Family:Henry Farwell and Olive Welby (1)

FHL Catalog Entry

Notes from the FHL Catalog entry on The Farwell family ^S2 include this:

Henry Farwell (ca. 1605-1670) son of William Farwell, married Olive Welby, daughter of Richard and Frances Buckley Welby, at Boston, England, in 1629. The had six children, 1630-ca. 1645. The family immigrated to New England ca. 1636; settled first at Concord, Massachusetts; and moved to Chelmsford, Massachusetts, ca. 1655. He died at Chelmsford. Descendants lived in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, New York, Illinois, and elsewhere.

Supposed Sons Henry and James

"Fox, in his history of Dunstable, omits the name of Joseph as one of the children of Henry Farwell¹ and records Henry³ as the son of Henry¹, thus omitting a generation—Savage, Kidder, Farmer and others have been misled by this mistake. A similar error has caused some genealogists to give James as one of the sons of Henry¹, but there is no evidence at all that Henry Farwell, the progenitor of the American family, had either a son Henry or a son James."^[2]

1. ↑ 1 Henry Farwell¹, in Farwell, John Dennis; Jane H. (Jane Harter) Abbott; and Lillian May Wilson. The Farwell Family: A History of Henry Farwell and His Wife Olive (Welby) Farwell of Boston, England, and Concord and Chelmsford, Mass., 1605-1927: With Twelve Generations of Their Descendants: also Lineages of Many Allied Families. (Orange, Texas: F.H. Farwell and Fanny B. Farwell, 1929)
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   "1 Henry Farwell¹ son of William Farwell … married in Boston, England, April 16, 1629, Olive Welby (or Welbie), dau. of Richard and Frances (Buckley) Welby, …"

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Slafter, Rev. Edmund Farwell. Memorial of John Slafter: with a genealogical account of his descendants, including eight generations. (Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States|Boston: Press of Henry W. Dutton & Son, 1869)
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   at footnote †1. States that Henry Farwell married Olive _____, removed to Chelmsford. Their children were Joseph, Henry, John, Mary, Olive, Elizabeth, and perhaps James.