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Evidently siblings. They were not children of William Fry/Frye of Weymouth, Dorset, despite all the online trees to the contrary.

The 1901 Meigs genealogy states that Thomasine Fry(e) was a daughter of William Fry(e), of Weymouth, Dorset.[4] The statement has been widely repeated,[5] and the IGI contains a number of entries from patrons’ submission record giving her birthdate (sic) as 29 Feb. 1612. The author of the Meigs genealogy appears to have been imposed upon by one of his informants, who passed on to him a garbled version of an account — unobjectionable in itself — of the family of William Frye, of Lyme Regis (not Weymouth), Dorset, which had been published about six years earlier by H.F. Waters in NEHGR 49 (1895): 495. The children of the William Frye treated by Waters are referred to in the 1620 will of their maternal grandfather as “my daughter Sarah Fry … her three children, Tristram, William and Mary.” This cannot be a reference to the Frye siblings of New England unless Waters’ reading of the name “Tristram” is cast aside, and it is assumed, against all probability, that Hannah/Anna Fry had not yet been born. Thus, it would appear that our subjects were forcibly attached to a family of high social status who happened to live in the same general vicinity as the Meigs family of Thomasine Fry’s husband. The subsequent connection of the Fry family with Weymouth, Massachusetts, may have contributed to acceptance of the very dubious proposition that they were from Weymouth, Dorset.

Child	Mary Fry (1604 - )
Child	William Fry (1608 - )
Child	TAMASIN FRY (1615 - )
Child	Hannah Fry (1616 - )