Margaret Smith

Biography

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Margaret Burnley was born on 30 Oct 1575 in Idle, Eccleshill, Yorkshire, England[1] as the first child of John Burnley and Agnes Rayner. She was Baptised at Calverley, Yorkshire[2]. (an earlier version of this profile listed her father as William Burnley. This appears to be incorrect.

She died about 1622 in Farsley, Leeds, Yorkshire, England[3]. When she was age unknown, she married John Smith, son of Andrew Smith and Susanne Waterhouse, in Farsley, England[4].

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John Smith, (1579-1631), son of Andrew Smith and Margaret Susanne Waterhouse, married Margaret Burnley (1575 - ~1622) in in Calverley Church, Farsley, England on [2] 8 Nov 1600 Leeds, Yorkshire, England. John died in May 31, 1640 in Farsley when he was aged ~61, and he was buried at Calverley Church, Farsley, England. John's will, dated May 23, 1640, names his wife and sons as heirs. The original will is on file at the Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, St. Anthony Hall, York, England.

John's descendants became members of a Quaker congregation active in Yorkshire. and later joined many Quakers who followed William Penn to Pennsylvania in 1684.

John Smith and Margaret Burnley had the following children:

1. Daniel Smith (1601 - 1657)
2. William Smith (1603 - 1653)
3. John Smith (1605 - )
4. Abraham Smith (1609 - >1666)
5. Joseph Smith (~1611 - 1699)
6. James Smith (1616 - )
7. Andrew Smith was born on 17 Jul 1619 in Farsley, West Riding, Yorkshire, England. He died on 16 May 1671 in Farsley, West Riding, Yorkshire, England. He married Sarah Foster on 17 Apr 1643 in Farsley, Calverly Church, England.
8. Margaret (Smith) Brown (1620 - )

Sources

1. Pat Patterson's Smith Descendancy homepage https://patp.us (defunct site)
2. The Parish Registers of Calverley vol 1, ed. S Margerison, page 42 https://archive.org/details/registersofparis01calv/page/42
3. Yorkshire, England, Extracted Parish Records Author: Ancestry.com Publication
4. The Ever Changing Smith Family, Nov, 1997, by Donald Smith.
5. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Smith-3008