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Mary Carlile Haines ancestry is documented in the article titled A Tale of Two Tradition:  The Huguenot Ancestry of a Quaker Family  printed in Plain Language, The Journal of the National Society Descendants of Early Quakers (printed about 1998) and written by Marilyn L. Winton Misch, MLS.  The article is six pages and includes her ancestors back to 1600. We had at the State Library Of Ohio an exceptional librarian who copied these issues and that is where I found the article.  It now belongs to the Columbus Metropolitan Library, Division of Genealogy.  It is also available at some Friends' Libraries.  This is one statement from the article:

"In looking at the marriage entry of Mary Godowne to John “Carliell” ( “of Stebbinheath, Stepney, Middlesex, 29 March 1671) at Westbury Street Monthly Meeting [MM] (from records of London & Middlesex Quarterly Meeting [QM] at Friends House, Euston Road, London).  It struck me that her surname was not truly of English derivation.  In all my many years of research in English records, this surname had something “different” about it.  I noticed that one of the witnesses to their marriage was an Abraham Goedowne, and of course the name Abraham was carried down into the Carlile family in two different branches we know of.  Knowing how the etymology of names can change, and what a mixed pot of Protestant nonconformity the east end of London was in the 16th and 17th centuries, my enquiries took me to that wonderful index of clues, the IGI (International Genealogical Index).  Here was the baptism, at St. Dunstan, Stepney on 20 Aug. 1642, of a Mary Goedowne, daughter of Abraham Goedowne of Spitalfields, Middlesex (an area of the “East End” of Stepney), silkweaver. This information was obtained by examining the original register.  The two words, Spitalfields and silkweaver, told me the story.  With such a unique surname, and again the name Abraham, this had to be the right trail (along with the fact that an Abraham Goedowne had witnessed her marriage).  For two centuries the French Huguenots were known for their excellence as silkweavers and weavers, and for congregating in the area of Spitalfields.  From here it was a matter of locating the records of the French Huguenot Church in Threadneedle  Street (in the City of London near the East End).  A search through the printed registers produced baptisms of this family:"

I am stopping here as I cannot include the entire article.  If you would like a copy of the entire article, please email me at:   anewsom@gcfn.org or you can contract the Columbus Metropolitan Library, Columbus, Ohio

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