Miriam Short

Abt 1664 - 1748  (84 years)

• Name	Miriam Short  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
  Birth	Abt Apr 1664	Ford, Sussex, ENG   [10]
  Christening	10 May 1664	Ford, Sussex, ENG   [11]
  Gender	Female
  Death	19 Dec 1748	New Castle, Delaware, USA   [10, 12]
  Person ID	I11072	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

  Father	Henry Short,   b. Abt 1647, Walberton, Sussex, ENG d. Abt 1669, Ford, Sussex, ENG (Age 22 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Miriam Ingram,   b. 1641, Catton, Sussex, England d. Abt 1682, at sea (Age 41 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	Abt 1662
  Family ID	F5065	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	William White   d. 1703
  Marriage	Aft 1698
  Children	1. Elizabeth White,   b. Bef 1704   d. Aft 17 Dec 1726 (Age > 23 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Samuel White,   b. Bef 1702   d. Aft 17 Dec 1726 (Age > 25 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. John White,   b. Bef 1703   d. Aft 1743 (Age > 42 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F3433	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

  Family 2	Aaron Coppock, *,   b. 25 Dec 1665, Mobberley, Cheshire, ENG d. 10 Oct 1726, East Nottingham, Chester, PA, USA (Age 60 years)
  Marriage	30th da 9th mo 1704	Chichester M.M., Chester, PA   [1, 2]
  Children	1. Lydia Coppock,   b. Abt 1707, Delaware, Pike, PA d. Aft 1731 (Age > 25 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. John Coppock, *,   b. Jan 1709, , Chester, PA d. 18 May 1789, Little Britain, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 80 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Miriam Coppock,   b. Abt 1706, Aston, , PA d. Aft 1743, , Orange, New York, USA (Age > 38 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F3412	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

  Family 3	George Thompson,   b. 1660, West Sussex, England d. 2 Jan 1685, Leacock Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States of America (Age 25 years)
  _MARRIED	N
  Children	1. Ralph Thompson,   b. 1683   d. Aft 1740 (Age > 58 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F3429	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

• 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. Ingram53b, 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

  [S2789] Peden, Henry C. Jr., MA and John Pitts Launey, "EARLY CHURCH RECORDS OF DELAWARE CO., PA, VOLUME 2" as transcribed by Donna Gill (c2001). [S2790] Aaron Coppock and Miriam Short White, Quaker Marriage Record. [S285] Diller, Corinne Hannah, Immigrant Ancestors of Miami Valley, Ohio, Quaker Families (Genealogical Aids Bulletin). [S2526] Internet Address, http://www.cs.indiana. [S385] WFT Archive Disk 2, #1034. [S2791] 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). [S636] George McCraken, The Welcome Claimants Proved, Disproved & Doubtful (Welcome Society of Penn, Genealogy Pub. Co., c1970). [S2792] Alvin L. Anderson, P.H.D., Ancestry and Descendants of Aaron and Amy Cobbs Coppock. [S6] Natalelli-Waloszek, Annie, Natalelli-Waloszek, Annie to Linda Coate Emails dated 1999 at Anniemagic@wandoo.fr (C-2247). [S366] Ancestry.com, Global, Find a Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/266009483/miriam-coppock [S2793] Miriam Short Baptismal Record May 10, 1664 Ford, Co. Sussex, England C-1584. [S1969] Smith, Rodger, Email dated 2000.