Mary Canney

Biography

If there was a Mary Loame or Mary Canney who died in 1703, she was not the wife of Thomas. Thomas was married to second wife Jane by 1652, when she appears in court for beating him. In 1655, Jane was charged with beating Thomas's daughter Mary and her husband.[1] The identity of his first wife is avoided in GDMNH, NEHGR, Torrey and other sources.[2][3] So what then is the origin of the name Mary Loame as the wife of Thomas Canney besides Ancestry.com (TM) family data collections? The name is a conflation with Thomas Canney's daughter Mary who married 1st Jeremiah Tibbetts and 2nd to Nathaniel Loome or Loomis according to NEHGR 98:62 and died in 1706 as Mary Loame when Mary's son Jeremiah was administrator to his father's estate (note GDMNH under Tibbetts says she married 2d to John Loome). Once again Ancestry.com (TM) families data collections are the source of spurious pedigrees all over the Internet. The name of Thomas Canney's first wife is UNKNOWN.

On some trees you'll even find a portrait of "Mary Loome." In actual fact is is a painting by Nicolas de Largillière made in France around 1696. The artist wasn't born until 1656 and wasn't ever in New England.

Sources

1. Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin Davis,Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (Portland, Maine, 1928-1939; rpt. Baltimore 1972) 127
2. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1851) 5:452 & 98:62 (1944)
3. Torrey 1:274 1635 Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States: CANNEY, Thomas & 1/wf ____ ____; by 1645, by 1635?; Dover, NH {Dover NH Mar. 23; Wentworth 1:107; Reg. 5:452, 98:62; Sv. 1:332; GDMNH 127}