Royal Ancestry of Robert Cole; Addition to Mr. Richardson's

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Royal Ancestry of Robert Cole; Addition to Mr. Richardson's

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In his post of October 25, Todd Whitesides said that Oliver and Margaret
(Torbock)
Mainwaring had daughters Mary, wife of Benjamin Gill, and Jane, wife of
Thomas
Cole. The Gills and Mrs. Cole were associated in recusant prosecutions
in Middlesex
in the 1620s and 1630s, and Gill and Mrs. Cole's son Robert eventually
settled in
Maryland, where they were known to be related.

The Gill-Mainwaring marriage has long been accepted, being based on an
indenture
of 1641 to which Margaret (Tarbock) Mainwaring names her daughter Mary,
now the
wife of Benjamin Gill. The marriage appears in Gary Roberts' RD500 and
RD600 and
in Richard's Magna Carta book..

Mr. Whitesides' post was the first I had heard of the Cole-Mainwaring
marriage, which would explain the relationship known to exist between
the Coles and
the Gills.

In his post of November 18, Mr. Whitesides cited Oliver Mainwaring's
will of 1631, of
which I had not previously known and which I have now obtained. Of his
many children,
Oliver names only a daughter, whom Mr. Whitesides reads as "Sary
Mainwaring," and
thus presumably unmarried. The will is hard to read, and the word Mr.
Whitesides reads
as "Sary" is particularly so. It looks more like "Mary" to me, and Neil
Thompson tells me
he is entirely certain that it is Mary, not Sary. (Moreover, the
Mainwarings, being
hard-core recusants -- three brothers were Jesuits -- would not likely
have given a
daughter the Old Testament name Sarah (Sary).

The problem is that, if Oliver Mainwaring's daughter Mary was unmarried
in 1631, then
it seems impossible that she was the Mary wife of Benjamin Gill who was
in Middlesex
in the 1620s and who later went to Maryland. (That Mary had a
granddaughter born in
1647.) We would then have to believe that there were two couples named
Benjamin and
Mary Gill, both Roman Catholics. The extensive Mainwaring-Tarbock
ancestry would
be lost fo the many descendants of the Maryland settler.

The most likely explanation is that calling Mary by her maiden name in
Oliver's will is
simply a mistake, but it does raise a question.

Perhaps Mr. Whitesides would tell us what his proof is that Jane Cole of
Heston,
Middlesex was a daughter of Oliver and Margaret Mainwaring. That would
get the proof
on this record and would also support the Gill-Mainwaring identification
because of the
known relationship of the Cole and Gill families in Maryland.

Neil Thompson tells me that the Prescot parish register shows the burial
of Oliver
Mainwaring's daughter Jane in the 1590s, but of course another daughter
could have
been given the same name as her deceased sister.

If Mr. Whitesides has found any other evidence that Benjamin and Mary
(Mainwaring)
Gill of the 1641 indenture were the same family that were later of
Middlesex and
Maryland, that would be of great interest also.

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