Margaret FRYER

Abt 1598 - Aft 1636  (> 39 years)

• Name	Margaret FRYER
  Birth	Abt 25 Jun 1598	Sherborne, Dorset, England
  Gender	Female
  Also Known As	Friar, Frier, Gardiner
  Reference Number	20534987
  Reference Number	22301229
  Reference Number	60
  WWW	https://www.WikiTree.com/wiki/Fryer-892
  Death	Aft 1636	Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony
  Person ID	I525	Gummer
  Last Modified	1 Aug 2024

  
  

  Family	Thomas GARDNER,   b. Abt 1592, Sherborne, Dorset, England d. 29 Dec 1674, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony (Age 82 years)
  Marriage	28 Apr 1617	Sherborne, Dorset, England
  Children	1. Lieut Thomas GARDNER,   b. Abt Mar 1617, Sherborne, Dorset, England d. 29 Nov 1682, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 65 years)   2. George GARDNER,   b. 1 Jan 1620, Sherborne, Dorset, England d. 20 Aug 1679, Hartford, Connecticut (Age 59 years) + 3. Richard GARDNER, Sr.,   b. Abt Jul 1622, Sherborne, Dorset, England d. 23 Mar 1688, Nantucket, Nantucket (Age 65 years) + 4. Capt. John GARDNER,   b. Abt 1624   d. May 1706, Nantucket, Nantucket, Province of Massachusetts Bay (Age 82 years)   5. Sarah GARDNER,   b. Abt 1627, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay d. 5 Apr 1686, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts Bay (Age 59 years)   6. Samuel GARDNER,   b. 18 Jul 1627, Sherborne, Dorset, England d. Oct 1689, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 62 years)   7. Capt. Joseph GARDNER,   b. Abt 1629, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts d. 19 Dec 1675, South Kingstown, Rhode Island (Age 46 years)   8. Miriam GARDNER,   b. Abt 24 Mar 1633, Sherborne, Dorset, England d. Bef 26 Aug 1664, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts (Age < 31 years)   9. Seeth GARDNER,   b. 25 Oct 1636, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts d. 17 Apr 1707, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 70 years)
  Family ID	F116	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Aug 2024

  
  

• Photos		Walter Friar - Grace Mullins marriage record - Jan 1591
  		Margaret Friar, baptism
  		Walter Friar will (10 Nov 1610)
  		Thomas Gardner & Margaret Friar marriage record
  		Margaret Friar - Research Notes
  		Friar-19 and Unknown-197698 appear to represent the same person because: Need to be merged to enable merging of matched child.

  
  

• Notes

  {{Puritan Great Migration}} === Disputed Origins ===This profile is protected by the Puritan Great Migration Project. Removed as suggested parents [[Friar-20|Thomas Friar]] and [[Merritt-1730|Elizabeth Merritt]]. There is '''no''' evidence to suggest she was daughter of [[Merritt-1517|Margaret Merritt]]. Also detached from [[Frier-126|Thomas Frier]] and [[Hall-49959|Elizabeth Hall]] as parents due to lack of evidence. Please contact the project through the comments prior to initiating any changes to the Data Fields and wait for a response before proceeding. Thanks. Please refer to [https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Fryer-892#EditNotes Edit Notes] (below) with respect to presenting a cohesive view of what we know of Margaret. == Biography == Margaret Frier was baptised 25 June 1598 in Sherborne, Dorset. No parents' names given.Dorset History Centre; Dorchester, England; Dorset Parish Registers. 1598 June 25 Margaret Friar bapts (Ancestry has her indexed for some reason as Margaret Lalane): A Walter Friar and Grace Mullins married in Sherborne in the right time frame to be her parents. (See image from Dorset record office)"31 Jan 1591 FRIER Walter MULLINS Grace", Dorset Online Parish Clerk, Sherborne Marriages 1560 - 1599, Transcribed by Shelia Carr; https://www.opcdorset.org/SherborneFiles/SherborneMars1560-1599.htm She married Thomas Gardiner there 28 April 1617.Dorset History Centre; Dorchester, England; Dorset Parish Registers; Sherborne combined register, Reference: PE/SH:RE1/1: 1617: 28 Thomas Gardiner et Margarete Frier nuptia"1617... April 28; Thomas GARDINER married Margaret FRIER", Dorset Online Parish Clerk, Sherborne Marriages 1600 - 1619, Transcribed by Shelia Carr; https://www.opcdorset.org/SherborneFiles/SherborneMars1600-1619.htm Margaret died sometime after the birth of her last child Seeth, 25 December 1636, and when her husband remarried to the widow Damaris Shattuck. Damaris was still the widow Shattuck in 7 July 1641, and is first mentioned as Damaris Gardener in Thomas' will, on 7 December 1668, making it difficult to pin down the time frame of his second marriage. A Margaret Gardener joined the church 24 March 1639/40, but without specific mention of her husband. It has been suggested that she was a first wife of Thomas Gardener, Jr. == Research Notes =='''Death date''' FindAGrave (as of 6/30/24), gives a death date of 28 September 1659, but without source. Thomas' second wife Damaris died 28 November 1674, which was recorded as 28 :9 m: 1674 . It's possible that this date is in part an unintentional imprint of a misinterpreted Julian calendar date (i.e. the ninth month as September (Gregorian calendar) instead of November (Julian calendar) with a different year added to accommodate a second marriage. There is a reference to the wife of Thomas Gardener, in the 1660 November Court term, which seems to be generally attributed to Damaris. Perhaps the 1659 date was selected as the outer range of her death to precede this date. '''Miscellaneous''' From ''The American Genealogist,'' volume 30 (1953), p 156::"The surname Friar appears to have been first stated in print by the Rev. Joseph B. Felt, well over a century ago. Neither Dr. Gardner nor Mr. Moriarty was ever successful in finding Mr. Felt's evidence; but it would be well not to reject the possibility that Friar (or a variant) is right until we can '''either prove that the true name was something else or explain how the error arose'''."And even if her maiden name was Friar (of whatever spelling variant), there is no documentation of her parents. Also::"B. Margaret Friar: This is the name many times stated to have been that of that earlier wife of Thomas(1) Gardner whose existence is demonstrable from the allusion in his will, dated 7 Dec. 1668, probated 29 March 1675 [Essex Wills, file 301:62: Probate Records, 2:423], to his then wife Damaris, "mother-in-law" of the sons. Damaris was the Widdow Shattock who joined First Church, Salem, 2 July 1641. When the earlier wife died and the second marriage took place are unknown, but Damaris died on 28 Nov 1674, a month before Thomas(1) Gardner died in 29 Dec 1675. Thomas(1) Gardner's name appears fifteenth on the covenant of First Church, signed 6 of 6th month 1629, and a woman named Margaret Gardener is the next member of the family to join on "1639-24-1" [24 Mar 1639/40?]. On "15-10" in the same year, in any case later than the date of Margaret's admission, the name of Tho. Gardener Junyr appears. Though he was by this year certainly old enough to be married, and it is possible that Margaret was his wife, the baptisms of his children do not start until 28 Jan. 1643/4, so I am inclined to agree with Dr. Gardner and Mr. Moriarty that Margaret was actually the name of the earlier wife of Thomas(1) Gardner." Margaret Frier may be the first wife of [[Gardner-159|Thomas Gardner]]. See the discussion on his profile and see this article: http://thomasgardnerofsalem.blogspot.com/2014/09/thomas-and-margaret.html. If that article is correct her father would be Walter Friar (not [[Frier-126|Thomas Frier]]). If it is proven that Thomas Gardner's first wife was Margaret Frier, then [[Unknown-197698|Margaret Unknown]] should be merged into this profile. '''Immigration:''' 1624 Cape Ann(e) Colony, Massachusetts, USA. === EditNotes ===Also, see [https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gardner-159#EditNotes Edit Notes at Thomas Gardner]. As well, we will expand this Edit Notes section for Margaret as we go along. This section will disappear after Profile work is accomplished. However, we will have notes appended to Research Notes with respect to pending research and updates. ==== Supporting material ==== * Starting with proposed parents for Margaret - [https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Fryer-892 Marriage of] Walter Friar and Grace Mullins. His will (1610) mentions Margaret among his children. This was before the Gardner marriage (unfortunately). However, someone saw the Thomas and Margaret connection 200 years ago (which New England researchers heard about). * See [https://thomasgardnersociety.org/html/Research/Sherborne.html#images '''Sherborne focus'''] page for a list of the images (currently, snips/snaps, soon the whole image) that will support the coming changes. ==== Pending changes ==== Like we will do with respect to pending changes at the Thomas Gardner page, we will itemize pending changes here. * For each of those snaps on the right side (above) that were taken from images at Sherborne's repository, there is the full picture. These were retrieved from ancestry.com (we need to get the reference address). My ancestry account does not, currently, have access to their images (will turn it on - unless someone looks for these and gets the URL). We do not want to make a copy here. * A Genealogy of the descendants of Richard Porter, who settled at Weymouth, Massachusetts, 1635, and allied families : also, some account of the descendants of John Porter, who settled at Hingham, Massachusetts, 1635, and Salem, (Danvers) Massac File == Sources == * ''The American Genealogist,'' volume 30 (1953), p 156* Robert Charles Anderson, ''Great Migration Begins...," Boston, MA: NEHGS 1995*Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35748602/margaret-gardner : accessed 05 November 2021), memorial page for Margaret Frier Gardner (25 Jun 1598–unknown), {{FindAGrave|35748602}}; Maintained by Linda Mac (contributor 47062703) Unknown. (No tombstone, no burial info; cites Anderson's ''Great Migration Begins''.)*"Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:943B-S7M : accessed 16 October 2018), entry for Margaret Fryer; file (2:2:2:MM9R-SW5), submitted 19 June 2003 by rwylie2770211 [identity withheld for privacy]. == Acknowledgements == * Helen Ford * [http://tgsoc.org/ Thomas Gardner Society, Inc.] (Gardner Research)