Family talk:Jeremiah Wardwell and Mary Lovejoy (1)

wrong wife [21 June 2014]

Name Mary Lovejoy
Gender Female
Birth[1] 13 AUG 1745 Andover, Essex, MA
Marriage 21 NOV 1769 to Jeremiah Wardwell
Death[2] 23 FEB 1813 Salisbury, Merrimack, NH
Burial? Maplewood Cemetery, Salisbury, NH

Gravestone says she was 65 at death, a presumed error.

References

↑ Andover, Massachusetts Vital Records.

↑ National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 105.

I removed Person:Mary Lovejoy (1) as the wife. The Family page had no marriage location and no source. The births of children do name the mother Mary or Molly, but there is hardly a more common name, so that is not convincing. I found no marriage record.

Meanwhile Source:Abbott, Charlotte Helen. Abbott Genealogies/Early Records and Notes of the Lovejoy Family of Andover, p. 21, says the daughter of Joshua and Lydia Lovejoy, Mary, b. 13 Aug 1745, d. 15 Apr 1826, m. (1) 24 Sep 1765 James Parker, m. (2) 30 Dec 1802 Jonathan Cummings. The widow of Jonathan d. 1826, a. 80y, which, unlike the gravestone mentioned, does add up, being 4 months before her 81st birthday, and these dates are all found in Andover VRs, unlike any marriage for Jeremiah Wardwell (though it may be his son listed there in 1803).

If Jeremiah's wife was named Mary Lovejoy, it does not appear to be this one. --Jrich 21:52, 21 June 2014 (UTC)