Margaret Wake Tryon
(1732-1819)
BIRTH
1732
PLACE
London, England
NAME
Margaret Wake
DEATH
1819
PLACE
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England
FAMILY
FATHER
William Wake
(d. 1750)
HUSBAND
William Tryon
(1729-1788)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
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AWARDS
Margaret Wake Tryon (c. 1732–1819) was an English heiress and the daughter of Bombay governor William Wake. She married William Tryon in 1757 and accompanied him to North Carolina in 1764. She and their daughter lived at Tryon Palace in New Bern before the family moved to New York in 1771. Wake County was named for her. She later returned to England and survived her husband by three decades. Her birth year is approximate; she died at Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Margaret Wake Tryon’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Margaret Wake Tryon with work or public activity as a hostess. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
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DEATH
Margaret Wake Tryon was an English heiress and the daughter of Bombay governor William Wake. Wake died on 16 February 1819 in Yarmouth. In her last will and testament, she bequeathed fifty pounds to Penelope Pennington, and left her property on Sloan Street in Chelsea to Penelope and William Pennington, which at that time was being rented by Lady Skipwith. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
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