Jane Coe - Who is Jane Coe?

Erica Howton, up your alley again

Manlee Smallwood's family is ruled out since he died in 1760.
The Giffords and the Peacocks have little room.
I've therefore put Jane, for now, in the family of Samuel Fuller.

Researching Samuel -- he appears to have immigrated involuntarily in 1761, in bondage. I don't have the exact details because there doesn't seem to be any online copy of the book in question, but he would have been born in England somewhere and shipped to America as part of his punishment. He obviously married shortly after release but kept a very low profile otherwise; it's not a surprise really that we know little about him.

I added this document:

https://media.geni.com/p13/23/a4/3d/28/5344484c33f3c070/00d6852f-27...

Gives you the rest of her children.

Ancestry.com hints coughed up:

Jane Watkins
in the Pennsylvania, Compiled Marriage Records, 1700-1821
Name: Jane Watkins
Marriage Date: 21 Mar 1775
Marriage Place: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Spouse's name: Robert Coe
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, Compiled Marriage Records, 1700-1821 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011.
Original data: Pennsylvania Marriage Records. Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Archives Printed Series, 1876. Series 2, Series 6.

https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2383/32554_234052-00467?pid=17...

And in contrast to the Quaker record ...

Robert Coe
in the Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1669-2013
Name: Robert Coe
Event Type: Marriage
Marriage Date: 21 Mar 1775
Marriage Place: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Denomination: Roman Catholic
Organization Name: Old St Paul's Church
Spouse: Janse Watkins
Source Citation
Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records; Reel: 240

https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2451/40355_267226-00019?pid=65...

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:KHT1-W4T

Jane Coe (born Watkins)
Birth names:
Jane Mrs Coe
Mrs. Jane Coe
Gender:
Female
Birth:
1764
Burlington, Burlington, New Jersey, British Colonial America
Marriage:
Mar 21 1775
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Residence:
Mar 26 1823
Burlington, New Jersey, USA
Death:
Mar 26 1823
Burlington, New Jersey, USA
Burial:
Burlington, New Jersey, USA
Husband:
Robert Coe
Children:
Jane Taylor (born Coe)
Hannah Fitz Randolph (born Coe)

U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935
BIRTH, BAPTISM & CHRISTENING
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Record information.
Name
Jane Coe
Spouse
Robert Coe
Mother
Mary Watkins
Father
Thos Watkins
Death
Burlington, New Jersey 26 Mar 1823
Vital
26 Mar 1823

https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2189/42060_1821100519_3243-000...

This document has everyone.

https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000095690670270&

Ok, thanks -- this resolves the narrow question of who Jane Coe is. I'm otherwise back to Square One though.

I thought I had lost my touch ! So you’re not related? This Watkins family lived at Northern Liberties, I think. Robert Coe’s father came from England.

Also, if I’m guessing correct on her father’s parents, he was an Evan Watkins. Which sounds Welsh.

I should also note the birth dates were off. She married in 1775, so Jane Watkins & Robert Coe were born in the 1750s, not 1760s. FWIW.

Nope, not much in the way of Watkins that I'm directly related to. I will grovel over the DNA matches who list Watkins as a surname to see what, if any, commonality there is.

The generation above Manlee Smallwood has an unknown maiden name which might as well be Watkins, or Coe, or whatever, but then I'd expect some DNA confirmation. Stay tuned.

DNA analysis for Watkins comes up with no evidence of systematic surname matches, unfortunately.
I spent some time filling in the missing branches of the tree for the person I'm supposedly 2nd-4th cousins with, but have found no other places so far where cross-connections might be possible in her tree, save the following who I haven't been able to trace readily:

Mary Boggs
Mary Elizabeth Boggs

Note: I found three Watkins matches that seemed to be part of a DNA group. Turns out they were all Bowles, descended from the Maryland Bowles, which I already know I'm related to via Northern Ireland.

The Boggs family, by the way, also hails originally from Northern Ireland, so there could be a connection there, but if so it's probably too far back to show up as 2nd-4th cousins. I haven't yet done a surname analysis on the women they married, however, so it's possible that there's something there we simply don't know about.

I was going to look at this more but I wound up doing a pile of merges instead. Will have to wait until tomorrow.

I spent the morning filling out the nooks and crannies of the Jill Green tree, in hopes of finding a branch that went somewhere I recognized. While I was able to connect Jill up to Puritan New England in many different ways, as well to Northern Ireland via the aforementioned Boggs family, I didn't find anything usable. But Jill now has a *much* deeper tree than before, so I evaluated the current relationship and found it to be 15th cousins, via the Boggs -- too far distant for 2nd-to-4th.

Looking again at the Refords (because there was nowhere else really where my family and hers intersected), I found that one Reford son died in Hillsborough, County Down, which was only a couple of miles away from Banbridge, where my Wright ancestors are thought to have come from. I therefore tentatively hypothesize a Reford daughter, born around 1692, who married a Wright. The daughter is not recorded in the tree but probably exists, because the Reford couple married in 1690 and did not have their first recorded child until 1699.

Here is the profile created: [unknown] Wright