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- The Wikitree page about the wife of Humphrey Atherton states as a matter of fact that she was Mary Kennion, daughter of James Kenion of Winwick, Lancashire. But see below.
From The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1636-1638, volume 1, by Ian Watson (citation details below):
Mary (Kennion) Atherton was the daughter of "James Kenion" of "Headock" [Haydock], Winwick. In his will, dated 6 April 1632 and proved 13 April 1637, he named "the children of Humfrey Atherton and Marie his now wife either begotten or to be begotten" and made "Humphrey Atherton of Winstanley within the county of Lancaster yeoman my loving son-in-law my ... executor" [Consistory Court of Chester, original wills, 1637]. (Randy West has observed that digitized image 359 does not fully reproduce the microfilmed image.)
If James Kenion's son-in-law Humphrey Atherton was "of Winstanley" on 6 April 1632, it is easier to imagine that he was the Humphrey Atherton "of Pemberton" who had children baptized at Wigan from 1630 to 1634, and/or the Humphrey Atherton "of Winstanley" who buried a child at Up Holland in 1640/1. (Pemberton, Up Holland, and Winstanley lie close to each other within Wigan parish.) It is harder to imagine that he was the Humphrey Atherton who had a child baptized at Winwick in lanuary 1630/1, was in New England by 1636 (well before Kenion's 1637 death), and had a daughter baptized as late as 1654. It follows that the equation of this immigrant with the Humphrey Atherton who married Mary Kennion is improbable, though perhaps not completely impossible.
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