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Mary was the daughter of the Widower Anthony Tucker and his second wife the widow Rosea Tyler (relict Tucker), daughter of Nicholas Tyler. (See below: Anthony and Rosea's previous spouses were siblings (Joshua and Mary Curle)
Mary's father, Anthony Tucker married twice. He married 1st c.1728 Mary (Curle) Jenkins, widow of Capt. Henry Jenkins, and daughter of Pasco and Sarah (—) Curle. They had children Curle and Sarah before she died c.1732. Then Anthony married 2nd c.1734 Rosea (Tyler) Curle, widow of Joshua Curle (Mary Curle's brother), and daughter of Nicholas Tyler. Their 1st spouses were siblings. They had a daughter Mary (the subject of this profile). This info is on Anthony Tucker page and is explicit in why Mary the subject of this profile is NOT a Jenkins.
She married Anthony Armistead no later than 1758 as she is named as such in her father's will.[citation needed]
She married John Williams after the death of Anthony in 1787. This was documented by son Anthony Armistead in a conveyance:
This also shows that Mary was still living in 1791.
Mary Jenkins or Mary Tucker
There has been speculation that she was actually Mary Jenkins, the daughter of Mary Curle and Henry Jenkins. This Mary was born about 1718. As Rosea was her aunt as well as stepmother, and Anthony would have been her stepfather; it is easy to see the assertion that she was Mary Jenkins.
It was common for girls to marry even as young as fourteen, in the early 18th century, and overwhelmingly married by their early twenties. That being said, if she were Mary Jenkins one would expect her to be bearing children by the mid 1730s and into the 1740s.
Instead, all of Mary's known children are Armisteads born in the middle 1750s and into the mid 1760s. Given the respective dates of birth of the two, it is a clearly better fit that Mary Tucker was the mother of these children.
It seems unlikely that Mary Jenkins would be the mother as she would be bearing children at age 48, which is unusual for the era. There are no further records of Mary Jenkins, and speculatively thinking, she probably died prior to 1736 and this Mary is her namesake, as well as the namesake of her mother Mary Curle.
She passed away in 1790. [4]
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