Mary SAMSON, 16661715 (aged 48 years)

Name
Mary /SAMSON/
Family with parents
father
mother
herself
16661715
Birth: 10 September 1666 Moorgate, Retford, Nottinghamshire
Death: 19 August 1715Wirksworth, Derbyshire
Family with Abraham SLACK
husband
16621701
Birth: 14 December 1662 Youlgreave, Derbyshire
Death: 19 July 1701Middleton, Derbyshire
herself
16661715
Birth: 10 September 1666 Moorgate, Retford, Nottinghamshire
Death: 19 August 1715Wirksworth, Derbyshire
Marriage Marriage13 January 1687Wirksworth, Derbyshire
6 months
son
16871745
Birth: 13 July 1687 24 20 Wirksworth, Derbyshire
Death: 3 November 1745Middleton, Derbyshire
2 years
son
16891695
Birth: 21 August 1689 26 22 Wirksworth, Derbyshire
Death: 11 July 1695Wirksworth, Derbyshire
3 years
daughter
Shared note

Much doubt about her surname. The only record we have is her marriage certificate to Abraham Slack in 1687. Many in ancestry have interpreted this as Mary Coates, but this is inconsistent with the actual name written. Also, there is another Mary Coates who married someone else in Wirksworth just a few months earlier, 11 May 1686, so at a similar time, and the name there is clearly Coates. My interpretation is that the name written is actually "Samson", and there is a Mary Samson born 10 Sep 1666 at Moorgate, Retford, Notts, whose birth is registered in the Quaker archives at Mansfield. So this date would be consistent with the death certificate of Abraham's widow in 1715. The certificates come from the Quaker meeting of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire at Mansfield, which indicated her parents were Alexander Samson and Mary, from Moorgate, near Retford, Notts.