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Margery (Maude) Fisher (1671 - aft. 1713)

Margery Fisher formerly Maude aka Maud, Mode, Meed
Born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, Englandmap
Daughter of [father unknown] and
Wife of — married Feb 1693 in Lewes, Sussex, Delawaremap
Descendants descendants
Died after after age 42 [location unknown]
Profile last modified | Created 16 Oct 2011
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Biography

Margery Maude was the daughter of Elizabeth Chorley by her second husband Joshua Maude. At the age of 11, Margery arrived, along with her sister Jane[1] and her half-sister Rebecca Wynne[2], aboard Submission in November of 1682. The Welcome Society of Pennsylvania includes Margery on their list of Approved Ancestors[3]

She married Thomas Fisher, son of John & Margaret Fisher, in 1692 in Lewes (in Sussex County, originally part of Pennsylvania, but later part of the Province of Delaware).[4] They had chldren:

  1. Margaret (m. Joshua Booth),
  2. Elizabeth (m. Richard Eyre),
  3. Margery (m. James Miers),
  4. Esther (m. Abraham Wynkoop),
  5. James Fisher,
  6. Jabez Maud Fisher, and
  7. Joshua Fisher.

Her husband's 1713 will made her an heir and the executor of his estate.

Sources

  1. McCracken, George E., Welcome Claimants - Proved, Disproved and Doubtful, page 286, 558.
  2. McCracken, George E., Welcome Claimants - Proved, Disproved and Doubtful, page 558.
  3. William Penn Fleet ancestors approved for membership: The Welcome Society of Pennsylvania. https://www.welcomesociety.org/ancestors.html Accessed 28 October 2023.
  4. Smith, Ann Wharton. Genealogy of the Fisher family, 1682 to 1896. Philadelphia (1896). Internet Archives.

See also:

  • Delaware, Wills and Probate Records, , 1676-1971: Sussex: General index, 1682-1948; Wills, book A, 1682-1781. Image 346-347. Images available at FamilySearch.org: [1], accessed 13 Oct 2019
Will of THOMAS FISHER, 1713
Image is very difficult to read; a transcript is available at the book Genealogy of the Fisher Family




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