Margaret Tait was the daughter of William and Margaret Colley Tait and was born 11 Jun 1727.[1]
Margaret Tait and John Wise are listed as the parents of William with William’s birth date of “29 Feb 1744” and a christening date of “5 Feb 1744” in Maryculter, Kincardineshire, Scotland.[2]. It is unknown which date is wrong.
It is estimated Margaret married John Wise about 1740 in Maryculter Parish Church, old Kincardineshire, Scotland. She is listed on unsourced trees as the daughter of William Tait and .Margaret Colly Tait, probably of Maryculter, Kincardineshire, Scotland.
Children of John Wise [Sr.], RS-SC Militia (1721-1780) and his wife
Margaret Tait (b. 1722) are [there may have been more children]:
John Wise [Jr.], RS-SC Militia, was born Abt. 1742 probably in Maryculter, Kincardineshire, Scotland? [unproven]; died in date and place unknown, probably in South Carolina or Georgia. Please note that there is no proof yet found that a son of with this given name existed in this family.
William Wise, RS-SC Militia, was born 29 Jan 1744 in Maryculter, Kincardineshire, Scotland; died 13 May 1816 at the William Wise Plantation, Old Mill Road, Bulloch Co., GA.
Jacob Wise, RS-SC Militia, was born 1753 in near the Scot Pee Dee River Settlement, Marion Co., English Province of SC; died 25 Sep 1845 at Horse Creek, Edgefield District, SC.
Death
No source has been found on her death.
Research Notes
Note: Margaret Douglas is often confused with Margaret Tait. These are two different Margaret’s that married two of the many John Wise’s in the country at that time, Margaret Douglas was born in, lived in and died in Virginia and not Georgia and married a different John Wise.
Thank you to Jonathon Dale Walter Myers for creating WikiTree profile Tait-459 through the import of EVEY2.ged on Oct 4, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Jonathon Dale Walter and others.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Margaret by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Margaret: