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Isabel Leeper - Isaiah Curry's wife - Isabel or Margaret Leeper?

Started by Jim Henderson on Wednesday, February 17, 2021
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Hello,
In the will of James Leeper Sr (c. 1695-1765) (https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000172689871823) one of the beneficiaries is Isiah Curry, who seems to be his son-in-law, in line with the other sons-in-law, who are listed without reference to which of James' daughters they were married to.

Margaret Leeper is listed as a beneficiary, and she appears in geni (Margaret Cole) as the wife of Joseph Cole Jr. The timeline for her profile shows that she and Joseph married in 1776, after her father died (1765). Does anyone have evidence for the date of that marriage, and who the bride and groom were?

I ask because some trees at Ancestry list the wife of Isiah Curry as Margaret Leeper, some list her as Isabel Leeper.

In the tree at geni.com, Isabel Leeper (Isabel Curry) is listed without a husband. Could she have been married to Isiah Curry at the time her father died in 1765?
Does anyone have evidence for a marriage? (Or perhaps for Isabella?)

I am interested in this because Isabel's sister, Jean, married Samuel Henderson, and I am a volunteer genealogist with the Clan Henderson Society. I have been citing the will of James Leeper Sr as supporting the existence of the beneficiaries, and Isabel leaves a question mark in my mind.

Thanks for thinking about this,
Jim

Hi Jim Henderson

Take a look at WikiTree contributors, "Isabelle (Leeper) Curry (1735-)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Leeper-212 : accessed 11 August 2024).

And perhaps Douglas Leeper Jr. would be kind enough to offer some further assistance.

Thanks Doug and Erica for the good work you have done in this corner of the tree.
I think my original question has been answered.

Hi Jim!

Pleasure to make your acquaintance!

Immigrant James Leeper of VA is brother to Robert Leeper (proven by Y-DNA of many descendants). Immigrant James Leeper of PA is a very distant but known cousin lineage, all of are Ireland, but their ancestors had left Scotland due to religious persecution of the Crown, first found was 1607, just prior to the Ulster Plantations. These lines actually Y-DNA converge at 1200, the ancestral branch lineages that didn't go to Ireland at the time all come out of a place called Edinburgh, Scotland, which fits with various family histories. One family history in Illinois from a Dr. Leeper, mentioned Leeper of Napier, and the same coat of arms that was given in Scotland (back before anyone could simply make one and file it), and is the same one that was registered in Scotland. Anyhow, we managed to find a Y-700 matching to "Leepers", who didn't fit right with the Napier Project, and he was one of the 1200 branches, out of Edinburgh as well.

On Isabell and Margaret, the most researched place I have found is a site called WikiTree:
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Leeper-212
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Leeper-211

Also drill up to their father you will find more. I've not dug through the non-indexed records to pull out all of the sources for the daughters of James, as I am primarily chasing Male Leeper descendants down through the records to the present day, for Big Y-700 DNA testing at Family Tree DNA, as I am the Administrator of the Leeper Y-DNA Project. It has been an invaluable source for multiple trees now and brick walls.

One of the descendants on this lineage is Demetrius (Mays) Burnett, she is very active over there, and I'd encourage you to contact her, she is of much help!

Not many have the patience to dig for 8 hours a night for a couple of weeks in the non-indexed records at Family Search, but they are a Mountain of Gold!

I've added a number of sources in the media tab in some of the profiles over here, as things were getting all mixed up between James Leeper and Margaret of PA, and James Leeper and Margaret (Seawright, an error, I've spoken to the original researcher that made the assumption, since Seawright land was in the selling at the death of James 1765, and showed him that his daughter that married John Seawright, the actual sale deed to her father James, and he agreed his assumption was an error) factually surname Curry. We have found all the baptisms but two, for his children, James' church transfer from Annahilt to Ballynahinch, James and Margaret Curry's marriage, etc.

This might help for circumstantial evidence:

His father, William Curry, 360A, section C-4, was just one plot away from James Leeper, whose daughter married Issac Curry https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKW-N3NK-3

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