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Subject: Re: [Q-R] Ruth MILLER / Kernan / Kiernan
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 17:25:10 EDT
Thought this note I had saved might be of some interest as well:
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 07:53:04 -0700
From: Thomas Hamm <>
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Subject: Ruth, wife of Simon Hadley
I'm glad that someone has raised the question of of the maiden name
of Ruth, the wife of Simon Hadley. Ruth was born ca. 1677 and died 12Mo
18, 1750, and is supposed to have been married to Simon Hadley about 1697
in Ireland. That's consistent with the birth of their first child in 1698.
Has anyone found any record of the marriage in Ireland? I
certainly have found no consensus on Ruth's maiden name. Albert Cook
Myers's IMMIGRATION OF THE IRISH QUAKERS INTO PENNSYLVANIA (1902) doesn't
give a maiden name. Chalmers Hadley's NOTES ON THE QUAKER FAMILY OF HADLEY
(1916), states that "There is a belief that his [Simon's] wife's family
name was Miller, but no substantiating record of this has been found." The
best Hadley genealogy I've found, Curtis E. Healton's 1974 work, says that
Ruth was a Keran or Kern and makes no mention of her being a widow Miller.
I'm skeptical that Ruth was the daughter of Robert Miller and
Margaret Braithwaite/Brothwaite, etc., because I can't find that such a
couple existed. I do find numerous records of Robert Johnson and Margaret
Braithwaite, Irish Friends whose son Robet married Catherine Hadley,
daughter of Simon and Ruth. Could it be that someone confused the Millers
and Johnsons and then the mistake has been endlessly repeated?
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