Joanjanejeane Sisom b. Sep 1634 Allerton Mauleverer, Yorkshire, England d. Bef 23 Apr 1729 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA: Our Family History

1634 - Bef 1729 (< 94 years)

Name	Joanjanejeane Sisom [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
Birth	Sep 1634	Allerton Mauleverer, Yorkshire, England [7]
Christening	13 Nov 1679	Bolton upon Swale, Yorkshire, England
Gender	Female
Death	Bef 23 Apr 1729	Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Person ID	I13636	Ancestrees
Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

Father	Richard Sisson, b. Bef 1618, of, Allerton Mauleverer, Yorkshire, West Riding, England d. Abt Dec 1646, Allerton Mauleverer, Yorkshire, England (Age > 28 years)
Relationship	natural
Mother	Jona Dewes, b. Bef 1618 d. Oct 1670, Allerton Mauleverer, Yorkshire, England (Age > 52 years)
Relationship	natural
Marriage	16 Feb 1630	Allerton Mauleverer,York,England [8, 9]
_MARRIED	N
Family ID	F1919	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1	Thomas Robinson d. 26 Feb 1663, Elland, Yorkshire, England
Marriage	28 Jul 1662	York, Yorkshire, England
Family ID	F4698	Group Sheet \| Family Chart
Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

Family 2	James Clemson, b. Pennsylvania d. 1727, of Lancaster, PA
_MARRIED	N
Family ID	F4580	Group Sheet \| Family Chart
Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

Family 3 Johannis Coats Coates, b. Abt 1635, Alne, Yorkshire, England d. 17 Jan 1693, of Thirsk, Yorkshire, England (Age 58 years)

Marriage 8 May 1664 York M.M., Yorkshire, England [4]

Children

	1. John Coates, Sr., b. 3 Mar 1667, Thirsk, Yorkshire, England d. Bef 1679, , Yorkshire, England (Age < 11 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	2. Mary Coates, b. 24 Nov 1668, Thirsk, Yorkshire, England d. 1676, Leeds, Yorkshire, England (Age 7 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	3. Coats, b. 1670, Thirsk, Yorkshire, England d. Yes, date unknown [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	4. John Coats, b. 1679, Bolton upon Swale, Yorkshire, England d. Bef 1684, Yorkshire, England (Age < 4 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	5. Lyddia Coats, b. Between 8 Feb 1664 and 1665, Thirsk, Yorkshire, England d. Yes, date unknown [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	6. John Coats\coates, b. 3 Jan 1684, Thirsk, Hambleton District, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom d. 1760, , Philadelphia, PA (Age 75 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	7. Mary Coats, b. 1677, Bolton upon Swale, Yorkshire, England d. Aft 1728, Of, Philadelphia, PA (Age > 52 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	8. Thomas Coats, b. 1681, Bolton upon Swale, Yorkshire, England d. Apr 1772, Philadelphia Friends Burial Ground, Philadelphia, PA (Age 91 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	9. William Coats, Sr., b. 21 Feb 1679, Thirsk, Hambleton District, North Yorkshire, England d. 1 Apr 1749, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States of America (Age 70 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	10. George Coates, b. 1 May 1685, Thirsk, Yorkshire, England d. Aft 31 May 1736, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (Age > 51 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]

Family ID F4592 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 3 Mar 2026

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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

[S555] 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.).
[S4] 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.
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[S448] 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.
[S3261] Lineages, Inc., comp, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, Will Index, 1682-1819, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Date:2000 Place:Provo, UT, USA;), 1,4695::0.
[S432] Ancestry.com, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S., Mennonite Vital Records, 1750-2014, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2015;).
[S215] Public Member Tree (www.ancestry.com).
[S374] Ancestry.com, England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2014;).
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[S374] Ancestry.com, England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2014;).
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N2SQ-JX1

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