John Lowle

Family/Spouse: (Unknown) Wake. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Apolyn Leversedge. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Portbury, Somerset, England

Family/Spouse: Joan. Joan died before 4 Nov 1568; was buried on 4 Nov 1568 in Portbury, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Christian Percival about 1570. Christian (daughter of Edmund Percival and Elizabeth Yorke) died after 7 Jun 1577. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Kingston Seymour, Somerset, England
• Alternate death: 8 Jan 1664, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts

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

Percival married Rebecca about 1600. Rebecca died on 28 Feb 1645 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joanna married William Gerrish on 17 Apr 1645 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. William was born in of Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 9 Aug 1687 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was apprenticed to Richard Baugh, glover of Bristol, on 17 Feb 1619. Ten years later he appears as a burgess of Bristol in 1629. He was married and had several children by the time of his emigration in 1639. Family tradition gives him a first wife named Mary, but no evidence has been found to confirm that.

Family/Spouse: (Unknown first wife of John Lowell). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Elizabeth Goodale after 1639. Elizabeth (daughter of John Goodale and Elizabeth Parlett) was born before 5 Jun 1614; was christened on 5 Jun 1614 in Yarmouth, Norfolk, England; died on 23 Apr 1651 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"The two daughters, Joanna and Anne, who are herein credited to Percival Lowle, are considered by several very competent genealogists to have been children of John and Elizabeth Goodale of Great Yarmouth, co. Norfolk. As a widow, Elizabeth Goodale came to New England and settled in Newbury where her daughter Elizabeth married Percival Lowle's son John. In her will Elizabeth (Goodale) Lowle names the husbands of Joanna and Anne among her four 'brothers.' John Goodale of Great Yarmouth, her father, had, however, made a very careful and highly genealogical will in 1625, and neither in this document nor in the regular baptismal records of his children do daughters Joanna and Anne appear. It would seem to be a sound conclusion that the husbands of Joanna and Anne were Elizabeth's 'brothers' as husbands of her two Lowle sisters-in-law, and the whole atmosphere surrounding them tends to substantiate it." [Walter Goodwin Davis, citation details below]

Anne's own will, dated 4 Nov 1681 and proved 22 Feb 1691, mentioned her brother Richard Lowle and her daughter Elizabeth Peirce; it also makes her son-in-law Daniel Pierce Jr. her executor.

Robert Charles Anderson also identifies her as a daughter of Percival Lowell (Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume V, M-P, page 459).

Anne married Thomas Millward before 1642. Thomas was born in 1600; died on 2 Sep 1653 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts; was buried in Old Town Cemetery, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Daniel Peirce on 26 Dec 1654 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. Daniel was born about 1611; died on 27 Nov 1677 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 10 Sep 1654

Elizabeth married Stephen Greenleaf on 23 Oct 1676. Stephen (son of Capt. Stephen Greenleaf and Elizabeth Coffin) was born on 15 Aug 1652 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 13 Oct 1743 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a cooper. He is not the John Lovwell, tanner, who married Elizabeth Silvester in Scituate in 1658, who was erroneously merged into this John Lowell by Lowell family genealogist Delmar Lowell.

Family/Spouse: Naomi Torrey. Naomi (daughter of Capt. William Torrey and (Unknown third wife of William Torrey)) was born on 3 Dec 1641 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Hannah Proctor on 3 Mar 1653 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of George Proctor and Edith) was born before 14 Apr 1634; was christened on 14 Apr 1634 in Pitminster, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1704

Elisabeth married Daniel Pierce on 5 Dec 1660 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. Daniel (son of Daniel Peirce and Katherine) was born about 1638 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 22 Apr 1704 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts; was buried in First Parish Burying Ground, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 26 Aug 1763, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Notes:

He was a minister and a physician.

Daniel married Elizabeth Gooking on 18 Nov 1701. Elizabeth (daughter of Samuel Gooking and Mary) was born on 11 Nov 1681 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 11 Nov 1762 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was buried in King's Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a cordwainer.

Ebenezer married Elizabeth Shailer on 30 Jan 1694 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Michael Shailer) was born in of Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died in 1761. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts

Catherine married Edward Presbury on 27 Aug 1713 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. Edward was born in of Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a physician.

Daniel married Silence Nichols on 18 Jul 1726. Silence (daughter of Israel Nichols and Mary Sumner) was born on 4 Jul 1702 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 3 May 1762 in Bolton, Worcester, Masaschusetts; was buried in Old South Burying Ground, Bolton, Worcester, Masaschusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a merchant in Boston. He served as an assistant surgeon in the Louisburg campaign, 1754; in the same year he was appointed by the governor "to be keeper of the powder house in town in place of Captain William Salter, deceased."

Michael married Abigail Coney on 18 Feb 1734 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Abigail (daughter of Nathaniel Coney and Abigail Skinner) was born on 28 Jul 1712 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died after 29 May 1761. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abigail married Samuel Harris on 1 Feb 1739 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. Samuel died in 1757 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Calvin married Rebecca "Becke" Whitcomb on 17 Nov 1762 in Bolton, Worcester, Masaschusetts. Rebecca (daughter of John Whitcomb and Becke Whitcomb) was born on 3 Dec 1745 in Bolton, Worcester, Masaschusetts; died on 4 Sep 1787 in Bolton, Worcester, Masaschusetts; was buried in Old South Burying Ground, Bolton, Worcester, Masaschusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married William Darracott on 25 Dec 1783. William (son of William Darracott and Sarah) was born on 24 Apr 1754 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 16 Oct 1806 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Catherine married Nathaniel Montgomery on 31 Jul 1775 in South Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire. Nathaniel (son of Nathaniel Montgomery and Sarah Moody) was born on 30 Apr 1751 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 26 Apr 1798 in Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1842

John married Abigail Townsend on 3 Apr 1788. Abigail (daughter of Joshua Townsend and Susannah Livermore) was born on 19 Jun 1768 in Bolton, Worcester, Masaschusetts; died on 18 Mar 1839 in Woodstock, Windsor, Vermont; was buried in Cushing Cemetery, Woodstock, Windsor, Vermont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Shared with his son-in-law Joseph Nason, U.S. patent 1,261, 26 Jul 1839, for an "Argand Gas-Burner."

The handwritten registry that records his death in Boston on 13 Jul 1865 calls his occupation "gentleman" and names his parents William and Mary.

"George Darracott, one of our Directors, died on the 13th day of July last, in his 81st year. He was born Oct. 6, 1784, and was of Norman-English descent, his ancestors having resided for many generations in Devonshire, England. Commencing business on a moderate scale, he soon developed a taste for mechanical ingenuity and improvements. In 1826, he projected the Marine Railway for the merchant service of Boston, the construction and management of which during a period of nine years were intrusted to his care. He superintended the affairs of the Boston Gas-Light Company for sixteen years. He was a member of the Board of Health at a time when the visitation of the yellow fever at this port caused a serious alarm, and he assisted in adopting the most efficient measures to stay its ravages. He served at another time of excitement, in the introduction of the Voluntary Fire Department, as an assistant engineer. He was a Director of one of the public institutions of the city, a Representative to the General Court, and President of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association. Of the latter, he was one of its early and prominent members; he was long associated in the management of its affairs, displaying great intelligence and persevering industry. He exhibited the same devotion to the interests of the Bunker-Hill-Monument Association, of which he was Director for thirty-four years, and, in 1840-1843, was a member of the Building Committee; in 1835, with Mr. Thorndike and Mr. Hammond,he made a long and laborious calculation of the cost of the work remaining to be done, on two different plans, by calculating the contents of each stone in every course to be laid, and estimating the cost thereof, for which service the Committee received a special vote of thanks on the part of the Corporation." [Proceedings of the Bunker Hill Monument Association at the Annual Meeting on Monday, June 18, 1866, citation details below.]

George married Sarah "Sally" Clark on 18 Jan 1807. Sarah (daughter of James Clark and Mehitable Lambert) was born on 6 Aug 1787; died on 16 Jun 1859 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abigail married Benjamin George on 15 Oct 1811 in Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts. Benjamin (son of Benjamin George and Hannah Nichols) was born on 22 Feb 1791 in Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 25 Nov 1832 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rebecca married Joshua Sawyer Holman on 11 Feb 1818 in Templeton, Worcester, Massachusetts. Joshua (son of Jonathan Holman and Zilpha Sawyer) was born on 12 Apr 1794 in Templeton, Worcester, Massachusetts; died on 1 Nov 1846 in Winter Quarters, Nebraska; was buried in Mormon Pioneer Cemetery, Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Joseph Nason on 18 Jun 1844 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Joseph (son of Leavitt Nason and Nancy Guild) was born on 31 Dec 1815 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 11 Dec 1872 in Montclair, Essex, New Jersey; was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Said to have been born 24 Sep 1816. He was a blacksmith. His Boston address at death was 6 Oliver Place.

The latter-day typed copy of his Boston marriage record gives the date as 5 July, an earlier handwritten register (obviously copied from earlier records, as the entries are not in chronological order) says 15 July, and what appears to be the original handwritten record says 15 May.

Benjamin married Catherine Clark on 15 May 1839 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Catherine was born in Feb 1814 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 11 Jul 1907 in New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1836, Ohio

Family/Spouse: Walter Stevens. Walter (son of William Stevens and Marinda Thomas) was born on 17 Jan 1830 in Mount Pleasant, Brant, Ontario; died on 24 Jul 1914 in Nephi, Juab, Utah; was buried in Kirtland Cemetery, San Juan County, New Mexico. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Martha Mary Nason.

May married Harry Hartshorne Seabrook on 2 Nov 1881 in Montclair, Essex, New Jersey. Harry (son of Henry Hendrickson Seabrook and Therese Walling) was born on 23 Oct 1859 in Keyport, Monmouth, New Jersey; died on 9 Apr 1930 in New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Edwin Drew on 27 Oct 1864 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Edwin (son of William Drew and Caroline Cleapor) was born on 21 Aug 1839 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 17 Feb 1908 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

David Alma Stevens and Sariah Agnes Johnson were second cousins, both being great-grandchildren of Jonathan Holman and Zilpha Sawyer.

David married Sariah Agnes Johnson in 1881. Sariah (daughter of Benjamin Franklin Johnson and Sarah Melissa Holman) was born on 23 Oct 1863 in Panguitch, Garfield, Utah; died on 28 Apr 1945 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah; was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Clarence Baker King on 4 Mar 1911 in New York, New York. Clarence (son of Franklin Hiram King and Carrie Hunter Baker) was born on 5 Jun 1884 in River Falls, St. Croix, Wisconsin; died on 27 Sep 1974 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Benjamin married Laura Adele Currier on 6 Jan 1910 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Laura (daughter of Norris Wiggin Currier and Margaret A. Carmichael) was born on 22 Aug 1889 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 24 Aug 1959. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Benjamin married Harriet Viola Jackson on 25 Aug 1912 in El Paso, El Paso, Texas. Harriet (daughter of Joseph Jackson and Mary Ann Stowell) was born on 8 Aug 1892 in Colonia Juárez, Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico; died on 29 Jun 1987 in El Paso, El Paso, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lowell King and Phyllis Wright were seventh cousins once removed, he being a 7XG-grandson or the Rev. James Fitch (1622-1702) and Priscilla Mason (1641-1714), and her being a 6XG-granddaughter of the same couple.

Lowell married Phyllis Wright on 27 Sep 1941 in New York, New York. Phyllis (daughter of Austin Tappan Wright and Margaret Garrad Stone) was born on 11 Dec 1919 in Berkeley, Alameda, California; died on 23 Feb 2007 in New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edith married Bernard Everett Nickerson in 1937 in Somerville, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Bernard (son of Alfred Smith Nickerson and Ella Seretha McComiskey) was born on 14 Jun 1908 in Clark's Harbour, Cape Sable Island, Shelburne, Nova Scotia; died on 17 May 1993 in Clark's Harbour, Cape Sable Island, Shelburne, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: (Private). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Tappan married Beth Ann Meacham on 13 Oct 1978 in New York City. Beth (daughter of Richard Allen Meacham and Marion Ann Gaunder) was born on 14 Nov 1951 in Newark, Licking, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Barbara. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jo. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lorna Mae Nickerson and Ronald Whitman Nickerson were fourth cousins, both of them great-great-great-grandchildren of John Nickerson of Nova Scotia (1772-1880) and Dorothy James "Dolly" Burke of Ireland and Nova Scotia (1770-1867).

Lorna married Ronald Whitman Nickerson about 1960 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, and was divorced about 1982. Ronald (son of Whitman Blades Nickerson and Nellie May Acker) was born on 24 Feb 1937 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 8 May 2010 in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: (Private). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: David Dyer-Bennet. David (son of John Dyer-Bennet and Mary Abby Randall) was born in 1954. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lydia married Nigel Kent Ray about May 1984 in Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa, and was divorced on 16 Apr 1987 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Nigel was born about 1962. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]