Deborah Whitmarsh

1665 -

• Name	Deborah Whitmarsh
  Birth	1665	Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Siblings	3 siblings
  + 1. Ebenezer Whitmarsh ,   b. 14 May 1658, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. 8 Apr 1718, Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts  (Age 59 years) ▻ Christian Bayley ,  m. 1682 + 2. Deborah Whitmarsh ,   b. 1665, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts ▻ Nicholas Shaw ,  m. 1686 + 3. Judith Whitmarsh ,   b. 2 Sep 1669, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. 8 Feb 1760, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts  (Age 90 years) ▻ Joseph Shaw ,  m. Abt 1691 + 4. Ezra Whitmarsh ,   b. 13 Oct 1670, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. 1 Aug 1754, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts  (Age 83 years) ▻ Bathsheba Richards ,  m. 20 Jan 1693
  Person ID	I1039	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	24 Feb 2020

  
  

  Father	John Whitmarsh,   b. 7 Mar 1624, Shepton Mallett, Somerset, England d. Between 1695 and 1709, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age 70 years)
  Mother	Sarah Harding
  Marriage	Bef 1656	Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [3, 4, 5, 6]
  Family ID	F4593	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Nicholas Shaw,   b. 23 Mar 1662, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. 19 Dec 1717, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age 55 years)
  Marriage	1686  [2]
  Children	+ 1. Nicholas Shaw,   b. 7 May 1689, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. 10 Oct 1756, Chelsea, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 67 years)
  Family ID	F580	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Feb 2020

  
  

• Notes

  George Walter Chamberlain's History of Weymouth, Massachusetts (Weymouth, MA: Weymouth Historical Society, 1923), cited here for Deborah Whitmarsh's birth date, gives her different parents. On page 615, volume 4, in the entry for her husband Nicholas Shaw, she is shown as the daughter of Nicholas and Hannah [Reed, though he doesn't give her maiden name] Whitmarsh, with a birth date of 3 Aug 1759. But on page 759 of the same volume, the entry for Nicholas's brother John lists, as one of his daughters, "Deborah, b. 1665; m. Nicholas Shaw." Other sources go back and forth on this question as well; several of them are discussed in this well-considered note by J. Richardson on werelate.org. Ultimately Richardson makes a convincing onomastic argument that her parents were John Whitmarsh and Sarah Harding, which is what we show here. According to G. H. Hayward's Shaws of New Brunswick and Maine with roots in Massachusetts and England, 1518-2004, she outlived her husband, but her death date is unknown.

  
  

• Sources

  [S584] History of Weymouth, Massachusetts, volumes 3 and 4, by George Walter Chamberlain. Weymouth, Massachusetts: Weymouth Historical Society, 1923. [S562] Bassett-Preston Ancestors: A History of the Ancestors in America of Marion Bassett Luitweiler, Howard Murray Bassett, Preston Rogers Bassett, Isabel Bassett Watson, and Helen Bassett Hauser, Children of Edward M. and Annie (Preston) Bassett, by Howard Murray Bassett Preston. New Haven, Connecticut: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1930. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England,1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S584] History of Weymouth, Massachusetts, volumes 3 and 4, by George Walter Chamberlain. Weymouth, Massachusetts: Weymouth Historical Society, 1923., says "near 1654". [S559] Genealogy of the Descendants of John Whitmarsh of Weymouth, Mass. by Newton Whitmarsh Bates. 1916., says "1654". [S562] Bassett-Preston Ancestors: A History of the Ancestors in America of Marion Bassett Luitweiler, Howard Murray Bassett, Preston Rogers Bassett, Isabel Bassett Watson, and Helen Bassett Hauser, Children of Edward M. and Annie (Preston) Bassett, by Howard Murray Bassett Preston. New Haven, Connecticut: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1930., says "1654".