The Giddings Family Register Chest of Drawers
Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont
GIDDINGS
George Giddings and his wife, Jane Lawrence, with three
indentured servants, were aboard the ship Planter which came to Boston on 2
April 1635. He brought with him a letter
of recommendation from the rector at St. Albans, his home town. You can read all about the Lawrence family,
which was also aboard the Planter with three generations and more servants, in
my Surname Saturday post last week at this link:
George Giddings was from a wealthy family in St. Albans,
Herfordshire, England, and he is mentioned in his father’s will. He also had a marriage bond which mentions
his future step-father-in-law, John Tuttle. Upon settling at Ipswich,
Massachusetts with his extended Lawrence and Tuttle in-laws, he served as
deputy to the General Court, selectman, and was a deacon of his church.
George Giddings left extensive probate records in Essex
County when he died intestate in 1676.
He was one of the highest tax payers in Ipswich, and his estate was
valued at over 1020 pounds sterling. I
descend from two of his eight children. They
are two long lineages that stay in Ipswich or Ipswich’s Chebacco Parish (now
the town of Essex) since every generation lived there, right down to my mother
who was born in Ipswich!
For more information on the GIDDINGS family:
The Great Migration, Volume III G-H, pages 52 -56 “George
Giddings”
Early Inhabitants of Ipswich, Massachusetts, by Abraham Hammatt,
1880 (Known as the Hammatt Papers)
(available online at https://archive.org/details/earlyinhabitants13hamm
)
Original Lists of Persons of Quality: 1600 – 1700, by John
Camden Hotten, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1980.
The Giddings Family: or, the Descendants of George Giddings who came
from St. Albans, England to Ipswich, Massachusetts in 1635 by Minot S.
Giddings, 1882.
For more information on the Giddings Family Register Chest
at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont, click at this link: http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-giddings-family-register-chest.html
For the English origins of George Giddings see the New
England Historic Genealogical Society Register,
volume 135, pages 274 – 286.
Also, see my LAWRENCE Surname Saturday post:
My GIDDINGS genealogy:
Generation 1: George
Giddings, son of John Giddings and Joan Purrier. He was born 24 September 1609 in Clapham,
Bedfordshire, England and died 1 June 1676 in Ipswich, Massachusetts; married
on 20 February 1634 in St. Albans, Herfordshire, England to Jane Lawrence, daughter
of Thomas Lawrence and Joan Antrobus.
She was born 18 December 1614 in St. Albans, died 2 March 1680 in
Ipswich. Eight children and I descend
from two of them.
Lineage A:
Generation 2: Thomas Giddings m. Mary Goodhue
Generation 3: William Giddings m. Sarah Hitchings
Generation 4: Thomas Giddings m. Martha Smith
Generation 5: Sarah Giddings m. Amos Burnham
Generation 6: Judith Burnham m. Joseph Allen
Generation 7: Joseph Allen m. Orpha Andrews
Generation 8: Joseph Gilman Allen m. Sarah Burnham Mears
Generation 9: Joseph
Elmer Allen m. Carrie Maude Batchelder
Generation 10: Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda
Hitchings (my grandparents)
Lineage B:
Generation 2: John
Giddings m. Sarah Alcock
Generation 3: Elizabeth Giddings m. Mark Haskell
Generation 4: Mark Haskell m. Martha Tuthill
Generation 5: Lucy Haskell m. Jabez Treadwell
Generation 6: Nathaniel Treadwell m. Mary Hovey
Generation 7: Jabez Treadwell m. Betsey Jillings Homan
Generation 8: Eliza Ann Treadwell m. Abijah Hitchings
Generation 9: Abijah Franklin Hitchings m. Hannah Eliza
Lewis
Generation 10: Arthur Treadwell Hitchings m. Florence Etta
Hoogerzeil
Generation 11: Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer
Allen (my grandparents, see above)
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To Cite/Link to this post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ GIDDINGS of Ipswich, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted September 27, 2014, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/09/surname-saturday-giddings-of-ipswich.html: accessed [access date]).
Sheesh, how many cousin connections do we have, Heather? I descend from George Giddings and Jane Lawrence from John, right down to Mark Haskell and Martha Tuttle/Tuthill. Then through Jabez's sister Elizabeth, who married Jeremiah Fitts. And what a neat register on the chest!
ReplyDeleteYep, another connection, along with the Tuthills/Tuttles and Haskells.
ReplyDeleteHi there cousin Karen. I'm descended from Mark Haskell & Martha Tuttle's daughter Martha Haskell and her husband John Safford.
ReplyDeleteHi Bill! Always great to have a cousin "shout out", ha.
DeleteHi...I have recently connected my family to the Giddings Family, through the Lawrence's. But Minot Giddings, in the Giddings Family genealogy (1882) says that George Gidding's wife was Jane TUTTLE, not Lawrence. Is there any confirmation that this text is incorrect and that Jane Lawrence (dau. of Thomas and Joan (Antrobus) Lawrence) is the right person?
ReplyDeleteHi Scott, There have been many new updates to the Giddings family genealogy since 1882. Please see my update to this post, the link to the LAWRENCE family "Surname Saturday" post of 2014. Especially the journal article of 1978 and Anderson's Great Migration books, which have articles on GIDDINGS, LAWRENCE and many other families mentioned above.
DeleteHi! My Aunt Pat traced our ancestory back to George Giddings who came to America on the boat the Planter with his wife Jane. My great Grandfather is Arthur Vern Giddings He was born in 1883, March 19 in Hesperia, MI. His father is Joshua Giddings born in OH in 1846. I'm excited to learn more about my family!
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