Unknown Tant

Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 11:18:35 -0500 From: "katharine elsasser" kelsasser@erols.com> To: MDSTMARY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MDSTMARY-L] John Tant Dear Jerry, I have found no evidence for John Tant marrying Margaret Bloomfield. I do believe Sr. Donnelly is correct in John Tant marrying Margaret Drury. I do believe this must have been a second marriage for him. Robert Drury's transfer of property to John Tant (presumably Margaret Drury's dowery) is in 1683, while John Tant administers the estate of Henry Neale, Jr (half-brother of Mary Tattershall) for his son James Tant and his wife Mary Tattershall (James must have been under 18 years of age) in 1685. Mary, the daughter of William Tattershall and his wife Ann Lewgar (she later married Henry Neale, Sr.), was probably born about 1670, as her father died in 1671, I think. James would probably be about the same age, i.e. about 15 or 16 in 1685. Kay Elsasser