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Frances Pain
(1697–before 1790)
BIRTH
1697
PLACE
Unknown
NAME
Frances Cocke
DEATH
before May 18, 1790 (burial date)
PLACE
Thetford, Norfolk, England (probable)
FAMILY
HUSBAND
Joseph Pain
(1708–1787)
CHILDREN
Thomas Paine
(1737-1809)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
CHRISTIAN
ANGLICAN
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Frances Cocke Pain was the mother of political writer Thomas Paine and wife of the Thetford staymaker Joseph Pain. Family records give her birth surname as Cocke.
EARLY LIFE
CAREER
DEATH
Frances Cocke Pain outlived her husband Joseph. Research by the Thomas Paine Society records her burial at St Cuthbert's Church in Thetford on May 18, 1790. The exact day and cause of death are not established by that burial reference.
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