Who was Susannah, wife of Thomas Burnham of Ipswich, Massachusetts, my 7th great grandfather?
According to a microfilm at the Family History Library “Burnham Family Lineage Charts”, a book by Walter J. Burnham, 1966 a Thomas Burnham was born on 30 September 1673 and married 30 September 1700 to a woman named Susannah or Margaret Boardman, born 5 April 1681. Both died in 1748. According to the vital records of Ipswich, Massachusetts, another Thomas Burnham (my 1st cousin 9 generations removed, son of James Burnham (1650 – 1729), married Margaret Boardman on 30 September 1708 in Ipswich. These two Thomas Burnhams are two different people. Susannah is not Margaret Boardman.
In the book Burnham Genealogy, written by Roderick
Henry Burnham in 1869 my 7th great grandfather, Thomas Burnham,
married a Susannah, maiden name unknown.
They are not listed in the vital records. They had six children, including a son Nathan
who died at Fort Ticonderoga during the French and Indian War in 1758 . His
son, Nathan, Jr. , was an early settler at Dunbarton, New Hampshire.
So who was Susannah?
She would be my 7th great grandmother and I cannot find her
in the primary source records. Nor is their son
in the vital records – Stephen Burnham, my 6th great grandfather,
who removed from Essex County and went to Amherst, New Hampshire to the part of
town that is now the town of Milford. Stephen
is member #3 of the first nineteen members of the First Congregational Church
in Milford, founded in 1788. His name is
on the first list of tax payers in Milford, 1 April 1794.
Stephen Burnham and his wife, Mary Andrews, had seven sons
who all served in the Revolutionary War.
Colonel Joshua Burnham, Susannah’s grandson, my 5th great
grandfather. Colonel Burnham lived on his parents land in Milford, New Hampshire where he built
a tavern that still stands on North River Road.
It is not far from where I live now.
Does anyone have a clue to the identity of Susannah?
My lineage from
Susannah UNKNOWN:
Generation 1:
Susannah UNKNOWN, married Thomas Burnham, son of John Burnham and
Elizabeth Wells. Six children.
Generation 2: Stephen Burnham, born about 1715 in Ipswich,
died about 1790 in Milford, New Hampshire; married 16 August 1735 in Ipswich to
Mary Andrews, daughter of Thomas Andrews and Mary Smith. She was born about 1712 in Ipswich. Thirteen
children.
Generation 3: Colonel
Joshua Burnham, born 26 January 1754 in Gloucester, died 7 June 1835 in
Milford, New Hampshire; married on 21 January 1779 to Jemima Wyman, daughter of
Increase Wyman and Catherine UNKNOWN.
She was born 10 February 1757 in Billerica, and died 6 September 1843 in
South Boston. Eleven children.
Generation 4: Jemima
Burnham, born 9 May 1783 in Milford, died 5 August 1868 at 88 Emerson Street in
South Boston; married on 22 November 1810 to Romanus Emerson, son of John
Emerson and Katherine Eaton. He was born
1 September 1782 in Townsend, and died 10 October 1852 in South Boston. Seven
children.
Generation 5: George
Emerson m. Mary Esther Younger
Generation 6: Mary Katharine Emerson m. George E. Batchlder
Generation 7: Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen
Generation 8: Stanley
Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)
Here are a few more
ancestresses with UNKNOWN maiden names or unknown parents:
Catherine UNKNOWN, wife of Increase WYMAN (b. 1732)
Billerica, Massachusetts
Margery UNKNOWN, (d. 1687) wife of three different men who
were all my 10th great grandfathers!
Believe it or not! William
Godfrey (d. 1671), Thomas Webster (1570 – 1634), and John Marrian, all of
seacoast New Hampshire.
Hannah SMITH married George Lillie in 1659 in Reading,
Massachusetts. Who are her parents? https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/07/surname-saturday-smith-of-reading.html
UNKNOWN wife of William BATES (about 1675 – before 1731), resident
of Rye?, New Hampshire https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/06/surname-saturday-bates-of-new-castle.html
Margaret WELCH (about 1796 – 1860 ) married Captain Richard LOCKE 1823 in Chichester, New
Hampshire. She might be from Kittery,
Maine.
Nancy Thompson (1804 – after 1847) married Jonathan
BATCHELDER in 1822 in Belmont, New Hampshire.
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ Susannah UNKNOWN, wife of Thomas Burnham", Nutfield Genealogy, posted Novemberr 26, 2016, (http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/11/surname-saturday-susannah-unknown-wife.html: accessed [access date]).
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