Mary 'Polly' Lambert

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lambert-1614

Daniel Lambert was born circa 1729 in Elizabeth, NJ to John and Mary (Alton) Lambert.

Daniel married Mary 'Polly' Fitz Randolph, the strongest evidence for which is found in the 1765 will of Mary's father, Jeremiah Fitz Randolph, which explicitly mentions his daughter "Mary, wife of Daniel Lambert". Together they had seven children, but there is only very spotty information about their details. It is not clear whether the family remained in New Jersey, possibly in Westfield where there was a Daniel Lambert on the tax list for 1781, or by 1798 had moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where a Daniel Lambert again figures on the tax rolls. He passed away in 1804 in Columbia, OH (in greater Cincinnati).

Children usually associated with Mary and John Lambert:

1. Elizabeth, b. 1768
2. Eunice, b. 1777, d. 1842
3. John
4. Benjamin
5. Rachel
6. Charlotte
7. Rebecca

Daniel Lambert in the Ohio, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1786-1998 < AncestrySharing >

• Name Daniel Lambert
• Probate Date 8 May 1804
• Probate Place Hamilton, Ohio, USA
• Inferred Death Date 1804
• Inferred Death Place Ohio, USA
• Item Description Wills, Vol 3-4, 1841-1865
• Others Listed (Name) Relationship
• Mary Lambert wife
• John Lambert 1st son
• Benjamin Lambert 2nd son
• Charlotte Lambert youngest daughter
• Remainder of estate divided among all my children

Surname note

This surname had many different spellings, including Fitzrandle, Fittsrendolfe, or Fittsrandolfe[3], with FitzRandolph or Fitz Randolph emerging as the most common. Fitz Randolph is being recommended as the standard, recognizing though that in later years, Fitz sometimes became used as a middle name for sons and optional for daughters. In Benjamin father's Fitz Randolph family, Fitz appears to have been used by all family members as part of their surname: the Oris H.F. Randolph genealogy[4] assumes this to be the case when listing the children in the family in which Mary is a child. The current consensus is therefore to use the surname Fitz Randolph. (Need to confirm how Fitz Randolph was used in legal documents and when births were recorded documents.) Please don't hesitate to contact the profile manager if you think this decision should be reviewed!

Sources

1. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Randolph-733 cites
   1. Entered by Kathryn Carter, Dec 1, 2012
   2. Page 341 Calendar of NJ Wills https://ia802700.us.archive.org/27/items/calendarofnewjer03newj/cal...
   3. Savage reference
   4. Oris H. F. Randolph. (1976). Edward Fitz Randolph Branch Lines, Allied Families and English and Norman Ancestry: A Family Genealogy 860-1976. Printed by Edwards Brothers Inc., Ann Arbor, MI.
2. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L71Y-2B6 (careful: mixed up profile)