Wilmington Delaware Marriages in 1755
Old Swede’s Church Has Records for Three Centuries
May 23, 2009
These records date from before Delaware was a state. Old Swedes Church, where the marriages took place, is in present Wilmington, Delaware, where Swedish settlers established Fort Christina in 1638. Spellings used in early marriage records sometimes pre-date the anglicizing of some of these surnames.
1755 Marriages in Delaware
Jan. 1, Thomas Clemons - Rebecca Gennes
Jan. 2, Thomas Kelly - Sarah Skott
Jan. 13, John Campbell - Margaret Downing
Jan. 18, William Smidt - Ann Chandelor
Jan. 20, Christopher Cooper - Elizabeth Henry
Jan. 21, Barnabas Sweney - Rebecca Massor
February
6, John McClintock - Mary Weir
10, Ezekiel Bullock - Margret Tool
13, Peter Wincy - Susanna Patton
17, Henry Flood - Elizabeth Gordon
17, John McCarsley - Elizabeth Curry
24, James Standley - Bridget Collins
March
3, William Martin - Bridget Farell
4, James McGrady - Margret Colluy
5, James Burnside - Sarah Pryer
6, John Hensey - Elizabeth Post
7, Edward Sinwall - Jane Beasley
17, Richard White - Mary Naval
17, Michael Armstrong - Elenore Daunt
17, Daniel Blayer - Mary Price
20, William Hutchisson - Mary Miller
31, John McWay - Mary Thornton
31, David Cushon - Nancy Landerum
April
1, Isaac Alexander - Jane Ferris
19, Isaac Clandonnen - Phoebe Nichols
22, Stephen Smallwood - Mary Hayle
22, John Stuart - Elenore Cook
May
9, Johnathan Valentine - Lady Baldwine
9, Oliver Cop - Anne McMath
9, Thomas Hutton - Mary Marshall
13, Samuel Toon - Mariah Williams
14, Joseph Sharp - Franky Willson
16, Moses Burns - Martha Armstrong
22, Matthew Lindsay - Mary Logg
31, Robert Thornberry - Ruth Garrman
June
1, James Glasgow - Mary Maffitt
7, John Willson - Anne Underwood
9, Alexander Long - Margret Morison
17, Samuel Cleary - Maria Stille
17, William Williams - Mary Thomson
26, James Dunning - Sarah Alrich
29. Edward Wall - Mary Hayns
30, William Allen - Mary Patton
July
6, Dennis McCassety - Susanna Kingkad
6, Philip Cauvenah - Cathrine Moothy
6, Patrick Boyd - Anne George
19, Richard Clayton - Abigail Powell
26, John Land - Anne Land
29, George Adams - Elizabeth Hillis
30, Peter Peterson - Martha White
30, Robert Robinson - Elenore Poyl
31, Thomas Crawford - Edith Reynolds
August
3, William Henoch - Hannah Leadley
3, James Donelly - Grace McLaughlin
5, Andrew Smidt - Sarah Gregg
6, Isaac Adams - Marget Kelly
11, William Trotter - Jane Alexander
25, William Hunt - Susanna Hutton
28, John Swine - Elizabeth Dourthy
31, John Anderson - Mary Peck
September
2, James Nethery - Lady Way
2, Malcolm McNeighs - Martha Kirryr
3, William Griffith - Else Grant
10, Richard Jeffrys - Jeane Logan
13, William White - Sarah Lytur
13, Watkins Crampton - Jeane Morrison
28, George Avenson - Mary Williamson
29, Thomas Woods - Mary Martin
30, John Hemmel - Phoebe Prichet
October
5, John Goggin - Lathy McColomay
9, Samuel Ashmead - Ruth Robinson
15, John Garrit - Elenore Robinson
21, Richard Erwin - Elizabeth Sloan
21, John Mun - Margret Crassord
22, Benjamin Hayl - Mary White
30, John Neucar - Mary Stilly
November
3, Richard Woodward - Abigail Hays
4, Ulrich Hosteten - Anne Miller
4, John Hook - Elizabeth Strawman
5, William Bracken - Ruth Gregg
7, Henry Sauder - Sarah Frey
7, John Waters - Sarah Thomson
20, John Hindrickson - Beata Springer
29, Benjamin Buffington - Mercy Frisdell
December
?, John Bently - Thamar Bentley
?, John Cook - Margret Glaine
4, James Craig - Prudence Holland
6, David Davis - Elizabeth Hughs
7, Richard Clark - Martha Key
13, Jacob Criss - Mary Elizabeth Ibond
17, William Hasselton - Anne Lawler
26, Henry Webster - Sarah Stedham
28, Timothy Mahoney - Hannah Reily
30, John William Skop - Cathrine Knackton
The church museum in adjacent Hendrickson House welcomes genealogical inquiries. It is best for family researchers to first check their guidelines.
Companion articles outline the establishment of the Swedish colony and the history of its church, and also list the 1754 marriages.
Sources;
Records of Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church, Wilmington, Delaware, as abstracted for publication in The Second Boat, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 110-111, Nov., 1982.
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