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About Mary Spencer
Not the same as Mary Clack
MARY [CLACK] -- We don't know who her parents were, or where she was born. After our April 2001 visit to Devizes, Wiltshire, and the nearby hamlets of Bradenstoke cum Clack and Marden, we feel strongly (without documented proof) that she was most likely from Marden. We feel that she and William lived either in Marden or between Marden and Devizes. They never came to America, although two of their four sons did.
SPENCER FAMILY -- earlier we had accepted the belief that William Clack's wife was Mary Spencer, daughter of Nicholas Spencer Jr and Mary Gostwick. Passed along throughout the family by various amateur researchers, this is thought to have had its origin in a privately commissioned genealogy published in the 1930s. It is now believed, on the basis of more serious research and further analysis, that such a marriage would have been most unlikely.
It is said that Mary Spencer died unmarried. After our April 2001 visit to Wiltshire, we feel so strongly that William Clack's wife was not Mary Spencer that we are removing her from All-People. Too bad, she would be a marvelous ancestor!
We had earlier thought that her brother, Nicholas Spencer, most likely became a sponsor and patron of Rev James, which would be logical if there were an uncle/nephew relationship. We continue to look for evidence that there may have been some connection between them other than familial.
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Mary Spencer's Timeline
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1630
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Marden, Wiltshire, England
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| 1674 |
June 17, 1674
Age 44
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Marden Parish, Wiltshire, England
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