Re: Isaac, d. 1747, Calvert, MD; mis-transcription problems?
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In reply to:
Re: Matthew and Isaac, ca. 1683-1800, Calvert, MD; Bowen connection???
Duane Boggs 4/05/10
Isaac Waller is the unfortunate and surely unintended victim of more than one likely error in transcription from old handwritten records into modern-day typed records (books and/or electronic).
The first error seems to be in a transcription of a Maryland Prerogative Court record concerning payments from the estate of the late Thomas Edmonds (a/k/a Edmans, Edmunds, etc.).The version in Skinner's Abstracts states that Isaac "Naller" married Margaret, a granddaughter of Thomas Edmonds.The abstract of the Will of Isaac Waller, however, makes it clear that he married the Edmonds granddaughter.
Source:http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/stagser/s500/s538/html/s538-25.htmlhttp://www.msa.md.gov/msa/stagser/s500/s538/html/s538-25.html(Abstracts of Wills from Prerogative Court, MSA S538, by Carson Gibb)
Liber 25, folio 100
7 April 1747
Waller, Isaac, [St. Mary's Co.]
My wife & extrx, Mary Waller, is to keep my son Edmuund [DAB:sic-- Edmonds??} Waller till he is 20 & to keep in her possn. til he comes of age all that left to my children by their grdfather [DAB:actually their greatgrandfather], Thos. Edmunds.
Ann Robertson is to keep my dau. Margaret Waller till she is 16.
Witn: Henry Gibbins, Thomas Hall.
27 July 1747, sworn to by both witn.
This new information permits several inferences.First, Isaac and Margaret (Edmonds) Waller had two children (Margaret and Edmonds) and then Margaret (Edmonds) Wallerdied.Isaac remarried, to a Mary (maiden name unknown) before the time of his Will.The accounting for payments from the Thomas Edmonds estate shows that, while the other granddaughters (including two who were married) were listed as receiving payments in their own names, the payment on behalf of Margaret was made to Isaac Waller, presumably as parent (and thus guardian) of his minor children, who inherited from their great-grandfather by virtue of the wording in his Will to his granddaughters "and their heirs".Additionally, Isaac gave the care of his minor daughter Margaret to Ann Robertson, and not to his second wife.He did, however, leave his son with the boy's step-mother.
The second likely transcription error is in the name of Isaac's mother-in-law, Ann (daughter-in-law of the late Thomas Edmonds).After her second husband, Steven Dickinson, died, I believe she married for a third time.The problem is whether she married a Robinson or a Robertson.Mr. Gibb, the transcriber of Isaac Waller's will, saw "Robertson" in the old handwriting.In Mr. Gibb's transcription of the Will of Thomas "Arterbury", however, he saw the witness as Ann "Robinson".This Ann was almost certainly Thomas Atterbury's mother-in-law, Ann (MNU) (Edmonds) (Dickinson) Robinson/Robertson.My current theory is that she was the daughter of William Cook of Calvert County (and listed as next of kin in his 1734 estate administration.
Isaac Waller was almost surely related to Mathew (or Matthew) Waller of Calvert County, but Mathew might have been a brother rather than the father of Isaac.
Furthermore, any connection between Waller and Cook is no longer supported.Instead, it was likely a Cook-Edmonds connection and a Cook-Wilmot connection.
Furthermore, the Margaret Waller who witnessed the 1738 Will of Charles Bowen (along with Mathew Waller and Mary Evenes) MIGHT have been Isaac's wife, Margaret (Edmonds) Waller, OR MIGHT have been the wife of Mathew (if he was even married).There is simply not enough evidence to decide conclusively.
Does anyone have any more inforamtion on the Wallers of Calvert County?