Welthian

- 1679

• Name	Welthian   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Between 3 Jul 1679 and 4 Nov 1679  [4, 5]
  Person ID	I19979	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of BJS, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2022

  
  

  Family	Thomas Richards,   b. Bef 15 Apr 1596, Pitminster, Somerset, England d. Between 17 Dec 1650 and 18 Jan 1651, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age > 54 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1619  [5]
  Children	+ 1. Alice Richards,   b. 16 Jun 1627, Pitminster, Somerset, England d. 12 Dec 1671, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony (Age 44 years)
  Family ID	F12343	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Jun 2018

  
  

• Notes

  Possibly the sister of Thomas Loring of Hull, who came to New England from Axminster in Devon. She came under suspicion of witchcraft in 1654, but evidently was never prosecuted.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1738] Lineage from Gov. William Bradford down to Sybil Chapin, by Howard Hurtig Metcalfe. [S1739] Mayflower Increasings: From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants by Susan E. Roser. 2nd edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1995. [S2252] Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume 22, William Bradford by Robert S. Wakefield and Ann Smith Lainhart. Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2004., calls her "Welthian (Loring) Richards". [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. [S975] Clifford L. Stott, "Humphrey Blake (1494?-1558) and His Descendants in New England and South Carolina: Blake, Richards, Selleck, Torrey, and Wolcott." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 163:85, April 2009; 163:199, July 2009; 163:278, October 2009; 164:63, January 2010.