Mary was a daughter of John Launce (or Lance), Gent., and his wife Isabella Darcy.[1][2] She is thought to have been born about 1625[3] based on her parents marriage about 1619 and her own marriage around 1645, probably in Cornwall, England, as that is where her father was born and lived most of his life.[4] She had four brothers and four sisters.[4] Her father was a parliamentarian who died from a wound received during what must have been a heated argument in 1635, when Mary was only about ten years of age.[4] Her mother, Isabella, remarried about three years later to the Rev. Sydrach Simpson, a clerk and the master of Pembroke Hall at the University of Cambridge.[4]
Marriage and Children
Mary Launce married about 1645, as his second wife, the Rev. John Sherman, son of Edmund Sherman of Dedham, Essex; Watertown, Massachusetts; and Wethersfield and New Haven, Connecticut.[2][5][6] The Rev. Sherman's first wife, whose name was also Mary, had died 8 September 1644.[2][7] Mary Launce and John Sherman were said to have had twenty children,[8] although the names of only eleven are known.[2] It is possible that some of their children died very young or in childbirth. Known children of this marriage:
At the time of their marriage, John Sherman was serving as the first minister of Branford, Connecticut.[2] In 1647 the couple moved their young family to Watertown, Massachusetts, where John accepted a new position as minister and where they both spent the remainder of their lives.[2]
Death
Mary's husband John died 8 August 1685 at Watertown.[2] She outlived him by almost twenty-four years, dying at Watertown on 9 March 1709/10.[13]
Research Notes
Sources
↑ Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd ed. (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), vol. 3, pp. 9-10 LAUNCE 16. Mary Launce.
↑ The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. Online database, AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), vol. 21 (1944), p. 177.
Available here by subscription.
↑ 4.04.14.24.3 Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), vol.3, pp. 546-547 LAUNCE 21. Isabella Darcy.
↑ Weis, Frederick Lewis. The Magna Carta Sureties, 1215 . Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1999), p. 44, line 33, no. 19.
↑ Sherman, Charles Pomeroy. Sherman Genealogy in the Direct Line From Thomas Sherman, I (c.1443-1493) Through Rev. John Sherman, VII (1613-1685)... Atlantic City: Brooks & Idler (1922), p.19.
↑ Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), vol. 6, pp. 284-285.
↑ Mather, Cotton. Magnalia Christi Americana. Hartford (repr 1855), pp. 511-518.
↑ 9.09.19.29.39.49.59.69.79.8 The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), vol. 20 (1943), p. 133,
available here by subscription.
↑ 11.011.111.211.311.4 The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), vol. 20 (1943), p. 134,
available here by subscription.
↑ 12.012.112.212.3 The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), vol. 20 (1943), p. 135,
available here by subscription.
↑Watertown Records Comprising the Third Book of Town Proceedings and the Second Book of Births Deaths and Marriages to the end of 1737 also Plan and Register of Burials in Arlington Street Burying Ground Watertown: Fred G Barker for the Historical Society (1900), p. 47. Records are also available at ma-vitalrecords.org
See also:
Simonds, Jesse Rupert. A History of the First Church and Society of Branford, Connecticut, 1644-1919. (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., New Haven, Conn., 1919). Online at Archive.org, page 11.
Watertown Records Comprising the First and Second Books of Town Proceedings with the Land Grants and Possessions also the Proprietors' Book also the First Book and Supplement of Births Deaths and Marriage. Watertown: Fred G Barker for the Historical Society (1894), p. 13. Records are also available at ma-vitalrecords.org.
Watertown Records Comprising the First and Second Books of Town Proceedings with the Land Grants and Possessions also the Proprietors' Book also the First Book and Supplement of Births Deaths and Marriage Watertown: Fred G Barker for the Historical Society (1894), p. 16. Records are also available at ma-vitalrecords.org.
Watertown Records Comprising East Congregational and Precinct Affairs 1697 to 1737. Boston: David Clapp & Sons for the Historical Society (1906), p. 110. Records are also available at ma-vitalrecords.org.
See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".
Magna Carta Trails
Badged Richardson-documented trail to Robert de Ros (MCA III:4-10 LAUNCE):
Gateway Ancestor Mary (Launce) Sherman (badged/re-reviewed 23 Apr 2023)
1. Mary is the daughter of Isabella Darcy (badged/R&A 12 Apr 2023)
2. Isabella is the daughter of Edward Darcy (badged/R&A 15 Apr 2023)
3. Edward is the son of Arthur Darcy (badged/R&A 17 Apr 2023)
4. Arthur is the son of Thomas Darcy KG (badged/R&A 29 Apr 2023)
5. Thomas is the son of William Darcy (badged/R&A 6 May 2023)
6. William is the son of Richard Darcy (badged/R&A 7May 2023)
7. Richard is the son of John Darcy (badged/R&A 24 May 2023)
8. John is the son of John Darcy (badged/R&A 31 May 2023)
9. John is the son of Philip Darcy (badged/R&A 15 June 2023)
I will soon be re-reviewing this profile to ensure it meets the Magna Carta Project's current standards, as a prelude to beginning to develop the trail from Mary Launce Sherman to Robert de Ros. If anyone has additional information they feel should be included, please message me. Thanks,
It appears to me that Mary (Launce) Sherman, at first glance, has a Magna Carta trail to Saher de Quincy through the latter's daughter, Hawise, including several (de) Courtenays and Mary's maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Astley, and other trails as well.
Thanks. Please see the Magna Carta Project section of this profile, which recognises the existence of many, not listed, trails to Magna Carta Surety Barons. Where Gateways have many possible trails to multiple Surety Barons the Project is not aiming to identify, verify and list all of them. Some Gateways have tens or hundreds of possible trails. Mary may well have tens of possible trails.
The main aims of the Project are
- to identify and verify at least ONE trail from each Gateway to ONE Surety Baron
- to bring profiles in trails it works on and manages to a high standard.
Has no one here seen -David Faris, Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists: … Genealogical Publishing Company; 1st edition (June 20, 2016), p159-161. I would add it as a source but lack authority.
Thanks. We do not regard this as a reliable source for Magna Carta Project profiles. We prefer the more up-to-date works of Douglas Richardson, which reflect more recent research.
I wouldn't call Faris' Plantagenet Ancestry unreliable, but it is certainly out-of-date. Douglas Richardson worked closely with David Faris on the development and research of these lines. When Faris died in 2001, Richardson essentially took over and continued the project by greatly expanding the scope and depth of the research. Richardson has made thousands of improvements and changes to the original research of Faris, so we would not want to use Faris' Plantagenet Ancestry with the more recent Richardson works available.
From Ancestry - "This book is no longer in print. It has been superseded by Douglas Richardson's Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, also published by Genealogical Publishing Company."
Hi Bob! I have a few more checklist items to go through, but I'm mostly done & have approved the profile. Let me know once you've developed the profiles to Nicholas Carew (Carew-11, trail from Mary to him is Darcy-262 -> Darcy-204 -> Carew-9, his daughter).
In the meantime, could you add the project to the trusted list? (Profiles with the sticker are added to the trusted list). See WikiTree-36 for how to add it.
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The main aims of the Project are
- to identify and verify at least ONE trail from each Gateway to ONE Surety Baron
- to bring profiles in trails it works on and manages to a high standard.
We are still a long way short of achieving that.
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From Ancestry - "This book is no longer in print. It has been superseded by Douglas Richardson's Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, also published by Genealogical Publishing Company."
Nice work!
In the meantime, could you add the project to the trusted list? (Profiles with the sticker are added to the trusted list). See WikiTree-36 for how to add it.
Thanks! Liz
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