Emma

Family/Spouse: Adam Tyson. Adam (son of Gilbert Tyson) died between 1154 and 1159. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alice. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Henry Hose. Henry (son of Henry Hose) was born in of Harting, Sussex, England; died about 1174. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robert Constable. Robert (son of Robert Constable) was born in of Flamborough, Bridlington, Yorkshire, England; died before 1208. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ralph de Beauver. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robert de Beauveur. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Hugh. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Juliana d'Eiville. Juliana (daughter of Robert d'Eiville and Juliana de Montfort) died after 1267. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Maud. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 1270 and 1272
• Alternate death: Bef 1272

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 24 Jun 1300
• Alternate death: 1319

Notes:

Summoned to council at York, 15 Jan 1300. Summoned to serve against the Scots, 24 June 1300.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 8 Dec 1336

Notes:

Summoned to serve in Scotland, 24 Jun 1300. Knighted 22 May 1306 together with Edward, Prince of Wales (the later Edward II).

"Sir Robert Constable, who may have sat in the Parliament of 1319 and was certainly summoned to attend a great council five years later, served on many royal commissions and helped to maintain the Yorkshire coast in a state of defence against pirates and the threat of foreign invasion." [History of Parliament]

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

A rare example of political involvement occurred at the beginning of the fourteenth century, when Sir Robert [i] Constable (fl. 1313–1338/9), the eldest son of Sir William [i] Constable (d. 1319), allied himself with Thomas, earl of Lancaster. In 1313 Robert was among those pardoned for his involvement in the death of the king's favourite Piers Gaveston in the previous year and he was again associated with the earl in May 1321, when the local Bridlington chronicler noted him among the northern gentry present at the earl's 'parliament' at Pontefract. Like many northerners, however, he later dissociated himself from the earl. He was not present at the Sherburn meeting in the following month, and in 1322 was given powers of array by the king. After that he appears to have withdrawn from public affairs, and in October 1331 secured exemption from office, although he was made an arrayer again early in 1333.

A partial explanation for Robert's withdrawal may have been his chronic indebtedness. From 1317 until the mid-1330s he acknowledged debts to a wide range of local merchants and clerics, as well as to more influential figures. His financial position may have eased by 1338–9, when he bought a mill and pasture in Flamborough, but in terms of public office the family remained eclipsed for a further decade.

Family/Spouse: Katherine. Katherine was buried in Flamborough, Bridlington, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 19 Mar 1377 and 19 Jun 1378, Flamborough, Bridlington, Yorkshire, England
• Alternate death: 1 Jun 1378

Notes:

He was sheriff of Yorkshire in 1360-62 and 1366-67. He was also one of the executors of the will of William la Zouche, Archbishop of York, his father-in-law's brother.

He is called in error "William Constable" in The Visitation of Yorkshire in the Years 1563 and 1564.

"By 1351 Marmaduke had the resources to undertake rebuilding at Flamborough and obtained licence to crenellate the manor. Alongside this suggestion of growing prosperity Marmaduke was taking on a larger public role. In 1349 he was appointed an executor of Archbishop Zouche, he was added to the commission of the peace in 1351, and was sheriff of Yorkshire in 1360–62 and 1366–7. He was discharged as commissioner in May 1370, which seems to mark the end of his public career, although he did not die until 21 May 1378. His last months were overshadowed by the murder of his kinsman John at Holme-on-Spalding Moor in June 1377 by two men identified as the cousins of the parson. There had been trouble there in 1365, when a commission of oyer and terminer had been appointed to investigate Marmaduke's complaint that the residents had attacked his manor house, and John's death was perhaps linked with continuing local unrest." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

"It is not unlikely that his name of Marmaduke was due to a connexion with the family of Thweng, who may have derived it from the family of Darel. Marmaduke de Thweng, living early in the thirteenth century, was the son of Robert de Thweng and Emma Darel, a niece of Marmaduke Darel; and there were subsequently many members of the Thweng family named Marmaduke. Certainly there was a connexion between the Thwengs and the Constables. In 1312 Robert de Thweng was instituted to the church of Holme upon Spalding Moor on the presentation of Sir William Constable of Flamborough; in 1348 a chantry in Kirkleatham was founded by Thomas de Thweng, the rector and patron of the church, for the souls of many relatives including Robert, William, Marmaduke and Katherine Constable; and a William de Thweng received a legacy in the will of Sir Marmaduke in 1377. It is possible that Katherine, Sir Marmaduke’s mother, was a Thweng; but of this there is no corroborative evidence." [Early Yorkshire Charters: Volume 12, The Tison Fee, citation details below]

Family/Spouse: Joan la Zouche. Joan (daughter of Roger la Zouche and Felicia) was born in of Lubbesthorpe, Blaby, Leicestershire, England; died before 1376; was buried in All Saints, Holme upon Spalding Moor, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 8 Jan 1400
• Alternate death: Aft 8 Jan 1400
• Alternate death: Between Nov 1400 and 8 Jan 1401
• Alternate death: Between 29 Nov 1400 and 7 Jan 1401

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Yorkshire, Feb 1388 (the "Merciless Parliament").

Sheriff of Yorkshire, 20 Oct 1385 - 18 Nov 1386; 11 Nov 1394 - 9 Nov 1395.

"[H]e married Margaret, the widow of Alexander Surteys, who had died young in 1380 barely a few months after succeeding to family property in North Gosforth. Surteys had, however, by then produced an infant son, who became a ward of Margaret's father, William Skipwith. Since she herself had remarried without first obtaining the necessary royal licence, the Crown demanded a fine of 40s. before dower could be assigned, although in February 1384 Skipwith was ordered to be present when a suitable allocation of property was made to her out of the child's patrimony. Sir Robert was naturally anxious to gain control of the rest of these estates as well, and in October 1385 he finally obtained a lease of the town of North Gosforth at an annual rent of eight marks payable at the Exchequer." [Complete Peerage]

"His return to the Merciless Parliament of 1388, in which the Lords Appellant removed King Richard’s most unpopular favourites and asserted control over the government, does, however, underline the strength of his connexions in the upper ranks of the nobility, for both Thomas of Woodstock and Gaunt’s son, Henry of Bolingbroke, were active as Appellants, and clearly relied upon the support of friends like Constable among the shire knights." [History of Parliament]

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

Sir Robert [ii] Constable [...] continued the family's slow rise into a more than purely local prominence. During his father's lifetime he had begun a military career, campaigning in Brittany in 1373 with John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster. This was the family's first known association with the house of Lancaster since 1321, and it is unclear whether the connection had been maintained in the intervening generations. It may have been for his service on that campaign that Robert was knighted. His military activity continued as head of the family (he served in Brittany under Thomas of Woodstock in 1380 and in Scotland under Gaunt in 1383) alongside involvement in local government. He was a justice of the peace for the East Riding and sheriff of Yorkshire in 1385-6 and 1394-5, and was returned to parliament in 1388. He acquired land in Butterwick in Ryedale, Yorkshire, in 1395, and it may also have been Robert who forged the links with the Percy family that were to be of such importance to the family in the next century. By 1405 (but not in 1378) the Constables held land of the earl of Northumberland in Nafferton, Yorkshire, and elsewhere.

Robert was unmarried at his father's death, but within three years had married Margaret Skipwith, the widow of Alexander Surtees (d. 1380) of North Gosforth, Northumberland. They were pardoned for marrying without licence in January 1384, but the marriage must have taken place earlier, since Robert's heir was old enough to inherit at his father's death, which occurred in late 1400 or early 1401.

Robert married Margaret Skipwith before 20 Jan 1384. Margaret (daughter of William Skipwith and Alice Hiltoft) was born about 1360; died after Jan 1401. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Catherine Cumberworth. Catherine (daughter of Robert Cumberworth and Sybil Ergham) was born in of Somerby, Lincolnshire, England; died about 1404. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Yorkshire.

Robert married Agnes Gascoigne about 1422. Agnes (daughter of William Gascoigne and Joan de Pickering) was born about 1401; died between 7 Jan 1466 and 5 Feb 1466. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 4 Apr 1423, Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, Yorkshire, England

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Lincolnshire 1459, and for Yorkshire 1478.

Sheriff of Yorkshire 1461-3; Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1466-7; Justice of the Peace for the East Riding of Yorkshire 1453-88. Possibly Mayor of York at some point (not confirmed).

Joan Kirby, in The Plumpton Letters and Papers (Camden Society, 5th Series 8, Royal Historical Society, 1996), says of him "A political trimmer, he remained on the East Riding bench throughout every revolution from 1453 until his death." Another source calls him an "administorial 'Vicar of Bray'."

In an odd side note, he was part owner of a pirate ship in 1473, which we know because he was ordered to pay compensation for its attacks on Scottish shipping.

GX3-grandfather of the English poet and Catholic recusant Henry Constable (1562-1613), best known for Diana, one of the first sonnet sequences. The descent:

Sir Robert Constable, judge, diplomat, and MP (1423-1488)
Sir Marmaduke Constable, soldier and courtier (1457-1518)
Sir Marmaduke Constable (1480-1545)
Sir Robert Constable, soldier and MP (1495-1558)
Sir Robert Constable, soldier and MP (1522-1591)
Henry Constable (1562-1613)

Family/Spouse: Agnes Wentworth. Agnes (daughter of Roger Wentworth and Margery le Despenser) was born in of Nettlestead, Bosmere, Suffolk, England; died on 20 Apr 1496. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Tyrwhit. William (son of Robert Tyrwhit and Jane Waterton) was born about 1456 in of Kettleby, Lincolnshire, England; died on 9 Apr 1522; was buried in Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Eure. William (son of Ralph Eure and Eleanor Greystoke) was born in of Malton, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the Body to Henry VII. Sheriff of Staffordshire 1484-85, and of Yorkshire, 148081, 1488-89, 1493-94, 1509-10. Knight of the shire for York, 1495.

Fought at Bosworth. Commanded the left at Flodden Field. Died after accidentally drinking a glass of water with a live frog in it, thus disproving the widely-repeated saying that if you eat a live frog first thing in the morning, nothing worse will happen to you all day.

Family/Spouse: Joyce Stafford. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1519-20, 1523-4, 1540-1.

Entertained Henry VIII and his court in Kettleby on 8 and 9 Oct 1541. According to Notices and Remains of the Family of Tyrwhitt (citation details below), Tyrwhit "hanged the trees on the way from Kettleby to Brigg with carcases of sheep and beasts (oxen), to show that he could feed all comers."

He is said by some to have been a vice-admiral of England under Henry VIII, but as Robert Philip Tyrwhitt (citation details below) points out, he is more likely to have been one of many titular "vice-admirals" for a piece of his nearby Lincolnshire coast, a distinction shared by many armigerous men whose seats adjoined important pieces of coast.

According to Maddison's 1904 Lincolnshire Pedigrees, he and Maud Tailboys had a daughter Matilda who, according to William Addams Reitwiesner, was an ancestor of Camilla Parker-Bowles:

Robert Tyrwhit (~1482-1548) = Maud Tailboys
Matilda Tyrwhit = John Portington
John Portington (d. <1589) = Anne Langton
Joan Portington (d. 1608) = Ralph Rokeby (d. 1595)
Anne Rokeby (1593-~1624) = John Hotham (~1589-1644) (1)
Charles Hotham (1615-1672) = Elizabeth Thompson (d. 1685)
Charles Hotham (d. 1723) = Bridget Gee (1671-1707)
Beaumont Hotham (d. 1771) = Frances Thompson (d. 1771)
Beaumont Hotham (1737-1814) = Susannah Hankey (1737-1799)
Louisa Hotham (1778-1840) = Charles Edmonstone (1764-1821)
William Edmonstone (1810-1888) = Mary Elizabeth Parsons (1823-1902)
Alice Frederica Edmonstone (1869-1947) * = George Keppel (1865-1947)
Sonia Rosemary Keppel (1900-1986) = Roland Calvert Cubitt (1899-1962)
Rosalind Maud Cubitt (1921-1994) = Bruce Middleton Hope Shand (1917-1946)
Camilla Rosemary Shand (1947- ), = (1) Andrew Henry Parker Bowles (1939- ), = (2) HRH Prince Charles Philip Arthur George (1948- ), now Charles III, King of England

* She is known to have been a mistress of King Edward VII from 1898 forward.

Family/Spouse: Maud Tailboys. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Ralph Evers.

Ralph married Muriel Hastings on 18 Jan 1482. Muriel (daughter of Hugh Hastings and Anne Gascoigne) died before Jan 1516. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Richard Thimbleby. Richard (son of John Thimbleby and Margaret Boys) was born about 1507 in of Irnham, Lincolnshire, England; died on 25 Sep 1590 in Irnham, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Esquire of the Body; Chamberlain at Berwick-upon-Tweed; Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1540-41; Gentleman of the Privy Chamber; Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire 1557-58; Knight of the shire for Lincolnshire 1545; Knight of the shire for Huntingdonshire 1554 and 1559.

Family/Spouse: Bridget Wiltshire. Bridget (daughter of John Wiltshire and Margaret) died after Jan 1534. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Elizabeth Oxenbridge between Apr 1538 and 4 Aug 1539. Elizabeth (daughter of Goddard Oxenbridge and Anne Fiennes) died before 28 Apr 1578 in St. John's Lane, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Elizabeth Willoughby about 1503. Elizabeth (daughter of Christopher Willoughby and Margaret Jenney) was born about 1483. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Thomas Welby on 20 Jul 1560 in Irnham, Lincolnshire, England. Thomas (son of Thomas Welby and Katherine Bray) was born in of Moulton near Spalding, Lincolnshire, England; died in 1570 in Bath, Somerset, England; was buried on 15 Feb 1571 in St. Peter's, Bath, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Henry Darcy. Henry (son of Arthur Darcy and Mary Carew) was born in of Brimham, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was slain in the Battle of Ancrum Moor, part of the 1542-51 War of the Rough Wooing.

Ralph married Margery Bowes before 1529. Margery (daughter of Ralph Bowes and Elizabeth Clifford) died after 1566. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Frances Bulkeley on 4 Jun 1595 in Whaplode, Holbeach, Lincolnshire, England. Frances (daughter of Dr. Rev. Edward Bulkeley, D.D. and Olive Irby) was born about 1568; died before 7 Jun 1610 in Moulton near Spalding, Lincolnshire, England; was buried on 7 Jun 1610 in Moulton near Spalding, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Lancelot Mansfield. Lancelot was born about 1533 in of Skirpenbeck, Yorkshire, England; died after 20 Sep 1563. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Probably he was the Thomas Welby who was Mayor of Boston, co. Lincoln, in 1643." [The Bulkeley Genealogy]

Thomas married Elizabeth Parke after 15 Feb 1620. Elizabeth was born in of Fleet, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

One of Teresa's four proven "gateway ancestors", one of DK's three, and UKL's one.

Emigrated to from Lincolnshire to Concord, Massachusetts, with her husband Henry Farwell, about 1636. [Royal Ancestry]

Her descendants include Katherine Hepburn, Mitt Romney, Damon Knight, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle.

Henry Farwell (1605-1670 )= Olive Welby (1604-1692)
Mary Farwell (1643- 1714) = John Bates (1642-1722)
Mary Bates = Josiah Cleveland
Joseph Cleveland = Deborah Butterfield
Bridget Cleveland = Nathaniel Cogswell
William Cogswell = Mary Brewster
William Henry Cogswell = Lucretia Anne Payne
Annie Payne Cogswell = William Lyon Pynchon
William Henry Chichele Pynchon (b. 1867 = Carrie Susan Moyses
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon IV (1909-1995) = Katherine Frances Bennett (1909-1966)
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon V (1937- )

Olive Welby (1604-1692) = Henry Farwell (1605-1670)
Olive Farwell (b. 1645) = Benjamin Spalding (b. 1643)
Edward Spalding (1672-1739) = Mary Adams (d. 1754)
Ephraim Spalding (b. 1700) = Abigail Bullard (b. 1708)
Oliver Spalding (1739-1796) = Mary Witter (1740-1781)
Erastus Spalding (1775-1830) = Jennet Mack (d. 1836)
Martha Ann Spalding (1818-1882) = Leman Benton Garlinghouse (1814-1872)
Caroline Garlinghouse (1856-1894) = Alfred Augustus Houghton (1851-1892)
Katharine Martha Houghton (1878-1951) = Thomas Norval Hepburn (1879-1962)
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (1909-2003)

Olive married Deacon Henry Farwell on 16 Apr 1629 in St. Botolph's, Boston, Lincolnshire, England. Deacon (son of William Farwell and Joan) was born about 1605 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England; died on 1 Aug 1670 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of London, England

Notes:

Burgess (M.P.) for Beverley, Yorkshire. Queen's Surveyor. B.A., Peterhouse College, Cambridge, 1572-3.

He was described as a resident of London in 1582, but the 1587 pedigree attached to the grant of his father's crest called him "of Huton on Derwent", Yorkshire.

From Robert Charles Anderson, John C. Brandon, and Paul C. Reed, "The Ancestry of the Royally-Descended Mansfields of the Massachusetts Bay" (citation details below):

Cotton Mather, in his biography of the Rev. John Wilson, identifies the father of the immigrants as "Sir John Mansfield, master of the Minories, and the Queen's surveyor." This identification has always been troublesome, as it includes some inaccuracies. The immigrants' father was an "esquire," a step below the dignity of knighthood, but above gentleman. Evidence has been found, however, to confirm that John Mansfield was intimately involved with royal mining interests, and was Queen's surveyor -- at least in Yorkshire.

When Mather used the word "Minories," he must have intended the word "mineries," or mining operations. The 3rd Earl of Huntingdon held mines and lands in Dorsetshire, having purchased various mining interests from James, Lord Mountjoy. John Mansfield was the Earl's "servant, and at one stage his lessee of the Canford mines, near Poole, Dorset. Lord Mountjoy was heavily indebted to creditors, and various interrogatories were taken in May 1582 concerning his sale to Huntingdon. "John Mansfield, and W[illia]m Bird, all of London," were among men examined on behalf of the Earl on May 17, 21, 24, and 31, and June 1, 1582. "John Mansfield of London" was also examined on 14 or 15 June.

John Mansfeild, Clement Draper, and Richard Laycolte received lands, rents and liberties in Brownsea Island, Dorset, with the advowson, by permission of license dated 1 April 1581. John Mansfelde, Richard Laicolte, Clement Draper, and Edward Mead complained to the Privy Council on 4 January 1581 that Edward Lane [of Blackfriars, London, 1582], John Lane, and others had "wrongfullie dispossessed them of two their workehouses for allum and coppres, called Allam Chyne and Okemans in the countie of Dorset." The various examinations "touching matters in conroversie betwene John and Edward Lanes and John Mansfelde" were delivered to the servant of the Earl of Huntingdon on 27 May 1582. On 12 September 1592, Clement Draper wrote to the Queen, pleading that he had "been detained in prison 12 years against all right, by practice of the Earl of Huntingdon, John Mansfield, his deputy, and Richard Laycolt, who have taken away his goods, which, with other losses, amount to 10,000l; his good name, dearer to him than his life, is rooted out by their false reports." He further claimed that "Mansfield, for 4l., got a protection under the Great Seal to defraud him and others of their goods....The Earl, the better to defend his own quarrel against Lord Mountjoy, has got into his hands...the writer's [Draper's] deeds and writings concerning his estate in the mines, and detains them. The Earl, in May 1583, covenanted that the mines should be maintained and set to work." John Mansfeld/Mansfyeld, with Clement Draper, had brought suit against others in the Court of Star Chamber, but later John sued Clement Draper in Chancery.

John Mansfield's career in politics reached its pinacle in 1593, when he represented Beverley, Yorkshire, in Parliament. He is not known to have had personal connections at Beverley, so the seat was likely procured through the influence of his lord the Earl of Huntingdon or cousin Lord Eure. As one of the burgesses for Yorkshire boroughs, he was appointed to a committee on cloth 23 March and to another concerning weirs 28 March 1593. In 1597, by which time he was serving as a Justice of the Peace for the North Riding of Yorkshire, John Mansfield offered himself for election to Parliament at Scarborough, but though he was recommended to the bailiffs and burgesses by the Archbishop of York, and had the support of his prospective fellow burgess, Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby, his nomination was not accepted by the borough authorities.

Queen Elizabeth I on 8 February 1597/8 granted John Mansfield "the office of collector of the rents and revenues of the dissolved monastery of St. Mary's, York," and more importantly, "the surveyorship of the Queen's lands in the North Riding of Yorkshire." The Crown had extensive honours and holdings in Yorkshire. John Mansfield set about to prove his proficiency by making an unusually thorough and careful survey of the manor of Settington, Yorkshire, compiled between 17 and 21 March 1599/1600. Mansfield obviously took great pains in producing this detailed document, probably an attempt to demonstrate abilities superior to those of a rival who had received many benefits for little effort. John alluded to this in his plea to the Lord Treasurer in his introductory remarks to one copy of the survey:

It is my hard fortune whilest other men receyue great rewardes for small deserts I must hold my selfe happy not to be disgraced after good seruyce done. Good my Lord excuse me for thus writyng. I haue chosen to depend on your lordship onelye. When your lordship shall please to gyue me over I wilbegone as forsaken by all. I will equall my selfe to all in this[,] never any did nor shall performe more honest dutyes to your Lordship then I will.

The manor of Settrington had been granted to Matthew, Earl of Lenox, and his wife Margaret, in 1544, but was later returned to the Crown. John Mansfield, "Crown Surveyor," was ordered to make a survey of the manors of the late Margaret, Countess of Lennox. These documents are dated February 1600/1 to July 1601, when Mansfield died. He made the surveys as part of a northern tour, likely drawing up the results after his return to London.

Family/Spouse: Mary Hobson. Mary (daughter of William Hobson and Mary) died between 1587 and 3 Feb 1592. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Elizabeth before 3 Feb 1592. Elizabeth died before 10 Feb 1634; was buried on 10 Feb 1634 in St. Michael Cornhill, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Joseph Wildbore about 1651. Joseph died on 27 Aug 1691 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sarah Fiske. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Sarah Wheeler on 4 Nov 1658 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Sarah was born on 22 Jun 1640; died on 23 May 1662. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From The Farwell Family:

"He is buried in South Nashua, N. H. At the time of his death the town of Nashua, N. H., was a part of the old township of Dunstable, Mass. When the boundary dispute between Mass. and New Hampshire was settled this change in name was brought about. [...] Joseph Farwell is styled in the Old Dunstable records 'Ensign Farwell.' He was, immediately after his settlement in the town, employed in various offices in the town business. He was selectman in 1701, 2, 5, 7, 10, and also at earlier dates, highway surveyor in 1706, and on important committees in 1702, 7, 12, 16 and 17. In 1710 Ensign Farwell, Thomas Lund and Joseph Blanchard, selectmen, petitioned the Assembly for aid in supporting the ministry, and in 1711 it is recorded that they received £10 from the Assembly towards payment of salary of Mr. Paris. He was 'Ensign' of the Chelmsford Military Co., 1687-1695."

From Diana Gale Matthiesen's site, Joseph Farwell's will. [Dated 13 Nov 1711, probated 16 Jan 1722-1723. Sourced to "the Winslow Farr Sr. Family Organization web site". It would seem to prove that Hannah Learned was alive on 13 Nov 1711, rather than dying in 1695 as I previously recorded.]

In the Name of the Lord God Amen Joseph Farwell of The town Dunstable in the County of Middefs in the province of the Massachulets Bay in Newengland yeoman being of Sound and Perfect memory praise be given to god for the same yit knowing the uncertainty of this Life on Earth and being Desirous to Settle things in order Do Make and ordain this to be my Last Will and Testament. Hereby Revoking all former Wills by me made and signed to be null and of none Effect icc In Primas My Soule I give unto the hand of allmighty god that gave it in sure and certaine hopes of Eternaul Life through our alone Lord and Saiover Jesus Christ and my body to the Earth from whence it came to be Deceantly Interred at the Discretion of My Executors x hereafter Named and after my funerall expences and the Debts satisfied And Paid What Worldly goods it hath pleased god to Endow me with all I Do give and bequeath in manner as followeth Item I Do: give unto My beloved Wife Hannah Farewell all my moveable goods both within the boufe and abroad of all sorts Whatsoever to be at her disposall for ever excepting one paire of Andirons. Item I do give and bequeath to my Son Oliver ffarewel and to his Heirs executors Administrators for ever the one half of My housings and Lands which I have now in my possession when he shall Attaine to the age of twenty one years allso I do give to him one paire of Andirons: Aflso I do give and bequeath to him my son Oliver Farewell and to his Heirs the other part of all my Houfings and Lands which I have in pofselsion after my Deceafe and after the Deceafe of my Wife Hannah ffarewell if in the meanetime of our Lives he doth take the whole care of us Both And to provide all things comfortable and Necefsary for us both in sickness and in health and to bestow upon us or either of us A decent Burial: Hereby Authorizing and fully Impowering my Beloved wife Hannah If arewel and my son Henry ffarewell to be whole and sole executors Joyntly and Severally of this my Lash Will and Testament In Witness Whereof I have hereunto subscribed as Witness my hand and ieall the thirteenth Day of November Anno Domin one thousand seven hundred and eleven, and in the tenth year of her Majestie's Reighn of E

ssigned sealed And published

to be the Last will and testament of Joseph I farewell

In presence of us

Ames Chever
Samuel Moody
John Meriam. jr.

Before signing and sealing it is to be understood that all my other Children both sons and Daughters have Received their full portions of me allready

Jofeph farwell Seal

Ensign married Hannah Learned on 25 Dec 1666 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of Deacon Isaac Learned and Mary Stearns) was born on 24 Aug 1649 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died after 1722. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married John Bates on 22 Dec 1665 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. John (son of Edward Bates and Lydia) was born on 9 Jan 1642 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was christened on 23 Jan 1642 in First Church, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 11 Apr 1722 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Olive married Benjamin Spalding on 30 Oct 1668 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Benjamin was born on 7 Apr 1643 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died before 1708 in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Gateway ancestor, one of LD's five (so far).

From Robert Charles Anderson, John C. Brandon, and Paul C. Reed, "The Ancestry of the Royally-Descended Mansfields of the Massachusetts Bay" (citation details below):

Of Elizabeth (Mansfield) Wilson, not much is known. She was very unwilling to come to New England; as Mather writes, she had to be "perswaded over into the difficulties of an American desart," arriving two years after her husband. In May 1631, Margaret (Tyndal) Winthrop told how Mr. Wilson "can not yet perswad his wife to goe, for all he hath taken this paynes to come and fetch hir. I maruiell [marvel] what mettell she is made on. shure she will yeald at last, or elce we shal want him excedingly in new england." Later the same month, Mrs. Winthrop again mentioned Elizabeth's distaste for the trip; she was "more auerce [averse] then euer she was." Mrs. Wilson finally arrived in Massachusetts in 1632. Her dislike of the voyage to New England, and her unhappiness at hearing of the death of her eldest son, whom she did not long survive, are almost all that we know of her character and life.

Elizabeth married Rev. John Wilson before 1617. Rev. (son of Rev. William Wilson and Elizabeth Woodhall) was born about 1591; died on 7 Aug 1667 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Robert Keayne on 18 Jun 1617. Robert (son of John Keayne) was born about 1594; died on 23 Mar 1656 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married Samuel Woods on 30 Dec 1685 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Samuel (son of Samuel Woods and Alice Rushton) was born on 3 Jan 1661 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 19 Mar 1712. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

20 Aug 1740 is the death date on his tombstone, but Chelmsford town records say 21 Aug 1740.

Joseph Farwell's will:

Dated 13 Nov 1711. Probated 16 Jan 1722-1723. Copied from Diana Gale Mathiessen's site, where it is sourced to "the Winslow Farr Sr. Family Organization web site".

In the Name of the Lord God Amen Joseph Farweilgen of The town Dunstable in the County of Middefs in the province of the Massachulets Bay in Newengland yeoman being of Sound and Perfect memory praise be given to god for the same yit knowing the uncertainty of this Life on Earth and being Desirous to Settle things in order Do Make and ordain this to be my Last Will and Testament. Hereby Revoking all former Wills by me made and signed to be null and of none Effect icc In Primas My Soule I give unto the hand of allmighty god that gave it in sure and certaine hopes of Eternaul Life through our alone Lord and Saiover Jesus Christ and my body to the Earth from whence it came to be Deceantly Interred at the Discretion of My Executors x hereafter Named and after my funerall expences and the Debts satisfied And Paid What Worldly goods it hath pleased god to Endow me with all I Do give and bequeath in manner as followeth Item I Do: give unto My beloved Wife Hannah Farewell all my moveable goods both within the boufe and abroad of all sorts Whatsoever to be at her disposall for ever excepting one paire of Andirons. Item I do give and bequeath to my Son Oliver ffarewel and to his Heirs executors Administrators for ever the one half of My housings and Lands which I have now in my possession when he shall Attaine to the age of twenty one years allso I do give to him one paire of Andirons: Aflso I do give and bequeath to him my son Oliver Farewell and to his Heirs the other part of all my Houfings and Lands which I have in pofselsion after my Deceafe and after the Deceafe of my Wife Hannah ffarewell if in the meanetime of our Lives he doth take the whole care of us Both And to provide all things comfortable and Necefsary for us both in sickness and in health and to bestow upon us or either of us A decent Burial: Hereby Authorizing and fully Impowering my Beloved wife Hannah If arewel and my son Henry ffarewell to be whole and sole executors Joyntly and Severally of this my Lash Will and Testament In Witness Whereof I have hereunto subscribed as Witness my hand and ieall the thirteenth Day of November Anno Domin one thousand seven hundred and eleven, and in the tenth year of her Majestie's Reighn of E

ssigned sealed And published
to be the Last will and testament of Joseph I farewell
In presence of us
Ames Chever
Samuel Moody
John Meriam. jr.

Before signing and sealing it is to be understood that all my other Children both sons and Daughters have Received their full portions of me allready

Jofeph farwell Seal

Joseph married Hannah Colburn on 23 Jan 1696 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of Thomas Colburn and Hannah Rolfe) was born in 1673; died after 10 Mar 1741 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 24 Jul 1715

Sarah married Benjamin Butterfield on 16 Feb 1697 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Benjamin (son of Nathan Butterfield and Deborah Underwood) was born in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 24 Jul 1715 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rev. married Sarah Hooker before 1649. Sarah (daughter of Rev. Thomas Hooker and Susannah Garbrand) was born before 21 Feb 1630; was christened on 21 Feb 1630 in Broomfield, Essex, England; died on 20 Aug 1725 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Rev. Samuel Danforth on 5 Nov 1651. Rev. (son of Nicholas Danforth and Elizabeth Barber) was born in Sep 1626 in Framlingham, Suffolk, England; was christened on 17 Oct 1626 in Framlingham, Suffolk, England; died on 19 Nov 1674 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to Robert Charles Anderson, John C. Brandon, and Paul C. Reed (citation details below), he and Sarah Dudley ultimately divorced "because of Sarah's increasing religious fanaticism".

From The Great Migration Begins (citation details below):

Some considerable pain entered Gov. Dudley's last years as his daughter Sarah and her husband Benjamin Keayne necessitated one of the colony's earliest divorces. Stephen Winthrop says "My she Cosin Keane is growne a great preacher" in a letter from London 27 March 1646. In a letter dated London 18 March 1646/7, Benjamin Keayne writes to Thomas Dudley:

Honored Sir, That you and myself are made sorry by your daughter's enormous and continued crimes, is the greatest cause of grief that ever befell me, and the more because her obstinate continuance in them is now to me by her own letter made as certain...I never gave her the least just cause or occasion to provoke her to them...she has not left me any room or way of reconciliation. And therefore as you desire, I do plainly declare my resolution never again to live with her as a husband. What maintenance yourself expects I know not. This I know (to my cost and danger) she has unwived herself and how she or you can expect a wife's maintenance is to me a wonder...

Ezekiel Rogers passed some of the gossip on to John Winthrop in a letter dated Rowley 8 November 1647:

...I thought myself bound to acquaint you that there is not a little discourse raised, and by some, offence taken, at the late divorce granted by the Court. How weighty a business that is, as I need not tell you, so I would humbly desire that some course may be taken so as to clear the court's proceeding, as that rumors might be stopped, and letters of mistake into England prevented...

The news from England in the words of Brampton Gurdon Sr. put another light on things, as he wrote from Assington 6 June 1649 to John Winthrop:

...Here goes some speech of a N.E. couple that lately came from thence the husband first, and then the wife followed after with what goods she could get together but we heat all her goods miscarried and she escaped only with her life. The man was Cane's son a cloak seller in Birching Lane, whose mother was Mr. Willson's sister. The woman is returned to N.E. and resolves there to take another husband. I hope your laws will not tolerate such wicked actions.

Benjamin married Sarah Dudley before 1639, and was divorced in 1647. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Patience Bigelow on 29 Nov 1720 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Patience (daughter of James Bigelow and Elizabeth Child) was born on 30 Sep 1695; died on 23 Jan 1771 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rachel married Jonathan Whitcomb on 12 Dec 1722 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts. Jonathan was born on 22 Apr 1702 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts; died on 7 Oct 1743 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts; was buried in Old South Burying Ground, Bolton, Worcester, Masaschusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Simon Stone Genealogy says merely that she outlived her husband, who died 27 Feb 1783, while John Dennis Farwell's The Farwell Family (1929) gives no death date for her at all. But the headstone in the Groton Old Burying Ground for "Mary Stone relict of Dea. James Stone", seen on Find A Grave, clearly says "March" and "1804". I can't make out the day of the month from the photograph.

Mary married Deacon James Stone on 28 Dec 1726 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Deacon (son of John Stone and Sarah Nutting) was born on 23 Jan 1701 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 27 Feb 1783 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in 1783 in Old Burying Ground, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Edmund Hovey. Edmund (son of James Hovey and Deborah Barlow) was born on 10 Jul 1699; died on 21 Jan 1788 in Norwich, Windsor, Vermont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Anna Hildreth after 10 Dec 1721 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Anna (daughter of Ephraim Hildreth and Anna Moore) was born on 3 Sep 1705 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died in Feb 1784. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was ordained pastor of the Taunton church in 1688. He also practiced medicine and law.

Rev. married Hannah Allen on 4 Oct 1688. Hannah (daughter of Rev. James Allen and Elizabeth Houchin) was born on 22 Jul 1668; died on 3 Dec 1761; was buried in Riverview Cemetery, Groveland, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abigail married Oliver Wheeler on 25 Nov 1747 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Oliver (son of Jonathan Wheeler and Hannah Russell) was born in 1722 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts; died on 31 Jul 1804 in Acton, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in Forest Cemetery, North Acton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Becke married John Whitcomb in 1744. John was born on 2 Feb 1712 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts; died on 17 Nov 1785 in Bolton, Worcester, Masaschusetts; was buried in Old South Burying Ground, Bolton, Worcester, Masaschusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Tanner and farmer. His French and Indian War service of 1755 was "in the expedition of that year against Crown Point". He was town treasurer of Harvard in 1784, 1785, and 1786. [Simon Stone Genealogy]

Note that Harvard, Massachusetts, founded in 1658 and incorporated in 1732, is a town of roughly 6,000 people about twenty-five miles west-northwest of Boston. Harvard University is in Cambridge, directly adjoining Boston.

James married Deborah Nutting on 13 Sep 1748 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Deborah (daughter of Jonathan Nutting and Mary Green) was born in 1724; died on 2 Nov 1774 in Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"[P]rob. died in French and Indian War. Was a private in Capt. Jas. Reed's Co., & Col. Timothy Ruggles' Reg." [The Farwell Family]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Goffstown, Hillsborough, New Hampshire

Notes:

He died of an accidental shooting in a blacksmith shop.

John married Phebe Russell on 3 Jan 1753 in Litchfield, Hillsborough, New Hampshire. Phebe (daughter of Capt. Peter Russell and Deborah Crosby) was born in 1736 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts; was christened on 16 May 1636 in South Church, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts; died about Nov 1836 in Goffstown, Hillsborough, New Hampshire; was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Goffstown, Hillsborough, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Sarah Leonard on 11 Jun 1730. Sarah (daughter of James Leonard and Hannah Walley) died on 22 May 1742. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1749

Notes:

He was a soldier in the Revolution on the Massachusetts line, discharged 10 Oct 1780 after serving two months and 26 days.

Oliver married Hepzibah Munroe on 3 Mar 1773 in Acton, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Hepzibah (daughter of Nathan Munroe and Mercy Benjamin) was born on 3 Aug 1751 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 4 Nov 1829 in Hillsborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire; was buried in Hillsborough Centre Cemetery, Hillsborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rebecca married Calvin Greenleaf on 17 Nov 1762 in Bolton, Worcester, Masaschusetts. Calvin (son of Daniel Greenleaf and Silence Nichols) was born on 31 Mar 1740; died in Aug 1812. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Jesiah.

Josiah married Sarah Darby on 13 Sep 1797 in Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of John Daby and Sarah Hopgood) was born on 7 Feb 1772 in Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Goffstown, Hillsborough, New Hampshire

Notes:

He is said in D. Hamilton Hurd's history of Hillsborough County to have "seen service in both wars," presumably the Revolution and the War of 1812.

John married Naomi Stevens about 1773. Naomi (daughter of Thomas Stevens and Prudence Merrill) was born on 24 Oct 1751 in Plaistow, Rockingham, New Hampshire; died on 9 Jan 1816 in Goffstown, Hillsborough, New Hampshire; was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Goffstown, Hillsborough, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A DAR lineage says that he "was a private in Capt. Seth Gilbert's company, Col. John Daggett's, regiment, which marched in the Lexington Alarm of 1775."

Elijah married Susanna Copeland on 1 Oct 1761. Susanna (daughter of Deacon Benjamin Copeland and Sarah Allen) was born on 1 Apr 1740 in Norton, Bristol, Massachusetts; died on 12 Mar 1816. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Esther married Timothy Dane on 2 Apr 1806 in Hillsborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire. Timothy died in Aug 1856 in Hillsborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1842

John married Abigail Townsend on 3 Apr 1788. Abigail (daughter of Joshua Townsend and Susannah Livermore) was born on 19 Jun 1768 in Bolton, Worcester, Masaschusetts; died on 18 Mar 1839 in Woodstock, Windsor, Vermont; was buried in Cushing Cemetery, Woodstock, Windsor, Vermont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 21 Apr 1804, Londonderry, Rockingham, New Hampshire
• Alternate birth: 21 Apr 1805, Londonderry, Rockingham, New Hampshire
• Alternate birth: 21 Apr 1806, Londonderry, Rockingham, New Hampshire
• Alternate death: 1850, Pottawattamie, Iowa

Notes:

Also called Sarah "Sally" Stone.

The database "Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1848" states that her parents were Josiah Stone and Sarah Darby/Durby/Daby.

Lucius Augustus Bingham and Sarah Stone were great-great grandparents of TNH's third cousin twice removed, Harold Bingham Lee (1899-1973), eleventh president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, after whom the main library at BYU is named.

Sarah married Lucius Augustus Bingham in 1826 in Fowler, St. Lawrence, Jefferson, New York. Lucius (son of Jeremiah Bingham and Mary Ives) was born on 1 Sep 1804 in Cornwall, Addison, Vermont; died on 11 Mar 1857 in Little Sioux, Harrison, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Olive married Robert Dunlap on 22 Sep 1803 in Goffstown, Hillsborough, New Hampshire. Robert (son of Major John Dunlap and Martha Gilmore) was born on 21 Nov 1779 in Bedford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire; died on 16 Nov 1865 in Bedford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire; was buried in Bedford Center Cemetery, Bedford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Asa married Hannah Walker on 27 Nov 1806. Hannah (daughter of Eleazar Walker and Catherine "Caty" Carpenter) was born on 12 Jun 1785 in Norton, Bristol, Massachusetts; died on 3 Jun 1823. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1883, Amador County, California

Notes:

In Hillsborough, New Hampshire in the 1850 census. He was a blacksmith.

John married Elizabeth Covel on 5 Jul 1836 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Elizabeth was born about 1807 in Massachusetts; died before 1880. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rebecca married Joshua Sawyer Holman on 11 Feb 1818 in Templeton, Worcester, Massachusetts. Joshua (son of Jonathan Holman and Zilpha Sawyer) was born on 12 Apr 1794 in Templeton, Worcester, Massachusetts; died on 1 Nov 1846 in Winter Quarters, Nebraska; was buried in Mormon Pioneer Cemetery, Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 27 Sep 1827, Fowler, St. Lawrence, Jefferson, New York
• Alternate death: 29 May 1883, St. David, Cochise, Arizona

Notes:

A memoir of his daughter Mary Elizabeth Bingham, by her daughter Barbara Ann Phelps, calls him "Calvin Perry Bingham."

From The Bingham Family in the United States, citation details below:

Calvin and his family were with the earliest Mormon groups to move across America. The oldest child of Lucius Augustus, Calvin was born in NY, lived in Upper Canada as a child, and by 1840 when he was thirteen, lived with the Mormon group in Henderson, Knox Co IL. About 1848, probably in IA after the Mormons moved to Pottawattamie Co, Calvin married Elizabeth Lucretia Thorn. He, his wife and her entire family, mother and siblings lived in one household in 1850.

Between 1853 and 1867, Calvin and his family lived in several different UT settlements. They then lived for about ten years in Montpelier, Bear Lake Co ID before returning to Box Elder Co UT by 1880. After Calvin died in AZ in 1883, wife Elizabeth moved to Vernal, Uintah Co UT where she lived with grown children William and Alice in 1900.

Posted to ancestry.com by user NORDSEEKER, with the remark: "This account was written by their great grandson, Wes Martin. I don't know where he got all the information, but I found it typed on the back of a family group sheet in his genealogy book."

"Calvin Bingham was the son of Lucius and Sarah Stone Bingham. He was born Sept. 7, 1827 in Fowler, St. Lawrence County, New York. He was the oldest of eight children: four brothers--Benjamin, Augustus, Perry, and Prosper-- and three sisters: Emeline, Lucy, and MaryJane.

"His mother died about 1849. His father remarried but never came west to Utah. Calvin was baptized into the Mormon church at the age of seventeen in Bannock County, Illinois in 1844.

"Elizabeth Lucretia Thorn was the daughter of Ashael and Sarah Lester Thorn, born in Monrovia, Cayuga county, New York on March 25, 1832. She was the second child in a family of ten: three boys--William L., Richard, and Isaac, and seven girls--Maryann, Sarah, Nancy, Lydia, Abigale, Barbara Ann, and Elizabeth Lucretia. Her mother died about 1852 and her father re-married Elizabeth Lusk, a widow. They came west with his family.

"Calvin and Elizabeth were married December 18, 1848 in Pottawatamie, Iowa. Sarah and Calvin were born to them here. In 1853 they and several other members of the Thorn family moved west to Utah settleing in the West Weber area (now known as Uintah). Their third child, Mary Elizabeth, was born here. While living in Uintah, Calvin was called to serve in Col. Johnson's army. They were among the saints that made the move south--leaving their homes to be burned if necessary. On returning they settled in Farmington, Utah, where Lucy Melissa, their fourth child, was born. Later they moved to Three Mile Creek which is now known as Perry, Utah. In about 1857, the Ashael Thorn family moved here too and they built their homes near each other. Barbara Ann, their fifth child was born here. Three years later in 1860 they moved to Hyrum, Utah.

"Being among the first settlers in Hyrum, they took an active part in civic and church activities. Calvin became the first Bishop of Hyrum and was loved and remembered by people for a great many years. Two more children were born to them here, Anna Marie and Ashael.

"In 1865 they were called to settle the Bear Lake, Idaho area. They settled in Montpelier where due to very harsh winters, they lost their crops. Very discouraged, they returned to Hyrum, Utah. Their son, William Augustus, was born here in Montpelier.

"About 1868 they returned to Montpelier. Elizabeth taught the first school in town--teaching out of their small log home. Another daughter, Lydia Emeline, was born to them here. Later, they built a large home on the banks of the creek that ran through town. Their last two children were born here--Orissa Vilate and Alice. Orissa Vilate died at nine months old. Also at this residence, their daughter, Lucy Melissa Bigham Williams, died after giving birth to a baby girl. She was only eighteen years old. This two week old baby girl was raised by her grandparents, Calvin and Elizabeth.

"In 1878, the Binghams, their married son and daughters, and a large group of other people left Montpelier intending to go to Arizona and settle an area there. But upon reaching Salem, Utah, they decided to stop there for a year or so. The Perry Bingham family and the Robert H. Williams family were among those that settled in Salem for that short time. In 1880, with several other families including the Alonzo Bingham family, Calvin and Elizabeth headed for Arizona again. They stopped in St. Johns, Arizona where their daughter, Anna Marie and husband William were living. They stayed there until 1891 when they moved to St. David, Arizona. Arriving on Christmas Day, they joined others of the original group who had settled that area and started up a freighting business. This business engaged in the freight business between Benson, Tombstone and Bisbee. Although Calvin was a blacksmith by trade, he found freighting more profitable. So he bought a team of large horses to go with the team he already had, and followed this occupation for a little more than a year.

"Calvin Bingham left his home with a wagon loaded with freight for Bisbee, about 56 miles from St. David. On the following day, May 27,1883, while going down a steep grade, his freight wagon upset pinning him under the wagon and causing his death.

"His body was brought home by three men from his ward. Funeral services were held in the ward at St. David May 29, 1883. Speakers were Patriarch P.C. Merrill, President David P. Kimball, J.H. Martineau, Bishop Henry Horn, and S.B. Merrill, who all spoke highly of the integrity, faithfullness and honesty of Calvin. After the death of her husband, Elizabeth Lucretia Bingham, with her family consisting of the younger children Ashael, William, Emeline, Lucy Jane, a grand-daughter, and Alice moved to Mesa, Arizona where her three oldest children, Clarinda, Mary Elizabeth Phelps, and Calvin Perry Bingham lived. She had only been there a short time when another sorrow came into her life. Ashael, then 23 years old, had an appendicitis attack and died just four months after his father's death.

"The family spent three years in Mesa and then returned to their former home in Montpelier, Idaho. Then in 1888 they moved to Vernal, Utah where Lucretia spent the remainder of her life. She was a faithful LDS woman and worked in the Relief Society organization. While in Montpelier she had been called to work among the sick and dying. She helped make burial clothes and to dress and lay out the dead. She underwent many hardships of the early pioneers. She learned to be thrifty and to economize so she could feed and clothe her family. It is said that when she bought a piece of calico, she would tear a quilt block from it for the quilt she was making. She made very nice quilts that were the envy of her friends and neighbors. Thread was expensive, so she would ravel out cloth to sew her blocks together with. She taught her 11 children to be thrifty and industrious too. She passed away at her home in Vernal Nov. 28, 1903 as a result of a heart attack."

Calvin married Elizabeth Lucretia Thorne on 18 Dec 1848 in Big Pigeon, Pottawattamie, Iowa. Elizabeth (daughter of Ashal Enoch Thorne and Sarah Lester) was born on 25 Mar 1832 in Moravia, Cayuga, New York; died on 28 Nov 1903 in Vernal, Uintah, Utah; was buried in Vernal Memorial Park, Vernal, Uintah, Utah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1822, New Hampshire
• Alternate death: 11 Apr 1876, Clinton County, Iowa

Notes:

Her headstone spells her first name "Noemi," and gives her date of death as 10 Apr 1876, not 11 Apr as would be implied by the newspaper story below.

"Mrs. N. J. Gage, the widow of Moses Gage, the former Station Agent of the Northwestern Railway at Clinton, committed suicide by shooting herself through the head with a revolver, at 10 o'clock Tuesday night. Temporary insanity is the supposed cause. She leaves two daughters, one married. She was a very estimable lady, and there is considerable excitement." [Davenport (Iowa) Quad-City Times, citation details below]

Family/Spouse: Moses Gage. Moses (son of Moses Gage and Sibyl Barron) was born on 1 Mar 1819 in Bedford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire; was christened on 13 Jun 1819 in Merrimack, Hillsborough, New Hampshire; died on 28 Mar 1871 in Iowa; was buried in St. Joseph's Cemetery, DeWitt, Clinton, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Asa married Catherine Ariana Rupert on 25 Feb 1839 in Pekin, Tazewell, Illinois. Catherine (daughter of Henry S. Rupert and Naomi Henkel) was born on 3 Dec 1819 in Point Pleasant, Macon, Virginia; died on 4 Feb 1901 in Washington, Tazewell, Illinois; was buried in Glendale Cemetery, Washington, Tazewell, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]