Person:Annis Unknown (11)

John Morse's Wife

The account of the English ancestry of the Chickerings (The Register, vol. 69, pp. 226-229) and the will of Henry Chickering of Ringesfield, co. Suffolk, father of Francis Chickering, dated 11 July 1626, proved 7 July 1627 (cf. The Register, vol. 63, p. 282), fails to disclose a sister of Francis Chickering named Annas. Francis did have a sister, name unknown, who was married to one Nicholas Wolnough, when their father Henry made his will. It is, of course, possible that her name was Annas and that she married secondly John Morse but this seems a rather remote possibility and the chances are greatly in favor of some other combination to make John Morse call Francis Chickering 'my brother'. Their wives may have been sisters or again they may have been merely 'brothers' in the church. At any rate the evidence was not sufficient to justify … stating without qualification that Annas, wife of John Morse, was sister of Francis Chickering. … G. Andrews Moriarty, …"^[3]

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Moriarty, G. Andrews. Genealogical Research in England - Morse. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan, Jul 1928)
   83:290.

   "John (Morse), of Dedham and Boston, Mass., tailor … m. about 1636 Annas Chickering, who survived him and d. in 1691."

2. ↑ (II) John Morse, in American Biography: A New Cyclopedia. (New York: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1916-1933)
   35:82.

   He married, probably in Dedham, Annis or Agnes Chickering, who died in September, 1691, sister of Francis Chickering.

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Morse-Chickering Correction, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   100:79.