Anne Baynton

1602 - 1679  (76 years)

• Name	Anne Baynton  [1]
  Birth	23 Sep 1602  [2, 3]
  Baptised	23 Sep 1602  [4, 5]
  Baptism	30 Dec 1602	St. Edmund's, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England   [1, 6, 7, 8]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Between 14 Mar 1679 and 21 May 1679	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [4, 5, 9, 10]
  Person ID	I21140	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	10 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	Ferdinando Baynton,   b. Bef 28 May 1566   d. Aft 1622 (Age > 57 years)
  Mother	Jane Weare alias Browne   d. Aft 1629
  Marriage	Abt 1598  [2]
  Family ID	F12705	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Christopher Batt,   b. Bef 6 Jul 1601   d. 9 Aug 1661, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age > 60 years)
  Marriage	12 Oct 1629	St. Edmund's, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England   [1, 5, 11, 12, 13, 14]
  Children	+ 1. Anne Batt,   b. Bef 1 Aug 1630   d. 3 Oct 1688, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age > 58 years) + 2. Jane Batt,   b. Bef 18 Dec 1631   d. 1 Jan 1710, Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts (Age > 78 years)
  Family ID	F12512	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Feb 2024

  
  

• Notes

  One of TWK's twelve proven "gateway ancestors." "Because in all probability no other seventeenth-century English emigrant to America had so many close kinsmen of high rank as Anne possessed, they are partially listed here, at the risk of repetition. Through her great-aunt Bridget Baynton, Anne was the second cousin of the Countess of Suffolk, the Countess of Lincoln and the Countess of Rutland, and the second cousin, once removed, of the Duchess of Buckingham. Through her great-grandfather Sir William Cavendish, she was a great-niece of the Earl of Devonshire, the Countess of Shrewsbury and the Countess of Lennox, and the first cousin, once removed, of Lady Arabella Stuart, the Duke of Newcastle and the Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull. This constitutes an outstanding example of the fluidity of English society, a fluidity which would have been almost impossible in the caste systems of the European continent." [Walter Goodwin Davis, citation details below.] Davis is probably right that "no other seventeenth-century English emigrant to America had so many close kinsmen of high rank as Anne possessed", although Mary Launce (ancestor of AP) was probably competitive. Meanwhile, gateway ancestor Elizabeth St. John (ancestor of JTS) was probably the emigrant most closely related to contemporary English royalty, being a half fifth cousin once removed to Charles I. Anne Baynton was a sixth cousin once removed to that particular monarch, through common ancestors Richard Wydevill and Joan Bittlesgate. "In 1664 [...] Anne, wrote Lord Clarendon in England requesting help restoring a wine license formerly granted to her father." [Royal Ancestry, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S7376] The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1636-1638 by Ian Watson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2024. [S2204] Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966) by Walter Goodwin Davis. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1996. [S3767] The Visitation of Wiltshire 1565 by William Harvey, ed. Walter C. Metcalfe. Exeter: William Pollard & Co., 1897. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S4444] Brandon Fradd, "The Stafford Marriage of Edmund Lowe: An Addition to the Ancestry of Christopher Batt1, Immigrant to New England." The Genealogist 17:86, Spring 2003. [S4677] Nathan Murphy, 27 Oct 2020, post to soc.genealogy.medieval. [S2204] Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966) by Walter Goodwin Davis. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1996., date only. [S4678] Wiltshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812, on ancestry.com. [S1791] The Ancestry of Abel Lunt, 1769-1806, of Newbury, Massachusetts by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: The Anthoensen Press, 1963. [S4303] Lineage of the Bowens of Woodstock, Connecticut by Edward Augustus Bowen. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1897., , mistakenly calls her Anne "Thacher". [S1791] The Ancestry of Abel Lunt, 1769-1806, of Newbury, Massachusetts by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: The Anthoensen Press, 1963., date and town only. [S2204] Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966) by Walter Goodwin Davis. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1996., date and town only. [S2665] Brandon Fradd, "A New Royal Ancestry for Christopher Batt." The American Genealogist 79:85, Jan 2004., date only. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013., date and town only.