Mertz Genealogy - Person Sheet
Mertz Genealogy - Person Sheet
Name6G GM Marie Jolly 
Birthabout 1707
Father7G GF Lewis Jolly (~1685-<1725)
Mother7G GM Marguerite de Normandie (1686-<1762)
Spouses
Birthabout 1705, England
Memo(birth date approximated from life events)
Deathabout 1740
Memo(death date approximated)
Marriage17 July 1732, Middletown, Bucks Co, PA1620
Marr Memo(date of license)
ChildrenMary (1737-1816)
Parent-Proof notes for 6G GM Marie Jolly
A church record documents the birth of Marie Jolly. ”Marie Jolly christened 7 May 1707 daughter of Louis Jolly and Margaret at First Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia.”
Marie came to be called Mary in many records, but since her daughter was named Mary and since both Marie and Mary had several marriages the result of which was that the woman we know as Mary (Beckett-Hopewell) Eldridge was the daughter of the woman we know as Marie (Jolly-Beckett) Budd -- even I get confused when I think of Marie as Mary. I’ll call her Marie.
Marie came to be called Mary in many records, but since her daughter was named Mary and since both Marie and Mary had several marriages the result of which was that the woman we know as Mary (Beckett-Hopewell) Eldridge was the daughter of the woman we know as Marie (Jolly-Beckett) Budd -- even I get confused when I think of Marie as Mary. I’ll call her Marie.
Research notes for 6G GM Marie Jolly
The National Genealogical Society Quarterly article on the de Normandie family cites the marriage by license dated 17 Jul 1732 of Mary Jolly and John Beckett both of Middletown, Bucks Co. The marriage of their daughter Mary by license dated 27 Jul 1754 to Danel Hopewell both of Burlington County is also cited.
My Comments notes for John (Spouse 1)
I don’t know much about John Beckett. But the line from Marguerite (de Normandie) to Mary (Beckett) Hopewell seems proven by the will of Margaret (de Normandie - Jolly) Budd. We know that Daniel Hopewell married Mary Beckett per their marriage license on record and we also know that Marie Jolly and John Beckett were licensed to marry in 1732. This license was issued in Mt. Holly, Burlington County, New Jersey -- though stated that both John and Marie were of Middletown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
It is also said that Mary Beckett was born in Bristol, Pennsylvania. Bristol, PA is on the Delaware River immediately across from Burlington County, NJ and Middletown Township, Bucks County adjoins Bristol Township there. So the geography of all of these families is interesting too. The Jolly family lived in Philadelphia but John Beckett and Marie Jolly had some connection to both Bucks County and Burlington County, NJ. The Budds were prominent in Burlington County (which is also where the Hopewells had settled upon their arrival in America). I think John Beckett lived in Bucks County though I have not been able to find any record of him there.
Since he married in 1732 to a woman born in 1707, a guess as to his year of birth is about 1705 (this assumes he was not an older man for whom this was a second marriage). When Margaret Budd wrote her will in 1761, she said her only surviving daughter was Mary (aka Marie) Budd. The Budd family were of some prominence in Mount Holly and Budd researchers say that Thomas Budd -- whose third wife was in fact Margaret (de Normandie) Jolly -- had had a son John Budd by his first wife and that John Budd who was born in about 1708 married Rosamond Gosling and Marie (Jolly) Beckett. It is not clear, from what I have found, the order of John Budd’s two marriages, but in any event, Marie was still young enough to bear two daughters by John Budd.
As it relates to all these families, I believe the following chronology pertains:
1725. Lewis Jolly died, leaving the widow Margaret with several young children including Mary age 18.
1732. Marie Jolly married John Beckett. They had two children that we know of: Elizabeth born about 1733 and Mary (who married Daniel Hopewell) born in 1737. Typically in those days, a man married a girl from his “neighborhood” -- although the 1781 marriage of Mary Hopewell of Burlington County, NJ to James Hepburn of Northumberland demonstrates there were exceptions. But I do not know how John Beckett of Bucks County met Marie Jolly of Philadelphia.
1735 or so. Margaret (de Normandie) Jolly married second Thomas Budd. I don’t know the exact date of this marriage but Thomas had married his second wife in 1732 and he died in 1742, so those dates bracket his third marriage to Marguerite. I believe Margaret took up residence with Thomas in Mount Holly upon her marriage and this is how her family got from Philadelphia where Lewis Jolly was living when he died to Mount Holly with possibly a stop in Bucks County. Margaret had a brother John Abraham Denormandie who lived in Mount Holly around that time too.
1738 or so. John Beckett died. Again, his date of death is just a guess, but it is said that his widow relocated to live with her mother in Mount Holly after she was widowed and that is how she came to meet and marry John Budd.
1740, probably no later. Marie (Jolly) Beckett married second John Budd. She was about 33, so still young enough to have had children by John.
1762. Margaret Budd died and named daughter Mary [aka Marie] Budd and granddaughter Mary Hopewell [aka Mary (Beckett) Hopewell] in her will.
It is also said that Mary Beckett was born in Bristol, Pennsylvania. Bristol, PA is on the Delaware River immediately across from Burlington County, NJ and Middletown Township, Bucks County adjoins Bristol Township there. So the geography of all of these families is interesting too. The Jolly family lived in Philadelphia but John Beckett and Marie Jolly had some connection to both Bucks County and Burlington County, NJ. The Budds were prominent in Burlington County (which is also where the Hopewells had settled upon their arrival in America). I think John Beckett lived in Bucks County though I have not been able to find any record of him there.
Since he married in 1732 to a woman born in 1707, a guess as to his year of birth is about 1705 (this assumes he was not an older man for whom this was a second marriage). When Margaret Budd wrote her will in 1761, she said her only surviving daughter was Mary (aka Marie) Budd. The Budd family were of some prominence in Mount Holly and Budd researchers say that Thomas Budd -- whose third wife was in fact Margaret (de Normandie) Jolly -- had had a son John Budd by his first wife and that John Budd who was born in about 1708 married Rosamond Gosling and Marie (Jolly) Beckett. It is not clear, from what I have found, the order of John Budd’s two marriages, but in any event, Marie was still young enough to bear two daughters by John Budd.
As it relates to all these families, I believe the following chronology pertains:
1725. Lewis Jolly died, leaving the widow Margaret with several young children including Mary age 18.
1732. Marie Jolly married John Beckett. They had two children that we know of: Elizabeth born about 1733 and Mary (who married Daniel Hopewell) born in 1737. Typically in those days, a man married a girl from his “neighborhood” -- although the 1781 marriage of Mary Hopewell of Burlington County, NJ to James Hepburn of Northumberland demonstrates there were exceptions. But I do not know how John Beckett of Bucks County met Marie Jolly of Philadelphia.
1735 or so. Margaret (de Normandie) Jolly married second Thomas Budd. I don’t know the exact date of this marriage but Thomas had married his second wife in 1732 and he died in 1742, so those dates bracket his third marriage to Marguerite. I believe Margaret took up residence with Thomas in Mount Holly upon her marriage and this is how her family got from Philadelphia where Lewis Jolly was living when he died to Mount Holly with possibly a stop in Bucks County. Margaret had a brother John Abraham Denormandie who lived in Mount Holly around that time too.
1738 or so. John Beckett died. Again, his date of death is just a guess, but it is said that his widow relocated to live with her mother in Mount Holly after she was widowed and that is how she came to meet and marry John Budd.
1740, probably no later. Marie (Jolly) Beckett married second John Budd. She was about 33, so still young enough to have had children by John.
1762. Margaret Budd died and named daughter Mary [aka Marie] Budd and granddaughter Mary Hopewell [aka Mary (Beckett) Hopewell] in her will.