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Isabella (Rankin) Blair (1683 - 1765)

Isabella Blair formerly Rankin
Born in Aghadowey, Ulster, Irelandmap
Daughter of and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of — married about 1703 in Aghadowey, Ulster, Irelandmap
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 82 in Worchester, Worchester, Province of Massachusetts Baymap
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Biography

Isabella (Rankin) Blair was born in 1683, the daughter of David Blair, a Scottish native, and husband of Jennet Hunter. Isabella is buried at Worcester Common Burial Ground, Worcester, Massachusetts, with her husband and their son, Joseph, 1727-1804. Inscription of stone: Here lyes interr'd the remains of; Memento mori. (Inscriptions from the Old Burial Grounds in Worcester, Masschusetts, from 1727-1859) [1]

Obituary for Isabella - We hear from, Worcester, that lately died there Mrs. Isabella Blair, aged 82 years formerly a noted Midwife in that Place. She hath left a husband aged 80, eleven children; ninety-three grandchildren; twenty-two-great-grandchildren; in all one hundred and twenty fix. She lived with her husband fifty two years, and during that time her own death was the only one that happened in the family. She was decently interr'd in the new Mode. (Taken from "The Boston Evening Post" Saturday, April 15th, 1765)

Sources

  1. Find A Grave: Memorial #21475683

Miller, Thomas, Historical and Genealogical Record of the First Settlers of Colchester County, A&W MacKinlay, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1873, Pg. 167.

Brainerd, Dwight. Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd (Montreal, Quebec, 1948) Page 37





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Rankin-2861 and Rankin-651 appear to represent the same person because: Same name, spouse, DOB, DOD,
posted by Marty (Lenover) Acks
Isabella Rankin Blair is buried in Worcester

Common Burial Ground, Worcester County, Massachusetts.

posted by Bonita (Giffin) Cole
S W
Elizabeth Rankin Blair had six sons, four daughters, eighty-seven grandchildren and one hundred and six great grandchildren, in all two hundred and nine living descendants.
posted by S W

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