Born in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Joseph Booth Sr
— married
14 Jun 1678 (to 1685) in Stratford, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
[children unknown]
Died about
at about age 23
in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut
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Disputed Parents
The parents of Mary Wells are unknown. The Booth Family History includes her as a daughter of John Welles and Elizabeth Bourne, and the first wife of Joseph Foote, but as her recorded birth date is more than a year after the death of John Welles in August 1659, either there is a defect in the record, or she is the daughter of a different John Wells. Jacobus, in Families of Old Fairfield does not include her as a daughter or as a wife of Joseph Foote. No record of this marriage has been found.
Biography
Marriage
- Joseph Booth
- This marriage appears in some genealogies but not others. Not in Jacobus but is in Orcutt's History of New Milford
Mary Wells was born August 29, 1661 in Stratford Township, Fairfield, Connecticut. Her father was John Wells.[1]
m. Joseph Boothe of Stratford, whose mother was Elizabeth Hawley.[2]
Sources
- ↑ Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906 database, FamilySearch : accessed 4 June 2016, Mary Wells, 29 Aug 1661; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
- ↑ Hawley
- Orcutt, Samuel. History of the Towns of New Milford and Bridgewater, Connecticut, 1703-1882 (Case, Lockwood and Brainard Co., 1882) reprint edition 1976 with additions & corrections. Page 65. "m. 1st, Mary, dau of John Wells"
- "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/SRS5-J8W : accessed 2014-10-29), entry for Joseph Booth Sr..
- Hawley, Elias. The Hawley Record (E. H. Hutchinson & Co., Buffalo, N.Y., 1890) Page 442 [gives Mary's year of birth as 1660].
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Ancestral File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:993Q-8SL : accessed 2015-08-21), entry for Mary WELLS.
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In the Stratford VR's, it shows another "Mary, daughter of John", b Nov 29, 1670. This makes it look like the Mary Wells of this profile, with the birthdate of Aug 29, 1661, may not have lived, and "John" had another daughter he named Mary. i'm guessing there is a different John Wells. Pure speculation, but something doesn't seem quite right here.
What's the best way to resolve?