Genealogie De Bruijn in 4D
Genealogie De Bruijn in 4D
Diese Genealogie ist zusammengestellt von Marco J. de Bruijn in Pijnacker, Niederlande.
Diese Genealogie ist zusammengestellt von Marco J. de Bruijn in Pijnacker, Niederlande.
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Brief Life History of Winganuske on FamilySearch.org (Website) Domein: www.FamilySearch.org |
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Winganuske is known to have been the favorite wife of Mamanatowick Wahunsenacawh, better known as Paramount Chief Powhatan, and is believed to be the mother of his daughters Pocahontas and Cleopatra. Documented in 1611 by Englishman William Strachey to be Powhatan's favorite wife, as relayed to him by her brother Machumps. Her name is sometimes spelled Winanuske, however Strachey spelled it Winganuske. Very little information about her is known with certainty. Her exact date of birth is not known but it is estimated that she was born about 1570, in the Patawomeck head village. Winganuske's parents are believed to be The Great King of the Patawomeck and Wahunsenacawh's oldest sister (neither of their names are known), making Winganuske Powhatan's niece as well as his wife. The Powhatan Tribes were a matrilineal society, with leadership of the tribe inherited through the mother. Wahunsenacawh's own successors were named as: Opitchapam, Opechancanough, Kekataugh, his 2 sisters (all from the same 'Royal" mother) and his sisters daughters. If he wished his own children to be eligible to succeed to the Paramountcy someday, they also had to descend from this same female bloodline, thus he married his niece. Winganuske was not simply his favorite wife out of fondness but because she was the most highly esteemed because of her social position and her bloodline. A bloodline passed on to her own daughters Pocahontas and Cleopatra. The names and number of her children were never recorded. It is not known exactly when Winganuske was born or when she died. The Powhatan Indians did not keep written records and William Strachey's records are one of the few (possibly only) English records known to mention her. Her date of death is also not known but was sometime after 1611, when Strachey recorded she was traveling with Powhatan and had a 'young one' by him. Many believe she is buried near her husband, Wahunsenacawh, at what is now the Pamunkey Indian Reservation, located in King William County, Virginia, in the United States, however, she has no known grave marker. This is not unusual for the Powhatan Indians, grave markers are an English tradition. Because of her relationship as the mother of Pocahontas, Winganuske has been the subject of MANY falsified genealogical records. Her only recorded name is Winganustke. Winganuske was a Native American Indian woman who lived in Tsenacommacah, Pre-British Colonial Virginia, North America circa 1607 when the English first began to colonize Jamestown. A member of one of the tribes that made up the Powhatan Confederacy. VERY LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT WINGANUSKE, the Powhatan Indians did not keep written records, therefore, her exact date of birth, the names of her parents and the names of her children are not known. What little that is known comes from " The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia" by William Strachey. Strachey served as secretary and recorder of the Governors Council of Virginia from May 1610 to September 1611. While in Virginia he visited the Quiyoughcohannock and Kecoughtan tribes and extensively interviewed two Indian men, Kemps and Machumps, both of whom spoke English. Machumps was Winganusk's brother. They reported the names of 12 women who were at that time Powhatan's favorite wives, being "for the most part very young women" and Winganuske was his most favorite. She had a 'young one' fathered by Powhatan. The child's name and sex were not record, however, the child was not Pocahontas for in the same paragraph he reports Pocahontas' marriage to Kocoum "some two years since." Machumps provided detailed information about Pocahontas, even reporting that she began menstruating in 1610, but he never identified her as Winganuske's daughter, he did not name any of his sisters children. We can infer some additional information from what he relayed. For instance, because she was and adult in 1610, we know that she was born somewhere in the Powhatan homeland of Tsenacommacah before the arrival of English settlers in 1607. A 'young one' would probably be a infant but could be older, after 10 they would be nearing adult age. Therefore Winganuske probably had this un-named child between 1600 and 1611. For her to be of childbearing years during this time period, Winganuske had to have been born herself between 1570 and 1596, but certainly not before 1560. If born in 1560, at age 40 she would be nearing the end of her childbearing years in 1600. While Powhatan's wives were described as "for the most part very young women" that does not necessarily mean that Winganuske was one of the youngest. She was his favorite, and the historians of the Patawomeck Tribe believe that this was because she carried the 'royal bloodline', that they had been together for some time and had several children together. In fact, they believe Winganuske was the daughter of Powhatan's eldest sister and the High Chief of the Patawomeck, that by marrying her Powhatan insured his children with her would be eligible to inherit his chiefdom some day. That two of those children with royal blood were Pocahontas and Cleopatra. The name of Winganuske's child was never recorded so we will never know but, it would be reasonable to think that Cleopatra (reported to be born about 1602) COULD be that child. Because she was born in Tsenacommacah and was living at the time of English colonization, we can surmise that Winganuske died some where in the area that became known as Virginia, but her exact death and burial information is not record. Machumps did not report her death so it was sometime after September 1611. The English spelled her name as it sounded to them which resulted in several different spellings such as Winganuske and Winanuske. There are many fanciful names and family members that are attributed to Winganuske but none of it is supported by valid sources. Names like Winganuske, Wahunsonacock, and Matoaka are authenticate and believable, but names like "Dashing Stream" "Scent Flower" or "Babbling Brook" are not believable and furthermore were never recorded as belonging to members of these tribes, I am sorry. Some people have incorrectly identified Winganuske and Nonoma Cornstalk as the same person. THEY ARE NOT THE SAME. Shawnee Heritage IV, which is a dubious source to begin with, identifies Nonoma Cornstalk as being born in 1630. Winganuske was a wife of Powhatan, Powhatan died in 1618, so she can not possibly be the woman who was supposedly born in 1630. The only validated "Cornstalk" was Chief Hokoleskwa (or Hokolesqua) who lived 1720 - 1777 in the Ohio Country. |
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| Pocahontas Matoaka Amonute Powhatan (*1595-†1617) als Kind | |
| Chief Mamanatowick Wahunsenacawh Powhatan (*1545-†1618) (Mamanatowick Wahunsenacawh) als Ehemann | |
| Winganuske (*1575-†1611) als Hauptperson |