Lydia Eliot

Bef 1610 - Bef 1676  (< 66 years)

• Name	Lydia Eliot
  Birth	Bef 1 Jul 1610  [1, 2, 3]
  Baptism	1 Jul 1610	Nazeing, Essex, England   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Alternate death	Between 2 Dec 1673 and 27 Jul 1676  [1]
  Death	Bef 19 Jul 1676  [2, 3]
  Person ID	I23205	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	31 Aug 2025

  
  

  Father	Bennet Eliot,   b. Aft 1552   d. Bef 21 Nov 1621 (Age < 67 years)
  Mother	Lettice Alger,   b. Bef 22 Mar 1579   d. Bef 6 Mar 1621 (Age < 41 years)
  Marriage	30 Oct 1598	Widford, Hertfordshire, England   [2, 4]
  Family ID	F8581	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	James Penniman,   b. Bef 29 Jul 1599   d. 26 Dec 1664, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age > 65 years)
  Marriage	26 Jul 1631	High Laver, Essex, England   [2, 3, 5]
  Children	+ 1. Lydia Penniman,   b. Bef 22 Feb 1635   d. 3 Mar 1676, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age > 41 years)
  Family ID	F24901	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Aug 2025

  
  

  Family 2	Thomas Wight   d. 17 Mar 1674, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts
  Marriage	7 Dec 1665	Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [3, 6, 7, 8, 9]
  Family ID	F13962	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Sep 2025

  
  

• Sources

  [S3021] The Wights: A Record of Thomas Wight of Dedham and Medfield and of His Descendants 1635-1890 by William Ward Wight. Milwaukee, 1890. [S1660] William Wyman Fiske, "Ancestry of Bennet Eliot of Nazeing, Essex, Father of Seven Great Migration Immigrants to Massachusetts." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 161:85, 161:186, 161:250 (2007), 162:65, and 162:128 (2008). [S8252] Clifford L. Stott, "The English Origin of James1 Penniman, of Boston and Braintree, Massachusetts." The American Genealogist71:12, 1996. [S1674] William Wyman Fiske, "Ancestry of Lettice (Alger) Eliot of Nazeing, Essex, Mother to Seven Great Migration Immigrants to Massachusetts." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 160:181, 2006. [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. [S3021] The Wights: A Record of Thomas Wight of Dedham and Medfield and of His Descendants 1635-1890 by William Ward Wight. Milwaukee, 1890., date only. [S4916] Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine ed. George Thomas Little, Henry S. Burrage, and Albert Roscoe Stubbs. 4 volumes. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1909., date only. [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., questions whether "December" is correct. [S1660] William Wyman Fiske, "Ancestry of Bennet Eliot of Nazeing, Essex, Father of Seven Great Migration Immigrants to Massachusetts." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 161:85, 161:186, 161:250 (2007), 162:65, and 162:128 (2008)., questions whether "December" is correct.