Elizabeth Mary Ijams (Cheney) - Please undo Bad-Merge with SISTER Mary!

Started by Private User on Sunday, July 9, 2023
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(The screw-up:)

Mary Cheney was merged into Elizabeth Ijams (Cheney) by Linda Zimmerman (Sibley).
Apr 30 at 1:47 PM ·

Somebody got thrown by the weird punctuation in the reproduced will at https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2017/28/104482863_1485738552.j... and FORGOT TO COUNT. The will explicitly names THREE daughters, but the dash-mark between Elizabeth and Mary MISleads people into thinking there were only TWO. But it says THREE. That's Elizabeth AND Mary AND Anne, not a monstrous Elizabeth-Mary "and" Anne.

Here's the merge: https://www.geni.com/merge/view?revision_id=83879137240

Let's page Linda Zimmerman as a courtesy since she's not a manager and may not be following

Private User -- If you can help by telling me exactly what should be in the data fields for each of the tree sisters, I'll MP/re-MP each, add curator notes, and lock the fields

(Three sisters, not tree...although I guess that also works in this context :))

Elizabeth Cheney, born 1652, married William Ijams
Mary Cheney (birthdate uncertain, thought to be c. 1654 but at least before 1660)
Anne Cheney, born 1661, married John Jacob.

Nobody seems to know much about Mary, but she was living in 1685 when she and her sisters received "personalty" (allegedly five shillings) in their father's will.
https://archive.org/details/annearundelgentr00newm_0/page/348/mode/2up
Note: Newman got confused at one point and miswrote "Mary" for "Anne" as the daughter who married John Jacob. But the following text makes it clear it was Anne.

Per this information, both Anne Cheney Jacob and her husband John Jacob were still living in 1726, as was Elizabeth Cheney Ijams; but William Ijams was not, and nothing is said of Mary.

Added what little is known about Mary to her profile. Hope somebody digs up some more information someday.

Private User Thank You!

I've taken a look and do not remember exactly why I was working there. I have some Ideas (probably chasing some DNA match) but needless to say you fixed things so I'm good..

Again thanks

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