Miriam (Ingram) Short (1642 - 1682)

Born 1642 in Gatton, Sussex, England

Ancestors

Wife of Henry Short — married 1662 in England

Descendants

Died 26 Aug 1682 at about age 40 in aboard the Welcome, Atlantic Ocean

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Research Note

Adam Short has been disproved as the husband of Miriam Ingram. Please refer to the sources cited in the profile.

Miriam Ingram's birth origin is questionable. The two seconday sources that reference this are McCracken who states that "Isaac Ingram was from Gatton, Surrey, just north of the Sussex border." vs. Tepper and Balderston who states "of Kingsbury, Warwickshire, who in 1663 was presented in the Episcopal Visitation for not attending church". The records that have been found so far are indexes. Primary records need to be located to determine where Miriam was from in England.

There is a marriage record that is indexed from North Mundham, Sussex, England for Abell Ingram and Miriam Chatfield on 14 May 1633.^[1]

Biography

Miriam Ingram Short, daughter of Abell Ingram and Miriam Chatfield, was born about 1642 in Gatton, Surrey.^{[citation needed]}

She married Henry Short in 1664 in Sussex, England.^{[citation needed]}

Miriam and her children Miriam, Anne and Adam are included among the approved ancestors for membership in the Welcome Society.^[2]

"The reason for thinking that Miriam Short the elder, mother of the other three Shorts, was on the vessel is found in Ingram's will where she is described as 'late deceased,' a phrase peculiarly appropriate if she had started the voyage and then succumbed to the smallpox. She may well have been the Miriam Short, Quaker, of Kingsbury, Warwickshire, who in 1663 was presented in the Episcopal Visitation for not attending church."^[3]

Miriam and Henry are named as parents at the baptism of their daughter Miriam Short on May 10, 1664 and their son Adam on May 30, 1666 in Ford, Sussex, England.^[4][5]

From the New World Immigrants: A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists on page 261 we find this passage about Miriam.^[6][7]

"Isaac Ingram (37) was from Gatton, Surrey, just north of the Sussex border. His is the last of four wills made on the Welcome that we possess; its date is September 26. Unmarried, he left £10 to each of three children - Adam, Miriam, and Anne - of his deceased sister, Miriam Short. He also left him all the goods he had with him on the Welcome. This certainly would imply that they were on the ship with him, for what good would household possessions and food in Pennsylvania be to three young people in England? Miriam was certainly onboard the Welcome, for she married another passenger, George Thompson, a few months after the ship arrived."

Sources

1. ↑ "England, Sussex, Parish Registers 1538-1910," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJD6-RDSN : accessed 21 April 2015), Abell Ingram and Miriam Chatfeilde, Marriage, North Mundham, North Mundham, Sussex, England, 14 May 1633; citing 00380, West Sussex County Record Office, Chichester; FHL microfilm 2,197,971.
2. ↑ "Ancestors Approved Memberships." The Welcome Society of Pennsylvania. Accessed October 07, 2018. https://www.welcomesociety.org/ancestors-approved-memberships.html.
3. ↑ McCracken, George E. The Welcome Claimants Proved, Disproved and Doubtful with an Account of Some of Their Descendants. (Baltimore, Genealogical Pub. Co, 1970), 473
4. ↑ England: Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Original index: England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. FamilySearch, 2014.)

   Name Miriam SHOART

   Birth 1664

   Location

   Original Text

   Record Type Birth

   Father Henry Shoart

   Mother Miriam

   Gender Female

   Christening Place FORD,SUSSEX,ENGLAND

   Christening Date 10 May 1664

   Film No. 0919118, 0416748, 416755

   Page 37173898

   https://www.americanancestors.org/DB543/rd/373590992

5. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5FR-P8Z : 11 February 2018, Adam Shoart, 30 May 1666); citing , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 919,118, 416,748, 416,755.

   Name Adam Shoart

   Gender Male

   Christening Date 30 May 1666

   Christening Date (Original) 30 MAY 1666

   Christening Place FORD,SUSSEX,ENGLAND

   Father's Name Henry Shoart

   Mother's Name Miriam

6. ↑ Tepper, Michael. "The Real Welcome Passengers". New World Immigrants: A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists and Associated Data from Periodical Literature. Vol. 1. Baltimore, 1980. pg. 261. https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/48115/NewWorldImmigrantsI-000501-261/205200
7. ↑ Balderston, Marion. "The Real "Welcome" Passengers." Huntington Library Quarterly 26, no. 1 (1962): 31-56. doi:10.2307/3816843.

See also:

• England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
• U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc
• U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Yates Publishing Publication: Ancestry.com Operations Inc
• Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.