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Mary SHELLEY
1715 - Aft 1758 (~ 42 years)
Has 2 ancestors and 2 descendants in this family tree.
Set As Default Person 
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Name Mary SHELLEY Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Baptised 23 Sep 1715 St. Swithun’s Church, East Grinstead, Sussex, England 
[1] - Is this the right baptism? Fits in nicely date-wise - between the marriage of Nicholas and Mary and the baptism of their daughters Grace, but East Grinstead is about 26 miles from Thakeham or Warminghurst.
There were several Nicholas Shelleys born in late 1600s, baptised Ringmer - one may be Mary's father, but Ringmer is about 30 miles from Thakeham and there were Shelleys already in Thakeham at this time; if Mary's father was not from Ringmer it might be a Nicholas from there who was in East Grinstead. Mary being such a common name it wouldn't be too much of a co-incidence if both had married Marys, but the date would be a bit of a co-incidence.
Gender Female Died Aft 1 May 1758 - Still alive when her husband wrote his will
Siblings2 sisters Patriarch & Matriarch 
Notes - (Research):Know of existence and her father from her husband's will. Mention of "children of Henry Tapner" suggests Henry's wife Grace Shelly was a close relation, and hence stronly suggests that they were daughters of the same Nicholas Shelley.
Person ID I13925 All Last Modified 1 Oct 2013
Father Nicholas SHELLEY, d. Between 17 May 1755 and 7 Jul 1756
Other Partners: Catherine HAYLER m. 17 Jul 1743Mother Mary WITHER, d. Bef 1743 Married 1713 Marriage License 1 Oct 1713 [2] Archdeaconry of Lewes Family ID F5967 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family William HARWOOD, bur. 24 Mar 1780, St. Mary’s Church, Pulborough, Sussex, England Married 7 Nov 1738 All Saints’ Church, Chichester, Sussex, England [3] Marriage License 7 Nov 1738 [4] Archdeaconry of Chichester Children2 children Last Modified 1 Oct 2013 Family ID F5968 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- Is this the right baptism? Fits in nicely date-wise - between the marriage of Nicholas and Mary and the baptism of their daughters Grace, but East Grinstead is about 26 miles from Thakeham or Warminghurst.
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Sources - [S104] Sussex Family History Group Data Archive, Sussex Family History Group, ((http://sfhg.frontis.co/bin/index.php )), Baptism of Mary SHELLEY. (Reliability: 3).
Shows parents as Nicholas and Mary - [S186] Sussex Marriage Index (up to 1837), Sussex Family History Group, ((2008)), Marriage licence for the marriage of Nicholas SHELLEY to Mary WITHER. (Reliability: 3).
Shows Nicholas as gent of Warminghurst
(Sussex Record Society vol. 6) - [S186] Sussex Marriage Index (up to 1837), Sussex Family History Group, ((2008)), Marriage of Mary SHELLEY to William HARWOOD. (Reliability: 3).
Shows both as of Pulborough, married by licence - [S186] Sussex Marriage Index (up to 1837), Sussex Family History Group, ((2008)), Marriage licence for the marriage of Mary SHELLEY to William HARWOOD. (Reliability: 3).
Shows Mary as spinster of Pulborough, William as bachelor, cordwainer of Pulborough
Sussex Record Society vo. 32
Sponsors for licence William HARWOOD and Nicholas SHELLEY, keeper of Warminghurst
- [S104] Sussex Family History Group Data Archive, Sussex Family History Group, ((http://sfhg.frontis.co/bin/index.php )), Baptism of Mary SHELLEY. (Reliability: 3).