Surname Saturday ~ GIDDINGS of Ipswich, Massachusetts

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:  

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/09/surname-saturday-lawrence-of-ipswich.html   

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]).