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Person · Nancy (Lewis) Caffey
The record
- HHomethe fan · what changed · open questions
- MMigrationbirths and deaths on a map, by decade
- TTimeline609 entries · 5 eras
- PPeople290 cards, by generationNancy (Lewis) Caffey
- LLines13 surname pages
The evidence
- DDocuments896 thumbnails, filterable
- SSourcesS1–S1207, with where each is cited
The findings
- How the wall came downProeger line
- The glass patentsProeger line
- How the Caffey half was closedCaffey line
- What the DNA saysits own page
- Four routesMigration
- The asymmetryLines
- Open questions20 questions
- Add to this recorda form, read by Earl
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proves, what the weight of evidence suggests, and what nobody has found yet. A fourth marks
what the family stated directly, where no document has been retrieved at all — it is kept
separate on purpose and is never quietly promoted to confirmed. A fifth, added on
13 September 2026, marks biological evidence: a DNA result is not a document, and it is not
testimony either. Two further labels mark where this page withholds information
rather than lacking it.
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government index, a grave marker, a family-written obituary.
ProbableStrongly supported but not nailed down: a user-contributed tree, a masked index field,
or a chain of consistent circumstances. Believable, not proven.
Not foundSearched for and not located. This is a statement about the search, not about the
person — the record may well exist somewhere unsearched.
Family testimonySupplied by the family and recorded on their word — no document has been retrieved for
it. Note the diamond rather than the dot: this is provenance, not proof, and it stands
apart from the three record tags above S24.
DNA evidenceBiological evidence consistent with a claim. It corroborates origins; it does
not by itself establish a person or a link. Note the bar rather than a dot or a diamond:
no DNA result on this page is ever counted as confirmed, because no document
was read for it S46.
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places of residence and record identifiers are held back.
Research in progressA branch that is actively being worked on. The node exists in the structure so the
shape of the family is honest; the detail is simply not in yet.
- Born
- about 1791
- Sources
- 4
Research status
Research status: PROBABLE — Nancy, 59, born in North Carolina, is in Charles Caffey's 1850 Montgomery County, Alabama household with Hooper V., 17
S484. The census states no relationships, and no record read so far gives her maiden name, Lewis
Evidence: The 1850 Montgomery County, Alabama census: Nancy, 59, in Charles Caffey's home with Hooper V., 17; the 1811 marriage bond of Charles Caffey and Nancy Lewis gives her maiden name. Weak or missing: Shared household only: no record read so far names her as Hooper's mother. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →
Life in the order the records give it
Birth1791
Born about 1791, North Carolina; death not yet found
Census1866
🆕 The 1866 Alabama state census lists a
Nancy Caffey heading a household of two women over 20 in Montgomery County, on the same page as Elizabeth Caffey and L. R. Caffey
S736 Probable confirm or correct →. If it is her, she was still living in 1866. What is weak: the list gives no ages or birthplaces, so the name and county are the only link. added 26 September 2026.
Census1840
🆕 In 1840 the household of Charles Caffey in Montgomery County, Alabama, included a woman of about her age
S1154. The 1840 census names only the head, so she is not named.
Family parents, marriages, children, siblings
Marriage1811
🆕 The North Carolina marriage bond of Charles Caffey and
Nancy Lewis, dated
27 November 1811 and signed by Charles, gives her maiden name for the first time
S647. added 26 September 2026.
Open questions what is probable, weak or missing — confirm or correct it
In the record
Generation 6 — Kristin's 3rd-great-grandparents
- S4841850 U.S. Federal Census — Charles Caffey household, 2nd District, Montgomery County, Alabama, p. 152. Ancestry record 15675750. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Dwelling 19: Charles Caffey, 61, born North Carolina, farmer; Nancy, 59, born North Carolina; Elizabeth J., 22; Hooper V., 17, born Alabama, farmer. Thomas (66), Michael (68) and Lindsey R. Caffey (34), all born North Carolina, live within four dwellings. The 1850 census names no relationships, so this is co-residence, not proof that Charles was Hooper's father. It is the first record for that link.
- S647North Carolina marriage bond, [Orange County], 27 November 1811 (original). Ancestry record 6818539. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Bond for the marriage of Charles Caffey and Nancy Lewis, signed by Charles Caffey; bondsman John Hill; witness J. Taylor, C.C.; £500 to Governor Benjamin Smith. The Orange County marriage-bond typescript abstracts the same bond.
- S7361866 Alabama state census, Township 12, Range 19, Montgomery County, p. 8. Ancestry record 260829. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Probable Nancy Caffey heads a household of two women over 20. Elizabeth Caffey and L. R. Caffey, each with six in the household, are on the same page. A head-of-household list: no ages or birthplaces, so the name is the only link.
- S11541840 U.S. census, Montgomery County, Alabama, p. 189. Ancestry record 1246266. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 26 September 2026. Confirmed Charles Caffey, head, with free white males and females of several ages, one enslaved person and five in agriculture. The 1840 census names heads only. The tallies are faint and not every column can be read; Ancestry’s index puts the oldest man and the oldest woman each at 50–59.