Mary's last name is unknown because she married again.
Mary Courtenay is a cousin to Lord Courtenay of Revolution fame. She was born in Dublin and we do not know who her father was. I think is was Francis son of Francis and Mary Jones. More research needs to be done. She married Samuel Neilson and had 3 children, Samuel, Mary and John. John was 10 when her husband died and she remarried about 9 years later. This husband was killed by Indians. After that she went to live with her son John. She loved to tell the children stories about her life.
Charles Neilson Book 1844
Page 275/276/277/278/279/280/281/282
"My father, the late John Neilson, Esq, deceased, was born in Elizabethtown, or Amboy or somewhere else in the state of New Jersy on the 23d day of March 1753 according to his own story, and he was always considered to be a man that followed the strict and straight forward line of truth. His father, and ac
cording to the legitimate line of ascend, my grandfather, Samuel Neilson, was an Englishman by birth. He was a man of great resolution and uncommon perserverance. ---My grandmother on my father's side. Her name before she married was Mary Courtenay, cousin to Lord Courtenay, well known in revolutionary times, and was born in the city of Dublin, but at what period of the world I do not now recollect, if I ever knew. She was a woman of strong and retentive memory, and endowed with an un conquerable passion for reading, and would often, when I was a little boy call me and my little brothers and sister into her room (for she lived with my father until she died) and entertain us with long and numerous stories about the wars, Indians and how her second husband, my step grandfather was killed and scalped by them and about her own sufferings and deprivations; and when the "big tear" would roll down her cheek, I would cry too, and what is now , gentle reader, that is stealing from my eye as I am writing this. for we are sympathiazing creatures the best way we can fix it."
Mary Courtenay is a cousin to Lord Courtenay of Revolution fame. She was born in Dublin and we do not know who her father was. I think is was Francis son of Francis and Mary Jones. More research needs to be done. She married Samuel Neilson and had 3 children, Samuel, Mary and John. John was 10 when her husband died and she remarried about 9 years later. This husband was killed by Indians. After that she went to live with her son John. She loved to tell the children stories about her life.
Charles Neilson Book 1844
Page 275/276/277/278/279/280/281/282
"My father, the late John Neilson, Esq, deceased, was born in Elizabethtown, or Amboy or somewhere else in the state of New Jersy on the 23d day of March 1753 according to his own story, and he was always considered to be a man that followed the strict and straight forward line of truth. His father, and ac
cording to the legitimate line of ascend, my grandfather, Samuel Neilson, was an Englishman by birth. He was a man of great resolution and uncommon perserverance. ---My grandmother on my father's side. Her name before she married was Mary Courtenay, cousin to Lord Courtenay, well known in revolutionary times, and was born in the city of Dublin, but at what period of the world I do not now recollect, if I ever knew. She was a woman of strong and retentive memory, and endowed with an un conquerable passion for reading, and would often, when I was a little boy call me and my little brothers and sister into her room (for she lived with my father until she died) and entertain us with long and numerous stories about the wars, Indians and how her second husband, my step grandfather was killed and scalped by them and about her own sufferings and deprivations; and when the "big tear" would roll down her cheek, I would cry too, and what is now , gentle reader, that is stealing from my eye as I am writing this. for we are sympathiazing creatures the best way we can fix it."
Mary's last name is unknown because she married again.
Mary Courtenay is a cousin to Lord Courtenay of Revolution fame. She was born in Dublin and we do not know who her father was. I think is was Francis son of Francis and Mary Jones. More research needs to be done. She married Samuel Neilson and had 3 children, Samuel, Mary and John. John was 10 when her husband died and she remarried about 9 years later. This husband was killed by Indians. After that she went to live with her son John. She loved to tell the children stories about her life.
Charles Neilson Book 1844
Page 275/276/277/278/279/280/281/282
"My father, the late John Neilson, Esq, deceased, was born in Elizabethtown, or Amboy or somewhere else in the state of New Jersy on the 23d day of March 1753 according to his own story, and he was always considered to be a man that followed the strict and straight forward line of truth. His father, and ac
cording to the legitimate line of ascend, my grandfather, Samuel Neilson, was an Englishman by birth. He was a man of great resolution and uncommon perserverance. ---My grandmother on my father's side. Her name before she married was Mary Courtenay, cousin to Lord Courtenay, well known in revolutionary times, and was born in the city of Dublin, but at what period of the world I do not now recollect, if I ever knew. She was a woman of strong and retentive memory, and endowed with an un conquerable passion for reading, and would often, when I was a little boy call me and my little brothers and sister into her room (for she lived with my father until she died) and entertain us with long and numerous stories about the wars, Indians and how her second husband, my step grandfather was killed and scalped by them and about her own sufferings and deprivations; and when the "big tear" would roll down her cheek, I would cry too, and what is now , gentle reader, that is stealing from my eye as I am writing this. for we are sympathiazing creatures the best way we can fix it."
Mary Courtenay is a cousin to Lord Courtenay of Revolution fame. She was born in Dublin and we do not know who her father was. I think is was Francis son of Francis and Mary Jones. More research needs to be done. She married Samuel Neilson and had 3 children, Samuel, Mary and John. John was 10 when her husband died and she remarried about 9 years later. This husband was killed by Indians. After that she went to live with her son John. She loved to tell the children stories about her life.
Charles Neilson Book 1844
Page 275/276/277/278/279/280/281/282
"My father, the late John Neilson, Esq, deceased, was born in Elizabethtown, or Amboy or somewhere else in the state of New Jersy on the 23d day of March 1753 according to his own story, and he was always considered to be a man that followed the strict and straight forward line of truth. His father, and ac
cording to the legitimate line of ascend, my grandfather, Samuel Neilson, was an Englishman by birth. He was a man of great resolution and uncommon perserverance. ---My grandmother on my father's side. Her name before she married was Mary Courtenay, cousin to Lord Courtenay, well known in revolutionary times, and was born in the city of Dublin, but at what period of the world I do not now recollect, if I ever knew. She was a woman of strong and retentive memory, and endowed with an un conquerable passion for reading, and would often, when I was a little boy call me and my little brothers and sister into her room (for she lived with my father until she died) and entertain us with long and numerous stories about the wars, Indians and how her second husband, my step grandfather was killed and scalped by them and about her own sufferings and deprivations; and when the "big tear" would roll down her cheek, I would cry too, and what is now , gentle reader, that is stealing from my eye as I am writing this. for we are sympathiazing creatures the best way we can fix it."
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