Miriam SHORT

Miriam SHORT[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]

Female Abt 1664 - 1748  (~ 84 years)

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  • Name Miriam SHORT 
    Born Abt Apr 1664  Ford, Sussex, ENG Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christened 10 May 1664  Ford, Sussex, ENG Find all individuals with events at this location  [10
    Gender Female 
    Died 19 Dec 1748  , New Castle, DE, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [11
    Person ID I494  Ancestrees
    Last Modified 8 Jul 2022 

    Father Henry SHORT,   b. Abt 1647, Walberton, Sussex, ENG Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1669, Ford, Sussex, ENG Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 22 years) 
    Mother Miriam INGRAM,   b. 1645, Catton, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1682, at sea Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 37 years) 
    Married Abt 1662 
    Family ID F6813  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 George THOMPSON 
    Children 
     1. Ralph THOMPSON,   b. 1683,   d. Aft 1740  (Age 58 years)
    Last Modified 8 Jul 2022 
    Family ID F6008  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 William WHITE,   d. 1703 
    Married Aft 1698 
    Children 
     1. Samuel WHITE,   b. Bef 1702,   d. Aft 17 Dec 1726  (Age ~ 25 years)
     2. John WHITE,   b. Bef 1703,   d. Aft 1743  (Age ~ 41 years)
     3. Elizabeth WHITE,   b. Bef 1704,   d. Aft 17 Dec 1726  (Age ~ 23 years)
    Last Modified 8 Jul 2022 
    Family ID F6009  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 3 Aaron COPPOCK,   b. 25 Dec 1665, Mobberley, Cheshire, ENG Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Oct 1726, East Nottingham, Chester, PA, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 60 years) 
    Married 30th da 9th mo 1704  Chichester M.M., Chester, PA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Children 
     1. Miriam COPPOCK,   b. Abt 1706, Aston, , PA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1743, , Orange, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 38 years)
     2. Lydia COPPOCK,   b. Abt 1707, Delaware, Pike, PA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1731  (Age ~ 25 years)
     3. John COPPOCK,   b. Jan 1709, , Chester, PA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 May 1789, Little Britain, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 80 years)
    Last Modified 8 Jul 2022 
    Family ID F6007  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • She was a passenger on the ship "Welcome" that came to Pennsylvania from Aug.-Oct. 1682. Her mother and uncle, Isaac, both died on board in the smallpox epidemic. She and her siblings came under the care of her mother's bother, G. Ingram. (C-253b, 1427) She was married shortly thereafter to George Thompson by a Swedish priest. George as well as the clergyman who performed the ceremony were taken to court for violating the laws of the Province (possibly because she was with child?). Thompson appeared in court on Feb. 14, 1682/3 and the charges were dismissed as no one came to accuse him. It appears that Thompson left Miriam, as she was in the town records on Nov. 6, 1684 as needing public assistance for herself and child (Ralph Thomson). In some sources it assumes he dies before she marries again. However, this George Thompson seems to be the same Thompson that was listed as a married man in church records in 1698. There is a descendant of a Joshua Thompson, b. 1696 in this area named Lew Chaplick that believes that Joshua is a son or grandson of George Thompson, possibly through Miriam Short. She next married William White of New Castle Co. He was a Wheelwright. He died in 1703 and left her widowed with three additional children.

      Her last husband was Aaron Coppock. (C-1210) They had declared their intention to marry on 7/11 and 9/13/1704 in Concord MM. She probably is the Miriam Coppock who witnessed the marriages of John, her son, and Margaret Coulson Coppock in 1731; John Harris and Phebe Beeson, 1731, and William White, her grandson, and Sarah Pugh in 1743 in East and West Nottingham Monthly Meetings held in Cecil Co., Maryland, just over the border from Townships of this same name in Pennsylvania. (C-1302)

      A supposed source by Cope entitled "Baily Family", states that this Short family's origin was in Garton, Surrey, (ENG). (C-1427)

  • Sources 
    1. [S2716] Aaron Coppock and Miriam Short White, Quaker Marriage Record.

    2. [S2710] Peden, Henry C. Jr., MA and John Pitts Launey, "EARLY CHURCH RECORDS OF DELAWARE CO., PA, VOLUME 2" as transcribed by Donna Gill (c2001).

    3. [S2870] Diller, Corinne Hannah, Immigrant Ancestors of Miami Valley, Ohio, Quaker Families (Genealogical Aids Bulletin).

    4. [S3063] Internet Address, http://www.cs.indiana.

    5. [S580] WFT Archive Disk 2, #1034.

    6. [S587] Lauren Varga at 26 Arthur Glick Blvd., Franklin Park, NJ 08823 by Linda Coate Dudick Phone Interview on July 9, 1998 relating info supported with first hand documents in-hand supplied by hired English Genealogist (C-1576).

    7. [S594] George McCraken, The Welcome Claimants Proved, Disproved & Doubtful (Welcome Society of Penn, Genealogy Pub. Co., c1970).

    8. [S600] Alvin L. Anderson, P.H.D., Ancestry and Descendants of Aaron and Amy Cobbs Coppock.

    9. [S608] Natalelli-Waloszek, Annie, Natalelli-Waloszek, Annie to Linda Coate Emails dated 1999 at Anniemagic@wandoo.fr (C-2247).

    10. [S625] Miriam Short Baptismal Record May 10, 1664 Ford, Co. Sussex, England C-1584.

    11. [S616] Smith, Rodger, Email dated 2000.