Daughter of Bettie Diane Hasty and Charles Allen. Granddaughter of Bettie Jacqueline Watkins and William Hasty. Great-granddaughter of Audrey Mathes and Henry Porter Watkins. Then the public index, the gap, Keziah Snead the woman, Sneyd of Keele, the 1192 split, and Gamel in Domesday.
Rebecca Jean Allen. Bettie Diane Hasty, RM3 USN. Charles Allen named as father and left honest — not traced to Aldithley in this hall. William E. Hasty (1932–1965) is a spouse-house.
Gen 3–7 + gap
Watkins of the American trunk
Bettie Jacqueline Watkins Hasty ← Henry Porter Watkins × Audrey Mathes ← Benjamin Abner Watkins ← Greenberry/Granberry Watkins × Nancy Cole ← Benjamin Watkins × Sarah Lamb. Then a gap the dossier files as Watkins of Maryland and Pennsylvania.
1635 – 1802
Snead of Virginia
Samuel Snead crosses in 1635. Israel Snead, Virginia colonist. Keziah Snead, a woman, marries William Watkins in Louisa County. The spelling-bridge.
13th c. – 1540 – 1949
Sneyd of Keele
Audley cadet. Scythe and Poitiers lily. Keele Hall. Childless end in 1949. Onomastic target of the American Snead name — not a proved Keele descent.
1192 – 1690
Stanley / Griffith / Owen
The other American door: Hooton, Penrhyn, Merion Township. Sibling of the Watkins trunk. Same 1192 split.
1313 – abeyance 1997
The 1313 writ
Nicholas 1st Baron. Joan to Tuchet. Mary suo jure. Richard 25th dies 27 June 1997. Three living daughters. The connecting path does not wear this.
Named by the petitioner
Public index (WikiTree / FindAGrave / FamilySearch)
Father. Named. Living. No invented face, no invented ancestry.
Breaks. This hall does not trace Charles Allen to Aldithley. Paternal branch, recorded and left honest.
parent · Hasty → Watkins
Bettie Diane Hasty Allen
10 Oct 1958 – 3 Dec 2002
Mother. RM3, United States Navy. The maternal trunk starts here.
Carries. The Watkins/Snead path.
Step 2 · Missouri · US Navy
Bettie Diane Hasty Allen
A woman of this walk
10 October 1958 – 3 December 2002
RM3 USN. Indexed as Diane Mary, Betty D. Allen, B. Diane Hasty-Allen. Daughter of Bettie Jacqueline Watkins and William E. Hasty.
VA BIRLS and FindAGrave (memorial 73482058). Recorded. Her face is not painted in this hall.
named
index
dossier
parent · Hasty
William E. Hasty
1932 – 1965
Father. Died at 33.
Breaks. Hasty is a spouse-house of the Watkins trunk. Not the path to Aldithley.
parent · Watkins
Bettie Jacqueline “Jackie” Watkins Hasty
1932 – 2019
Mother. The Watkins blood.
Carries. The Watkins trunk.
Step 3 · American Watkins
Bettie Jacqueline “Jackie” Watkins Hasty
A woman of this walk
1932 – 2019
Daughter of Henry Porter Watkins and Audrey Olive Mathes. Wife of William E. Hasty.
WikiTree lists her among the children of Henry Porter Watkins (Watkins-13751). FindAGrave names her as mother of Betty Diane Hasty Allen. Recorded. No invented face.
named
index
spouse · Hasty
William E. Hasty
c. 1932 – 1965
Husband.
Breaks. Hasty line. Not Audley.
sibling · Watkins collateral
Elsie Bonnie (Watkins) Damermon Fischer
1919 – 1976
Sister.
Breaks. Sibling house. Does not carry the petitioner's trunk.
sibling · Watkins collateral
Jessie J. (Watkins) Ambro
17 Nov 1921 – 5 Feb 1999
Sister. Buried Mount Lebanon, St. Ann.
Breaks. Sibling house.
sibling · Watkins collateral
Aileen D. (Watkins) Blackard
Sister.
Breaks. Sibling house.
sibling · Watkins collateral
Billie A. (Watkins) Hard
Sister.
Breaks. Sibling house.
sibling · Watkins collateral
Cassie Rae Watkins
Sister.
Breaks. Sibling house.
Step 4 · American Watkins
Henry Porter Watkins
1900 – 1971
Son of Benjamin Abner Watkins. Husband of Audrey Olive Mathes. Father of Bettie Jacqueline.
WikiTree Watkins-13751. This is as far as the petitioner remembered; the public index continues his father.
named
index
spouse · Mathes
Audrey Olive Mathes Watkins
1896 – 1980
Wife. The Mathes branch.
Breaks. Mathes parents were not found in the files or public index this pass. Branch recorded, not invented.
sibling · Watkins collateral
Lucy Elzada Butler (Watkins) Davis
Sister.
Breaks. Sibling house.
sibling · Watkins collateral
Benjamin Harrison Watkins
29 Aug 1888 – 20 Jan 1981
Brother.
Breaks. Sibling house.
sibling · Watkins collateral
Greenberry Watkins (brother of Henry)
17 Nov 1890 – 5 Apr 1967
Brother — not the 19th-century hinge of the same given name.
Breaks. A later Greenberry. Do not collapse him with the 1827 hinge.
sibling · Watkins collateral
Peter Thomas Watkins
1911 – 2001
Brother.
Breaks. Sibling house.
Step 5 · American Watkins
Benjamin Abner Watkins
24 April 1857 – 1920
Son of Greenberry Watkins and Nancy Caroline Cole. Father of Henry Porter Watkins.
WikiTree Watkins-13704. Mother of Henry Porter is listed unknown on that page. Recorded. No invented face.
index
spouse · Watkins (unnamed spouse)
Mother of Henry Porter
Wife of Benjamin Abner. Not named on the public page read.
Wife. Mother of Benjamin Abner, Sarah, Elizabeth Jane Laney, Mary Caroline.
Breaks. Cole is a spouse-house. Not the path to Snead.
Step 7 · American Watkins
Benjamin Watkins × Sarah Lamb
Parents of Greenberry, fl. early 19th c.
The last Watkins generation chained in the public index before the gap.
WikiTree names them as parents of Greenberry Watkins-9670. The next named woman on the petitioner's path is Keziah Snead (d. c. 1802). That is close in years and not yet a proved father-to-son chain.
index
spouse · Lamb
Sarah Lamb
Mother of Greenberry.
Breaks. Lamb is a spouse-house.
Step gap · Dossier Watkins span · Gen 3–9
The Watkins span — names not invented
Between Sarah Lamb’s household and Keziah’s children
Drive dossiers file Watkins of Maryland and Pennsylvania here. This hall will not mint the missing given names.
Keziah (Snead) Watkins died about 1802. Greenberry was born about 1827. Two or three generations fit. Which child of Keziah — Thomas, John, or another — is the ancestor of Benjamin Watkins is not proved in the files read for this hall. Prove it in parish and census. Do not plead a gap as a writ.
dossier
gap
house · Owings / Dorsey
Owings / Dorsey of Maryland
Dossier Transatlantic Pioneers (Gen 3–10): Capt. Richard Owings, Hon. Capt. John Dorsey of Hockley-in-the-Hole. A parallel Maryland door, not this Watkins trunk.
Breaks. Faction of the dossier, not a proved parent of Greenberry.
Carries. The Watkins name the later American trunk wears.
child · Watkins collateral
Thomas Watkins
c. 1748 – c. 1815
Son. Named in public trees. Not proved as the ancestor of Greenberry.
Breaks. A candidate for the gap. Not chained in this hall.
child · Watkins collateral
John Watkins
b. c. 1750
Son. Named in public trees.
Breaks. A candidate for the gap. Not chained in this hall.
Step Snead · Virginia colonist
Israel Snead
abt. 1709 – before 1788
Virginia colonist. Patriotic service 1780 and 1783. Husband of Johanna Hendley. Father of Keziah, Samuel, Ann, Henley, Martha, William, Frances, Solomon, John, David.
WikiTree Snead-114. FamilySearch secondary names his parents as William Snead and Alice Buford — treated here as secondary, not Absolute Grounding.
index
spouse · Hendley
Johanna Hendley
c. 1715 – after 1788
Wife. Mother of Keziah.
Breaks. Hendley is a spouse-house of the Snead trunk.
child · Snead collateral
Samuel, Ann, Henley, Martha, William, Frances, Solomon, John, David Snead
Siblings of Keziah named in Israel’s will.
Breaks. Sibling houses of the woman on the Watkins marriage.
Step 1635 · Virginia Colony
Samuel Snead
c. 1609 – c. 1671
Arrived Virginia 1635 with wife Alice and son William. Grant of 250 acres in James City from Charles I. Presumed founder of the Virginia Sneads.
WikiTree Snead-43. Stafford County in later Snead deeds is Stafford County, Virginia — not Staffordshire, England. Do not collapse the two Staffords.
index
cadet
spouse · Snead (1635 crossing)
Alice
Wife who crossed in 1635.
child · Snead colonial
William Snead (the son who crossed)
Son on the 1635 crossing. A plausible, not proved, ancestor of Israel.