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John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Male 1588 - 1649  (61 years)


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  • Name John Winthrop  [1, 2, 3
    Suffix Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony 
    Alternate birth 12 Jan 1587  Edwardstone, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5
    Birth 12 Jan 1588  Edwardstone, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
    Gender Male 
    Death 26 Mar 1649  Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 13, 14
    Person ID I6126  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
    Last Modified 14 Sep 2021 

    Father Adam Winthrop,   b. 10 Aug 1548, St. Peter's Cornhill, London, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 28 Mar 1623, Groton Manor, Edwardstone, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 74 years) 
    Mother Anne Browne,   b. of Edwardstone, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Apr 1629 
    Marriage 20 Feb 1580  [11, 15, 16, 17, 18
    Family ID F3191  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Mary Forth,   b. Abt 1584   d. Bef 26 Jun 1615, Groton, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 31 years) 
    Marriage 16 Apr 1605  Great Stambridge, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6, 10, 11, 19, 20
    Notes 
    • Married by Ezekiel Culverwell, minister at Great Stambridge.
    Children 
     1. John Winthrop, Governor of Connecticut,   b. 12 Feb 1606, Groton Manor, Edwardstone, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Apr 1675, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years)
     2. Henry Winthrop,   b. 10 Jan 1608, Groton, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Jul 1630, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 22 years)
     3. Forth Winthrop,   b. 30 Dec 1609   d. Bef 28 Nov 1630 (Age < 20 years)
     4. Mary Winthrop,   b. 1612   d. 12 Apr 1643 (Age 31 years)
    Family ID F3820  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 14 Sep 2021 

    Family 2 Thomasine Clopton,   c. 18 Feb 1583   d. 8 Dec 1616 (Age ~ 33 years) 
    Marriage 6 Dec 1615  Groton, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 20
    Family ID F16220  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 14 Sep 2021 

    Family 3 Margaret Tyndall   d. 14 Jun 1647, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 29 Apr 1618  Great Maplestead, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 20
    Family ID F16221  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 14 Sep 2021 

    Family 4 Martha Rainsborough   d. Abt 24 Oct 1660, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Aft 20 Dec 1647  [5, 21
    Family ID F16223  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 14 Sep 2021 

  • Sources 
    1. [S1272] George E. McCracken, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 86:132, 86:209 (1955), 87:28, 87:104 (1956), 92:229 (1961), 94:243 (1963), 136:303 (2005).

    2. [S5881] Ancestral Lines, Fourth Edition: 232 Families in England, Wales, the Netherlands, Germany, New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2015.

    3. [S476] The Visitations of Essex ed. Walter C. Metcalfe. Harleian Society volume 13. London, 1878.

    4. [S3823] Evidences of the Winthrops of Groton, Co. Suffolk, England by Joseph James Muskett and Robert C. Winthrop. 1894.

    5. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.

    6. [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.

    7. [S154] The Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1915.

    8. [S160] Wikipedia.

    9. [S172] The Winthrop Family in America by Lawrence Shaw Mayo. Boston: The Massachusetts Historical Society, 1948.

    10. [S2306] The Winthrop Fleet: Massachusetts Bay Company Immigrants to New England 1629-1630 by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012.

    11. [S2906] Puritans and Pedigrees: The Deep Roots of the Great Migration to New England by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2018.

    12. [S172] The Winthrop Family in America by Lawrence Shaw Mayo. Boston: The Massachusetts Historical Society, 1948., date only.

    13. [S201] The Winthrop Woman by Anya Seton. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958. Historical novel, with nonfiction notes and a well-researched pedigree chart., year only.

    14. [S2906] Puritans and Pedigrees: The Deep Roots of the Great Migration to New England by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2018., year only.

    15. [S154] The Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1915., says 1579.

    16. [S1123] Suffolk Manorial Families: Being the County Visitations and Other Pedigrees ed. Joseph James Muskett. Exeter: William Pollard & Co., Ltd, 1900., says 1579.

    17. [S3825] Milton Rubincam, "A Winthrop-Bernadotte Pedigree." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 103:246, Oct 1949., says 1579.

    18. [S5881] Ancestral Lines, Fourth Edition: 232 Families in England, Wales, the Netherlands, Germany, New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2015., says "20 Feb. 1579".

    19. [S172] The Winthrop Family in America by Lawrence Shaw Mayo. Boston: The Massachusetts Historical Society, 1948., month, year, and place only.

    20. [S3823] Evidences of the Winthrops of Groton, Co. Suffolk, England by Joseph James Muskett and Robert C. Winthrop. 1894., date only.

    21. [S3823] Evidences of the Winthrops of Groton, Co. Suffolk, England by Joseph James Muskett and Robert C. Winthrop. 1894., month and year only.