May Mary Leonard

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Biography ==Mary Leonard, the daughter of Thomas Leonard and Elizabeth (or Lydia) White was baptized 12 September 1627 in the Parish Church of Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire, England.<ref name= Bapt>Ancestry.com. Shropshire, England, Extracted Church of England Parish Records, 1538-1812 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2017.</ref><ref> Ancestry.com. England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.</ref> She died later that year.

Margery's father was a forgeman (an iron worker) and likely the fatherof several iron working immigrants to New England.<ref>William Barton, “Pre-American Ancestry of Our Leonard Ironworkers,” http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bart/LEONARD2.htm, downloaded 6/8/2004. His source is “Baptisms, Marriages & Burials, 1601-1648 & 1648-1654,Parish Church of Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire, England, LDS film 18886035, item 12.</ref>
Cleobury Mortimer is a small village on the Rea River about halfway between Kidderminster and Ludlow. An old map (date unknown) shows an Upper Forge and a Lower Forge on the river.

Mary is not mentioned in Hannah Deane’s account of the family.

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Acknowledgements ==* WikiTree profile Leonard-2322 created through the import of WORCESTER_2012-07-31.ged on Jul 31, 2012 by Bob Worcester.See the Changes page for the details of edits by Bob and others.