Hester Mercer

Bef 1602 - Bef 1645  (< 42 years)

• Name	Hester Mercer
  Birth	Bef 1 Aug 1602  [1]
  Baptism	1 Aug 1602	French or Walloon Church, Southampton, Hampshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Bef 1645  [2]
  Person ID	I43085	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	11 Sep 2025

  
  

  Father	Jean Mercer
  Mother	Jeanne Le Clerc
  Family ID	F25177	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Nathaniel Bachiler,   b. Abt 1590   d. Bef 9 Apr 1645 (Age < 55 years)
  Children	+ 1. Nathaniel Bachiler,   b. Abt 1630   d. 17 Jan 1710, Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire (Age 80 years)
  Family ID	F25176	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Sep 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Also called Hester LeMercier. According to Charles Hull Batchelder (citation details below), her family was among the Walloon refugees driven out of the Spanish Netherlands by the Duke of Alba.

  
  

• Sources

  [S8518] Genealogy of the Batchelder Family of Hampton, New Hampshire by Charles Hull Batchelder, ed. Carl W. Brage. 1985. [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.