Mary Branch

Mary Branch, in her will, left daughter Verlinche, Mary, Phoebe, granddaughter Elizabeth Wooldridge and her son John Branch, residue of estate and he was named as executor. John Branch Jr. Samuel Branch, John Hancock as witnesses.

Family

https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/g/o/o/Ron-D-Goodwin/GENE47-0008.html#...

Children of JAMES BRANCH and MARY are:

• i. MARY9 BRANCH, b. 1693.
• 39. ii. JOHN BRANCH, b. 1695, Henrico Co. Virginia; d. 1751.
• 40. iii. ELIZABETH BRANCH, b. Abt. 1700, Henrico Co. Virginia; d. WFT Est. 1721-1789. Married John Wooldridge.
• 41. iv. VERLINCHE BRANCH, b. 1708; d. WFT Est. 1723-1788. Married Olive Branch.
• v. PHOEBE BRANCH, b. 1712, Chesterfield, Va.; d. 1798, Mecklingburg Co. VA; m. WILLIAM HILL; b. 1710, Meckleberg, Va; d. 1775, Meckleberg, Va.
• vi. FRANCES BRANCH, b. Abt. 1726; d. WFT Est. 1694-1787. Married William Wooldridge.

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Disputed origins

I removed Caleb Ware and Bethena Ware as parents of Mary Branch based on the following factors:

1.) Their ages.

2.)Children of Rev. Jacob Ware and Susannah Adams are:

• 1) Francis Ware baptized 26 December 1693
• 2) Anne Ware (5 Jan 1695 - after 27 Sept 1780) married Baldwin Rockett and Abraham Cowley
• 3) Elizabeth Ware married Benjamin Burton
• 4) Mary Ware married Richard Levens
• 5) Martha Ware married a Mr. Ridgeway
• 6) Jane Ware married John Childers, Jr.
• 7) Susannah Ware married Richard Oglesby and then a Mr. Allen.

Added by Keri Denise Jackson, ♊ Twin "A" on October 5, 2020

Removed as daughter of Elizabeth Blackman Hancock

I cannot find any sources for this woman (Mary Branch ) listed as James Branch 's Wife except in MANY Ancestry and other trees without sources. I do however find a woman by the name of Mary Hancock b 1672 or 1675 who was married to a John Hatcher

https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/261215/I106/mary-hancock/individual

Added by Keri Denise Jackson, ♊ Twin "A" on October 5,2020.

Links

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=loisebran...
• http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BRANCH/1999-05/092792...
• https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/g/o/o/Ron-D-Goodwin/GENE47-0008.html#...