Alice (Unknown) Maris (1638 - 1699)

Born 16 Jan 1638 in Worcestershire, England [uncertain]

Wife of George Maris — married 1659 in Worcestershire, England

Descendants

Died 11 Mar 1699 at age 61 in Springfield, Delaware, Pennsylvania

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Biography

Alice (Unknown) Maris was born in Worcestershire, England.

Alice was a Friend (Quaker)

Alice (Unknown) Maris migrated from England to Pennsylvania.

Alice was born in the 1630s (based on the ages of her children) in Worcestershire, England (based on the birthplace of her husband and known place of emigration). My tradition her maiden name may have been Wellsmith or Wilsmith.

She married George Maris, in about 1659^[1], based on the birth of her first child in 1660.

Together with her husband and with their five children, she migrated to Pennsylvania in 1683^[2].

They lived in Chester County, Pennsylvania^[3][4]. The entire family were active Quakers^[5].

Alice died on 11 Mar 1699, in Springfield, Chester, Pennsylvania.^[6]. Shew was buried in the Chester Friends' Cemetery^[7].

Research Notes

LNAB and Parentage

I can find no record of her LNAB. I plan to change it to Unknown unless one appears. Trueblood-273 20:27, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

Likewise I am disconnecting the parents. One has no sources at all the other was born in Norfolk.

Sources

1. ↑ "The Genealogist" (Volume 13, No.2 - Fall 1999)
2. ↑ Source: Author: Ancestry.com Title: U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010; Page: Place: Pennsylvania; Year: 1683; Page Number: 90 and Number 84
3. ↑ Author: John Smith Futhey and Gilbert Cope Title: History of Chester County, Pennsylvania, with genealogical and biographical sketches (1881) Publication: Name: L H Everts; Location: Philadelphia; NOTE John Smith Futhey and Gilbert Cope Page: p 649
4. ↑ Source: Author: George Smith M.D. Title: History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania Publication: Name: US Gen Web Archives by Cyndie Enfinger; Date: 1862 (online 2004); https://web.archive.org/web/20111226070430/http://usgwarchives.org/pa/delaware/bios.htm
5. ↑ Author: Ancestry.com Title: U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;
6. ↑ "Our Quaker Ancestry" by Rusha Wesley 1945.
7. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 26 April 2020), memorial page for Alice Wilsmith/Wellsmith Maris (16 Jan 1638–11 Mar 1699), Find A Grave: Memorial #83477791, citing Chester Friends Cemetery, Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA ; Maintained by Donna Sutiff (contributor 46786711) . Text: No grave marker photo

See also:

• “George Maris of Chester County, Pennsylvania,” The Genealogist, Vol. 13, No. 2, Fall 1999.
• Maris, George L. and Annie M. Maris, The Maris Family in the United States: A Record of the Descendants of George and Alice Mari s 1683-1885, West Chester, Pennsylvania: F. S. Hickman, Printer and Publisher (1885), 1.
• Bryan, Jesse, Paxson Ancestry: An Adjunctd to the Moorman-Johnson Family, St. Louis: Unknown (1906), 4.
• Harris, Joseph Smith, The Collateral Ancestry of Stephen Harris, Born September 4, 1798 and of Marianne Smith, Bor n April 2, 1805, Philadelphia: George F. Lasher, Printer (1908), 185.

Acknowledgements

• This person was created through the import of JDS_09_17_10.ged on 09 February 2011.
• This person was also imported and subsequently merged by a GEDCOM import created by Laura Lynne Hedgecock through the import of Hedgecock via Matt Larry and Ray.ged on Mar 5, 2015
• WikiTree profile Wilsmith-6 created through the import of Thompson Family Tree.ged on Sep 1, 2012 by Wilson Thompson.