Rachel Palmer1

b. 2 November 1699, d. 31 May 1734
Rachel Palmer|b. 2 Nov 1699\nd. 31 May 1734|p10901.htm|John Palmer|b. c 1656\nd. 11 Aug 1726|p10886.htm|Christian (—?—) (Palmer)|b. 1654\nd. 28 Sep 1740|p10887.htm|||||||||||||

5th great-grandaunt of William Lemuel Horn Jr.
7th great-grandaunt of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Horn and Allied Families
     Rachel Palmer was born 2 9m 1699 (2 November 1699) according to the Quarterly Meeting records of births and deaths for Bucks County, Pennsylvania.3 Her birth was also recorded, probably years after the fact, at Middletown Monthly Meeting.4,1 She was the daughter of John Palmer and Christian (—?—) (Palmer).2 She married James Thackery 24 9m 1724 (24 November 1724) in Falls Meeting House, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.5 Her death on 31 3m 1734 (31 May 1734) at age 34 was recorded at Middletown Monthly Meeting.6
     
Additional Data
Rachel Thackray witnessed the marriage of her brother Jonathan Palmer to Frances Durrance on 17 8m 1734 (17 October 1734) in Middletown Meeting House. Note that either Rachel's death date is recorded incorrectly in the Middletown records, or the Rachel Thackray who attended the wedding has been incorrectly identified. The Rachel who signed as a witness was only assumed to be Jonathan's sister because she signed in the family column, but it is quite possible she was a sister-in-law or other relation.7 Click to view image

Children of Rachel Palmer and James Thackery

Citations

  1. [S1020] John T. Humphrey, Pennsylvania Births, Bucks County, 1682-1800 (Washington, D.C.: Humphrey Publications, 1993).
  2. [S1018] Cathy Whitacre Reisinger, online <http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~whitacre/>, Cathy Whitacre Reisinger (unknown location), downloaded 2006.
  3. [S1034] Anna Miller Watring and F. Edward Wright, Quaker Records: Falls and Middletown Monthly Meetings, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Church Records of the 17th & 18th Centuries Series (Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2003), 2: 175. Hereinafter cited as Quaker Records: Falls and Middletown.
  4. [S1034] Anna Miller Watring and F. Edward Wright, Quaker Records: Falls and Middletown, 2: 206.
  5. [S358] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, 5 vols. (Ann Arbor: Edwards Borthers, 1938), 2: 1018.
  6. [S1034] Anna Miller Watring and F. Edward Wright, Quaker Records: Falls and Middletown, 2: 218.
  7. [S1038] Unknown, trans., "Marriage Certificates beginning with 1681", Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania vol. 2 (June 1900): 1: 71.