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Margery Bate

Female - 1705


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  • Name Margery Bate 
    Gender Female 
    Buried 27/27 Jan 1704/5  Dudley St Thomas, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1097  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Edmund Wells,   c. 16/16 Jan 1653/4, Dudley St Thomas, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1723, of Dudley St Thomas, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 70 years) 
    Married 4 Jun 1681  Dudley St Thomas, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. John Wells,   c. 17 Feb 1683, Dudley St Thomas, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Joseph Wells,   c. 31 Jan 1685, Dudley St Thomas, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. William Wells,   c. 26 Dec 1687, Dudley St Thomas, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Samuel Wells,   c. 29 Dec 1689, Dudley St Thomas, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Mary Wells,   c. 25 Nov 1693, Dudley St Thomas, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 4 Jan 1697, Dudley St Thomas, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 3 years)
     6. Thomas Wells,   b. Abt 10/10 Jan 1694/5, of Dudley, Worcester, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Feb 1760, Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 65 years)
     7. Ann Wells,   c. 1 Jun 1696, Dudley St Thomas, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     8. Daniel Wells,   c. 9 May 1703, Dudley St Thomas, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F753  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • MARRIAGE:
      1. Who are the parents of Margery Bate? There appears to be two possibilities.
      FHL book 929.273 W462c "History and Genealogy of the Wells Family. Some Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Wells of Saybrook and Hebron, Connecticut, who had come from Dudley, Worcestershire, England in 1712. Supplementing: "The History and Genealogy of the Wells Family" by Philip L. Cobb, 1897"; compiled by John. L. Cobb, 1999, pp. 4-8, reports that Edmund's "marriage banns were published 4 June 1681 to a Margery Bate apparently dau. of John & Margery (Lee) Bate of Rowley Regis, Staffs." The author is unclear on what factor led him to "apparently" claim this set of parents. Perhaps it was that Rowley Regis is only 4.2 miles away from Dudley and that the Margery Bate chr. there was on 25 Feb 1662 making her 19 years of age at the time of the 1681 marriage.
      The author neglects to mention that there was also a Margery Bate, daughter of William and Katherine Bate, who was christened in Dudley St. Thomas 13 Jun 1658. Surprisingly Margery who was chr. in 1658 in Dudley is the only child shown in that parish of parents William and Katherine.
      I have not seen the marriage banns Mr. Cobb reports and it might be in that bann that her residency is given in Rowley Regis. Most banns at that time rarely mention parents, but often the home parish of the spouses may be given.
      A marriage is recorded in the IGI indexing for Dudley, but it suspiciously has a date of 4 Jun 1681, which is the same as the bann. This does not prove that the marriage occurred in Dudley. Since it is more common for the marriages to occur in the parish of the bride, a subsequent marriage should probably be searched in either Rowley Regis or Dudley to confirm that we have the right Margery Bate in the marriage. Considering Mr. Cobb personally searched the Dudley records and did not find the actual marriage, then Rowley Regis should be carefully searched.