WILDER
Thomas Wilder, my 10th great grandfather,
never came to the New World, but his widow, Martha, came with her children on
board the ship Confidence in 1638. She
settled in Hingham, where “Widow Wilder” was granted a house lot.
According to an article in the
NEHGS Register, Volume 31 [1887],
pages 410 – 411, “A Page from the History of the Wilders” by Rev. Moses H.
Wilder, he described how he went to England and researched Thomas Wilder,
Esquire, who died there in 1634. His
widow was named Martha, and she had an estate at Shiplake, Oxfordshire until
she came to America. This was part of a
book Rev. Wilder wrote Book of the Wilders: a further contribution
to the history of the Wilders, from 1497, in England, to the immigration of
Martha, a widow, and her family to Massachusetts Bay, in 1638, NEHGS
1985 (reprint of the original from 1878). In this book Rev. Wilder traces the family
back to 1497 to a Nicholas Wilder.
No one knows Martha's maiden name, nor her origins.
No one knows Martha's maiden name, nor her origins.
Martha’s two sons, Thomas and
Edward, preceded her to New England. She arrived with her two daughters,
Elizabeth and Mary, my 9th great grandmother. Mary (about 1623 – 1658)
who married Joseph Underwood.
My WILDER genealogy:
Generation 1: Thomas Wilder, son of
John Wilder and Alice Keats, born 1579 and died 23 October 1634 at Shiplake,
Oxfordshire, England; married about 1618 in England to Martha Unknown. Four children.
Generation 2: Mary Wilder, born about 1623 in Shiplake,
died 13 February 1658 in Watertown, Massachusetts; married about 1644 in
Hingham, Massachusetts to Joseph Underwood.
He was born about 1614 in England and died 16 February 1676/77 in
Watertown. Joseph married second to Mary
Howe.
Generation 3: Joseph Underwood m.
Elizabeth Bond
Generation 4: Sarah Underwood m.
John Bullen
Generation 5: Grace Bullen m.
Ebenezer Healy
Generation 6: Comfort Haley m.
Abigail Allen
Generation 7: Comfort Haley m. Rebecca
Crosby
Generation 8: Joseph Edwin Healy m. Matilda Weston
Generation 9: Mary Etta Healey m. Peter Hoozerzeil
Generation 10: Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Treadwell
Hitchings
Generation 11: Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer
Allen (my grandparents)
My Surname Saturday post for
UNDERWOOD:
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I'm a direct descendant of John and Frances Farrar/Farrow of Hingham. They came from Hingham, England in 1635. Five generations of Farrars lived in Hingham until David Jr. and Judith (Stoddard) Farrar moved to Bucktown, Maine after the Revolutionary War. Judith was from Scituate. Other surnames in the Hingham Farrar line: Gardner, Whiton, Pratt.
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