Person:Mary Jeggles (8)
Mary Jeggles
b.Bef 1621 England
d.Aft 1637 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
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Name[2] Mary Jeggles
Gender Female
Other? 10 Jun 1619  Refuted child?: Bridget Unknown (138)  
Birth[2] Bef 1621 Englandbased on church membership in 1637
Other? 1637 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Speculative Family relation: William Jeggles (1) 
Religion[2] 1637 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Death? Aft 1637 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
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What is known about Mary Jeggles

Mary Jeggles existed; she was a member of the First Church of Salem, Massachusetts in 1637,[2] which suggests she was at least 15 or 16 and possibly older.[5] Jeggles is an uncommon name, and it is likely that she was a member of the family of William Jeggles, living in Salem at that time.

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Undocumented Speculation

Raymon Meyers Tingley[3] claimed that Mary was the wife of William Jeggles. There is no evidence or documentation to support his claim, and he is increasingly notorious for inaccurate and "creative" genealogy. Unfortunately, many people have accepted Tingley's claims without question.[1] Given what little information is currently available, Mary could be William's daughter, his wife, a sister, or even a widowed mother.

Mary is also, according to Tingley, the mother of Bridget, wife of John Rowe.[3][1] Again there is no evidence, and based on what is known for the two families in terms of likely places of origins and known arrival times in New England, strains probability beyond what is reasonable.

References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ancestral File
    BXZH-PX.

    Mary, Mrs JEGGLES, b. 1595, Of Lamerton, Devonshire, Eng; d. after 1636, Salem, Essex, Mass; m. William JEGGLES, 1614, England
    NOTE: This is a compilation of 10 submissions.

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Phillips, James Duncan. Salem in the seventeenth century. (Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin, 1933)
    p. 352.

    Members of First Church from 1636-1651:
    Mary Jeggles, 1637

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Tingley, Raymon Meyers. Some ancestral lines: being a record of some of the ancestors of Guilford Solon Tingley and his wife Martha Pamelia Meyers. (Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing Co., 1935)
    p. 164.

    William Jeggles, of Salem, Mass, married first ___ 1614, Mary ___, b. _____, d. ____.

  4.   Eamons, Nathaniel.
  5. ↑ Age requirements for church membership seem only to have been that persons be of "age of discernment". See The Cambridge Platform of Church Discipline, Adopted in 1648, Chapter 12, No.7, in Eamons, Nathaniel, The Cambridge Platform of Church Discipline, Adopted in 1648: And the Confession of Faith ... (Boson : Congregational Board of Publication) 1858. p. 71
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