Muriel Courtenay

Muriel married John de Dinham before 27 Mar 1357. John (son of John de Dinham and Margaret de Botreaux) was born about 1318 in of Hartland, Devon, England; died on 7 Jan 1383. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also spelled Dynham.

Joan married Maurice Berkeley before May 1400. Maurice (son of Thomas Berkeley and Katherine Botetourte) was born on 1 Jun 1358 in Uley, Gloucestershire, England; died on 2 Oct 1400. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1359

John married Eleanor Montagu before 3 Feb 1380. Eleanor (daughter of John de Montagu and Margaret Monthermer) was born about 1364; died between 1393 and 1394; was buried in St. Mary's, Kingskerswell, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Philippe Lovel before 1406. Philippe (daughter of John Lovel and Maud Holand) died on 15 May 1465. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Gloucestershire. Sheriff of Gloucestershire 1430-31, 1436-37. He served in France in the army of John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford.

Maurice married Ellen Montfort before 1428. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Muriel married Edward Hastings before 20 Feb 1406. Edward (son of Hugh Hastings and Anne Despenser) was born on 21 May 1382 in Fenwick, Yorkshire, England; died on 6 Jan 1438. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Joan Arches before 12 Jul 1434. Joan (daughter of Richard Arches and Joan Ardern) was born about 1410; died between 26 Jan 1497 and 3 Nov 1497. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Gloucestershire 1484-85. Knight of the shire for Worcestershire.

He fought for Richard III at Bosworth in 1485, and in the wake of that defeat he was attainted, 7 Nov 1485, and all his estates declared forfeit. The following year the new king, Henry VII, granted what had been William's manor of Northfield, Worcestershire to the king's uncle Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford. In 1489 William was restored in blood, and granted the reversion of Northfield after the death of Jasper Tudor. Despite this, when Jasper died in 1495, the king took possession of Northfield.

Family/Spouse: Anne Stafford. Anne (daughter of Humphrey Stafford and Eleanor Aylesbury) died after 1502. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1411, of Gressenhall, Norfolk, England

John married Anne Morley about 21 Apr 1434. Anne (daughter of Thomas Morley and Isabel de la Pole) died in 1471; was buried in Gressenhall, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Gilbert Debenham in 1432. Gilbert (son of Gilbert Debenham and Ellen Jernegan) was born about 1402; died on 10 May 1481. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Nicholas Carew after 26 Oct 1461. Nicholas (son of Thomas Carew and Joan Carminow) was born about 1444 in of Carew Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died before 21 Nov 1470; was buried in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married John Gyse before 23 Sep 1483. John (son of John de Gyse and Alice Wysham) was born in of Elmore, Gloucestershire, England; died on 30 Sep 1501; was buried in Elmore, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Coningsby. Elizabeth (daughter of Humphrey Coningsby and Alice Fereby) died between 30 Nov 1545 and 8 May 1546. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Robert Hildyard before 8 Apr 1459. Robert (son of Robert Hildyard and Katherine de la Hay) was born about 1435 in of Winestead, Yorkshire, England; died on 21 May 1501. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Anne Gascoigne. Anne (daughter of William Gascoigne and Margaret Clarell) died after 7 Jun 1488. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 5 Dec 1502 and 9 Feb 1503

Notes:

"Elizabeth (Debenham) Brewse was heavily involved in the 1477 negotiations for the marriage of her eldest daughter to John Paston, during which she stressed her own advantageous family connection to 'my nowncle Hastynges' [i.e., John Hastings of Gressenhall (1412-1477)]. Elizabeth was also instrumental in reversing the attainder of her childless brother Sir Gilbert Debenham. She paid £500 in 1501, which helped her eldest son and heir Robert Brewse recover some of the Debenham lands in 1504 and 1507." [Brad Verity, citation details below.]

Elizabeth married Thomas Brewse before 1445. Thomas (son of Robert Brewes and Ela Stapleton) was born about 1406 in of Stinton, Norfolk, England; died on 17 Jun 1482; was buried in Woodbridge Priory, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In 1497 he marched to the relief of Exeter when that city was besieged by the pretender Perkin Warbeck. He was killed by a cannonball while sitting in council at the Siege of Thérouanne, a stage in the Battle of the Spurs.

Edmund married Katherine Huddesfield before 16 Jan 1479. Katherine (daughter of William Huddesfield and Elizabeth Bozun) died after 9 Jun 1528. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called John Guise.

Family/Spouse: Tacy Grey. Tacy (daughter of John Grey and Anne Grey) died before 15 Nov 1558; was buried on 15 Nov 1558 in Elmore, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Isabel Dennis. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Piers Hildyard.

Peter married Jane de la See between 1480 and 1485. Jane (daughter of Martin de la See and Elizabeth Wentworth) died between 20 Jul 1527 and 7 Apr 1528. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Muriel married Ralph Eure on 18 Jan 1482. Ralph (son of William Eure and Margaret Constable) was born in of Ayton in Pickering Lythe, Yorkshire, England; died on 22 Oct 1539. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margery married John Paston in Jul 1477. John (son of John Paston and Margaret Mautby) was born in 1444; died on 28 Aug 1504; was buried in Carmelite Friars, Norwich, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Many sources, including the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, have her as a daughter of Philip Champernoun, but Brice Claggett (citation details below) and Neil P. Thompson argued convincingly that he has to have been, instead, her first husband, after whom she married John Astley.

As "Kat" Champernoun she was governess to the young Lady Elizabeth and, in the words of Brice Clagett (citation details below), "is credited with providing her with the foundation of her excellent education. On Elizabeth's accession in 1558 Kat, now Mrs. Astley, became chief gentlewoman of the privy chamber, and was one of the Queen's closest confidantes until her death in 1565."

Family/Spouse: Philip Champernoun. Philip (son of John Champernoun and Margaret Courtenay) was born about 1479; died on 2 Aug 1545 in Modbury, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Katherine married John Astley about 1545. John (son of Thomas Astley and Anne Wood) was born in of Norfolk, England; died about Jul 1595; was buried in All Saints, Maidstone, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called William Guise.

William married Mary Rotsey before 1540. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Henry Ligon. Henry (son of Richard Lygon and Margery Greville) was born in of Upton St. Leonard's, Gloucestershire, England; died on 31 Jul 1577. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married Ralph Legard about 1520. Ralph (son of Robert Legard and Joan Haldenby) was born about 1490 in of Anlaby, Yorkshire, England; died on 30 Jun 1540. [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]

Family/Spouse: William Clere. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Fyneux. John died on 17 Nov 1525. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"His [Sir John Paston's] financial embarrassment was doubtless eased by the marriage of his son and heir, William, to Sir Henry Heydon's daughter Bridget, whose marriage portion was probably 500 marks. The wedding was already in sight when Sir Henry informed John Paston of the conclusion of the dispute with William Paston: 'How yee and myn ladie, and in what sylk or clooth yee will have these tweyn yong innocentes maried jnne, iff it shuld be purveyed at London to send me word, or ellys at Norwich, as it shall please you and myn ladie ther-affter I shall applie me; for it must bee ordyrd be you in the yong husbondes name.' 1489 seems the year in which to place the end of the controversy and the marriage, as on 10 February 1489 Margery, in writing to John, refers to 'my brodyre Heydon.'" [Colin Richmond,The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century: The First Phase (1990), quoted by Brad Verity, citation details below.]

Family/Spouse: Bridget Heydon. Bridget (daughter of Henry Heydon and Anne Boleyn) was born about 1480; died before 17 Jan 1554; was buried on 17 Jan 1554 in St. Margaret's, Paston, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"She […] had a position in the households of queens Anne of Cleves and Katherine Parr, while her sister-in-law Lady Berkeley was governess to Princess Elizabeth. A committed protestant, with her sister Katherine Raleigh she is reported to have protected the persecuted reformers in Devon. In the summer of 1546 Lady Denny (and by extension her husband) was one of the court protestants whom religious conservatives tried to incriminate through accusations wrung from Anne Askew, a distant relative of Joan's uncle Sir Gawain Carew; Anne would admit only that Lady Denny's servant had brought her money, and Sir Anthony survived as a leading figure among Seymour's associates at the close of the reign." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below]

Joan married Anthony Denny about 4 Feb 1538. Anthony (son of Edmund Denny and Mary Coke) was born on 16 Jan 1501 in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England; died on 10 Sep 1549 in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England; was buried in St. Mary's, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Walter Ralegh. Walter was born in 1505 in of East Budleigh, Devon, England; died in 1581. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Joan, which has led to confusion with her sister who was definitely named Joan.

Jane married Robert Gamage before 1531. Robert (son of Thomas Gamage and Margaret St. John) was born in of Coety, Glamorgan, Wales; died between 27 Oct 1570 and 4 Jan 1571. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called John Guise.

John married Jane Pauncefoot on 27 Jun 1564 in Elmore, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Edward Basset. Edward (son of William Basset and Jane Ashe) was born in of Uley, Gloucestershire, England; died between 3 Jun 1601 and 5 Nov 1602. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Joan Ledgard.

Joan married Richard Skepper after 4 Feb 1551. Richard (son of Richard Skepper and Audrey Grynne) was born about 1495 in of East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, England; died after 26 May 1556. [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]

Notes:

See our entry on her husband Thomas Tyndall for a brief discussion of her death date.

Family/Spouse: Thomas Tyndall. Thomas (son of John Tyndall and Amphyllis Coningsby) was born about 1505 in of Hockwood, Norfolk, England; died about 25 Dec 1583. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Erasmus married Mary Wyndham after 22 Oct 1521. Mary (daughter of Thomas Wyndham and Eleanor Scrope) was born about 1508; died on 1 Jan 1597; was buried in Paston, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Norfolk, 1563.

Clement married Alice Pakington after 1567. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Thomas Astley before 1563. Thomas (son of Thomas Astley and Ann Cruse) was born in of Writtle, Essex, England; died in 1595; was buried in Writtle, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The courtier, author, and explorer. The Walter Ralegh that you're thinking of.

Elizabeth married Robert Haviland on 7 Jul 1604 in Kenn, Somerset, England. Robert (son of Matthew Haviland, Mayor of Bristol and Mary Kitchin) was born before 11 Feb 1577 in of Hawkesbury Barnes, Gloucestershire, England; was christened on 11 Feb 1577 in St. Werbergh's, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England; died before 19 Jul 1648; was buried on 19 Jul 1648 in St. Werbergh's, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane married John Deighton on 12 Apr 1605 in St. Nicholas, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. John (son of Thomas Deighton and Anne) was born before 18 Nov 1568; was christened on 18 Nov 1568 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England; died on 16 May 1640; was buried in St. Nicholas, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Mary Robinson on 11 Apr 1592 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England. Mary died after 1630. [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:

Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1565-66.

“He played little part in national affairs but took a prominent role in the government and political life of his native county and was known as a careful administrator and a ‘just and painstaking magistrate’ [...] A supporter of Edmund Freake, bishop of Norwich (1575–84), Paston was involved in the bitter conflict between the bishop and the puritans for control of the chancellorship of the diocese in 1578. He was described by Bishop Scrambler as an ‘observer of law’ which has been taken to mean that his religious views were either conformist Church of England or impartial (Smith, 214). In 1597 he moved to the new house which his uncle, Sir Clement Paston, had built at Oxnead. Known for his liberality, hospitality and benefactions, Paston is chiefly remembered for the founding and endowment of North Walsham grammar school (the Paston School), in 1606.” [Oxford DNB, citation details below.]

As he lived through her entire reign, presumably he was aware that queen Elizabeth was his third cousin, both of them being great-great grandchildren of London mayor Geoffrey Boleyn and his wife Anne Hoo.

William married Frances Clere on 5 May 1551 in St. Margaret's, Paston, Norfolk, England. Frances (daughter of Thomas Clere and Ann Gyggs) was born in 1531; died in 1610. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Edward Darcy. Edward (son of Arthur Darcy and Mary Carew) was born about 1543 in of Dartford, Kent, England; died on 28 Oct 1612 in Dartford, Kent, England; was buried in St. Botolph's, Aldgate, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane married Capt. William Torrey on 17 Mar 1629. William (son of Philip Torrey and Alice Richards) was born before 21 Dec 1608; was christened on 21 Dec 1608 in Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset, England; died on 10 Jun 1690 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1671, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Notes:

She was a "gateway ancestor," one of LD's five.

Jane married John Lugg on 3 Jan 1628 in St. Nicholas, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. John (son of Richard Lugg) was born before 11 Jul 1595; was christened on 11 Jul 1595 in St. Nicholas, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England; died before 10 Sep 1646; was buried on 10 Sep 1646 in St. Nicholas, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Great Migration Begins shows her baptismal date as 16 Jan 1614, which we suspect may simply be a case of absent-mindedly rendering the date in old style.

Katherine married Thomas Dudley, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony on 4 Apr 1644 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Thomas (son of Capt. Roger Dudley and Susanna Dorne) was born on 12 Oct 1576 in Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, England; died on 31 Jul 1653 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was buried on 6 Aug 1653 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 1640 and 1650

Notes:

Emigrated to New England in 1639. One of AP's two proven gateway ancestors.

He was admitted a pensioner at Sidney College, Cambridge, 8 Jul 1612. He matriculated 1614, B.A., 1617-18. He was Rector of Thorpe by Wainfleete (Thorpe-in-the-Marsh) in 1630, a parish next to Wainfleet All Saints where his elder sister Mary had married the rector in 1622. He left Thorpe-in-the-Marsh sometime before Dec 1638, when John Watts is recorded as the vicar there, and is next seen in Boston, Lincolnshire, where he married his second wife Sarah Fisher. The exact date of his emigration to New England is unknown but it appears to have taken place in 1639. He did not subsequently live long there, but he is recorded there as having arranged for certain monies to be provided to his four older children.

His descendants include Calvin Coolidge, Roy Rogers (the actor and singer, not the guitarist), Tuesday Weld, and John Kerry.

Rev. William Skepper = Jane (first wife)
Jane Skepper = Abraham Browne
Jane Browne = Henry Lunt
Jane Lunt = Nathaniel Drake
Abraham Drake = Martha Eaton
Martha Drake = John Smith
John Smith = Mary "Polly" Mudgett
Mary Hussey Smith = Jacob Lee Merrill
George David Merrill = Mary Bird
Gertrude May Merrill = Frederick George Sanders
Doris May Sanders = Gordon Arnold Markle
Thomas Wayne Markle = Doria L. Ragland
Rachel Megan Markle (1981- ) = Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex

William married Sarah Fisher on 17 Jan 1639 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England. [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]

Anne married Anthony Cope on 7 Apr 1600. Anthony (son of Edward Cope and Elizabeth Mohun) was born between 1548 and 1550; died on 6 Jul 1614. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1631

Family/Spouse: Grace Reddish. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1669, London, England

Notes:

Her second husband was the Rev. Sydrach Simpson, Master of Pembroke Hall at the University of Cambridge.

Isabella married John Launce about 1619. John (son of Robert Launce and Susan Tubb) was born about 1597 in of Penair in St. Clement, Cornwall, England; died before 25 Jun 1635; was buried on 25 Jun 1635 in St. Clement, Cornwall, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was minister at Hull, 1656-1664, and minister of the First Parish of Weymouth, 1664 to 1707.

Samuel married Mercy Chickering on 30 Jul 1695 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Mercy (daughter of Francis Chickering and Anne Fiske) was born in Apr 1648 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts; was christened on 9 Apr 1648 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 12 Mar 1721 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

One of DGH's four proven gateway ancestors.

William married Deborah about 1668. Deborah was born about 1649; died on 8 Feb 1729 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Esther married James Bell before 1658. James was born about 1633; died in 1676 in Raynham, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Esther married Richard Marshall on 11 Feb 1677. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 18 Dec 1710, Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts

Notes:

Probably born in Lynn, Massachusetts.

Sarah married Walter Fairfield on 28 Dec 1654 in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Walter (son of John Fairfield and Elizabeth) was born in 1631 in England; died on 20 Jul 1723 in Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts. [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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Newhall, Derbyshire, England

Edward married Elizabeth Stanhope after 1634. Elizabeth (daughter of Philip Stanhope) died about 1683. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

One of AP's two proven gateway ancestors.

Cotton Mather, in Magnalia Christi Americana, called Mary Launce, second wife of the Rev. John Sherman, a "young gentlewoman [...] a Person of good Education, and Reputation, and honorably descended," whose mother was "daughter to the Lord Darcy, who was Earl of Rivers." She certainly was not, and in his pioneering 1860-64 Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, James Savage took delight at exercising his well-known animus against Mather, who "tells of this wife calling her mother daughter of Darcy, Earl Rivers, one of the Popish Counsellors of Charles I who had no daughter that married a Launce." Savage continues: "If [Mary Launce Sherman] did give [her husband] these myths of her noble descent [...] either she was insane, which he had not sanity enough to discover, or she was irreverently playing on his bottomless credulity." It was left to the great Donald Lines Jacobus, founder of the twentieth-century "Jacobus School" of skeptical, fact-based genealogy, to point out, in a 1944 article, "The Family of Rev. John Sherman" (citation details below), that Mary Launce's mother really was a Darcy, albeit one of the Darcy family of Kent. Isabella Darcy of London, daughter of Sir Edward Darcy, a confidant and ally of Elizabeth I, first married John Launce of Cornwall and, secondly, the Rev. Sydrach Simpson, master of Pembroke Hall at Cambridge University. Her 1668 will names, with others, her sons James Launce and Darcy Launce, and her daughter Mary Sherman. In a subsequent article, "The Darcy Ancestry of Mrs. John Sherman" (citation details below), Jacobus put forth further proofs of Mary Launce's parentage, calling it a "perfect chain of evidence" and remarking that "Few English lines of early colonists are so thoroughly proved."

Descendants of the Rev. John Sherman and Mary Launce include Norman Rockwell, Declaration of Independence signer Robert Treat Paine, and the 68th governor of Massachusetts, William Weld.

Regarding the date of her death, the Early New England Families Study Project (citation details below) states only that she "[d]ied probably at Watertown between 15 October 1705 and 24 December 1712. She was living on 20 October 1704, when she acknowledged a deed." But Watertown records (citation details below) clearly state "m^s Mary Sherman (widow of mr. John Sherman Late: R^d: pastor of the church in watertown) deceas^t march : 9 : 1709/10".

Mary married Rev. John Sherman about 1647. John (son of Edmund Sherman and Grace Makin) was born on 26 Dec 1613 in Dedham, Essex, England; was christened on 4 Jan 1614 in Dedham, Essex, England; died on 8 Aug 1685 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in East Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Mary Symmes on 26 Dec 1700 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Capt. William Symmes and Mercy Chickering) was born about 1678 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets; died on 14 Feb 1758 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Joseph Hall on 19 Jul 1693 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Joseph (son of George Hall and Mary) was born in 1642; died on 17 Apr 1705 in Bristol County, Massachusetts; was buried in Neck-o-Land Cemetery, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 24 Dec 1655, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Sarah married Thomas Abbe on 16 Dec 1683 in Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts. Thomas (son of John Abbe and Mary) was born between 1650 and 1656; died on 17 May 1728 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [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]

Katherine married Erasmus Phillips about 1 Sep 1660. Erasmus (son of Richard Phillips and Elizabeth Dryden) was born in of Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died on 18 Jan 1697. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1645

Notes:

Minister at Sudbury, Massachusetts, Elizabethtown, New Jersey, and Salem, Massachusetts.

James married Mary Walker on 13 May 1680 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Thomas Walker and Mary Stone) was born on 9 Aug 1661 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died after 11 Mar 1709. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ann Torrey and her husband James Humphrey were half second cousins, being both descended from William Torrey (d. 1690) but by different wives of his.

Ann married Maj. James Humphrey on 5 Dec 1734 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. James (son of James Humphrey and Margaret Torrey) was born on 22 Jun 1711 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 2 May 1798 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1704

Family/Spouse: Bethia Williams. Bethia (daughter of Daniel Williams) was born on 28 Oct 1711 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts; died on 18 Feb 1739. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Hannah Boardman. Hannah (daughter of Daniel Boardman and Hannah Wright) was born on 18 Dec 1693 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [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]

Family/Spouse: John Shorter. John (son of John Shorter, Lord Mayor of London) was born in of Bybrook, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He and his wife Abigail Stone "settled in Springfield, Mass., where he was a schoolmaster and physician; but about 1722 they removed to the region which in 1731 became the town of Brimfield, where he was a physician, town clerk for thirty successive years, representative three years, and captain of militia." They were married for nearly seventy years.

John married Abigail Stone on 9 Nov 1703 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Abigail (daughter of Daniel Stone and Mary Moore) was born on 13 Feb 1681 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 9 Mar 1772 in Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Said to have fought in the Revolution.

James married Betty Prat on 21 Dec 1758 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Betty (daughter of Samuel Pratt and Betty Bicknell) was born on 15 Apr 1738 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 24 Oct 1831 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Bethiah married Col. Jonathan Shaw on 17 Nov 1757 in Raynham, Bristol, Massachusetts. Col. (son of Jonathan Shaw and Mercy Mason) was born on 14 Feb 1732 in Raynham, Bristol, Massachusetts; died on 26 Nov 1796 in Raynham, Bristol, Massachusetts; was buried in Hall and Dean Cemetery, Raynham, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married John Burroughs on 9 Jan 1740 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [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]

Catherine married Robert Walpole on 30 Jul 1700 in Knightsbridge Chapel, London, England. Robert (son of Robert Walpole and Mary Burwell) was born on 26 Aug 1676 in Houghton, Norfolk, England; died on 18 Mar 1745 in London, England; was buried on 25 Mar 1745 in Houghton, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 31 Mar 1703, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts

Bezaleel married Abigail Graves on 4 Feb 1732 in Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. Abigail (daughter of Ebenezer Graves and Mary Colton) was born on 18 Feb 1707 in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The published records of Weymouth state that she died "in a fit."

The James Humphrey given on Find a Grave as her father, who died in 1778 and was married to a woman named Thankfull, was not her father.

Mary married David Blanchard on 11 Jul 1782 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. David (son of David Blanchard and Mary Walker) was born on 10 Dec 1759 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 3 Jul 1824 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts; was buried in North Weymouth Cemetery, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She is named in her father's will.

Bethiah married Seth Washburn on 16 Jan 1781 in Raynham, Bristol, Massachusetts. Seth (son of Israel Washburn and Leah Fobes) was born on 29 Sep 1761 in Raynham, Bristol, Massachusetts; died on 8 Feb 1837; was buried in Pleasant Street Cemetery, Raynham, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"John Burroughs, Jr., went to New Hampshire with his father in 1765 and removed his family there in 1767; was living in Alstead in 1826. He volunteered under Captain Webber of Walpole in 1777 to go to Bennington, Vermont, and was engaged in battle there; from there he proceeded against Burgoyne at Still Water and returned safely in the fall. He later held a commission as Captain." [Abbe-Abbey Genealogy, citation details below]

Family/Spouse: Mehitable Carlton. Mehitable was born in of Tolland, Tolland, Connecticut. [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]

Notes:

Christened Horatio Walpole, he was an antiquarian, an art historian, the author of the first Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto, and of letters of great social and historical interest, which have been published in 48 volumes by Yale University Press.

MP for Callington, Cornwall, 1741-1754; for Castle Rising, Norfolk, 1754-1757; and for King's Lynn, Norfolk, 1757-1768. Earl of Orford from 1791 to his death.

Abigail married Joseph Thompson on 19 Feb 1754 in Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. Joseph (son of James Thompson and Mary) was born on 25 Mar 1733 in Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts; died in 1795 in Virginia, Coshocton, Ohio; was buried in Virginia, Coshocton, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1791, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts
• Alternate death: 7 Aug 1875

Notes:

Served in the War of 1812, 2nd Massachusetts Militia, Lieut. Col. Samuel Webb, Jr. commanding, 1st Brigade, Jonathan Cleverly commanding.

David married Sarah "Sally" Simmons on 20 Nov 1814 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of Allen Simmons and Silence) was born on 12 Dec 1794 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Julia married Isaac Leonard on 29 May 1819 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Isaac (son of Capt. Joshua Leonard and Hannah Jacobs) was born on 11 Aug 1790 in Raynham, Bristol, Massachusetts; died on 21 Jan 1853; was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Tremont, Tazewell, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rhoda married Smith EmeryAlstead, Cheshire, New Hampshire. Smith (son of Joshua Emery and Rachel Currier) was born on 16 Aug 1771 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts. [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]

Notes:

He appears to have been served in the Revolution for nine months beginning in July 1779, under Captain Reuben Lilly.

Family/Spouse: Sarah Clark. Sarah was born in 1767; died on 15 Jan 1852; was buried in Peru Center Cemetery, Peru, Berkshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Martha Jane Hammett. Martha (daughter of Jeremiah B. Hammett and Esther Macomber) was born on 22 Apr 1851 in Acushnet, Bristol, Massachusetts; died in 1940 in Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts; was buried in North Weymouth Cemetery, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

9th Mayor of Pekin, 1860-61.

Isaac married Louisa Mount on 14 Mar 1855 in Tazewell County, Illinois. Louisa (daughter of Sexton Mount and Lucretia Kendig) was born on 23 Sep 1836 in New York; died on 21 Feb 1932 in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California; was buried in Lakeside Cemetery, Pekin, Tazewell, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Laury. Laury was born about 1790; died about Jan 1829 in Reading, Vermont. [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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 3 Jul 1788, Hampshire County, Massachusetts

Notes:

Also called Sarah Thompson.

Sarah married Elisha Branch on 3 Oct 1810 in Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Elisha (son of Nathan Branch and Elizabeth "Polly" Woodward) was born on 9 Apr 1787 in Worthington, Hampshire, Massachusetts; died on 14 Nov 1856 in York, Medina, Ohio; was buried in Branch Cemetery, Medina, Medina, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Daisy married Thomas Vinson Nash on 23 Jan 1909 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Thomas (son of Thomas Jefferson Nash and Alice Abia Hollis) was born on 1 Oct 1878 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 5 Oct 1932 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts; was buried in Highland Cemetery, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The record of his marriage to Mary Lou Turner proves that he was a son of Isaac Eugene Leonard and Louisa Mount.

Frederick married Mary Lou Turner on 21 Feb 1882 in Tazewell County, Illinois. Mary (daughter of Brig. Gen. Charles Turner and Sarah E. Henry) was born on 2 Feb 1857 in Illinois; died on 10 Nov 1941; was buried in Lakeside Cemetery, Pekin, Tazewell, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Janette married John Abiel Fellows on 7 Oct 1845 in Essex, Chittenden, Vermont. John (son of Silas Fellows and Mary "Polly" Sherwood) was born on 7 Jan 1810 in Sandy Hill, Washington, New York; died on 13 Mar 1890 in Sandstone, Jackson, Michigan; was buried in Dearing Cemetery, Sandstone, Jackson, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From his Find a Grave page (citation details below): "Henry attended Lombard College in Galesburg, IL. Along with his uncle, George W. Danforth, they built the town of Danforth, IL. and had a banking business there. He built the Danforth Bank and Danforth Hotel in Washington and also had a lumber company here. Besides being a successful businessman he also served as the Mayor of Washington."

Note that the Wikipedia page for Danforth, Illinois calls the town's founder "George M. Danforth", citing Henry Gannett's 1905 The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States, which also calls him "George M. Danforth." From the evidence of Find a Grave, and also the town records of Norton, Massachusetts, this is an error both in Gannett's book and on Wikipedia. At https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40947601/george-walker-danforth, we find a page for an uncle of Henry Rupert Danforth whose gravestone at Glendale Cemetery in Washington, Illinois clearly reads "GEORGE W. DANFORTH 1807-1882". The page states that his middle initial W stood for "Walker". and that he was born 5 Sep 1807 in Norton, Bristol, Massachusetts, a son of Asa Danforth and Hannah Walker. And indeed the town records of Norton show a George Walker Danforth born 5 Sep 1807, "ch. Asa and Hannah".

Henry married Mary Elizabeth Wenger on 2 Nov 1865. Mary (daughter of Dr. Elias Wenger and Eliza Jane Smith) was born on 15 Nov 1843; died on 11 Jan 1930; was buried in Glendale Cemetery, Washington, Tazewell, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1813
• Alternate death: 13 Dec 1914, Lansing, Ingham, Michigan

Notes:

History of Medina County and Ohio (citation details below), naming her as a daughter of Elisha Branch and Sallie Thompson of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, calls her "Mrs. Albert Mead, in Michigan".

From Edythe Alma (Pearsall) Palmer (citation details below):

Sarah Branch Mead moved from a New York county to the Lansing area with her brood of six, lived in a log cabin and taught her children (plus the neighbors') how to read from newspapers on the walls, before she was able to add a real book to her copy of the Bible and one by Charles Dickens. I have a photo (circa 1903) of her at least 90, wearing her black bombazine highnecked shirtwaist, wearing her gold wedding ring, and reading the Bible. (I don't believe that many women could read at all at that time.) Of course, it paid off. Grandpa Mead became a proofreader for the Detroit Free Press, a Shakespeare scholar and a "reader" in the Christian Science church! He loved to laugh and tell funny stories. I remember the one about the witches in Macbeth.

Sarah married Albert Cyrus Mead on 7 Jan 1847. Albert was born in Dec 1825 in New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Constance married Henry Geddes Hartwell on 26 Jun 1937. Henry (son of Bert Arthur Hartwell and Mabel Rebecca Geddes) was born on 11 Oct 1907 in Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts; died on 5 Feb 1998 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts; was buried in Spring Brook Cemetery, Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Louise married Herman Wenger Danforth on 18 Oct 1905 in Pekin, Tazewell, Illinois. Herman (son of Henry Rupert Danforth, Mayor of Washington, Illinois and Mary Elizabeth Wenger) was born on 15 Jun 1872 in Danforth, Iroquois, Illinois; died on 8 Aug 1949 in Danforth, Iroquois, Illinois; was buried in Glendale Cemetery, Washington, Tazewell, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Emma married Orion Jedediah Wilcox on 1 Jan 1879 in Sandstone, Jackson, Michigan. Orion (son of John Banks Wilcox and Betsy Dunham Howe) was born on 3 Aug 1852 in Lempster, Sullivan, New Hampshire; died on 10 Jun 1904 in Ludington, Mason, Michigan; was buried on 12 Jun 1904 in Lakeview Cemetery, Ludington, Mason, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Herman married Louise W. Leonard on 18 Oct 1905 in Pekin, Tazewell, Illinois. Louise (daughter of Frederick Leonard and Mary Lou Turner) was born in 1883 in Illinois; died in 1959 in Illinois; was buried in Glendale Cemetery, Washington, Tazewell, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nathan married Mary C. Egan on 12 Oct 1921 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan. Mary (daughter of William Egan and Margaret Livingston) was born about 1857 in Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to his obituary in the Detroit Free Press, he was a compositor for them (1880-1890), not a proofreader as reported in his granddaughter Edythe Alma (Pearsall) Palmer's undated letter quoted in our entry on his mother. From 1890 until his retirement in 1926, he was a customs officer in Detroit. According to Edythe Alma (Pearsall) Palmer, he was also an amateur Shakespeare scholar. He must have been well-liked; obituary notices appeared for him in newspapers in Detroit, Lansing, and Battle Creek.

Edwin married Carolyn Green on 22 Jan 1873 in Lansing, Ingham, Michigan. Carolyn (daughter of Capt. John Green) was born on 22 Jan 1852 in Lansing, Ingham, Michigan; died on 22 Jun 1932 in Albion, Calhoun, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Myron married Katherine Kappeller on 16 Oct 1878 in Ingham County, Michigan. Katherine was born on 17 Feb 1859 in Elba, Genesee, New York; died on 16 Jan 1934 in Mason, Ingham, Michigan; was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Mason, Ingham, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Ella A. Holmes on 5 Jul 1881 in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Ella was born about 1862; died after 5 Feb 1922. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Emma married Lucius R. Williams on 14 Nov 1887 in Lorain County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1862, Michigan

Family/Spouse: John B. Hanson. John died after 19 Dec 1932. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alma married George E. Newell on 12 Nov 1885 in Lorain County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lois married Charles A. Quay on 6 Oct 1896 in Lansing, Ingham, Michigan. Charles (son of Sanford Quay and Margery Thompson) was born about 1863 in Green County, Indiana; died after 9 Jul 1938. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Eva J.. Eva died before 18 Mar 1933. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: E. Viola Andress. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lieutenant (JG), US Naval Reserve, WWII.

His ashes were scattered at sea by the US Navy.

Herman married Ruth Marie Gelpi in Nov 1944 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana. Ruth (daughter of Dr. Maurice Joseph Gelpi and Ruth Marie de Grange) was born on 10 Jan 1926 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana; died on 16 Dec 2000 in Scottsdale, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1891, Michigan

Notes:

Her marriage to Frank Leroy Heck ended in divorce, and yet they are buried next to one another at Forest Hill Cemetery in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin.

Ada married Frank LeRoy Heck on 20 Aug 1918 in Ludington, Mason, Michigan, and was divorced. Frank (son of David Peter Heck and Isabelle "Belle" Huffman) was born on 28 Feb 1890 in Oblong, Crawford, Illinois; died on 5 Dec 1963 in Skokie, Cook, Illinois; was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Wisconsin Rapids, Wood, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ada married Henry L. Talbot on 8 Dec 1944 in Cook County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1884, Michigan
• Alternate birth: Abt 1885, Michigan

Angeline married Arthur Hamilton Pearsall on 3 Jun 1906 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan. Arthur (son of William Augustus Pearsall and Angeline Quigley) was born on 11 Dec 1883 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan; died in Apr 1974. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabelle married George Alfred Higgins, Jr. on 23 Jan 1945 in Rochester, Olmsted, Minnesota. George (son of George Alfred Higgins, Sr. and Dora Haley) was born on 30 Mar 1917 in Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas; died on 3 Sep 1994 in King County, Washington; was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1922, Michigan

Edythe married William Ellsworth Palmer on 15 Feb 1951 in Cook County, Illinois. William (son of Claude Hutchinson Palmer and Grace Elizabeth Howell) was born on 24 Oct 1922 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana; died on 11 Mar 2005; was buried in Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, Elwood, Will, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: (Private). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: (Private). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]