Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Rev. Richard Mather
1596 - 1669 (73 years)-
Name Richard Mather [1, 2, 3] Prefix Rev. Birth 1596 Lowton, Winwick, Lancashire, England 
[4, 5, 6, 7] Gender Male Death 22 Apr 1669 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts [4, 5, 8] Person ID I27008 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 1 Aug 2025
Father Thomas Mather, b. of Lowton, Winwick, Lancashire, England Mother Margaret Abraham Marriage 30 Sep 1591 Warrington, Cheshire, England [9] Family ID F16132 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Elizabeth Holt d. 1655 Marriage 29 Sep 1624 Bury, Lancashire, England [5, 7] Children + 1. Timothy Mather, b. 1628, Liverpool, Lancashire, England d. 14 Jan 1684, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 56 years)+ 2. Increase Mather, b. 21 Jun 1639, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 23 Aug 1723, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 84 years)Family ID F16130 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 28 Sep 2020
Family 2 Sarah Hawkredd, b. Abt 1601 d. 27 May 1676 (Age ~ 75 years) Marriage 26 Aug 1656 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts [1, 3, 5] Family ID F16139 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 21 Nov 2024
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Notes - Emigrated 1635 on the James out of Bristol. Minister for decades at Dorchester, from 1662 he shared those duties with William Stoughton. A biographical sketch of him can be found in his grandson Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana.
Rev. Richard Mather (1596-1669) = Elizabeth Holt (d. 1655)
Timothy Mather (1628-1684) = Elizabeth Atherton (1628-1678)
Atherton Mather (1663-1734) = Rebecca Stoughton (1673-1704)
William Mather (b. 1697) = Silence Buttolph
Timothy Mather (1722-1802) = Hannah Fuller (1722-1757)
Maj. Timothy Mather (1757-1818) = Hannah Church (1756-1827)
Hannah Mather (1781-1860) = Rev. Ruel Kimball (1778-1847)
Dr. Walter Scott Kimball (1827-1898) = Helen Matilda Baker (1833-1906)
Helen Mather Kimball (1865-1951) = Edmund Wilson (1863-1923)
Edmund Wilson (1895-1972), eminent American literary critic
- Emigrated 1635 on the James out of Bristol. Minister for decades at Dorchester, from 1662 he shared those duties with William Stoughton. A biographical sketch of him can be found in his grandson Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana.
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Sources - [S843] John Anderson Brayton, "Additions to the Ancestry of Sarah (Hawkredd) (Story) (Cotton) Mather of Boston, Lincolnshire." The Genealogist 21:108, Spring 2007; 21:191, Fall 2007.
- [S7376] The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1636-1638, volume 1, by Ian Watson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2024.
- [S7903] Robert Charles Anderson, "John Cotton." Great Migration Newsletter volume 25, number 3, Jul-Sep 2016.
- [S3705] Lineage of Rev. Richard Mather by Horace E. Mather. Hartford, Connecticut: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1890.
- [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.
- [S545] Magnalia Christi Americana: The Ecclesiastical History of New England by Cotton Mather. London: Thomas Parkhurst, 1702.
- [S2906] Puritans and Pedigrees: The Deep Roots of the Great Migration to New England by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2018.
- [S2906] Puritans and Pedigrees: The Deep Roots of the Great Migration to New England by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2018., year only.
- [S3706] William Ferguson Irvine, "The Parents of Rev. Richard Mather." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 54:348, 1900.
- [S843] John Anderson Brayton, "Additions to the Ancestry of Sarah (Hawkredd) (Story) (Cotton) Mather of Boston, Lincolnshire." The Genealogist 21:108, Spring 2007; 21:191, Fall 2007.