My maternal line
My mother-
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| Little Sister, Yours Truly and Mother |
My grandmother – Gertrude Matilda Hitchings
b. 1 August 1905, Beverly,
Massachusetts
d. 3 November 2001, Peabody,
Massachusetts
m. 14 February 1925 to Stanley
Elmer Allen in Hamilton, Massachusetts
My great grandmother - Florence Etta Hoogerzeil
d. 10 February 1941, Hamilton,
Massachusetts
m. 25 December 1890 to Arthur
Treadwell Hitchings in Beverly, Massachusetts
3x great grandmother – Mary Etta Healey
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| Mary Etta is seated, with the baby on her lap Florence Etta is standing with a baby |
b. 19 May 1852, Beverly,
Massachusetts
d. 23 July 1932, Beverly,
Massachusetts
m. 14 March 1870 to Peter
Hoogerzeil in Salem, Massachusetts
4x great grandmother – Matilda Weston
b. October 1825, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
d. 19 August 1909, Beverly, Massachusetts
m. 3 February 1848 to Edward
Joseph Healey
5x great grandmother – Mary CLEMENTS
(or PRATT?)
m. to Zadoc Weston
Mary, my 5th
great grandmother, is a mystery to me. I
can travel back thirteen or fourteen generations on many of the branches in my
family tree, but my maternal line ends after six generations with a solid brick
wall. I've tried to smash this wall for
nearly 30 years.
The
Mayflower Society’s Five Generations Project Book (Silver Book, Volume XIV, Myles
Standish, 2007, page 121) lists the wife of Zadoc Weston as Mary Pratt of
Chester, Nova Scotia. However, my 3x
great grandmother’s death record in Beverly, Massachusetts lists her parents as
Zadoc Weston and Mary Clement. Did Mary
Pratt remarry someone name Clement? Was there a completely different wife named
Mary Clement? Was the informant wrong?
Another
possible clue: Zadoc Weston, her husband
was born 1761 probably in Plympton, Massachusetts, son of Nathan Weston and Hannah
Everson. Nathan is a descendant of the
following Mayflower passengers: Edward
Doty, George Soule, and Myles Standish
My mtDNA maternal
haplogroup is H. Is that a clue?
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I need more pictures! I envy those who have pictures this far back.
ReplyDeleteYou know I know what you're dealing with - ah, mysteries. Have you already looked to find the baptism of Matilda Weston? I wonder if her godparents' names would be a clue to ensuring you are on the right track.
ReplyDeleteWendy, I have very little information on Matilda because there are so few records in Nova Scotia. No baptism and no solid birth record. Sigh!
DeleteIn the back of my mind I question the published books.........sometimes it just doesn't seem like it could be right putting it together with what I know now.
ReplyDeleteAnd I, too, envy those with pictures of anybody. The only possibility of any pictures at all are owned by one of those people who are 90 years old, "grandma said", and they won't share anything they have. I have already disproved many things "grandma said" but I sure would like a picture.