Mary (Gorham) Dunlop (1755 - abt. 1831)

Born 23 Jul 1755 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Wife of William A Dunlop — married 1776 in Liverpool, Queens County, Nova Scotia

Descendants

Died about 1831 at about age 75 in Liverpool, Queens, Nova Scotia

Biography

Mary was born July 23, 1755, the daughter of Jabez Gorham and Mary Burbank of Plymouth, Massachusetts^{[1] [2]}

(n 1775, she married William Dunlap^[3], and had children, including:

1. Martha Patty Dunlop, who was born in 1778, who married John Hammond on January 7, 1813
2. Mary Dunlop 1784–1872^[4]
3. William Dunlop Jr. 1788–1873, who married Mary McLearn
4. David James Dunlop 1798–1891, who married Abigail Freeman, sister of John and Nathan
5. Elizabeth Dunlop, who married Joseph Brown, of Moose Hill
6. Mercy Dunlop, who married Benjamin Hayden in Liverpool in 1803
7. Mary Dunlop, who married Thomas Hayden brother of Benjamin 1803
8. Lucy Dunlop, who married Mr. Hays, and then became the 4th wife of Simeon Freeman. She died in 1875
9. Hannah Dunlop, who married Samuel Kenney, and died May 7, 1869^[5]
10. John, who was lost at sea unmarried
11. James, who was lost at sea unmarried

William and Mary operated an Inn in Liverpool, Nova Scotia^[6] on the Milton Road, near the intersection of Old Falls Road.^{[7] [8]}, although Perkins also mentions barrels (delivered late) and fishing nets set by William Dunlop. Robert Long indicates that the inn was located roughly where the exit for the 103 runs today.

She passed away about 1831.

Sources

1. ↑ Vital Records of Liverpool Nova Scotia page 60, from the Vital Records from The NEHGS Register. Vol 126, page 169; Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.) This source is behind a paywall
2. ↑ Familysearch shows various family trees with the same information, which are not behind a paywall
3. ↑ Mayflower Quarterly, page 128 reference #A2015-32.377 August 1984, by Robert F. Kirkpatrick states that William Dunlop married Mary Gorham, born 1755, whose lineage traces back to John Howland of the Mayflower.
4. ↑ "Canada Deaths and Burials, 1664-1955," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F2P6-CXD : 28 November 2014), William Dunlop in entry for Mary Hayden, 04 Sep 1872; citing Cemetery, Osborne, Shelburne, reference p48 line137; FHL microfilm 1,298,862.
5. ↑ "Canada Deaths and Burials, 1664-1955," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F2PD-Z9R : 28 November 2014), William Dunlop in entry for Hannah King, 07 May 1869; citing Cemetery, Milton, Queens, reference p29 l97; FHL microfilm 1,298,862.
6. ↑ Nova Scotia Archives; Census Returns, 1767-1787; William Dunlop; Liverpool, Queens County — 1787; Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 vol. 443 no. 45 p. 1
7. ↑ The Diaries of Simeon Perkins, 1766-1780 (volume I) The Publications of the Champlain Society, Volume 29; Author: Simeon Perkins; Editor: Harold A. Innis; Published: 2013. Simeon Perkins Diary makes several references to William Dunlop. His marriage and death date are also noted in a footer on page 53, volume 2
8. ↑ Robert J. Long, Annals of Queens County, NS typescript by Miss Marion Mack, Registrar, Liverpool, 1926, accessed April 4, 2017; see person 3030 for William

See also:

• source: U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s; Name: Mary Gorham; Arrival Year 1760; Arrival Place; Nova Scotia, Canada; Source Publication Code 8750.41; Primary Immigrant; Gorham, Mary;

Annotation Date and port of arrival or date and place of mention in the New World. Place of origin, birth date, occupation, reference to original source, and other genealogical data may also be provided. Source Bibliography: SMITH, LEONARD H., JR., AND NORMA H. SMITH. Nova Scotia Immigrants to 1867, Volume II. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1994. 295p. Page 98

• source: Citation Information Detail: Birth year: 1755; Birth city: Plymouth; Birth state: MA; Source Information Title: Family Data Collection - Individual Records; Author: Edmund West, comp.
• source: Citation Information Detail: 1, 311; Source Information Title: John Howland of the Mayflower, Author White, Elizabeth Pearson; Publisher

Picton Press, Camden, ME 1990.

• source: Name: Mary Gorham; Arrival Year 1761; Arrival Place Nova Scotia, Canada; Family Members: Daughter Hannah; Son Jabez; Daughter Mary; Wife Mary Burbank; Source Publication Code 8750.40; Primary Immigrant Gorham, Jabez; AnnotationDate and port of arrival or date and place of mention in the New World. Place of origin, birth date, occupation, reference to original source, and other genealogical information may also be provided.