee on April
9, 1865 when the Confederacy surrendered at the
Courthouse.  He was present at the final Muster Roll on
February 28, 1965.

He is buried at Elmwood Cemetery, Norfolk VA
MARY MAUDE FLEMING
b. June 2, 1876 in Gloucester County VA
d. September 26, 1904 in Urbanna VA – cause of death:
Typhoid Fever
m. April 5, 1898 to George Washington Hogge (2nd wife)
Little England