Mary was born about 1796, the daughter of Thomas Hotchkiss and Frances Cooper. The place is not known.
Her husband was John Shorthouse, who she married on 11 NOV 1816 in St. Matthew, Walsall, Staffordshire, England. Their twelve known children were Eliza (c1817-?), Sarah (c1819-?), John (c1823-?), Julia (c1825-?), Thomas (c1827-?), Selina (c1829-?), Hannah (c1831-?), Jesse Samuel (c1832-?), Joseph (c1835-?), Benjamin (c1835-?), Isabella (c1837-1839) and Isaabella (c1840-?).
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| Event | Date | Details | Source | Multimedia | Notes | ||
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| Birth | ABT 1796 | ||||||
| Christening | 10 JUL 1796 |
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Note 1
!Source: IGI Individual Record British Isles
MARY HODGSKISS Female
Christening: 10 JUL 1796 Church Eaton, Stafford, England
Mother: FRANCES HODGSKISS
Notes: There was no Mary "Hodgkiss" born in 1789. A quick glance at the birthdates of the children make it obvious that Mary must have been born between about 1793 or later and 1800. There was only one Mary born during that period. Her mother Frances Hotchkiss was listed alone on Mary's christening record. Frances Hotchkiss was not the most common name at the time. There was one Frances Hodgkiss christening recorded [in 1778, in Much Wenlock], but there was also a Frances Hodgkiss married to a John Hill in 1804 in Much Wenlock, which would tend to make her an unlikely candidate for having daughters in Church Eaton. The other possibility is that a Frances was married to a Hotchkiss. As it happens, Frances Cooper of Seighford married Thomas Hodgkiss of Madeley in 1801 in Gnosall. Children recorded under their parent's names even several years before their actual marriage seems to have not been totally uncommon at the time, so this is what most likely happened here.