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Mary Phenney!
I am so excited! ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
naryrising managed to find an article that tells me George Phenney's wife's name! (That link goes back to a 2009 lj entry wherein I first got obsessed by this mystery @_@)
The answer is Mary, and we know this because she applied for an apprentice from Christ Church and listed her husband's occupation as Governor of the Bahamas :D From "Married Women's Occupations in Eighteenth-Century London" by Amy Louise Erickson, Continuity and Change (2008), 23 : pp 267-307.
In additional Internets Weirdness, this random Pirates of the Caribbean fanfic contains references to a couple in Nassau named George and Mary Phenney. I skimmed enough of the chapter to be able to decisively say that the author knows (or okay, I will be fair) or is not using any other pieces of historically accurate information to describe Nassau in the vague period during which the PotC franchise is set.
(The Life and Times of Bootstrap Bill, by Istani).
Bedtime for me :)
naryrising managed to find an article that tells me George Phenney's wife's name! (That link goes back to a 2009 lj entry wherein I first got obsessed by this mystery @_@)The answer is Mary, and we know this because she applied for an apprentice from Christ Church and listed her husband's occupation as Governor of the Bahamas :D From "Married Women's Occupations in Eighteenth-Century London" by Amy Louise Erickson, Continuity and Change (2008), 23 : pp 267-307.
In additional Internets Weirdness, this random Pirates of the Caribbean fanfic contains references to a couple in Nassau named George and Mary Phenney. I skimmed enough of the chapter to be able to decisively say that the author knows (or okay, I will be fair) or is not using any other pieces of historically accurate information to describe Nassau in the vague period during which the PotC franchise is set.
(The Life and Times of Bootstrap Bill, by Istani).
Bedtime for me :)