Margaret (Nelson) Teackle (abt. 1645 - bef. 1696)

Born about 1645 in England

Ancestors

Descendants

Died before 1696 before about age 51 in Colony of Virginia [uncertain]

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Biography

Margaret Nelson was the daughter of Robert Nelson, Esq.^[1] and Mary Temple.^[2][3][4] Her date and place of birth are unknown.

She was a legatee in the 1671 will of her brother, Temple Nelson, Esq.^[2][4]

She married, as his second wife, Rev. Thomas Teackle,^[1][2][5][6] son of Thomas Teackle.^[7] Thomas was a minister in Craddock, Accomack County, Virginia.^[2]

Thomas Teackle died 26 January 1695/6, leaving a will dated 20 January 1695/6 and proved 19 February 1695/6 in Accomack County, Virginia,^[2] iand is recorded in volume 1692-1715, pages 98-99 of the Accomack County Records.^[8] He named one son and three daughters in his will. All of his children were minors at Thomas' death and each was assigned a guardian. The four children and their guardians were named as the executors of Thomas' will.^[9] That Margaret was the mother Thomas' four children is unproved/unknown but widely assumed. The children named in Thomas' will were:

• Margaret,^[9] wife of John Stringer and Littleton Robins,^[2] probably the eldest child
• John,^[2][5][6][9] born 2 September 1693, died 3 December 1721, married Susanna Upshur and had issue.^[1][7][8]
• Catherine,^[9] wife of John Robins,^[2] left issue^[1][8]
• Elizabeth,^[2][9] left issue^[1] with both spouses; married first ____ Melchops and second William Taylor^[8]

Margaret's date and place of death are unknown. As she was not named in her husband's will, she likely predeceased him.

Research Notes

Needs More Research/Primary Sources

No birth record for Margaret has been found, but her parentage is fairly clear as Margaret was named in her brother Temple's 1671 will. Accordingly, her status as a Magna Carta Gateway is sound. However, her marriage and children are speculative. Thomas Teackle married first to Isabella, widow of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Douglass. Some unsourced secondary sources give them a 1658 marriage date. It is unknown when (or even IF) Margaret Nelson married Thomas Teackle: Richardson says "she [Margaret Nelson] allegedly married Thomas ..." and goes on to list the four children that were named in Thomas' will. However, the four children could be the children of Thomas and his first wife as her date of death is unknown.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} George A. Hanson. Old Kent: The Eastern Shore of Maryland. John P. Des Forges, 1876, p. 311. Google Books.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Vol. V. Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013, p. 140, TEMPLE 19.ii: Margaret Nelson.
3. ↑ Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. 2nd edition, Vol III. Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011, pp. 231-232, NELSON 18.ii. Google Books.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} "The Family of Temple III" in The Herald and Genealogist. Vol. 4. London: Nichols and Nichols, 1863-1874, p. 12. Google Books.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Ancestral Records and Portraits: A Compilation from the Archives of Chapter I, the Colonial Dames of America, Volume 2. Baltimore: Grafton Press, 1910, p. 481, 512. FamilySearch.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Ancestral Records and Portraits. Volume 1. 1910, p. 343-344. FamilySearch.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Lyon Gardiner Tyler. Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. Volume I. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915, p. 338. Archive.org.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3} "Genealogical Notes and Queries" in Times Dispatch, Richmond, VA, 8 November 1914, page 9. VirginiaChronicle.com.
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4} Extracts from the will of Thomas Teackle in "Re: Teackle/Upshur/Parker" newsgroup post on Genealogy.com.

• The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 21. Virginia Historical Society, 1913, p. 322. Google Books.

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed and updated for the Magna Carta Project by Thiessen-117 on 19 July 2022.

Margaret (Nelson) Teackle is listed in Magna Carta Ancestry as a Gateway Ancestor (vol. I, pages xxiii-xxix) and is the Gateway in trails that were identified and badged by the Magna Carta Project to Magna Carta Surety Barons Saher de Quincy, John Fitz Robert, Gilbert de Clare, Richard de Clare, John de Lacy, Robert de Vere, Hugh le Bigod, and Roger le Bigod. These trails were developed/re-reviewed in 2022. They are set out in the Magna Carta Trails section below.

See Base Camp for more information about Magna Carta trails; see the project's glossary for terms used by the project (such as "badged").