Joane Kember

1584 - 1661  (77 years)

• Name	Joane Kember  [1, 2]
  Birth	1584	Brixton, Devon, England   [3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Death	30 May 1661	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [5, 6, 7, 8]
  Person ID	I13553	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LDN
  Last Modified	29 Jan 2024

  
  

  Father	Robert Kember,   b. of Lower Hareston in Brixton, Devon, England d. Aft 29 Dec 1612, Brixton, Devon, England
  Family ID	F8367	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Peter Coffin,   b. Abt 1580, of Brixton, Devon, England d. Between 21 Dec 1627 and 13 Mar 1628, Brixton, Devon, England (Age ~ 47 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1608  [9]
  Children	+ 1. Tristram Coffin, Governor of Nantucket,   b. Bef 11 Mar 1610   d. 3 Oct 1681, Nantucket, New York (Age > 71 years)
  Family ID	F8322	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Oct 2017

  
  

• Notes

  Came to New England as a widow in 1642, with her son Tristram. "Rev. John Wilson preached her funeral sermon, and embalmed her memory." [The History of Haverhill, Massachusetts by George Wingate Chase, Haverhill, Massachusetts, 1861]

  
  

• Sources

  [S1562] The History of Nantucket, County, Island, and Town, Including Genealogies of First Settlers, by Alexander Starbuck. Boston: C. E. Goodspeed & Co., 1924., calls her "Joanna Thember.". [S1568] Alison M. Gavin, "A Tale of Two Women: Seventeenth-Century Coffin and Starbuck Matriarchs." New England Ancestors 9.4, Fall 2008, p. 21., calls her "Joanna Thember.". [S630] Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury by Mary Lovering Holman. Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1938., year only. [S756] Early New England Families Study Project: Accounts of New England Families from 1641 to 1700 by Alicia Crane Williams. Online database, New England Historic Genealogical Society., says "Prob. born at Brixton". [S756] Early New England Families Study Project: Accounts of New England Families from 1641 to 1700 by Alicia Crane Williams. Online database, New England Historic Genealogical Society. [S630] Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury by Mary Lovering Holman. Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1938., month, year, and place only. [S544] Noyes-Gilman Ancestry: Being a Series of Sketches, with a Chart of the Ancestors of Charles Phelps Noyes and Emily H. (Gilman) Noyes, His Wife by Charles Phelps Noyes. St. Paul, Minnesota, 1907., year only. [S5882] Ancestral Lines from Maine to North Carolina by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2015., month, year, and place only. [S630] Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury by Mary Lovering Holman. Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1938.