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Mary Lacy (born circa 1740, died 1801) was a British sailor, shipwright and memoirist. She was arguably the first of her gender to have been given an exam and a pension from the British admiralty as a shipwright. Lacy ran away from home dressed as a boy at the age of nineteen in 1759, and worked as a servant for a ship's carpenter of the British navy under the name William Chandler until 1763. She then studied as an apprentice to be a shipwright. In 1770, she took her exam as a shipwright, arguably the first of her gender to have done so. In 1771, however, she was forced to stop working because of her rheumatism, and applied for a pension from the admiralty under her legal name, Mary Lacy, which was granted. On the 25th of October, 1772, at St Mary Abbots, Kensington,〔Index record by West Middlesex Family History Society on FindMyPast.co.uk〕 Mary Lacy married Josias Slade, a Shipwright, of Deptford, Kent.〔digitized image from London and Surrey, England, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1597-1921 on Ancestry.co.uk〕 She published her memoirs ''The Female Shipwright'' (1773). That same year, Mary gave birth to her first child,〔digitized image of General Evening Post (London, England), July 31, 1773 - August 3, 1773 from Seventeenth - Eighteenth Century Burney collection newspapers from Gale Cengage Learning〕 Margaret Lacey Slade, who was baptized at St Nicholas, Deptford, Kent, on the 29th of August.〔digitized image from London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 on Ancestry.co.uk 〕 Their other children were Josias Slade (1775-1777), Mary Slade (1777-1777), Josias Slade (1778-1781), Elizabeth Slade (1780-1780), and John Slade (1784-?).〔digitized images of baptisms and burials from London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 on Ancestry.co.uk〕 In 1775 Mary petitioned for her husband to be granted a servant because of his 16 years' service as a Shipwright.〔index record ADM 106/1231/171 from The National Archives (UK)〕 She had also applied unsuccessfully before Lord Sandwich for her husband to succeed Thomas Boyles, who lined the stuff for the Sawyers at the dockyard.〔index record ADM 106/1231/171 from The National Archives (UK)〕 Mary died in 1801 and was buried at St Paul, Deptford, Kent, on the 3rd of May, 1801.〔Genealogists' Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 11, September 1988, page 403〕〔digitized image from London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 on Ancestry.co.uk 〕 Her husband, Josias Slade, died in 1814 and was also buried at St Paul, Deptford, Kent, on the 13th of February, 1814.〔index record from England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991 on Ancestry.co.uk〕 In his will and codicil, he only mentions his son, John Slade, and daughter, Margaret, now wife of Joseph Ward〔digitized image from England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858 on Ancestry.co,uk〕 (Margaret Lacey Ward died the following year and was buried at St Paul, Deptford, Kent, on the 23rd of April, 1815〔index record from England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991 on Ancestry.co.uk〕). ==References== * (The Lady Tars: The Autobiographies of Hannah Snell, Mary Lacy and Mary Anne Talbot ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mary Lacy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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