Mary Bishop's birth date has not been ascertained yet or ever recorded.
Marriage
Mary Bishop married John Kirk on November 10, 1785 at Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church in Wilmington, Delaware.[1][2][3] It ascertains that Mary Bishop married John Kirk after her father Thomas Bishop died intestate in 1784. Her name Mary Bishop was mentioned in the petition of the children and the heirs of Thomas Bishop on June 29, 1784 in Orphans' Court in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and it ascertains that she had not been married yet.[4]
Death
Mary Kirk's death date cannot be ascertained yet.
Estate
Petition of Thomas Bishop's Heirs
Mary Bishop was mentioned in the petition of the children and the heirs of Thomas Bishop on June 29, 1784 in Orphans' Court in Chester County, Pennsylvania. The one full and equal tenth part thereof by meter and bounds to and for Thomas Bishop's daughter, Mary Bishop.[5]
Sources
↑ Burr, Horace. The Records of Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church, Wilmington Del., from 1697 to 1773. Papers of the Historical Society of Delaware, Volume 9. Wilmington, Del: Historical Society of Delaware, 1890. Print. Page 759.
↑ Burr, Horace. Catalogue and Errata of the Records of Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church. Volume 9, Part A. Wilmington, Del: Historical Society of Delaware, 1919. Print. Page 65.
↑ Cope, Gilbert, and Henry Graham Ashmead. Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Chester and Delaware Counties, Pennsylvania. Vol. 1. New York: Lewis, 1904. Print. Page 54.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
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