Family:John Grant and Jane Watson (1)

The Family of John Grant of Cottingham and Hessle

"John Grant married at Cottingham, Yorkshire, 22 July 1593, Jane Watson. They had two children baptized at Cottingham, the second being George who married and had children recorded at Cottingham. The author long believed that Thomas Grant, the emigrant father of Hannah, who also married and had his children recorded at Cottingham, was another son of John, and that belief is confirmed by the discovery of the baptism at Hessle of four children of John Grant, the first of whom was named Thomas. That this was all one family, children of the same John, is indicated by several considerations. The last of John recorded in Cottingham was in 1598, and the first child of John recorded in Hessle was about two years and a half later. Thomas of Cottingham, later of Rowley, named his first son John, for his father, and his second son George, for his elder brother; and George also named a son for Thomas. He named a daughter Frances, apparently for the sister Frances who was baptized at Hessle. Although lacking confirmation by will, these considerations and the relative rarity of the Grant surname in this region, warrant the identification of John of Cottingham with John of Hessle.

It is fair to mention, however, that a "John Graunt" was buried at Cottingham, 15 July 1600, and if this was the father of the two children baptized there a little earlier, it would have had to be a different John Grant who had the children baptized at Hessle. The burial register at that period enters names only, without identification as adults or children, and the John who died in 1600 may have been a young son of John, born perhaps in 1594."^[1]

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Hazen, Tracy Elliot, and Donald Lines Jacobus (Editor). The Hazen Family in America: A Genealogy. (Thomaston, Conn.: Robert Hazen, 1947)
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