MRS. THOMAS WYNNE OF PHILADELPHIA AND HER FAMILY: Corrections to the Pedigrees of Wynne and Maude

MRS. TFIOMAS `OVYNNE OF PHILADELPHIA AND HER FAMILY: Corrections to the Pedigrees of Wynne and Maude BY FRANCIS JAMES DALLETT, F.G.S.Ps Dr. Thomas Wynne, the Welsh physician who accompanied William Penn to Philadelphia on the ship Welcome in 1682 and founded an historic Philadelphia family, has heretofore been credited with three wives: first, Martha Buttall of Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales, the mother of his children; secondly, a widow Rawden (Rowden) ; and thirdly, the widow Elizabeth Maud (correctly, Maude), whom he married 20 5m 1676, not in Wales but in England, at Rainhill, Lancashire, under the care of the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Hardshaw East in that county, and who followed him to Pennsylvania.' The first marriage is correct. The relationship of Mrs. Wynne as the daughter of Randle Buttall of Wrexham, is established by her father's The name of the so-called "second" Mrs. Wynne has been inferred from the known fact that Thomas Wynne had a stepdaughter, Elizabeth Rowden (Rawden) who was granted liberty by the Philadelphia Monthly 8 Th, Quaker certificate of marriage from the Lancashire Friends records is printed in Thomas Allen Glenn, Marion in the Welsh Tract. • . . (Nort;stown, 1896), 8645 Thomas Wynne, chirurgeon, the groom, was then a resident of Caerwys, Flintshire, Wales. His bride Elizabeth Maud [sit) was of Rainhill, Lancashire, seven miles east of Liverpool. There are no ship lists, in the modern sense, for early English arrivals in Pennsylvania, such as are extant for German immigrants. Pursuant to a law passed at New Castle in 1684, however, directing inhabitants then in the Province, and those who should arraye thereafter, to register themselves, an attempt was made to list these first arrivals. For two such mum lists, made between 1682 and 1687, see The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, VIII (I884), 328-340, and ibid., IX (1885), 221-239, hereinafter cited as PMHB. For a compiled list from miscellaneous sources of the Welcome's passengers, see J. Thomas Scharf and Thompson Westcott, History of Philadelphia, 1609-2884 (Philadelphia, 1884), L, 99-100. Thomas Wynne's name is included in this list, but not his wife's. For further information on the Welcome's passenger list, see George E. McCracken, ",Welcome Notes," The American Genealogist, Vol. 38 (July, 1962), 152. The log of the shhs Submisuon, which sailed at the same inne as the Welcome, includes a list of passengers "near as cold be well taken," on this appear the names of Wynne', daughter Rebecca, then aged 20, and step-daughters Marjory Mede, aged 11, and Jane Mode, aged 15, the surname properly being Maude. The inference follows that Wynne's wife came on a later ship, as yet unidenc .ified. See Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, I, 9-10, hereinafter cited as PGSP. 'For abstract of the will of Randle Buttall, see PMHB, XL (1916), 299-240. Thomas and Martha (Buttall) Wynne had five daughters and one son, all presumably born in Wales: 1. Mary Wynne, b. ea. 1659, who m, ca. 1677 in Wales, Dr. Edward Jones of Merion; 2. Rebecca Wynne, b. ea. 1662, who m. 1st in Talbot Co., Md., 3m 1685. Solomon Thomas, and 2nd, 23 7m 1692, John Dickinson; 3: Sydney Wynne, who m. in Anne Arundel Co., Md., 20 10m 1690, William Chew; 4. Hannah Wynne, who m. 25 8m 1695, Daniel Humphreys; 5: Tabitha Wynne; 6. Jonathan Wynne, who n5. ca. 1694, Sarah, surname not proven. 222 Mrs. Thomas Wynne of Philadelphia 223 Meeting of Friends on 5 6m 1684, to marry John Brock of Falls Monthly Meeting.' The alleged "third" Mrs. Wynne has been the subject of printed study since at least 1896, not because of her husband Thomas Wynne, but because her former husband, Joshua Maude (1627 1672) of the Cliffs,' Wakefield, Yorkshire, was the grandfather of Joshua Fisher (1707-1783 ), the colonial Philadelphia shipowner.' His many descendants have long been aware of their armigerous ancestor Joshua Maude. The interest of the antiquarian-minded Fishers in their family origins has resulted in a series of genealogical studies which, insofar as the earlier generations are concerned, unfortunately contain many misstatements of fact. It may now be stated in print that each genealogy which has dealt - Wilrum Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1938), II, 641, 1024. Thomas Wynne is described, in the old manner, as "father 30 law" of Elizabeth Rowden, On the intentions of marriage declared before the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting 1 Srn 1684, at which time Wynne "together with his wife," was about to depart for England. Minutes of the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, I, 18-19, quoted in full on pages 14-15 of Alfred R. Justice's "Maude of West Riddlesden, Yorkshire," Alfred R. Justice Collection, Vol. 16, 5, in Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, hereinafter cited as Justice, GOP. Elizabeth Rowden presumably had just arrived in Pennsylvania when she witnessed the will of Richard ap Thomas "late of Whitford garden in filintshire" on 18 9m 1683, Posy, III, 165. The Morning Star of Liverpool, on which Thomas, and no doubt Elizabeth Rowden, had sailed, had arrived about 14 9m 1683. PMIIB, IV (1880), 319; ibid., IX (1885), 233. Charles H. Browning, `Welsh Settlement of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, 1912), 209, gives the date of arrival as 16 Nov. 1683. Son of John and Sarah Maude of Alverthorpe Hall, near Wakefield, Yorkshire, Joshua Maude was bapt. at Wakefield 21 Apr. If 27; in 1665 he was Churchwarden of Wakefield. See Joseph Foster, Pedigrees of the County Fansilies of Yorkshire (London, 1874), I, under pedigree of "Maude of Alverthorpe." Letters of administration were granted on his estate 22 Apr. 1672 to his widow Elizabeth. Sec page 10 of Justice, GSP, Vol. 16, 5, /op. cit., wherein is cited, with misspelling, the Probate Register of Ponteftact with Halifax, 1672, folio 78. Cf. Anna Wharton Smith, Genealogy of the Fisher Family, 1682-1896 (Philadelphia, 1896), 14, wherein ic is stated Joshua Maude, whose name is incorrectly given as Maud throughout, died in 1675. This work, and the earlier Recollections of Joshua Francis Fisher: Written in 1864 (not published until 1929 when it was edited by Sophia Cadwalader) both state Joshua Maude inherited the parental home of his father, The Cliffs, whereas the parental home, Alverthorpe Hall, was inherited by Joshua's elder brother Daniel Maude. 0 Joshua Fisher, son of Margery Maude, daughter of Joshua, and Thomas Fisher, was successively hatter, surveyor and importer; he established in Philadelphia a boding line of trans-Atlantic shipping packets shortly after the middle of the eighteenth century. On land bequeathed to him by his father at Cool Spring, Sussex County, Del., he built a small half-timbered house, nogged with brick and weathers boarded, which is now being restored by Fisher descendants. Harold Donaldson Eberlein has claimed that the house, standing in 1736 when Joshua Fisher sold it, was probably built by Joshua's father, Thomas Fisher , It was, however, the son's project. In the will of the father, written in 1713 just before his death, Thomas Fisher left SOO unimproved acres of the Cold (Cool) Spring land to his son Joshua, and expressed the hope that "when my children comes to age that they shall be admitted 10 seats on some part of their respective Land...." Smith, oP. cit., 18, 19. Thomas Fisher himself hoed at Fisher's bland, in Broadkill Marsh, formerly the property of his w ■ fe Margery Maude's stepfather, Thomas Wynne. Ilk interesting to note chat Joshua Fisher, cho hatter-merchant, was second cousin to the Reverend Sir William Lowther, M.A., 1s1 Baronet (1707 - 1788) of Little Preston, Yorkshire, prebendary of York and rector of Swillington, whose son was created first Earl of Lonsdale. The baronet's grandfather, Daniel Maude who -inherited Alverthorpe Hall, and Joshua Fisher's grandfather, Joshua Maude, were brothers. See Foster, °P 224 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine with the marriage of Mrs. Maude and Dr. Wynne has been in error, and that the compounded errors may be wiped out by the simple citation of one printed record which has been available for more than half a century. "Paver's Marriage Licenses, Volume II" in the Yorkshire Archeologi cal Society Record Series, Volume XLIII (1909), page 110, publishes an abstract of the license issued in the year 1667 to "Joshua Maude, gentleman, 38, Wakefield," and "Elizabeth Rawden, widow, 34, Drax." From this it is evident that when the Widow Maude married Dr. Wynne in 1676, she herself had been married not once before, but twice; her first husband had been a Mr. Rawden and her second Joshua Maude. Thus she, not the other vague and actually non-existent second wife of Dr. Wynne, was the mother of Elizabeth (Rowden, Rawden) Brock. Thomas Wynne's supposed third wife was in fact identical with his second wife, but he was her third husband. Equally confused have been the supposed origins of Elizabeth Rawden Maude Wynne herself. It has been claimed that she was born Elizabeth Parr, "a daughter of the Rev. Thomas Parr, who married a sister of John Bradshaw, President of Parliament at the trial and condemnation of King Charles," and that the Reverend Thomas Parr, "chaplain to John Bradshaw, was a Puritan clergyman, and was of the family of Catherine Parr." Unfortunately these fascinating relationships are false, and even ■ .85 When Joshua Maude marr ed Elizabeth Rawden he 11;mself was a widower w.sth four children, all baptized at Wakefield between 1659 and 1664: Penelope, Joshua, Jr., Sarah and Joyce Maude. Foster, op. tit. After his marrsage to Elizabeth Rawden, he and she evidently were both n on,, converted to Quakerism, for their children, Jane Maude, b. med in the Established Church, ca. 1667. and Margery Maude, b. ca. 167P were not ho- Jane Maude rn. 1st at Lewes, Dd., 15 7m 1687, Isaac 13owde who was deceased by 6 7r0 1692* whe,. letters were granted to his widow Jane Scott. She m. 3rd, apparently, one Lucas, probably a widower with small children, for her 4th husband, Cornelius VItbanck in Feb. 1705 was ordered by Sussex County Court to provide for them, Wiltbanck then being married to Jane (Maude) Bowde Scott Lucas. See PGSP, XII, 195n, and ibid., XVIII, 27. She d. without issue after 21 Jan. 1717/18 and before 1720 when Wiltbanck on. his sod wife, the widow Hannah (Kollock) White. Mar- gery Maude m. Iss at Lewes, Del., in 1692, Thomas Fisher„ who d. between 17 Nov. 1713, when he wrote his will, and 8 2m 1717, when his widow Margery was wife of one Green. Pennsylvania Archives, Sod Series, XIX, 678; Smith, op. vii., 14, 199. Nothing is known of the daughters of Joshua Maude by his first wife, but their brother Joshua, Jr., bapt. at Wakefield 26 Nov. 1662, who inherited The Cliffs (claimed in Smith, 14, to be issue of his father's second marriage, but was in fact of the first marriage) is said to have married Elizabeth, daughter of John Nutt of Sheldesley Beauchamp. See page 13 of Justwe, GSP, Vol. 16, P. loc. cit., wherein the reference given is Familiae Minoru's; Gentili, 620. The statement made by Mr. Justice, that they had a daughter Sarah Maude who married a James Miers, is open to question, inasmuch as Margery (Maude) Fisher's son, Joshua Fisher (1707-1783), marned Sarah Rowland (1716-1772), of Sussex County, Del., whose mother was Saralx . Miers, daugh“r of John Mier, of the same place. The coincidence of these names calls for further investsgation. ▪ Rawden wan, well known Yorkshwe name, but the identity of Elizabeth's first husband is unknown. He may have been the John Rawden of Wistowt whose estate was probated 12 July 1667 the year of El7zabeth's marriage to Joshua Maude. "Index of the Wills and Administrations entered in the Registers of the Archbishops ,,York, being Consistory Wills, Mc.," Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series. XCIII (1936), 60, clung Register Vol. 53, folio 8). More probably. her first husband, Mr. Rawden, was of Drax, her residence at the time of her remarriage. • of. 140. Mrs. Thomas Wynne of Philadelphia 225 the identity of the individuals mentioned is much garbled. There was no traceable clergyman in England in the seventeenth century named Thomas Parr.' John Bradshaw's chaplain was John Parr who, inasmuch as he was approximately the same age as Mrs. Rawden Maude, could not have been her father." Another writer has stated that Mrs. Maude was "a person possessing considerable property and belonging to an influential family of Flintshire." " It is unlikely that Mrs. Maude ever set foot in Wales or had any interest in it until her third marriage to a Welshman. Alfred R. Justice, one of Philadelphia's leading genealogists a genera" non ago, states unequivocally in a genealogical study, apparently never heretofore noticed in print, that Elizabeth Rawden Maude Wynne was born Elizabeth Chorley, one of ten children of John Chorley, armiger, of Rainhill, Lancashire, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Hugh Ley of Liverpool." Mr. Justice extensively developed the Chorley pedigree. In view of the fact that Elizabeth's marriage to Thomas Wynne took place at John Chorley's house, and that John Chorley, Alexander Chorley and Faith Chorley were witnesses (Justice's theory would make the men her brothers) , this statement is quite possibly correct. It should be noted, however, that Drax, Elizabeth's home as Mrs. Rawden, and Wakefield, her home as Mrs. Maude, were both in Yorkshire, many miles northeast of Rainhill in Lancashire. While it would have been logical for a widow with two families of minor children to return to her parental home, there is as yet no proof that Rainhdl, where she married Thomas Wynne in 1676, was such. A closer examination of Yorkshire and Lancashire probate records and other source material would likely solve the question. °Prior to the middle of the seventeenth century, when non-conformist clergy began to gain pulpits without Anglican ordination, all English clergy were educated at Oxford or Cambridge. A check of Foster's Alumni Oxonienses and of Venn's Alumni Gantabrigienses, will always establish a cleric's existence. No clergyman named Thomas Parr is found M either work. 10 Dictionary of National Biography (New York, (893), XLIII, 334-303. The Regicide's chaplain was of the Parr family of Present Par, Lancashire, the parish in which Ramhill is located, and Elizabeth Rawden Maude Wynne's residence in 1676. Possibly her American descendants may have had a tradition of sorne remote Parr relationship, or the "Par" in the parish name may have been twisted into a family narne for her. D- T. B. Deem, The Wynnes, a Genealogical Summary of the Ancestry of the Welsh Wynnes, Who Emigrated to Pennsylvania with William Penn (Indianapolis, Ind., 1907), 204. This work, the basso Wynne genealogy, should be used with extreme caution; it is full of errors. .See page 8 of "Charley of Chorley, Lancashire," Justice, GSP, Vol. 55 75, in which she is #43 of that