Mary Tanner was the wife of William Ligon, son of Thomas Ligon and Mary (Harris) Ligon, and brother of Richard Ligon, named as ‘cousin’ in the Will of Thomas Harris, son of Major William Harris.Īs will be shown, on Ap‘Mr. Baugh’s line, nighe blind slash, along the river to mouth of Hell Garden bottome at the landing 450 acre part thereof formerly granted Joseph Tanner, deed., by patent 24 March 1662 and by said Tanner given to his children above said. The orphans of Joseph Tanner (Mary, Joseph, Edward, and Martha Tanner) received on October 30, 1673, a patent for 650 acres, 2 rods and 8 poles on south side James River, Henrico County beginning at the middle spring bottome at the river side near Mr. Betham: ‘Rowland Oakely, of Oakeley, in Salop, married Mary, daughter of William Crowther, of Betson, in the said county, about the year 1589, by whom he had four sons and three daughters (including) Judith, wife of John Tanner, of Bishop’s Castle Mary, wife of Rowland Oakeley Samuel, a merchant in London John, of the city of Westminster, and of Fawley Court, Bucks Richard … a member for Bishop’s Castle in 1623, (who) married first, Mary, sister of John Combes, of Gray’s Inn, Middlesex’ (1). It is likely that such complexity was repeated in Virginia, for, as in the case of Elizabeth Boardman’s relationship to Captain Thomas Harris being the result of an intermarriage between two branches of the Pigott family of Buckinghamshire, the relationship between Mary (Harris) Ligon and Major William Harris strongly suggests that their families were also intermarried.Īlthough it is idle to speculate whom Major William Harris may have married, so providing a ‘cousinship’ relationship to the family of Mary Harris and Thomas Ligon, a worthwile candidate is suggested as being a sister of Joseph Tanner, with him being, also specutatively, of the Tanner family of Bishops Castle, Shropshire, intermarried with the Oakelys, as elucidated by Mr. The connection of Captain Thomas Harris to Elizabeth Boardman, a peripheral member of his kinship group, examplifies the complexity of relationships through which people were linked.
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