Mary (Daw) Shorter (abt.1760-1816) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree

Mary Shorter formerly Daw aka Small

Born about 1760 in Kent, England

[uncertain]

Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

[sibling(s) unknown]

Wife of James Small — married 15 Jun 1781 in Ivychurch. Kent

Wife of John Shorter — married 8 Jan 1788 in Ivychurch, Kent, England

Descendants

Mother of Sarah Vernon Small, Mary Small, James Small, William Shorter, Elizabeth (Shorter) Mann, Charlotte (Shorter) Barman, Eleanor (Shorter) Moate, Harriet (Shorter) Tunbridge, Frances Shorter and Hannah (Shorter) Holland

Died 1816 at about age 56 in Ivychurch, Kent, England

Problems/Questions Profile manager: Janet Gunn

[send private message]

Profile last modified 14 Mar 2023 | Created 28 Jun 2013

This page has been accessed 664 times.

1 Biography
- 1.1 Research Notes
  - 1.1.1 Possible Birth
2 Sources

Biography

No record of her birth - birth estimated from death recordGunn-471

First Marriage

Ivychurch

1781 Jun 15 James SMALL, batchelor & Mary DAW, spinster (both of the parish, by Thomas JONES, witnesses: Jno HOARE, Josh SACRE) ^[1]

Year Day/Month Name Spouse Parish District Note

1781 15 June DAW Mary James Small Ivychurch Romney Marsh^[2]

Name: James Small

Spouse's Name: Mary Daw

Event Date: 15 Jun 1781

Event Place: Ivy-Church, Kent, England

Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M01602-9

System Origin: England-EASy

GS Film number: 1736837

Reference ID: it3 DCB/BT1/128 p156

Collection: Mary Daw, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ^[3]

Children of first marriage

1782 14 April SMALL Sarah Vernon James & Mary Snave

1784 25 January SMALL Mary James & Mary Ivychurch

1787 26 August SMALL James James & Mary Ivychurch^[4]

Second Marriage

1788 Jan 8 John SHORTER, batchelor of Woodchurch & Mary SMALL, widow of the parish (by banns; married by Theophelius JONES, witnesses: William TIESBY, Jos SACRE)

Name: John Shorter

Spouse's Name: Mary Small

Event Date: 08 Jan 1787

Event Place: Ivy-Church, Kent, England

Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M01602-9

System Origin: England-EASy

GS Film number: 1736837

Reference ID: it3 DCB/BT1/128 p162

Collection: John Shorter, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "^[5]

1788 08 January SHORTER John Mary Small Ivychurch Romney Marsh ^[6]

Children of Second Marriage

1789 14 June SHORTER William John & Mary Ivychurch

1792 29 July SHORTER Elizabeth John & Mary Ivychurch

1793 15 September SHORTER Charlotte John & Mary Ivychurch

1795 15 February SHORTER Eleanor John & Mary Ivychurch

1797 26 February SHORTER Harriet John & Mary Ivychurch

1799 06 October SHORTER Frances John & Mary Ivychurch

1802 22 August SHORTER Hannah John & Mary Ivychurch^[7]

Death

East Kent Burial Index Transcription

First name(s) MARY

Last name(s) SHORTER

Age at death 56

Birth year 1760

Birth date 1760

Death year 1816

Burial year 1816

Burial day 07

Burial month Apr

Residence New Romney

Parish Ivychurch

County Kent

Country England

Notes Wife Of John

Record set East Kent Burial Index

Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records

Subcategory Deaths & burials

Collections from Great Britain

Dr David Wright

Transcriptions © Dr David Wright 2005

Research Notes

Marriage #2 8 Jan 1788 Ivychurch, Kent, England

John of Woodchurch, Mary SMALL, widow of Ivychurch ^[8]

NB the FamSrch England marriages extractions show this as 8 Jan 1787 and the Kent marriages transcriptions on FindMyPast show Mary SMALL as marrying John SHORTER 8 Jan 1788

as Mary had a child to James SMALL in Aug 1787 and her first child to John SHORTER in Jun 1789 1788 seems more likely correct Henderson-2297 22:52, 18 December 2016 (EST)

Jan 1787 "Old Calendar" is Jan 1788 "New Calendar"Gunn-471 17:26, 23 April 2021 (UTC)

A Rootsweb post says

I was interested in the mention of SHORTERs in Woodchurch.

I have SHORTERs in my family tree but the ones I know of came from Ivychurch.

Could there be a any connection between the Woodchurch SHORTERs and

the Ivychurch ones?

The following is a summary of the information I have so far.

Joan.

1 John SHORTER m. Elizabeth HOPPER Ivychurch

2 John SHORTER b. c1765 m.Mary DAW b. C1760

3 William SHORTER b. c1789

3 Elizabeth SHORTER b. c1792 Ivychurch

3 Charlotte SHORTER b. c1793 Ivychurch m. Stephen BARMAN b. c1793 Woodchurch

[son of William BARMAN and Mary RAMSDEN]

3 Eleanor SHORTER b. c1795 Ivychurch

3 Harriet SHORTER b. c1797 m. Richard TUNBRIDGE New Romney son of William TUNBRIDGE and Susanna WELLDEN]

3 Frances SHORTER b. c1798 Ivychurch

3 Hannah SHORTER b. c1802 Ivychurch^[9]

Possible Birth

Several on line genealogical sites identify Mary Daw (wife of James Small and John Shorter as Mary Dorothy Daw, daughter of James and Elizabeth Daw, baptised 1 Nov 1761 in St Paul, Canterbury, but I can find no connection between the Mary Dorothy Daw baptised in Canterbury and the Mary Daw married in Ivychurch (26 miles apart).Gunn-471 22:47, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

These online sites include