Person:Elenor Unknown (11)

This entry is for Elenor, wife of Conklin of Rye or Flushing. In a series of articles in The American Genealogist, Conklin Mann researched the three colonial Conklin immigrants. John Conklin of Rye is one of these three men and the one about whom the least is known. Conklin Mann hypothesized that the name John Conklin's wife was Helena based on the naming patterns used by his supposed children. The will of their son Edmund confirms the name of John, Elenor and their children including a previously unknown daughter, Sarah. Y-DNA tests occurring ca. 2009 have verified that the sibling group discussed by Conklin Mann is apparently correct. In addition a will and probate information belonging to one of the sons, Edmund was discovered in 2013 which names the sibling group as well as the previously unverified parents. It appears that John Conklin and his wife Elenor lived in one or more of the northern New England colonies.