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

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• 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.