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Mary POTTS (Polly)

14th Jun 17461 - 18th Apr 18235

Life History

14th Jun 1746

Born in Westminster.1

From the Parish Register :-
"July 1746"
"Mary Potts dau. of Samuel and Elizabeth Potts / 14"

7th Jul 1746

Baptised in Westminster, St James Piccadilly.2,1

Father - Samuel Potts
Mother - Elizabeth

Research Note :-
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography's entry for Robert Day states that Mary Potts was born 1746/7

8th Aug 1774

Married Robert DAY in St Marylebone.5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12

Groom - Robert Day, of the Middle Temple London, bachelor
Bride - Mary Potts of this parish, spinster
By licence
Vicar - Henry ???sher
Witnesses :-
Jonathen Lovett
Samuel Potts

From the Belfast News :-
"A few days ago, in London, Robert Day of the Co. Kerry, Esq., to Miss Mary Potts, of that city, a young lady whose smallest accomplishment is a fortune of GBP 10,000."

From the General Evening Post :-
"Yesterday, Rob. Day, Esq; to Miss Mary Potts, of Berners-street"

From :-
London Evening Post :-
Middlesex Journal & Evening Advertiser :-
St James Chronicle or the British Evening Post :-
"Yesterday, Robert Day, Esq; to Miss Mary Potts, of Berners-street"

From the Daily Advertiser .-
"Yesterday was married Robert Day, Esq; to Miss Mary Potts of Berners-street"

RESEARCH NOTE :-
Some biographies and genealogies of Robert Day suggest that Mary Potts was the daughter of Percivall Pott, 1713-1788, the surgeon. This is impossible as Mary Pott, the surgeon's daughter, married James Earle in June 1782.

1778 (est.)

Birth of daughter Elizabeth DAY

16th Oct 1801

Diary entry in London.3

From the diaries of Mr Justice Robert Day of Kerry .-
"Both families visit London - dine that day with Fredk. Smith, our Quaker cousin, at his country House in the New Road - ... ... Fredk. who is a chymist in the  Haymarket of great repute and employment bestows his cousin Mrs Day a beautiful medicine chest ... ..."

8th Sep 1807

Diary entry in Richmond.3

From the diaries of Mr Justice Robert Day of Kerry :-
"Having return'd to Richmond on Tues. 8th I take Mrs Day and her sister Miss Potts to Hampstead to dine with John Watts ...

15th Nov 1817

Mentioned in Will.4

of Elizabeth Potts

Described as :-
"my sister Mary Day the wife of the Honourable Mr. Justice Day of the Kingdom of Ireland"

18th Apr 1823

Died.5

30th Jun 1828

Diary entry in London.3

From the diaries of Mr Justice Robert Day of Kerry :-
"Mrs Day and I devote the forenoon to visiting Archdeacon Pott at Kensington, the Pattersons and poor Maria Gribble who I fear is in a very critical health; & the Evening to a very agreeable dinner party at Henry Grattons, 22 Bentinck St.- The Pott family are  gone to Exeter, of which Diocese he is Chancellor, and I learn at the house that Mr. Salmon, married to the Archdeacon's and my niece (Sam Pott's daughter) and who returned last winter with a shattered constitution from India, has just died"

Research Note :-
1. "Archdeacon Pott" was Joseph Holden Pott, 1759-1847, the son of Percivall Pott the surgeon, and he was appointed Canon and Chancellor of the diocese of Exeter in 1826. He never married.
2. Any niece of the Archdeacon would have to be the daughter of one of his siblings.
3. "Sam Pott" was in fact Samuel Potts who married Elizabeth Pott. She was the daughter of Percivall Pott, the surgeon, and the sister of Joseph Holden Pott. Therefore Samuel Potts was the brother-in-law of the Archdeacon, Joseph Holden Pott.
4. Any daughter of Samuel Potts would be the niece of Joseph Holden Pott.
5. As Mrs. Salmon was also the niece of the Judge, she must be the daughter of one of the siblings of the Mary Day née Potts - the Judge's first wife.
6. So the Judge's first wife Mrs Mary Day née Potts must be the sister of Samuel Potts.
7. Therefore, while there was no true relationship between the Archdeacon and the Judge, they were both uncles to Mrs. Salmon. The brother of one had married the sister of the other.

Other facts

 

Buried in Ireland, Dublin, Monkstown Churchyard.5

Alongside her husband and his second wife

Sources

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