Mary Blucks (1614)

Born 22 May 1614 in Shaston, Dorset, England

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Please do not attach this person as a wife of John King of Weymouth or any of his children. There is no credible evidence of the name of his first wife. There is at least one early publication that says she was Mary (see below) with no source given or explanation. The addition of the surname "Blucks" appeared at some point on the internet in personal family trees, again, with no explanation. (Doug Sinclair 2023)

This person is highly doubtful or the records are being confused; in 1646 Northampton and what is now the county of Hampshire, Massachusetts did NOT exist. Northampton was established in 1653 and the John A King(1629–1703) associated with its naming is not the same nor is related to this John King of Weymouth.
This John King in Weymouth may have been associated with the Saugus Ironwork and later the Braintree Iron works. His son Philip established the Taunton ironworks with the Leonards and Deans.
The Ancestry of Mrs Florence Dean Stickney 1901 at the Old Colony Historical Society does say that John King of Weymouth has a wife named Mary or maybe Dorothy, but this is uncertain and more family tradition than documentation. These Ancestry Family tree GEDCOMs are very unreliable especially for this time period and are often confuse and mix up people and places. Best Regards David Blackwell 2020.

VItal Records of Weymouth Massachusetts to 1850 published 1910. King Marriages: https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofwe02weym/page/108/mode/2up
Not here.
King family deaths:
https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofwe02weym/page/292/mode/2up/
Not here.
VItal Records of Weymouth Massachusetts to 1850 published 1910. King birth records
VItal Records of Weymouth Massachusetts to 1850 published 1910 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015010559204&view=1up&seq=165 Show John King with the birth of daughters Abigail 1641 and Mary 1639; but no wife is mentioned.
The Samuel and Sarah King family with records in the VRW are thought to be his son and daughter in law.
They are believed to have been involved in the Braintree Ironworks which harvested bog ore from the area of Smelt Brook, Cranberry pond, up to what is now Great Pond in Weymouth (which is larger than the original pond). The King family were bloomers and forgers. The bloomery melted and purified the bog ore into cast iron which could be worked in the forge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog_iron
In addition to the early and often incomplete vital records of Massachusetts towns county records of deeds, court cases and will proving often are a source of documentations.
These are often idiosyncratic of the recorder. Here is a good pamplet on the early recorders of Suffolk county Massashacusetts
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t3nv9mg5p&view=1up&seq=5
Some Suffolk county record are online here http://genealogyink.blogspot.com/2018/03/suffolk-deed-books-suffolk-county.html

Here is a good list of sources https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Suffolk_County,_Massachusetts_Genealogy

And there is an index https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008729804

Name

Name: Mary /Blucks. ^[1]

Marriage Date: 1626

Place: Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts. ^[2]

Mary Blucks 1614 - 1640, married John Goodman King 1600 - 1670 had a son Samuel King 1640 - 1711. ^[3]

Comments

The death date for Mary does not agree with the birth of four their children. According to the dates provided, Mary was about 12 years old when she married John. Given that there is no source for Mary's birth, she could have been older. Their first child was born seven years after John and Marry married which seems like a long interval but there could have been children born before John in 1633. They could have died in infancy but they are not recorded here. Samuel was born in 1640, Abigail was born in 1641 (a year or so after Mary's death), Philip was born in 1645 (5 years after Mary died) and Thomas was born 10 years after Mary died.

Notes

Note N1343

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S2 Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=26914960&pid=2006652844 Note: #N1343
2. ↑ Source: #S291503039 Page: Source number: 8199.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: BFO. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=worldmarr_ga&h=695687&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt - Text: Birth date: 1600Birth place: MA Marriage date: 1626 Marriage place: MA. APID: 7836::695687
3. ↑ Source S2Title: Ancestry Family Trees. Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Repository: #R1 Repository R1

• FamilySearch Person: MVZB-W1R.

• Massachusetts, Weymouth, History & Genealogy, Vol. III, Published by the Weymouth Historical Society, Howard H. Joy, President Under Direction of the town, 1923), pg 349-350.

• Source: #S-535853884 Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=8570615&pid=-386382979.

• Source S-535853884 Repository: #R-541783643Title: Ancestry Family Trees. Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created.

• Source S291503039Repository: #R-541783643Title: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900. Author: Yates Publishing Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.Original data - This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was derived Note: APID: 7836::0.