Family:George Steele and Margery Sorrell (1)

Martha Hanison

"In 1960 Donald Lines Jacobus discussed this family in great detail [The American Genealogist 36:186-90]. He concluded that "my grandchild Martha Hanison" named in the will of George Steele was not born a "Hanison," but was the wife of John Henderson (or Hannison or Henryson); Jacobus did not determine who Martha's parents were. … From the will of Elizabeth (Steele) Watts, it is clear that Martha was not her daughter or the daughter of her brother, James Steele [TAG 36:187-88, citing Manwaring I:377]. Martha must, then, be a daughter of one of the other children of George Steele. Since the land owned by Richard Steele reverted to his father George Steele, it would seem that Richard died unmarried and without children. Any remaining solutions, therefore, require that Martha be a daughter of one of George Steele's daughters other than Elizabeth, but who this daughter might have married remains unknown."^[1]

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 George Steele, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
   III:1754-1756.

   Marriage: Fairstead, Essex, 12 Oct 1608 Margery Sorrell; she died before 24 May 1663 (date of husband's will).

2. ↑ This couple did not have a daughter Martha even though the sketch of "John Hannison" in Barbour's Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut (292) says that John "mar Martha Steele … dau of George Steele".