Joan\Jane\Jeane SISOM^{[1, 2, 3]}

1634 - Bef 1729  (~ 94 years)

• Name	Joan\Jane\Jeane SISOM  [4, 5]
  Born	Sep 1634	Allerton Mauleverer, Yorkshire, England   [6]
  Christened	13 Nov 1679	Bolton upon Swale, Yorkshire, England
  Gender	Female
  Died	Bef 23 Apr 1729	Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
  Person ID	I6228	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	8 Jul 2022

  
  

  Father	Richard SISSON,   b. Bef 1618, of, Allerton Mauleverer, Yorkshire, West Riding, England ,   d. Abt Dec 1646, Allerton Mauleverer, Yorkshire, England  (Age ~ 29 years)
  Mother	Jona DEWES,   b. Bef 1618,   d. Oct 1670, Allerton Mauleverer, Yorkshire, England  (Age ~ 52 years)
  Family ID	F2864	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Thomas ROBINSON,   d. 26 Feb 1663, Elland, Yorkshire, England
  Married	28 Jul 1662	York, Yorkshire, England
  	In the church: St. Martin Le Gran
  Last Modified	8 Jul 2022
  Family ID	F4261	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Johannis COATS\COATES,   b. Abt 1635, Alne, Yorkshire, England ,   d. 17 Jan 1693, of Thirsk, Yorkshire, England  (Age ~ 58 years)
  Married	8 May 1664	York M.M., Yorkshire, England   [4]
  	Her name was Joan Robinson at the time of their marriage in a Quaker Monthly Meeting. The birth of all their children except Thomas was recorded in this monthly meeting.
  Children	1. Lyddia COATS,   b. 8 Feb 1664-1665, Thirsk, Yorkshire, England ,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. John COATES, Sr.,   b. 3 Mar 1667, Thirsk, Yorkshire, England ,   d. Bef 1679, , Yorkshire, England  (Age 11 years)   3. Mary COATES,   b. 24 Nov 1668, Thirsk, Yorkshire, England ,   d. 1676, Leeds, Yorkshire, England  (Age 7 years)   4. COATS,   b. 1670, Thirsk, Yorkshire, England ,   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Mary COATS,   b. 1677, Bolton upon Swale, Yorkshire, England ,   d. Aft 1728, Of, Philadelphia, PA  (Age 52 years)   6. John COATS,   b. 1679, Bolton upon Swale, Yorkshire, England ,   d. Bef 1684, Yorkshire, England  (Age 4 years)   7. William COATS, Sr.,   b. 21 Feb 1680, Thirsk, Yorkshire, England ,   d. 1 Apr 1749, Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA  (Age 69 years)   8. Thomas COATS,   b. 1681, Bolton upon Swale, Yorkshire, England ,   d. Apr 1772, Philadelphia Friends Burial Ground, Philadelphia, PA  (Age 91 years)   9. John COATS\COATES,   b. 1684, Bolton upon Swale, Yorkshire, England ,   d. 1760, , Philadelphia, PA  (Age 76 years)   10. George COATES,   b. 1 May 1685, Thirsk, Yorkshire, England ,   d. Aft 31 May 1736, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA  (Age 51 years)
  Last Modified	8 Jul 2022
  Family ID	F5339	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 3	James CLEMSON,   d. of Lancaster, PA
  Last Modified	8 Jul 2022
  Family ID	F5340	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents

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• Notes

  She is listed as Jeane Coates, sister to Thomas Sisom when Thomas sent for her sons and asked them to come to Pennsylvania in 1693. In her will, she is listed as Joan Clemson, widow and names children Mary, wife of John Harris, William, Thomas, John, and George Coates. Her executor was her son John Coates. She obviously married an unnamed Clemson after her second husband, a Coates, died. (C-1006, E) Besides Thomas, she might also have had a brother or nephew named John Sisom. He apparently lived near her son William and witnessed a deed contract William made in 1746 selling land to Peter Aldermost through a yearly rental fee for a period of years. The land became Peter's in a deed recorded in Philadelphia in 1767. John's widow, Ann Sisom, testified that he had witnessed the deed back in 1746. After hunting for Sisom's in every county in England, the name was commonly spelled Sisson instead. The large majority of Sison's lived in Yorkshire, England. The only family I found that had both a son Thomas and daughter Jane Joan (Jana in latin) was in West Riding, Yorkshire, England, the same place where grandson William traveled and married his wife. However, Joan's age is unexpected. She was born in 1734. The likely reason researchers could not find her in England was because she was born earlier than thought and married before she married a Coats. Her marriage to what we now have documentary evidence for as John Coates would have been her 2nd marriage. She first married Thomas Robinson in July of 1662. He passed 5 months later. Somewhere after she married Thomas Robinson and before she married John Coats, she became a Quaker. John and she (under the name Jean Robinson) married in 1664 in a Quaker Monthly Meeting. He likely died in Yorkshire, England in 1693. She would have brought mostly grown children to the U.S. near the age of 60 sometime in the early 1700's. The Quaker religion was very new when they were drawn to it's radical ideas at the time. Quakers endured great trials in England as they did not believe in paying tithes to the Church of England. They also believed everyone was equal and did not address authority in a way that denoted their superiority. We now know that John and Joan practiced the Quaker faith in Thirsk and the Church of England religion in Bolton Upon Swale, both in Yorkshire. This fits all the 1st hand records for the ages of their children according to Philadelphia records. The named 3 sons John and 2 daughters Mary indicating that the younger named children had died before renaming a child the same name. Their two locations suggested that they might have had a summer home or at least were of the wealthy class.

  
  

• Sources

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