Mary Ann LINTON (1828-1874)

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Mary Ann LINTON (1828-1874)

Grandaunt of Kirk Louis LINTON (1914-1987)

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Mary Ann LINTON (1828-1874)

Grandaunt of Kirk Louis LINTON (1914-1987)

Excerpted from: Isaiah Linton (1739-1775) Quaker Master Millwright of Bucks County Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Harford Counties Maryland (Ancestors and Descendants) (book by Terry Louis Linton © 2008) (Linton Research Fund Inc., Publication © 2008, Printed in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.)

Mary Ann LINTON (1824-1874) was the grandaunt of Kirk Louis LINTON (1914-1987) . Mary Ann was the 4^th great-granddaughter of Johannes KOCHER (1657-1730) & Anna MERTZ (1663-1732) of Hangwiller, Lorraine, France. Mary Ann was the 6^th great-granddaughter of Johannes MESSINGER (1640-?) & Barbara BOETSCH (1641-?) of Reutlingen, Schwarzwaldkries, Württemberg, Germany. She was the 28^th great-granddaughter of Gaulter de SÉMERVILLE (1000-1061) Ethnarch of Sémerville, Normandy. Emma was the 25^th great-granddaughter of John SEMERVILLE 1150-1194) of Carnwath, Lanarshire, Scotland, who in 1174, encountered and slew the Linton Dragon, also known as the Wyrm of Wormistone, of Parish Lintone and was granted the bounty of Linton, knighthood and the made the Kings Falconer. [1]

Mary Ann LINTON (1824-1874) was the daughter of Doctor Lewis Colbert LINTON (1803–1876) & Sarah KOCHER (1810-1870). Mary Ann was born on February 17, 1828 in Delaware Water Gap, Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. Mary Ann’s Siblings: Ellen LINTON (1831–1912); Deborah Caroline LINTON (1834–1916); John Edward LINTON (1838– 1901); Jerome B. LINTON (1839–1910); Francis "Frank" Charles LINTON (1844–1911); Morris LINTON (1848–1860). [2] Mary Ann’s father, Lewis was an Elder in the Religious Society of Friends, a medical doctor, mill owner and gentleman farmer. [3] Mary Ann resided in Delaware Water Gap from 1824 to 1839 where her father had a medical practice and owned a water grist mill. In 1839 the family moved back to Newtown Township and in 1844 moved to Lower Makefield, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Lewis owning a water grist mill in each location. Doctor Linton then relocated his medical practice to Arch Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. When Doctor Linton retired, he bought a farm and moved the family to Greenwich Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey. [4]

Mary married John JENKINS (1828-?) the son of William JENKINS (1807-?) in 1848, in Mullica Hill, Gloucester County, New Jersey. John was born circa 1828 in Jefferson, Gloucester County, New Jersey and died in Harrison Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey.

Mary Ann died on November 28, 1874 in Jefferson, Gloucester County, New Jersey at age 46. She was buried in the Mullica Hill Methodist Cemetery, Gloucester County, New Jersey. [5]

Source Citations

[1] Isaiah Linton (1739-1775) Quaker Master Millwright of Bucks County Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Harford Counties Maryland (Ancestors and Descendants) (book by Terry Louis Linton © 2008) (Linton Research Fund Inc., Publication © 2008, Printed in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.)

[2] Ancestry.com, 1840 United States Federal Census (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Sixth Census of the United States, 1840. (NARA microfilm publication M704, 580 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record G), Year: 1840; Census Place: Lower Makefield, Bucks, Pennsylvania; Roll: Page: .... Ancestry.com, Virginia, Deaths and Burials Index, 1853-1917 (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.Original data - "Virginia Deaths and Burials, 1853-1912." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2010. Index entries derived from digital copies of original and compiled records.). .... Ancestry.com, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Tax Records, 1782-1860 (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data - Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Tax Records, 1782-1860. Microfilm, 76 rolls. Bucks County Historical Society, Doylestown, Pennsylvania. . Original data: Bucks County, Penns). .... Ancestry.com, U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1994 (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.). .... Ancestry.com, Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940 (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc). .... Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1963 (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.). .... Ancestry.com, Gloucester County residents, 1850 (Ancestry.com Operations Inc).

[3] Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985 (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.Original data - Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Historical Society of Pennsylvania.Original data: Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Reco).

[4] 1840 United States Federal Census Lower Makefield, Bucks, Pennsylvania; Roll: Page: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Sixth Census of the United States, 1840. (NARA microfilm publication M704, 580 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record G. … 1850 United States Federal Census. Greenwich, Gloucester, New Jersey; Roll: M432_451; Page: 135B; Image.

[5] Ancestry.com, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Death Certificates Index, 1803-1915 (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.Original data - "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Death Certificates, 1803-1915." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2008, 2010. From originals housed at the Philadelphia City).

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