THE IVEY FAMILY

COAT OF ARMS

SHIELD - Gules (red); a lion rampant, or (gold).
CREST - A demi-lion, or (gold); supporting a staff, raguly (branches lopped off), vert (green).
MOTTO - Esse Quam Videri. Translation-"To be rather than to appear or seem". (This is also the motto of North Carolina)

The Ivey family Armorial Coat as recorded in Burke's General Armory and used for the line of immigrant Thomas Ivey 1604-1653 by George Franks Ivey in his "The Ivey Family in the United States".

TRADITIONS

"The St. Ives family originally lived in France. Returning crusaders were privileged to preface the family name with the word "St.", so it is highly probable that this family was represented on one or more of the crusades. The family came into England with the Norman Conquerors or shortly thereafter. The names of St. Ive, Ivo, St. Ives, Ives, Ivors, Iverson, Ivye, Ivy and Ivey were soon found in a number of countries, but there is documentary evidence that these all stem from the same family" (George Franks Ivey). Thomas Ivey of the third English generation acquired an estate in Wiltshire England. From this ancestral home came the first Ivey immigrant to America. Hence the generally accepted American spelling is "Ivey" though it is not uncommon to find branches of the family who use a different variation.

1-1  THOMAS IVEY lived in Gloucestershire, England, about 1425, He married Elizabeth, the daughter of John Vyell Issue:
2-1  RICHARD IVIE(OR IVEY)Married Isabel Caming. Issue:
3-1  THOMAS IVEY, married Elizabeth Keynes and through her acquired the Manor O West Keyaton, Wiltshire, England. Issue:
4-1  FIRINANDO IVEY, married a daughter of George Winters .Issue:
5-1  WILLIAM IVEY, who followed the Netherlands Wars
5-2  GEORGE IVEY, who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth. Sir George Ivey commanded a regiment of horse. Married Susan Hyde. Issue:
6-1  SIR THOMAS IVEY married Lettice Culpepper, daughter 0f Sir Martin Culpepper. Issue:
7-1  SIR GEORGE IVEY
7-2  THOMAS IVEY.-born 1604
7-3  FIRDINAND IVEY
7-4  WALTER IVEY
7-5  MARTIN IVEY
7-6  JOHN IVEY
7-7  SUSAN IVEY
7-8  LETTICE IVEY
6-2  GEORGE IVEY
6-3  JANE IVEY
7-2  THOMAS IVEY, born in England in 1604, deceased in Virginia by 1653. There is no direct proof that this Thomas Ivey and Thomas Ivey, son of Sir Thomas Ivey, son of Sir Thomas and Lettice Culpepper were one and the same. But circumstantial evidence confirms it , and it is generally accepted as a fact by historians. This Thomas Ivey was the first of the name to come to America. He was a man of station and estate as can be verified by English records. He married in England, Anne, daughter of George Argent, Gentleman, of the Parish of Leonards, Middlesex. Thomas Ivey probably arrived in America about 1635, as he was Church Warden in Elizabeth River Parish, Lower Norfolk County in 1641, which position he held until 1648. He deceased in 1653, when his two sons, Thomas and George, appeared on Court of Lower Norfolk and "proved" that they were the sons of Thomas Ivey(aged 36 in 1640) and his wife Anne, daughter of George Argent living in London as she (Anne Ivey) oft reported. Anne , wife of Thomas Ivey, was also deceased at this time, as is evidenced by the will made by her father, George Argent, Gentleman. August 16, 1653 and proved August 23, 1654. In this will he names the "children of my little daughter, Anne Ivey, dec'd, who were born in America where she died." In this will he also mentions "my little granddaughter, Anne Ivey", who was living in England with him at that time, as she signed the will as witness. Bequests were also made to the children of Anne Ivey by her (Anne's) grandmother, Mary Baker of London.

The issue of Thomas Ivey and Anne Argent seems to have been:
8-1  ANNE IVEY, no record of this Anne Ivey in Virginia
8-2  THOMAS VICESIMUS IVEY
8-3  GEORGE IVEY
8-4  JOHN IVEY
8-5  WILLIAM IVEY
8-3  GEORGE IVEY, son of Thomas and Anne Argent Ivey, of the County of Norfolk, Colony of Virginia, Planter, married Hannah Blanche, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Blanche of Tanners Creek, Elizabeth Parrish. The issue;
9-1  ALEXANDER IVEY
9-2  GEORGE IVEY, settled in Prince County
9-3  SAMUEL IVEY
9-4  THOMAS IVEY, settled in Prince George County where he was given a land patent (Bristol Parish Register)
9-5  JOHN IVEY
9-6  JOSEPH IVEY
9-7  HANNAH IVEY
9-8  ELIZABETH IVEY, named in her grandmother's will, but not in her father's. She may have died.
9-5  JOHN IVEY,1677-1753, son of George and Hannah Ivey. Born in Lower Norfolk County. Married (Christine )?. He died February 21, 1753. Issue:
10-1  THOMAS IVEY, 1722-1795
10-2  JOHN IVEY,JR
10-3  AMY IVEY

10-1  THOMAS IVEY, married Ann Gilbert. Issue:
11-1  LUCY IVEY, born 1757
11-2  CURTIS IVEY, born 1759
11-3  CLAIBORNE IVEY
11-4  THOMAS IVEY
11-5  CHARLOTTE IVEY
11-6  REBECCA IVEY
11-7  ELIZABETH IVEY. Married JETHRO E. OATES

See Ivey & Oates Family History for issue of Elizabeth Ivey and Jethro Oates and trace down to present day descendants.

The above information was taken from photocopies of pages from a book "OUR FAMILY HERITAGE' written in 1956 by Minnie Speer Boone and published by the American Historical Co, Inc. New York. My cousin Cliff Buchanan obtained the photocopies and sent them to me. I have edited them to show the direct line of descent to our present generation by underlining the names of those from whom we were directly descended.