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Mary Gawkroger alias Platt

Female Bef 1613 - Aft 1678  (> 66 years)


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  • Name Mary Gawkroger alias Platt  [1, 2
    Alternate birth Abt 1607  [3
    Alternate birth Between 1611 and 1612  [4
    Birth Bef 7 Feb 1613  [5
    Baptism 7 Feb 1613  Sowerby, Halifax, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Alternate death 1674  [3
    Death Aft 1678  [5
    Person ID I14551  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
    Last Modified 8 Sep 2024 

    Father Abraham Gawkroger alias Platts,   b. Bef 21 Nov 1574   d. Bef 15 May 1625 (Age < 50 years) 
    Mother Martha Riley,   b. Bef 27 Mar 1580   d. Bef 12 Apr 1627 (Age < 47 years) 
    Marriage 10 May 1605  [5
    Family ID F24193  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family John Prescott,   b. Abt 1604, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1681, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 77 years) 
    Marriage 11 Apr 1629  Halifax, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 6, 7, 8, 9
    Children 
    +1. Mary Prescott,   b. Bef 24 Feb 1630   d. Abt Apr 1716 (Age > 86 years)
    +2. Sarah Prescott,   b. Abt 1637, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location
    +3. Capt. Jonathan Prescott,   b. Abt 1645, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Dec 1721, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 76 years)
    Family ID F9067  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 8 Sep 2024 

  • 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.

  • Sources 
    1. [S7578] Sawyer Families of New England 1636-1900 by Eleanor Grace Sawyer. Camden, Maine: Penobscot Press, 1995.

    2. [S6067] Blackman and Allied Families by Alfred L. Holman. Chicago, 1928., first name only.

    3. [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.

    4. [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.

    5. [S7763] Mary Gawkroger, 1612, 1629, 1678, Wife of John Prescott of Lancaster, Massachusetts by Frederick Lewis Weis. 1959.

    6. [S2203] New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence A. Torrey. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.

    7. [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.

    8. [S7763] Mary Gawkroger, 1612, 1629, 1678, Wife of John Prescott of Lancaster, Massachusetts by Frederick Lewis Weis. 1959., date only.

    9. [S7764] John G. Hunt, "Notes on Families of the Parish of Halifax, Yorkshire: Farrer, Deane, Platts, Fairbank, Prescott." The American Genealogist 40:22, 1964., year only.