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Last Name Waln
Given Name Mary °
alt. Names M. W. ; Mary Waln Wistar ?? ;
Marriage to Thomas Wistar (1764-1851) in 1786
Children 13, just 8 survived: daughters Margaret (1793-18869, Elizabeth (1788-1880), Sarah (1802-1872); Mary (1807-1842); sons Caspar (1801-1867) ...
Year born 1765 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Year died 1844
Place of death Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Father's occupation Quaker merchant Richard Waln (c. 1737-1809)
Relatives physician, anatomist and naturalist (botanist) Caspar Wistar (1761-1818) (brother-in-law)
Education
Country of Activity United States of America
Worked for William Roscoe (1753-1831): Monandrian Plants of the order Scitamineae (Liverpool 1824-1828) ;
Patronage
Collaborators
Techniques botanical drawing and lithography? ; hand-colouring
Sample(s) http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/94880#page/9/mode/1up
Archival sources http://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/mary-waln_4203493 ; http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsmss/umich-wcl-M-1898wis?view=text ;
Published sources Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966 # 1677 ;
other Richard (1787-1787), Thomas (1798-1876) and Joseph (1802-1879). Attention: There was a female named after Mary Wilcocks Waln who died 1841 aged 60 years in Philadelphia, who was maybe a relative through M.W.W.'s paternal uncle Nicholas Waln (1742-1813).
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