Mary Duncklee

Mary FRENCH (daughter of William French and Mary LOTHROP ) was born 3 Apr 1670 in Billerica, Massachusetts. She died in Lexington, Middlesex co., MA as ³Dunkley, Mary².on 17 September 1729; she was 59.

She married

1. Robert SHARP on 20 Jun 1687 in possibly Woburn, Middlesex co., MA[9,43,66,67]. Torrey mentions that they are both "of Billerica"[43].
2. On 23 March 1693 when Mary was 22, she second married Nathaniel DUNKLEE, son of Elnathan DUNKLEE & Silence BOWERS, in Billerica, Middlesex co., MA[9,43,57,68,69,70,71,72]. Under Robert Sharp's Torrey entry, Mary's second husband is listed as "Nathaniel Dunckler"[43].

CHILDREN (surnamed DUNKLEE)

• i. Silence DUNKLEE
• ii. David DUNKLEE
• iii. Elnathan DUNKLEE
• iv. Jonathan DUNKLEE
• v. Hannah DUNKLEE
• vi. Hezekiah DUNKLEE
• vii. Robert DUNKLEE
• viii. [possibly Ruth DUNKLEE]

Comments

https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/French-2056 “little consensus exists in the genealogy community on the identity of her children.”

Origins

• William and Mary (Lathrop) French had 4 daughters all born in Billerica, MA: Mary 30 Apr 1670; Sarah 29 Oct 1671; Abigail 14 Apr 1673; Hannah 25 Jan 1675/76.

References

• https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/243929/I33157/mary-lothrop/individual
• http://kristinhall.org/fambly/FrenchWm/MaryFrench.html
• http://www.frenchfamilyassoc.com/FFA/CHARTSWEB/ChartE002.htm
• A Sketch of the Duncklee Family: And a History of the Descendants of David Duncklee of Amherst, N.H. : and of His Sister Hannah Duncklee Howe of Milford, N.H. Ada Melinda Lakin Duncklee J.P. Melzer, printer, 1908 - 251 pages. Page 8. GoogleBooks 8 children.
• GEDCOM Source Book Title: A genealogical memoir of the Lo-Lathrop family in this country : embracing the descendants, as far as known, of The Rev. John Lothropp, of Scituate and Barnstable, Mass., and Mark Lothrop, of Salem and Bridgewater, Mass., and the first generati AncestryImage Three children: Hezekiah, Nathaniel, and Damaris Dunkler.
• GEDCOM Source North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 1,61157::0
• https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Billerica/aBirthsF.shtml "(French) Mary, d. [dup. adds Lt.] William and Mary, Apr. 3, 1670."
• https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Lexington/aDeathsD.shtml "(Dunkley) Mary, Sept. 17, 1729."

Billerica VR has her and Robert Sharp with Robert (1688), William (1689, should be 1690) and Mary (1691).

Lexington VR has these Dunkley children: David (1701), Elnathan (1703), Jonathan (1705), Hannah (1707), Hezekiah (1708), and Robert (1710).