Family talk:John Maynard and Mary Starr (1)

Confusion about John Maynard [28 January 2010]

Clearly the son Person:John Maynard (7), b. 1630, does not belong in a family with a marriage date of 1640. I am removing him. Working with John Maynard is confusing because there were three John Maynards with wife Mary and records are incomplete.

This page is the John Maynard of Duxbury. The will of Comfort Starr indicates his first wife was Mary Starr and they had five daughters. The daughters are unknown because early Duxbury records were lost in a fire, but the youngest two are thought to be twins Hannah [m. John Hayden] and Lydia [m. Samuel Hale] baptized in Boston 26 Nov 1647. They are described as "from the Ch. of Duxbury". (See NEHGR, p. 94:172.) This John Maynard m. (2) Elizabeth Wight, widow of Nathaniel Heaton and Joseph Pell, and d. 1658. (See Source:Anderson, Robert Charles. Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, G-H, on "Nathaniel Heaton".)

The removed "son" appears to be the son of an immigrant ancestor of a different branch, John Maynard of Cambridge, then Sudbury. The marriage date in 1646 is the father's second marriage, to Mary, widow of Thomas Axtell. The son married Mary Gates. Activities of John Maynard that occur in Sudbury or Marlborough belong to this other John Maynard, or his son.

--Jrich 11:47, 28 January 2010 (EST)