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Individual Record
Name
Surname:
Manster
Given Name:
Mary
Variant Surname Spellings:
Mainston, Master
Soundex Code:
M236
Birth, Christening and Other Information
Gender:
Female
Date of Birth or Christening:
1632/1633
Parish:
Kingswood
County:
Wiltshire
Nation:
England
Occupation(s):
Spinster
Orphan:
Unknown
Position in Parent's Family:
Unknown
Landowner:
Unknown
Literate:
Unknown
Convict:
Unknown
Length of Indenture
Year of Indenture:
1659
Years:
4
Place of Indenture
Colony:
[Barbados]
Research Notes
Comments:
Coldham interpreted this surname as "Master," while Salerno states "Manster." Kingswood's parish register spells Mary's surname "Mainston."
Source Citations:
(1) Peter W. Coldham, The Bristol Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654-1686 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988), 99; (2) Anthony Salerno, "The Character of Emigration from Wiltshire to the American Colonies, 1630-1660," unpub. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Virginia, 1977, 233.