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Notes for Robert Schooley

1680 Mary Scholey, daughter of Robert Scholy, married John Rogers of near Nottingham on August 31, at the home of Thomas Lambert, Nottingham. Witnessed by Robert Scholey Junior, Mahlon Stacy, Robert Murfin, John Lambert, Thomas Lambert, William Wood, Willi Billes, Richard Ridgway, Joshua Wright, Peter Frettwell, John Murfine, Katharine Beard, Jo Cooke, and Ann Stancie. [1] [2].

Research Notes:

We are researching the genealogy of Thomas Schooley [3], married to Sarah Parker. The relationship of this Robert Schooley, father of Mary Schooley, to our Thomas Schooley is unclear. We suspect they may have been brothers.

In the Burlington Friend's Records, are minutes of the declaration of intentions of marriage of Mary Scholey, made by John Rogers, on 7-2-1680" [4] These records further assert that "Mary, wife of John Rogers, of the Falls, died in childbirth and was buried on 6-20-1681 [documentation not seen].

1659 Robert Schooley [Scholey] was among 31 Quakers who were subjected to violence by government officials at Dronfield, Derbyshire, England because they were having a meeting. Dated June 20. [5]


Footnotes:

[1] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1677-1777 (includes many different types of records), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[2] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 2 [NJ and Pennsylvania] (1938), 257, [HathiTrust].

[3] Janet and Robert Wolfe, Genealogy Page for Thomas Schooley, [JRWolfeGenealogy].

[4] James B. Schooley. Trails of Our Fathers, revised (1988), 26, [GoogleBooks].

[5] Joseph Besse, A Collection of the Sufferings of the People Called Quakers, Vol. 1 (1753), 138, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].