Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Percival Lowle

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Name Percival Lowle [1] Birth Abt 1570 Portbury, Somerset, England [2, 3, 4]
Gender Male Alternate birth of Kingston Seymour, Somerset, England [5]
Alternate death 8 Jan 1664 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts [4]
Death 8 Jan 1665 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts [2, 5, 6]
Person ID I21237 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 5 Mar 2022
Father Richard Lowle, b. Abt 1535, Somerset, England d. Bef 7 Jun 1577 (Age ~ 42 years)
Mother Christian Percival d. Aft 7 Jun 1577 Marriage Abt 1570 [3, 5, 6, 7] Family ID F13400 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Rebecca d. 28 Feb 1645, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Marriage Abt 1600 [2, 3, 4, 8, 9] Children + 1. Joanna Lowell d. 14 Jun 1677, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts + 2. John Lowell, b. Bef 11 Oct 1604 d. 10 Jul 1647, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts (Age > 42 years)
+ 3. Anne Lowell, b. Aft 1614 d. 27 Nov 1690, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts (Age < 74 years)
Family ID F12571 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 28 Apr 2024
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Notes - One of TWK's twelve proven "gateway ancestors", and LDN's sole one so far. He emigrated to New England in 1639, when he was an old man, with his wife and several other family members, including his son John and John's first wife whose name has been lost. The ship on which they travelled was probably the Jonathan.
Before emigrating he was an assessor for the parish of Kingston Seymour in Somerset, and (probably) a merchant in Bristol.
His descendants include the "Boston Brahmin" Lowell family, as in "the Lowells speak only to Cabots, and the Cabots speak only to God." Notable individuals descended from him include:
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), poet, critic, editor, abolitionist, and diplomat
Charles Russell Lowell (1835-1864), Civil War general
Percival Lowell (1855-1916), astronomer, founder of Lowell Observatory in Arizona, brother of Abbott Lawrence Lowell and Amy Lowell
Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856-1943), president of Harvard University, 1909-33, brother of Percival Lowell and Amy Lowell
Amy Lowell (1874-1925), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, sister of Percival Lowell and Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Robert Lowell (1917-1977), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
Herman Melville (1819-1891), novelist
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), Nobel Prize-winning poet
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), playwright
William Bundy (1917-2000), foreign-policy advisor to JFK & LBJ
McGeorge Bundy (1919-1996), brother of the above, National Security Advisor to JFK and LBJ, architect of the Vietnam War
Elliot Richardson (1920-1999), resigned as Nixon's Attorney General rather than obey Nixon's order to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox
Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney (1941- ), 46th Vice President and servant of Beelzebub
Tuesday Weld (1943- ), American actress
- One of TWK's twelve proven "gateway ancestors", and LDN's sole one so far. He emigrated to New England in 1639, when he was an old man, with his wife and several other family members, including his son John and John's first wife whose name has been lost. The ship on which they travelled was probably the Jonathan.
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Sources - [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.
- [S1427] The Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton, 1775-1847, Wife of Capt. Abel Lunt of Newburyport, Massachuetts by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: The Anthoensen Press, 1947.
- [S2707] Brandon Fradd and Douglas Richardson, "The Royal Ancestry of Percival Lowell." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 157:309, 2003.
- [S1409] Stone-Gregg Genealogy: The Ancestors and Descendants of Galen Luther Stone and His Wife Carrie Morton Gregg by Alicia Crane Williams. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1987.
- [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.
- [S50] Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Second edition, 2011.
- [S5882] Ancestral Lines from Maine to North Carolina by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2015.
- [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013., "about 1599".
- [S50] Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Second edition, 2011., "about 1599".
- [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.