Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Jane Winthrop
1592 - 1656 (63 years)-
Name Jane Winthrop Birth 14 Jun 1592 [1, 2] Baptism 17 Jun 1592 [3] Gender Female Death 16 May 1656 Person ID I27158 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 9 Mar 2020
Father Adam Winthrop, b. 10 Aug 1548, St. Peter's Cornhill, London, England d. Bef 28 Mar 1623, Groton Manor, Edwardstone, Suffolk, England (Age < 74 years) Mother Anne Browne, b. of Edwardstone, Suffolk, England d. 19 Apr 1629 Marriage 20 Feb 1580 [4, 5, 6, 7, 8] Family ID F3191 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Thomas Gostlin, b. of Groton, Suffolk, England d. Abt 1649 Marriage 5 Jan 1612 [1, 3, 9] Family ID F16207 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 9 Mar 2020
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Notes - It is remarkably difficult to ascertain the death date of Jane Winthrop. The crowdsourced genealogy sites are infested with the idea that she died on 5 Jan 1612, which is fact the date of her marriage to Thomas Gostlin[g]. She was definitely alive on 4 Mar 1631 when John Winthrop, Jr., in a letter to his wife Martha, commended her to convey his love to "vncle and aunt Gostlin." The widely-referenced Evidences of the Winthrops of Groton (citation details below) appears to have been printed with a typographic error showing her death date as 16 May 1616. All the copies we can find online have been hand-corrected, but in most cases, the correction is itself illegible; it is impossible to tell whether it should read 1656 or 1666. Finally, the copy at Harvard, one of the four copies offered on Hathitrust, is corrected in a fashion that unambiguously reads 1656.
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Sources - [S3822] Winthrop Family Papers site at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
- [S3823] Evidences of the Winthrops of Groton, Co. Suffolk, England by Joseph James Muskett and Robert C. Winthrop. 1894.
- [S3825] Milton Rubincam, "A Winthrop-Bernadotte Pedigree." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 103:246, Oct 1949.
- [S154] The Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1915., says 1579.
- [S1123] Suffolk Manorial Families: Being the County Visitations and Other Pedigrees ed. Joseph James Muskett. Exeter: William Pollard & Co., Ltd, 1900., says 1579.
- [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.
- [S3825] Milton Rubincam, "A Winthrop-Bernadotte Pedigree." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 103:246, Oct 1949., says 1579.
- [S5881] Ancestral Lines, Fourth Edition: 232 Families in England, Wales, the Netherlands, Germany, New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2015., says "20 Feb. 1579".
- [S1123] Suffolk Manorial Families: Being the County Visitations and Other Pedigrees ed. Joseph James Muskett. Exeter: William Pollard & Co., Ltd, 1900.
- [S3822] Winthrop Family Papers site at the Massachusetts Historical Society.