♀Margery (surname unknown)

Margery was an Englishwoman of the 1500s and the mother of Joan Pyssing, who married Thomas Hull at Crewkerne, in Somerset, on 11 January 1572/3. She was the eleventh great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her daughter Joan Pyssing. Her husband was Richard Pesinge; her own surname is not known.

Margery’s name survives because two of her grandsons crossed the Atlantic. Joan’s sons George and Joseph Hull both settled in New England, and Joseph Hull^W, a clergyman, brought more than a hundred people from Somerset and Dorset out of Weymouth in 1635. The genealogist John Insley Coddington, working on the English ancestry of these two settlers, traced their mother’s Pyssing family, and his article “The Pyssing Ancestry of the Hulls of New England” set out the English records of the Pyssing family.

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Sources

That Joan was the daughter of Richard Pesinge and his wife Margery comes from a Hull family-society typescript, which follows Coddington’s article in the Evans Festschrift (pages 44 to 51). Robert Charles Anderson’s Great Migration Newsletter says that Coddington “provides English records which identify her father, grandfather and many other relatives”, and his Great Migration Begins (page 1042) cites the same article for Joan (Pyssing) Hull as the mother of George Hull.

Her name

The typescript gives her only as Margery, the wife of Richard Pesinge, with no surname.