Born in Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England
Ancestors 
Daughter of Abel Wheeler
and Jane (Shephard) Wheeler
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Thomas Thayer
— married
13 Apr 1618 in Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England
Descendants 
Mother of
Welfrey Thayer, Thomas Thayer Jr, Ferdinando Thayer, Ursula Thayer, Unknown Thayer, Shadrach Thayer, Mary Thayer and Son Thayer
Died
at age 72
in Braintree, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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Biography
Margery Wheeler was born 25 Apr 1600 at Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England.[1] She was the daughter of Abel Wheeler and Jane Shephard.
Margery married Thomas Thayer, who was baptized 15 Aug 1596 at Thornbury and died at Braintree, Massachusetts 2 Jun 1665. He was the son of Richard Thayer and Ursula Alice Dimery.[1] Thomas and his brother Richard emigrated to New England.[2][3]
Thomas and Margery married at Thornbury 13 Apr 1618:[1]
- Thomas married on "xiijth dau [April 1618] at Thornbury to "Margerie Wheller." (WikiTree Margery Wheeler)[4]
- Thomas Tayer and Margerie Wheeller, 13 Apr 1618, Thornbury, Gloucestershire[5]
Thomas Thayer, shoemaker, is the immigrant ancestor of this branch of the Thayer family.[3] He emigrated from Thornbury, England to New England in 1637[1] and settled in Braintree, Massachusetts. In 1639 Thomas received a grant of 76 acres of land in Braintree for nine people in his family.[3]
Children of Thomas Thayer and Margery Wheeler
Thomas and Margery had the following children:
- Thomas Thayer, baptized at Thornbury 15 Sep 1622[3][6]
- Ferdinando Thayer, baptized 18 Apr 1625[3][6]
- Shadrach Thayer, baptized 10 May 1629[3][6]
Margery Wheeler died in Blackstone, Massachusetts in 1672. [7]
Thomas Thayer died at Braintree, 2 Jun 1665. His widow Margery died 11 Feb 1672/73.[3][6]
Research Notes
Clifford Stott, author of the 1998 article in The American Genealogist, reprinted all the Thornbury records and the will of John Thayer in an effort to correct the extensive errors in the 1906 Register articles. Errors in transcription and date interpretation led the authors to make significant errors in the genealogy. Others (including Thomas Thayer Ojeda) who relied on these articles continued the same errors.[4]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Thayer Families Association Thomas Thayer, First Four Generations : membership required
- ↑ Ojeda, Thomas Thayer. The Thayer Family of Thornbury: a Study Trying Its Reconstitution. Santiago? Chile. Imprenta Moderna 1907. Archive.org : accessed 29 May 2018.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Cutter, William Richard. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts Vol. I. Genealogical Publishing Co. Baltimore, Maryland. 1995, 2000, 2008. : Thayer, pp. 500-2.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Stott, Clifford L., "The Gloucester T(h)ayer Ancestry." The American Genealogist. (Vol 73, April 1998, Page 81) New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database accessed 15 January 2016. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .)
- ↑ Findmypast.co.uk England Marriages 1538-1973 Thomas Tayer & Margerie Wheeller : accessed 20 Sep 2018; subscription site$
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Bartlett, Joseph Gardner. John Hill of Dorchester, Mass., 1633 Printed for private circulation by Lew C. Hill. 1994. Thayer, pg. 34
- ↑ Massachusetts, Town Vital Collections, 1620-1988 Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook) [Link]
- John Hill of Dorcester, Mass., 1633, and five generations of his descendants also ancestral lines of some families intermarried with his descendants and Colonial and Revolutionary Records pertaining to them. Also an account of the Hill family of Poundsford, Somersetshire, England., Compiled and edited by J. Gardner Bartlett, Boston: Printed for private circulation by Lew C. Hill., 1904. Pg 34. https://archive.org/details/johnhillofdorche00bart
See also:
- Faxon, Walter, and Edward Henry Whorf, "Tayer (Thayer) Family Entries in the Parish Register of Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Vol 60 1906, Page 282) Introduction by Henry Ernest Woods, Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database accessed 15 January 2016: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2013.) Caution: Contains Errors
- Ojeda, Thomas Thayer, The Thayer Family of Thornbury: a Study Trying ... [Santiago? Chile] : Imprenta Moderna 1907, Archive.org accessed 15 January 2016 Caution: Contains Errors
- Muno, Patricia Thayer. Title: The Thayer - Tayer - Theyer Families of Gloucestershire, England. 1500 - 1660. Thayer family History Society, Braintree, MA.
- The Snow-Estes Ancestry, Format: 2 vols. Author: Snow, Nora E. Publication: the author, Hillburn, N.Y., 1939.
- Thayer, Bezaleel. Memorial of the Thayer Name: From the Massachusetts Colony of Weymouth and ... Thayer
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1) There is no record of Thomas having a daughter Margery
2)The source on here is a death record for Margery Thayer wife of Thomas Thayer died in Braintree 11 Dec 1672.
If there are not objections, I'd like disconnect from parents and merge with Margery Wheeler, unless there are sources that support the info.
I've been trying to figure out this profile. I think that the birth date is a mistake, and that this is actually this person is really the same person as the mother she's attached to. The death record is confusing because of the old calendar, and the fact that the Blackstone recorded deaths from other towns. Please let me know if you have any objections to updating the birth date, disconnecting and merging with the mother.