Mary MAILS
1749 - 1833 (84 years)
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Name Mary MAILS Birth 1749 Flamstead, Hertfordshire 
[1] Baptism 14 Feb 1748/49 Flamstead, Hertfordshire [1] Gender Female Individual Note she was 86 when she died [2] Death 1833 Water End, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire [2] Burial 29 Dec 1833 Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire [2] Person ID I155 Webb Last Modified 1 Jun 2025
Father William MAILS Relationship natural Mother Ann LANCKFORD Relationship natural Marriage 6 Feb 1747/48 Flamstead, Hertfordshire [3] Family ID F179 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Francis FREEMAN, b. 1749, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire d. 1824, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire (Age 75 years) Marriage 7 Jan 1775 Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire [4] Children 1. Thomas FREEMAN, b. Abt 1780, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire d. 1851, Bovingdon, Hertfordshire (Age 71 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]2. Pheobe FREEMAN, b. 1797, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]3. John FREEMAN, b. 1783, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]4. James FREEMAN, b. 1788, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]5. Ruth FREEMAN, b. Abt 1790, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire d. 1851, Union Workhouse, Redbourn Rd., Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire (Age 61 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]6. William FREEMAN, b. 1776, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]7. Joseph FREEMAN, b. Abt 1786, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]8. Shadrach FREEMAN, b. Abt 1792, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire d. 1792, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire (Age 0 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F55 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 1 Jun 2025
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Event Map 
Birth - 1749 - Flamstead, Hertfordshire 
Baptism - 14 Feb 1748/49 - Flamstead, Hertfordshire 
Marriage - 7 Jan 1775 - Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire 
Death - 1833 - Water End, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire Burial - 29 Dec 1833 - Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire = Link to Google Earth
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Notes - The burial date comes as the most reasonable match for Great Gaddesden. If she was right about her age, then the most likely birth information is then for Mary MAILS at Flamstead, about 4 miles away. Likely to be reasonable but in no sense certain.
The only consistent reference on the internet in Great Gaddesden is to Mary MILES bapt Nov1760 to Joseph and Mary. This suggests she might have been 15 (if baptised as an infant) when she married, which is possible.
Marriage witnesses to the marriage to Frances Freeman were Thomas SIMMONS and Robert KING. Robert witnessed other marriages as the church so does not help on names. I cannot find Thomas Simmons as an obvious connection to any possible family.
Looking through burial details and other marriages does not indicate much but Mary MEALS, born 1760 is buried at Great Gaddesden on 22/7/1835, so if this person is a spinster (and the records do not show), then this is probably the Mary MILES bapt Nov 1760.
On balance though "Mails" is probably closer phonetically to "Miles", and the ages are better. So Mary Mails and not Miles is chosen.
- The burial date comes as the most reasonable match for Great Gaddesden. If she was right about her age, then the most likely birth information is then for Mary MAILS at Flamstead, about 4 miles away. Likely to be reasonable but in no sense certain.
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