William & Mary Cathcart

William Cathcart is another one of our "Patriarch Cathcarts."  Records indicate that he came from Scotland or the northern part of Ireland, and that at least some of his children passed through North Carolina, and eventually settled in the northern/central part of South Carolina (primarily York County). 

Two of William and Mary's sons account for the vast majority of the known descendants of this family:

• John & Mary Boulger Cathcart (1763-1834)
  • John's descendants moved from South Carolina to Indiana, Louisiana, and Mississippi
• Hugh Cathcart, Sr., (1765 - 1808), son of William and Mary, had many descendants settled in the area around Rock Hill, and are buried in the Ebenezer Presbyterian Cemetery there.
  • Much of Hugh's family stayed in the York County area of South Carolina
  • One of his granddaughters was married by a preacher who has connections to my own line of Cathcarts

Interestingly, there is a possible connection between Hugh's line with yet another Cathcart group... the one that starts with William Cathcart, who married Rachel Neely.

• William Cathcart's grandson, Joseph Harvey Cathcart, Jr.'s first wife, Sarah Anne Garrison (1834 – 1873) is buried at that same Ebenezer Presbyterian Cemetery. 
• Joseph's father and a long list of his ancestors left the York County South Carolina area and settled in Texas. The connection to the Garrison line probably indicates that this line is also connected with the William and Mary line.

Other Information

• Discussion of Cathcarts who appear in the 1810 census for York County, South Carolina
  • I had initially thought that the Cathcarts listed in the census for York County — Joseph Cathcart, Sr., Hugh Cathcart, and Joseph Cathcart (presumably,, this is Joseph Cathcart, Jr.) — were descendants of William and Mary.  A closer look at the data, however, makes it unlikely that this is the case.
• Click here for more discussion on who William might fit into earlier Cathcart generations.