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Margaret (Tait) Wise (1727 - abt. 1756)

Margaret Wise formerly Tait
Born in Maryculter, Kincardineshire, Scotlandmap [uncertain]
Ancestors ancestors
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of — married 1740 in Arbuthnott, Kincardineshire, Scotlandmap
Descendants descendants
Died about at about age 28 [location unknown]
Profile last modified | Created 4 Oct 2013
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Biography

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]:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

Sources

  1. "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XBHN-3JW : 16 September 2021), Margaret Tait, 1727.
  2. "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XBHJ-QDS : 16 September 2021), John Wise in entry for William Wise, 1744.

Acknowledgments

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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