Mary Evans (mtDNA)
Status summary
As of November 25, 2020:
- Major challenges to discovering matrilineal descendants
- Low priority
Paper Trail
Very little is known about Mary Evans. Her first known record is her marriage at St. Peter, Sandwich, Kent, England 30 Oct 1589 to Francis Eaton.[1] She was apparently the mother of all of Francis' legitimate children and died sometime before Dec 1613, when the widow remarried. They had ten children: Mary (bp. 4 Jan 1589/90, no further record), John (b. abt 1592), Catherine (bp. 1 Sep 1594, no further record), Richard (bp. 2 Jan 1596/7, no further record), Priscilla (bp. 24 Mar 1599/1600), Moses (bp. 10 Oct 1602, bur. 21 Apr 1603), Elizabeth (bp. 8 Apr 1604), Jane (bp. 8 Feb 1606/7, no further record), Moses (bp. 2 Apr 1609, no further record), and Judith (bur. 6 Nov 1609).
Second Generation
Priscilla Fletcher[2] was bp. St. Peter, Sandwich 24 Mar 1599/1600. She was married three times: First Leiden 4 Apr 1626 [NS] Thomas Coit/Koet; second Leiden 1 Jun 1637 [NS] Help Terry and third Leiden 19 Jul 1652 [NS] Jan Jans Vermout. Priscilla and her first husband had the following children:[3] Sarah (b. ca 1627), Dirick (son, b. ca 1632), Dorothea (bef Feb 1634) and Jan Thomasz (son, bp. 15 Sep 1634 [NS]). Priscilla and her second husband had one daughter.
Elizabeth Fletcher was bp. 8 Apr 1606. She married twice, first to Casper Barnaart and second Leiden 21 May 1636 Michiel Voorchoren. By her second husband, Elizabeth had four children.