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Mary Elizabeth Marriner was part of the Brunswick, Maine community which was started north of Portland as a plantation like most New England Puritan colonies when Maine was a province of Massachusetts. She married a Henry Scott in 1850 in a Congregational Church service. Do not confuse with another Henry Scott who married Mary Alice Pigrum [Pingrem-Pingrey-Pingree]. The son of the Scott-Pegrim marriage - Charles Henry Scott - would marry Mary Ann Durgin, a Roman Catholic. Scotts, Durgins and Marriners were among the oldest European families in Maine .. save Mary Ann Durgin was first generation born to a later arrival of Irish Durgins in the mid-nineteenth century. Marriner, derived from the French word for sailor or waterman, originated in Maine via Massachusetts from England and Ireland via France. Most emigrated from France to strengthen English Protetantism and to escape new French religious persecution in the 1630's onward. Louis XIV of France had early in his reign revoked the Protestant Suffrage laws conveyed by Protestant born King Henry's Edict of Nantes. Many emigrate to England, strengthened Protestants in reland, and came to the Cromwellian Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony. French Protestants, Calvinists fit in well in Cromwell's England and were known as Hugenots. Mary Elizabeth Marriner's branch in Brunswick descends from Marriners who settled in Boston & Gloucester,Masachusetts in the 17th Century. That branch, in addition to Maine, also migrated south to Colchester, Connecticut .. and one of the Kttery, Maine families left Maine and settled in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Mary ALice Durgin's son Charles' marriage to a Roman Catholic Mary Ann Durgin produced a mixed marriage ... we have no record of his baptism via Roman Catholic Church records prior to his marriage to her. Their children were raised Roman Catholic. Congregationaists are the old church of the Puritans; and joined in Missionary work worldwide. An earlier casual family reference to a Pingram, was not found ... until a letter written by her grand-daughter explaining her family as Scott & Pegrim [ Mary Alice Scott letter 1957 ] ..then Cumberland County Maine marriage records via FamilySearch.org. Pingram may be a corruption of Pingree or Pingrey or Pegrim .. derived from French Pingre .. ranging fm the early Plymouth Colony Pingrey to other French Protestant family via Quebec from France which emigrated to Maine. Other came as well from England ..[Sion Ray of early Massachusetts Bay Colony, was the son of Samuel Ray & Sarah Pegrom of Sussex England. The branch of Marriner in the other marriage [above] is distinguished from Mariner with one 'r' .. another family which also emigrated to Brunswick from Great Britain-Wales via Quebec in the 18th century. They weren't too welcome, after the Edict of Nantes' revocation in Catholic French Canada either. Pingree information from Tuttle genealogy e-mail message to Scott M Connolly here More, in a short form [file tree .. click any] about Marriner family here. Still researching. |