William CLARKE and Mary STEPHENS (General)

by mrsbruso , Wednesday, March 09, 2011, 01:55 (5083 days ago) @ ChrisW

I am trying to move back another generation or two on each of these lines, and haven't met with a great deal of success in the last few months.

Chris, why were you focusing on his father's name being Edward? I think I might be missing something in your earlier posts . . .

I have Mary's father, Richard STEPHENS, and her mother, Sarah UNKNOWN. They had three children, not two. An earlier daughter, another Mary died the year before this Mary was born. They have another daughter, Sarah in 1749 before Sarah dies and Richard marries Mary LOVELL, daughter of James LOVELL and Jane MADDOX.

Both names occur in the FOD for a couple of centuries before this couple marries, so you would think I would be able to make the leap back from them but I seem to be fairly well mired at this point.

I have sent for William Clarke's (b. 1772) will. That probably won't help us move back any further but it might help resolve the situation of his missing wife and other children in 1841 . . .