Mary Elsey (Elsoy) [Flatt] (c1741-1827)

Dates

Birth: About 1741
Father: Gorge (George) Elsey (Elcey, Elsie, Elsy) 1704-1771
Mother: Hannah (Ann) ? b1726-1769

Christening: Unknown

Marriage: 16 October 1769 St Mary, Kenninghall, Norfolk, UK
Husband: Richard (Richd, Richs) Flatt c1745-1808

Death: August 1827 Kenninghall, Norfolk, UK
Burial: 15 August 1827 St Mary, Kenninghall, Norfolk, UK

Children

Elizabeth Flatt 1770-b1772
Elizabeth Flatt 1772
Mary Flatt [Shaw] 1774-a1814
Phoebe (Pheobe) Flatt [Catlyn (Catlin, Catling, Cortling)] 1779-1861
James Flatt 1781-a1841
Rosamond Flatt [Moore] 1784-a1808

Notes

I cannot locate an entry for her baptism.

Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973 for Mary Elsoy and Richard Flatt on 16 October 1769 in Hargham, Norfolk. Hargham is 6.5 miles north of Kenninghall.

There is an entry in FreeReg for the marriage of Mary Elsey, a spinster of Kenninghall, and Richard Flatt, a bachelor of Kenninghall, on 16 October 1769 at St Mary Kenninghall, Norfolk, witnessed by Willm Reeve and Jeremiah Mordley, both of whom made their mark.

Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936 for the marriage of Mary Elsey and Richard Flatt on 16 October 1769 in Kenninghall. "The Year 1769 Page 37 [...] No. 115 Richard Flatt of this Parish single Man and Mary Elsey single Woman of the same Married in this Church by Banns this sixteenth Day of October in the Year One Thoufand seven Hundred and sixty nine [both made their marks]".

The children were christened in Kenninghall, parents Richard and Mary Flatt except in the entry for Rosamond where the mother's surname is given as Elsey. There are two entries for Elizabeth on different dates so I assume the first one died soon after birth.

Her husband was buried on 19 February 1808 in Kenninghall.

Entry in FreeReg for the burial of Mary Flatt, a widow aged 86 on 15 August 1827 at St Mary Kenninghall, Norfolk.

If this is the correct age she was born about 1741, but there is no entry in the records for a the christening of a Mary Elsey in Norfolk at that time. There were three baptisms in Kenninghall around that time, Edward, parents George and Ann or Hannah on 10 November 1741, Isaac parents George and Hannah in August 1744 and Jacob, parents George and Hannah on 25 January 1746/7 so I guess these were also her parents.

Two entries in Ancestry England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991 for Mary Flatt died in 1827 aged 86 in Norwich, Norfolk and buried on 15 August 1827 in Kenninghall, Norfolk.

Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Transcripts of Church of England Baptism, Marriage and Burial Registers, 1600-1935 for Mary Flatt buried on 15 August 1827 aged 86 in Kenninghall, Norfolk. "Page 30,31. Burials in the Parish of Kenninghall in the County of Norfolk in the Year 1827 [...] Page 31 [...] Mary Flatt Widow No. 245 [of] Kenninghall [on] August 15 [aged] 86".

Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1995 for Mary Flatt buried on 15 August 1827 aged 86 in Kenninghall, Norfolk. "Page 31. Burials in the Parish of Kenninghall in the County of Norfolk in the Year 1827 [...] Mary Flatt Widow No. 245 [of] Kenninghall [on] August 15 [aged] 86".

Entry in FindaGrave for Mary Elsey Flatt born in 1741 in Kenninghall, Breckland, Norfolk, spouse Richard Flatt, children Mary Shaw, Lydia Somes-Rivett, Martha Batley, Rosamond Moore and Phoebe Catling, and died on 15 August 1827 and buried in St Mary, Kenninghall, Breckland, Norfolk.

There are two hundred and thirty two entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Mary Elsey.

Kenningham is 20 miles SW of Norwich on B1113 and Hargham is is 7 miles north of Kenninghall.

Relationship

Mary Elsey was Felicity's fourth great grandmother.

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