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From: "Chris Dickinson" <>
Subject: Re: [CUMB] MRS Mary Fletcher IGI entry
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:48:45 -0000
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Nelda Percival wrote:


> Hi Chris,
> Ok, then is Mrs Mary Fletcher the daughter of Henry Fletcher and Mary
> Brisc
> his wife? As you stated if she was infact an older sister to Anne Fletcher
> then she should have inherited instead of Anne as Mary Fletcher Gilpin had
> 12 children: So maybe we are looking at a Fletcher Cousin to Anne?? But
> then
> I still need the Brisco relationship to the Gilpins because there are
> other
> marriages between Brisco and Gilpins (see Below this list of children)


The 1665 Visitation lists Henry Fletcher (then aged 25) as only having
surviving sisters ... Dorothy, Eliza, Jane, Bridget, Catherine, Margaret,
Elizabeth. So, there isn't any first cousinhood available; but she might be
more distant.

If she were sister to Anne, Anne's husband (who had enough money) could have
bought her rights out.

I would think that the way to prove this, one way or another, would be to
find Henry Fletcher's will. I can't remember whether the printed index of
Carlisle wills extends up to 1712, but if someone has access to a copy they
could check whether it's available.

Chris

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