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Olive Welby

Female Bef 1604 - 1692  (> 87 years)


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  • Name Olive Welby  [1
    Birth Bef 17 Jun 1604  Moulton near Spalding, Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4, 5
    Baptism 17 Jun 1604  Moulton near Spalding, Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4
    Gender Female 
    Death 1 Mar 1692  Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 6, 7, 8, 9
    Person ID I10819  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of TNH
    Last Modified 27 Feb 2023 

    Father Richard Welby,   b. Bef 7 Feb 1564 
    Mother Frances Bulkeley,   b. Abt 1568   d. Bef 7 Jun 1610, Moulton near Spalding, Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 42 years) 
    Marriage 4 Jun 1595  Whaplode, Holbeach, Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4, 5
    Family ID F3552  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Deacon Henry Farwell,   b. Abt 1605, Boston, Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Aug 1670, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 65 years) 
    Marriage 16 Apr 1629  St. Botolph's, Boston, Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 6, 7, 10
    Children 
     1. Elizabeth Farwell,   b. Bef 27 May 1630   d. 9 Nov 1670, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 40 years)
     2. Samuel Farwell,   b. Bef 9 Jun 1633, Boston, Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Jun 1634 (Age > 1 years)
     3. John Farwell,   b. Bef 25 Oct 1635   d. Bef 15 Sep 1686, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 50 years)
    +4. Ensign Joseph Farwell,   b. 26 Feb 1641, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Dec 1722, Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)
    +5. Mary Farwell,   b. Abt 1643, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Mar 1714, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 71 years)
     6. Olive Farwell,   b. Abt 1645, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F3631  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 13 Nov 2015 

  • Notes 
    • One of Teresa's four proven "gateway ancestors", one of DK's three, and UKL's one.

      Emigrated to from Lincolnshire to Concord, Massachusetts, with her husband Henry Farwell, about 1636. [Royal Ancestry]

      Her descendants include Katherine Hepburn, Mitt Romney, Damon Knight, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle.

      Henry Farwell (1605-1670 )= Olive Welby (1604-1692)
      Mary Farwell (1643- 1714) = John Bates (1642-1722)
      Mary Bates = Josiah Cleveland
      Joseph Cleveland = Deborah Butterfield
      Bridget Cleveland = Nathaniel Cogswell
      William Cogswell = Mary Brewster
      William Henry Cogswell = Lucretia Anne Payne
      Annie Payne Cogswell = William Lyon Pynchon
      William Henry Chichele Pynchon (b. 1867 = Carrie Susan Moyses
      Thomas Ruggles Pynchon IV (1909-1995) = Katherine Frances Bennett (1909-1966)
      Thomas Ruggles Pynchon V (1937- )

      Olive Welby (1604-1692) = Henry Farwell (1605-1670)
      Olive Farwell (b. 1645) = Benjamin Spalding (b. 1643)
      Edward Spalding (1672-1739) = Mary Adams (d. 1754)
      Ephraim Spalding (b. 1700) = Abigail Bullard (b. 1708)
      Oliver Spalding (1739-1796) = Mary Witter (1740-1781)
      Erastus Spalding (1775-1830) = Jennet Mack (d. 1836)
      Martha Ann Spalding (1818-1882) = Leman Benton Garlinghouse (1814-1872)
      Caroline Garlinghouse (1856-1894) = Alfred Augustus Houghton (1851-1892)
      Katharine Martha Houghton (1878-1951) = Thomas Norval Hepburn (1879-1962)
      Katharine Houghton Hepburn (1909-2003)

  • Sources 
    1. [S628] The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908, Part IV: The Ancestry of Linda Anna Powers 1839-1879 by Dean Crawford Smith; edited by Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2000.

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

    3. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008., year only.

    4. [S317] The Bulkeley Genealogy by Donald Lines Jacobus. New Haven, Connecticut: 1933., year and place only.

    5. [S59] Maddison's Lincolnshire Pedigrees ed. A. R. Maddison, based on the work of Arthur Staunton Larken. London, 1902-06., year and place only.

    6. [S141] The Farwell Family: A History of Henry Farwell and His Wife Olive (Welby) Farwell of Boston, England, and Concord and Chelmsford, Mass by John Dennis Farwell, Jane Harter Abbott, and Lillian M. Wilson. Orange, Texas: Frederick Henry Farwell and Fanny (Barber) Farwell, 1929.

    7. [S317] The Bulkeley Genealogy by Donald Lines Jacobus. New Haven, Connecticut: 1933.

    8. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008.

    9. [S831] F. N. Craig, "Lady Millicent's Cat and the Bullers Inheritance." The American Genealogist 70:96, 1996., year only.

    10. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008., year and place only.