Anne Fenton

Abt 1606 - 1670  (~ 64 years)

• Name	Anne Fenton
  Birth	Abt 1606	Sheffield, Yorkshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	May 1670	Norwich, New London, Connecticut   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Person ID	I117	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	30 Jul 2017

  
  

  Father	Robert Fenton,   b. Bef 21 Mar 1584
  Mother	Alice Hancock   d. Between 23 Mar 1643 and Sep 1645
  Marriage	23 Sep 1605	Sheffield, Yorkshire, England   [1, 5, 6]
  Family ID	F7644	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Thomas Bingham,   b. Bef 3 Aug 1588   d. 11 Feb 1649, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England (Age > 60 years)
  Marriage	6 Jul 1631  [1, 4, 6, 7]
  Children	1. Deacon Thomas Bingham,   b. Bef 5 Jun 1642   d. 16 Jan 1730, Windham, Windham, Connecticut (Age > 87 years)
  Family ID	F5101	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Sep 2015

  
  

  Family 2	William Backus,   b. 1606, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England d. Bef 7 Jun 1664, Norwich, New London, Connecticut (Age < 58 years)
  Marriage	1659	Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut   [2]
  Family ID	F7647	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Dec 2014

  
  

• Notes

  Also called Mary Fenton, Anne Stenton. Editor's note, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 143:23, January 1989: In the article, "Origins of William Backus of Sheffield, England, and Norwich, Connecticut," which appeared in the Register, 142 [1988]: 253-254, the maiden name of Anna, widow of Thomas Bingham and second wife of William Backus, was incorrectly given. The editor acknowledges full responsibility. In preparing any article for publication we routinely check for previously published material on the subject in question, and in this case discovered that Donald Lines Jacobus in Hale, House and Related Families (1952; reprint ed. Baltimore, 1978, p. 452) had stated Anna's maiden name to be Stenton. Mr. Bingham had left Anna's maiden name blank, and we never thought twice about adding information from a source as reliable as the late Mr. Jacobus. Unfortunately, even the most reliable genealogists are not immune to copying errors that have appeared earlier in print. Mr. [Everett F.] Bingham has now obtained copies of the original Sheffield parish register and the Bishop's Transcript of that register, both of which clearly show the marriage of Thomas Bingham to Anna ffenton on 5 July 1631, Clearly, it was an early misinterpretation of the English double f as st which led to the original error. From the Bingham Association site: Evidence independently corroborated by two Bingham researchers strongly suggests that Anne was the oldest daughter of Robert Fenton and Alice Hancock Fenton. The will of Alice Fenton, made on the 23rd of March 1642/43 and probated in September 1644/45, names her eldest daughter, Anne, as wife of Thomas Bingham.

  
  

• Sources

  [S164] Bingham Association Official Website. [S165] Everett F. Bingham, "William Backus of Sheffield, Yorkshire, and Norwich, Connecticut." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 142:253, July 1988. [S387] Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley by Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut Historical Society, 1952. [S2280] The Granberry Family and Allied Families, Including the Ancestry of Helen (Woodward) Granberry based on data compiled by and for Edgar Francis Waterman and compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus. Hartford, Connecticut: Edgar F. Waterman, 1945. [S716] "Genealogical Notes: Fenton Records in Sheffield, Yorkshire." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 153:499, October 1999. [S717] The Parish Register of Sheffield in the County of York, Part I, Baptisms and Marriages 1560 to 1634-5, transcribed and edited by Charles Drury and T. Walter Hall. Yorkshire: Yorkshire Parish Register Society, 1917. [S2203] New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence A. Torrey. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.