Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Mary Gawkroger alias Platt

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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 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 d. Abt 1681, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts
(Age ~ 77 years)
Marriage 11 Apr 1629 Halifax, Yorkshire, England [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 + 3. 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 8 Sep 2024
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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.
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Sources - [S7578] Sawyer Families of New England 1636-1900 by Eleanor Grace Sawyer. Camden, Maine: Penobscot Press, 1995.
- [S6067] Blackman and Allied Families by Alfred L. Holman. Chicago, 1928., first name only.
- [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.
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- [S7763] Mary Gawkroger, 1612, 1629, 1678, Wife of John Prescott of Lancaster, Massachusetts by Frederick Lewis Weis. 1959.
- [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.
- [S7763] Mary Gawkroger, 1612, 1629, 1678, Wife of John Prescott of Lancaster, Massachusetts by Frederick Lewis Weis. 1959., date only.
- [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.
- [S7578] Sawyer Families of New England 1636-1900 by Eleanor Grace Sawyer. Camden, Maine: Penobscot Press, 1995.