Mary (Lunsford) Collier (1647)

Born 1647 in Tower of London, City of London, England

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Biography

Mary Lunsford was a daughter of Thomas Lunsford and Katherine Neville. She was born in 1647 at the Tower of London.^[1]

On 07 Aug 1649 her father Sir Thomas Lunsford was granted a pass for the family to go to Virginia.^[2]

Sir Thomas Lunsford died before 11 Jan 1653/1654 as on that date an order was made for Sir John Thorowgoood to maintain the three children of Sir Thomas Lunsford who married Katherine Nevill, daughter of Dame Elizabeth, now wife of Sir John Thorowgood. The said children, Elizabeth, Phillipa and Mary Lunsford, were carried away by their parents to Virginia and remained there until their parents' demise. They were then sent back to the parish of St Andrew, Holborn.^[3]

Mary married Thomas Collier, brewer, of Shoe Lane^[1][4], the marriage taking place on 30 Nov 1665 at Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire.^[1]

Thomas Collier was recorded at Shoe Lane in the Hearth Tax of 1666.^[5] NB Shoe Lane was in the ward of Faringdon Without. Although outside of the city wall, Faringdon Without was a ward of the City of London.

Mary was a widow by 1679.^[6][7]

Children

• Thomas Collier (born on 03 Apr 1667 and baptised on 22 Apr at Waltham St Lawrence)^[1]
• Richard Collier (born on 22 Mar 1668 or 1669 at Waltham St Lawrence and baptised at St Andrew Holborn, City of London)^[6]
• John Collier (baptised 15 Feb 1671 at St Andrew Holborn; died 27 Jul 1673)^[6]
• Lunsford Collier (baptised 06 Nov 1673 at St Andrew Holborn)^[6]
• two others, names unknown^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Memoir of Sir Thomas Lunsford. The Gentleman's Magazine. Vol VI. Aug 1836, pp148-153 HathiTrust.
2. ↑ Sir Thomas Lunsford. The Dictionary of National Biography. 1917. Vol XII.
3. ↑ Peter Wilson Coldham (1987) The Complete Book of Emigrants. 1607-1660.
4. ↑ Sir Thomas Lunsford. The William and Mary Quarterly. Vol. 8, No. 3, Jan., 1900, pp 183-186 jstor.
5. ↑ 'Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666, St Andrew Holborn, Shoe Lane', in London Hearth Tax: City of London and Middlesex, 1666 (2011) BHO.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4} 1679, Mary Collier, a widow and daughter of Sir Thomas Lunsford, pleads for a place for her son Richard at Sutton’s Hospital. The Power of Petitioning in Seventeenth-Century England petitioning history.
7. ↑ 'Petitions in the State Papers: 1670s', in Petitions in the State Papers, 1600-1699, ed. Brodie Waddell. Mary Collier, widow. SP 29/411 f. 124 (1679) BHO.