Christian Percival

Christian married Richard Lowle about 1570. Richard (son of John Lowle and Apolyn Leversedge) was born about 1535 in Somerset, England; died before 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]