Most of the earliest material regarding Owen Tutor came from William Manning Moore by telephone and by correspondence. Mr. Moore was born in 1909 and died in 1979. He was the grandson of Mary Eva Tutor who married Sidney Daniel Churchill. Mary Eva Tutor was the granddaughter of Owen Tutor, the progenitor of the Tutor family.
Mary Eva Tutor’s parents were Owen Young Tutor and Lucinda Dennis. Lucinda Dennis died about 1860 or 1861 when Mary was two years old. About 1862, Owen Young Tutor, after the decease of his wife, the mother of his seven children, took his two daughters, Nancy and Mary Eva, to Cumberland Co., NC. The girls stayed with their aunt Lucy Jane Tutor Hobby, the daughter of their grandfather, Owen Tutor. Mary Eva was born in 1859 and died in 1934. Lucy Jane was married to Alex Hobby. Alex Hobby had two daughters, Ann and Susan, who also lived with them. Lucy Jane Tutor Hobby was born in 1816 and died in 1900. Owen Young Tutor died at Drewry’s Bluff, VA, during the War between the States, on May 16, 1864. This left all of his children orphaned.
William Manning Moore was a history teacher and a family researcher. He stated that most of his information came from his grandmother, Mary Eva Tutor Churchill. Mr. Moore was 25 years old when his grandmother died. He stated that his grandmother had been raised by her aunt Lucy Jane Tutor Hobby who was the daughter of Owen Tutor. Mary Eva was 41 years old when Lucy Jane died. Lucy Jane was about 34 years old when her father died.
Mr. Moore would have learned what he knew about the earliest Tutors from his grandmother, Mary Eva, before her death and up until he was 25 years old. Mary Eva would have learned all that she knew about her family from her aunt Lucy Jane, the daughter of Mary Eva’s grandfather, Owen Tutor.
Mr. Moore stated, not long before his death, that he was working on a book about the Tutor family but he never got to finish the book. As a result, all that remains is the material that he sent to M. R. Tutor up until 1979. Mr. Moore was 70 years old at his death.
All of the material relating to Owen Tutor’s birth in Wales and his trip to the United States aboard a privateering vessel and his indentureship once he arrived are all from William Manning Moore. The name of Owen’s wife and his children came from Mr. Moore who had also reviewed a family Bible with the information.
Some would say that this information is not reliable. It is up to the reader to make his or her opinion from Mr. Moore’s writing and from the extant records. Alternatively, some would say that Owen Tutor was the son of Owen Tuder and grandson of Henry Tuder, of Sussex Co., VA. According to DNA, this is not the case. And, it appears that Owen Tuder had a son named Owen who was born in 1787, 15 years after Owen Tutor’s birth.
Henry Tuder and his wife, Elizabeth, lived in Sussex Co., VA, and had ten children. Henry Tuder’s oldest son and oldest child was Henry Tuder II who was born about 1740. He married Sarah Watkins and they had four children, Jesse, Henry, Lavina and Sally. His son, Henry III, who was born in 1763, married Lucretia Adams and had eight children, Patsy, Amy, Rebecca, Henry, John, Lucy, Benjamin and Nancy. Their son, Henry IV, who was born in 1785, married Dolly Woodford. Their son, Henry V, who was born in 1815, married Sarah Jane Mason. Henry Tudor V was the great-great grandfather of Robert W. Tudor.
The late, Robert W. Tutor, is the closest Family Tree YDNA match to M. R. Tutor at 37 markers and shows an 82.89% probability that they have a common ancestor within ten generations. There are two mutational differences between R. W. Tudor’s YDNA and that of M. R. Tutor. One is a short term mutation difference and one is a long term mutation difference. From the YDNA comparison, it would appear that the most recent common ancestor would have been in the United Kingdom.
Henry and Elizabeth Tuder’s second son and second child was Owen Tuder, born about 1742. He married Lucy Harris, daughter of William Harris and Lucy Clark, and they had ten children, four boys and six girls. Their known children were Harris, Phoebe, Fanny and Lucy, born in Albemarle Parish of Sussex Co. The first four children were born from 1764 to 1771. Harris Tuder married Mary “Polly” Henderson. The names of other sons and daughters of Owen Tuder have not been discovered except for their son, Owen, who was born in 1787 and later apprenticed, by court order, to William Crutchfield in 1800, to learn the trade of blacksmith, until he attained 21 years of age.
After the births of Owen and Lucy Tuder’s first four children, they moved to North Carolina as they were in Northampton Co. by 1780. Meticulous records were kept by Albemarle parish and according to the records up until 1778, there were no more children born to or christened for Owen and Lucy Tuder in Albemarle Parish, after August 4, 1771. By 1785, Owen was paying taxes in Granville Co., NC, but had evidently left the county by the time of the 1786 taxes. In 1790, Owen and Lucy were living in Anson Co., NC. According to the census, there was one male 16 and over, Owen Tuder, four females, and three males under 16. The three males were probably sons born between 1774 and 1790. The four females probably included Lucy Tuder, Owen’s wife, and three daughters. His son, Harris Tudor, was 22 years old and lived in Orange Co., NC. Owen Tuder was 47 years old. He died in 1800. He was insolvent at his death and was undoubtedly the reason that his son, Owen, was required to be apprenticed by the court.
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