Mary Raynor 1585 England 1675 (aged 89–90) Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts. Find a Grave states she was born in England [9]
Husband: Lieut Thomas Cooper 20 May 1583 Henlow, Central Bedfordshire Unitary Authority, Bedfordshire, England 5 Oct 1675 (aged 92) Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts
The TAG article[10] given as a source for Thomas Cooper's baptism in 1583, does not have a wife given for Thomas. There is no doubt that a Thomas Cooper was baptised in Henlow in 1583. But there's no further trace of him, and as some of his family emigrated to New England on the Mayflower there must be a chance that he too emigrated (but not on the Mayflower whose passengers are well documented).
Marriage 1648 Southold, Suffolk Long Island, NY. [11]
File Format: jpg. English Immigrant. Format: jpg. dbhfreha
↑ Ward, Robert Leigh, "English Ancestry of Seven Mayflower Passengers, Tilley, Sampson and Cooper." The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. AmericanAncestors.org NEHGS (Vol 52, Pages 205-6).
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Thank you to Jake Foster for creating WikiTree profile Raynor-185 through the import of Jacob Foster family tree.ged on May 27, 2013.
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Edward Raynor and his wife Margery had two daughters (that can be documented): Anna and Margery. Of course it is possible there was a daughter named Mary who was not named in Edward's Will or listed among extant church records, but if so she could not have been born in Connecticut. Edward and Margery lived and died in Elmsett, Suffolk, England. So....maybe not a Cooper, and maybe not a Raynor.
I've detached Mary Raynor from Thomas Cooper from Henlow, bap 1783 but must leave it to others with more expertise than I in matters American to decide whether this is the same person as Rayner-896. I think it probably is, with the dates for Raynor-185 being mangled.
You seem to have typed Mary's birth year as ALSO the year of her marriage, which seems highly unlikely!
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Thomas Cooper Cooper-17346 born Olney Buckinghamshire England also has him marrying a Mary Raynor, but much later. There's no evidence that Thomas Cooper from Henlow married a Mary Raynor, or that he emigrated (although he may have done given his family's connections with the Mayflower). This biography needs sorting out.
You seem to have typed Mary's birth year as ALSO the year of her marriage, which seems highly unlikely!
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