Person:Helen Unknown (211)

Helen _____

b.Abt 1623

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m. Jan 1655/56

Facts and Events

Name^[1]	Helen _____
Gender	Female
Birth^[1]	Abt 1623
Marriage		to Hugh Atkinson
Marriage	Jan 1655/56	Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Joseph Hills
Death^[1]^[2]	6 Jan 1663/64	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Joseph Hills, in Smith, Dean Crawford, and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2008)
IV:399.

… was the widow of Hugh Atkinson of Kendall, co. Westmoreland, England. Joseph's marriage to Helen Atkinson was quite irregular in that Joseph performed the marriage himself. This action was not unprecedented, and no less a personage than Gov. Bellingham did the same with impunity in the 1670s. Joseph was admonished …
↑ Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699 (A Report of the Record Commissioners): Document 130. (Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States: Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, 1883)
p. 91.

1663. Town.
Ellen wife of Mr. Joseph Hill deceased January 6th.
[Note: comparison of births with baptisms suggests the city record followed the legal calendar, hence this is presumably 6 Jan 1663/64. E.g., p. 89 Rebecca Wayte b. 3 Jan 1663 is baptized p. 91 3 day of 11th month 1663 which is 1663/64.]