Mary Barnard
- Born: About 25 Mar 1645, Stepney, Middlesex, England
- Christened: 25 Mar 1645, Saint Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex, England
- Marriage: Thomas Stokes 30 Oct 1668, Devonshire House, Westbury Street Friends' Meeting, Bishopsgate street, London, England
- Died: May 1697, Waterford Twp., Gloucester Co., NJ at age 52
- Buried: 18 May 1697, Waterford Twp., Gloucester Co., NJ
 Notes and Events:
• Alt. Death: Note by James L. Stokes, 1699. The Genealogy of the Stokes Family indicates that Mary Bernard died in 1699 but "Genealogical Records of John Wills", (National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 42 #2, 1954) shows that Mary was buried on the 18th of the 3rd month (May), 1697. She probably died a day or two before her burial, based on those cases where both a date of death and a date of burial are given in the article.
Mary married Thomas Stokes, son of Henry Stokes and Sarah Casse, on 30 Oct 1668 in Devonshire House, Westbury Street Friends' Meeting, Bishopsgate street, London, England. (Thomas Stokes was born in 1643 and died on 11 Jul 1720 in Centerton, Burlington Co., NJ.)
Marriage Notes and Events:
• Marriage Note. (B)-The Bull and Mouth was lost in the Great Fire of 1666. Before it was rebuilt Friends took a lease on a house on Bishopsgate owned by the Earl of Devonshire.
After extensions in 1794, Devonshire House was used for the Yearly Meeting, previously held mostly at Gracechurch Street; also for the executive body, called Meeting for Sufferings because it arose from a system of reporting anti-Quaker persecution. The Recording Clerk recorded the Sufferings, and became the general administrator of the Society.
Devonshire House came to house the Recording Clerk's office, and also the Library, set up in 1673 when it was decided to collect two copies of everything written by Quakers, and one copy of everything written against them.
The Devonshire House premises came to be increasingly cramped and dismal, until the offices moved to the newly built Friends House in 1926, opposite Euston Station. Devonshire House was demolished, but is still part of the name of the local Monthly Meeting to which Bunhill and Stoke Newington belong.
Marriage Notes:
(A)-The Bull and Mouth was lost in the Great Fire of 1666. Before it was rebuilt Friends took a lease on a house on Bishopsgate owned by the Earl of Devonshire.
After extensions in 1794, Devonshire House was used for the Yearly Meeting, previously held mostly at Gracechurch Street; also for the executive body, called Meeting for Sufferings because it arose from a system of reporting anti-Quaker persecution. The Recording Clerk recorded the Sufferings, and became the general administrator of the Society.
Devonshire House came to house the Recording Clerk's office, and also the Library, set up in 1673 when it was decided to collect two copies of everything written by Quakers, and one copy of everything written against them.
The Devonshire House premises came to be increasingly cramped and dismal, until the offices moved to the newly built Friends House in 1926, opposite Euston Station. Devonshire House was demolished, but is still part of the name of the local Monthly Meeting to which Bunhill and Stoke Newington belong.
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