Is anyone working Mary DeMaranville's ancestors?

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I'm looking to extend my tree, but I'm too much of a newbie to go past 1700. Is anyone working on the ancestry of Mary DeMaranville?

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I'm beginning to think that "my" Mary DeMaranville is a made up person, tacked on at the end of a long line of John Louis DeMaranville (DeMaranville-137) and Susanna Crapo (Crapo-417) offspring. My relative is supposed to be the youngest in their family of children and her name is supposed to be Mary "Polly" DeMaranville, born in 1751. The known daughter named Mary (DeMaranville-73) wasn't married to a Haskins and was born in 1735.

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Well, I know she was real, but the made up part seems to be her parents. I'm just a beginning genealogist and not savvy or experienced enough to figure out who her parents are.

In many ancestry.com listings, she alternately is listed as Mary, Mary Polly, Polly or Polly Mary. The variations of her first name coupled with all the different ways her last name has been spelled could take forever to untangle.

Answer 1

Mary was born 15 Jun 1751 died 16 Dec 1867 and buried in the Camden Cemetery, Kipton, Lorain, Ohio, United States of America https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVL-K4HF

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Good find, Jean, and that's what FamilySearch and Find a Grave say. But there don't seem to be specific sources. Could she really have lived to 116?

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Good point. I tried ditching the "de" on the front of her surname and searched other variations but no birth records surfaced.  I did find where she married John, Jr Haskins 19 Jun 1793 in Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-BF68

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I found this document, but don't know who wrote it. I have the actual writing sample on my Ancestry.com page for her: 

"Item: I give to my daughter Mary D'Marainville the use and improvement of one fifth part of my Estate both real and personal after my just debts, legacies and lawfull charges are paid, she to improve the same during her natural life and after her death I give and bequeath the same to her daughter that she now has living, to her heirs and assigns forever and in case she should die without issue in the lifetime of her mother, then I give and bequeath the same to my said daughter Mary and to her heirs and assigns forever; and in case this daughter of my said daughter Mary should die without issue after the decease of her mother, then in that case I give and bequeath the same to my four grandsons (viz) to the aforesaid John, Simeon, and Robin, and John Simmons and to my Granddaughter Margaret Simmons and to their heirs and assigns forever". Hide full text

There's this also saved under my page on Ancestry.com for Mary. 

https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/175205914/person/142277166006/media/0cfe2e6c-1cb3-4ab0-a727-396b093aca25?_phsrc=mDh17&usePUBJs=true&galleryindex=4&sort=-created

Is this helpful at all or bunk? 

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Mary is listed as Louis's fifth child in  GEORGE L. RANDALL, New Bedford, Mass. 1921's "DeMaranville Genealogy: Descendants of Louis DeMaranville" https://archive.org/stream/demaranvillegen00randgoog/demaranvillegen00randgoog_djvu.txt

 but he doesn't give any sources. Though it is interesting that the author of the document reports many of that family married Haskins.

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On Ancestry (I know it's not the most accurate site); there are many more children than what other sources cite. I have no idea which ones are real and which ones are not--maybe some were servants or grandchildren?  It's highly suspicious that there are two Mary's; one is the 5th child and the other is the last, but the last child, Mary "Polly" apparently went by Polly.  

If the marriage/spouse data on the 5th Mary, whom I believe is one of their actual children, is inaccurate then maybe she is the one who married my Haskins relative.

Whoever she is, she is my 4th great grandmother!