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JoanJaneJeane SISOM

JoanJaneJeane SISOM

Female 1634 - Bef 1729  (< 94 years)

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  • Name JoanJaneJeane SISOM  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    Birth Sep 1634  Allerton Mauleverer, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Christening 13 Nov 1679  Bolton upon Swale, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Death Bef 23 Apr 1729  Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I14922  Ancestrees
    Last Modified 29 Sep 2024 

    Father Richard SISSON,   b. Bef 1618, of, Allerton Mauleverer, Yorkshire, West Riding, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt Dec 1646, Allerton Mauleverer, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 28 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Jona DEWES,   b. Bef 1618   d. Oct 1670, Allerton Mauleverer, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 52 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    _MARRIED
    Family ID F1880  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Thomas ROBINSON   d. 26 Feb 1663, Elland, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 28 Jul 1662  York, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F5057  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Sep 2024 

    Family 2 James CLEMSON   d. of Lancaster, PA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    _MARRIED
    Family ID F4939  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Sep 2024 

    Family 3 Johannis COATS\COATES,   b. Abt 1635, Alne, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Jan 1693, of Thirsk, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 58 years) 
    Marriage 8 May 1664  York M.M., Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Children 
     1. Mary COATES,   b. 24 Nov 1668, Thirsk, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1676, Leeds, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 7 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     2. John COATES, Sr.,   b. 3 Mar 1667, Thirsk, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1679, , Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 11 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     3. Lyddia COATS,   b. Between 8 Feb 1664 and 1665, Thirsk, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     4. COATS,   b. 1670, Thirsk, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     5. John COATS,   b. 1679, Bolton upon Swale, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1684, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 4 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     6. John COATS\COATES,   b. 1684, Bolton upon Swale, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1760, , Philadelphia, PA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     7. Mary COATS,   b. 1677, Bolton upon Swale, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1728, Of, Philadelphia, PA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 52 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     8. Thomas COATS,   b. 1681, Bolton upon Swale, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Apr 1772, Philadelphia Friends Burial Ground, Philadelphia, PA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 91 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     9. George COATES,   b. 1 May 1685, Thirsk, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 31 May 1736, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 51 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     10. William COATS, Sr.   d. 01 Apr 1748/1749, Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F4958  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Sep 2024 

  • Photos
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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 first 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 
    1. [S498] Cresson, Osborn Coates, Email dated 2001 at oscresson@juno.com (This is an excellent summary of the Cotes lineage in England where Cresson has reviewed first hand documents and 10 plus published sources.).

    2. [S11] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Ancestry Family Tree, 1,1030::0.

    3. [S2786] Ancestry.com, The Gettysburg Times (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.Original data - The Gettysburg Times. Gettysburg, PA, USA. Database created from microfilm copies of the newspaper.Original data: The Gettysburg Times. Gettysburg, PA, USA. Database cr;), 1,50001::0.

    4. [S430] Ancestry.com, England & Wales, Quaker Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, 1578-1837, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Date:2013 Place:Provo, UT, USA;), 1,7097::0.

    5. [S2781] Lineages, Inc., comp, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, Will Index, 1682-1819, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Date:2000 Place:Provo, UT, USA;), 1,4695::0.

    6. [S246] Public Member Tree (www.ancestry.com).