Person:Mary Unknown (5380)

  • HRobert RoyceBef 1606 - Bef 1676
  • WMary _____Bef 1611 - 1696
m. Bef 1631
  1. Jonathan RoyceEst 1631 - Bef 1690
  2. Sarah RoyceEst 1634 - 1711
  3. Nehemiah RoyceCal 1636 - 1706
  4. Ensign Samuel RoyceEst 1641 - 1711
  5. Isaac RoyceEst 1644 - 1681
  6. Ensign Nathaniel RoyceEst 1648 - 1726
  7. Ruth RoyceEst 1649 - Bef 1695
Facts and Events
Name[1] Mary _____
Married Name Mary Royce
Gender Female
Birth[1] Bef 1611 Based on estimated date of marriage.
Marriage Bef 1631 Based on estimated date of birth of eldest known child (Jonathan).
to Robert Royce
Death[1] 1696 Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

The Mystery Continues

"Two valuable points seem to have been established conclusively by this report. First: the claim set forth in several printed books here and abroad that Robert Royce and Mary Sims were married in Martock on 4 June 1634 is not a fact; second: the marriage in Long Sutton on 4 June 1624, with which the first seems to have been confused, almost certainly could not have been that of the young couple from whom we are descended. So the questions, 'who was Robert Royce? where did he come from? who was Mary, his wife?' are still unanswered."[2]

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Royce, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974)
    7:1549.

    "… Mary _____, who d 1696 (at W) (New Haven County Court record)."

  2. Hewitt, Clarence Leslie, Jr. Some Light on the Marriage of Robert and Mary Royce of Connecticut. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Oct 1968)
    122:277.