Mary Gawkroger alias Platt

1612 - 1674  (~ 63 years)

• Name	Mary Gawkroger alias Platt
  Alternate birth	Abt 1607  [1]
  Birth	Between 1611 and 1612  [2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	1674  [1]
  Person ID	I14551	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of UKL
  Last Modified	2 Jul 2022

  
  

  Family	John Prescott,   b. Abt 1604, Lancashire, England d. Abt 1681, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts (Age ~ 77 years)
  Marriage	11 Apr 1629	Halifax, Yorkshire, England   [2, 3, 4]
  Children	+ 1. Sarah Prescott,   b. Abt 1637, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts + 2. Capt. Jonathan Prescott,   b. Abt 1645, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts d. 5 Dec 1721, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 76 years)
  Family ID	F9067	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Jul 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Her odd surname means "left-handed Roger." Many of her relatives appear to have used Platt or Platts as an alternative surname, after the area of Yorkshire the family was associated with. But she appears to have used Gawkroger or Gawroger during the periods of her life when she was unmarried. The exact identity of her parents, however, is unclear. Mary Lovering Holman (citation details below) says she was "possibly daughter of Abraham and Martha (Riley) Gawkroger, who was living in 1678."

  
  

• Sources

  [S1998] Sherman Genealogy Including Families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, England: Some Descendants of the Immigrants, Captain John Sherman, Reverend John Sherman, Edmund Sherman and Samuel Sherman, and the Descendants of Honorable Roger Sherman and Honorable Charles R. Sherman by Thomas Townsend Sherman. New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1920. [S1853] Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and His Wife Frances Helen Miller by Mary Lovering Holman (vol. 1) and Winifred Lovering Holman (vol. 2). Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1948-1952. [S2203] New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence A. Torrey. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. [S1998] Sherman Genealogy Including Families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, England: Some Descendants of the Immigrants, Captain John Sherman, Reverend John Sherman, Edmund Sherman and Samuel Sherman, and the Descendants of Honorable Roger Sherman and Honorable Charles R. Sherman by Thomas Townsend Sherman. New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1920., date only.