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Matthew identifies only one sibling, the "wife of Richard Rathbone," in his will of 16 Dec. 1616. She is probably the Margareta Rathbone vidua bur. at Bocking 19 Jan 1627/8, the only Rathbone burial in that parish prior to 1628. It has been argued that the unnamed sister of Matthew Whipple was named Marion and that she and her husband Richard immigrated to New England. There appears to be no basis in fact for this assertion.
!SOURCE: "Genealogical Gleanings in England," The New-England Historical and Genealogical Register (October 1890) 44:389. Mentioned in brother Matthew's will as "my sister, wife of Richard Rathbone."
!SOURCE: Greene, Walter and Ella, A Greene Family History (Schenectady, N.Y.: Walter Anson Greene, c1981), p. 71.
!SOURCE: Email from Blanche Greene Wichman to the Whipple Website, 5 Sep 2005. Casts doubt on suggestions that the Marion who was the sister of Matthew Whipple of Bocking, England, was the same Marion who married the Richard Rathbone that was the ancestor of the Block Island, Rhode Island, Rathbones. Blanche points out, for example, that:
RIN 106426. Quick link to this page: https://genweb.whipple.org/106426
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