Thomas Conway (1654 - 1689)

Born 1654 in Lisburn, County Antrim, Ireland

Husband of Mary (Hollingsworth) Malin — married 28 Jun 1682 in Belleniskcrannell, Segoe, Armagh, Ireland

Descendants

Died 17 Sep 1689 at about age 35 in Newark, New Castle, Delaware

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Biography

Birth

Birth:

Date: 1654

Place: Lisburn, Antrim Co, Ulster, Ireland

Event

Event:

Type: Arrival

Date: 1682

Place: New Castle Co., Delaware

Death

Death:

Date: 17 Jul 1689

Place: Newark, New Castle, Delaware, United States

Book Excerpt

The children of Valentine Hollingsworth by his first wife, Ann Ree, were as follows: 1. Mary Hollingsworth, born 1 Mo. 25, 1656, at Belleniskcrannell, married, first 4 Mo. 28, 1682, at the house of Francis Robson, Parish of Segoe, County Armagh, to Thomas Conway or Connaway, of Parish of Lisburn, County Antrim. They came to the Delaware with her father in 1682, and settled near him in New Castle County. Thomas Connaway died 11 Mo. 30, 1688-9, and his widow, in 1693, married, secondly, Randal Malin, widower, of Upper Providence, now Delaware County (originally of Great Barrum, Cheshire, Eng,and). Randal Malin became a Quaker minister and in 1727 removed with his wife and family within the limits of Goshen Monthly Meeting.

By her first husband, Thomas Connaway, she had three children:

Elizabeth, b. 7 Mo. 9, 1687, m. 1st Charles Booth, 1705, and 2d, Thomas Babb, in 1720

Ann, born about 1688, m. Philip Taylor, 6 Mo. 10; 1705

Sarah b. About 1689, m. 3 Mo., 1710, to John Yearsley, b. In England about 1685, son of John and Elizabeth.^[1]

Research Notes

These sources will take this profile out of the unsourced category but they need to be transcribed and the bio developed.^[2][3][4]

^[5] Baty-260 19:42, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Sources

1. ↑ Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania 1682-1750, Appendix, John Firth
2. ↑ http://www.cephasfisher.net/LurganMarriageCertificates/LurganMarriageBooks.pdf
3. ↑ http://www.frostandgilchrist.com/getperson.php?personID=I9797&tree=frostinaz01
4. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/boards/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=1368&p=surnames.hollingsworth
5. ↑ "https://www.welcomesociety.org/ancestors-approved-memberships.html." William Penn Fleet ancestors approved for membership: The Welcome Society of Pennsylvania. Accessed 16 September 2018 Sj Baty.

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• This handwritten document comes from family archives. The writer did not date nor sign it. It is possible that the author was Hannah Rebecca Cope Plimpton. It is an extensive genealogy of the Cope line, and has been confirmed by other sources. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qTxm0M8I-T3GrY1TiJQ77laU9VGrBOOQ/view?usp=sharing