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Facts and Events
| Name |
Elihu Wardwell |
| Alt Name |
Elihu Wattell |
| Alt Name |
Elihu Werdall |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[2][4] |
Nov 1641 |
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States |
| Christening[3] |
5 Dec 1641 |
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United StatesFirst Church |
| Alt Birth[1][2][3] |
Nov 1642 |
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States |
| Marriage |
26 May 1665 |
Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Elizabeth Wade |
References
- ↑ Records of Boston, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
3:39.
Elihu the sonne of William Werdall & Alice his wife was borne the -- (9) 1642.
[Note: In old-styles dates, the ninth month is November. More info may be found here.]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699 (A Report of the Record Commissioners): Document 130. (Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States: Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, 1883).
[p. 12] 1641 First Church. Elihu of William Wardall [baptized] 5 day 10 mo.
[p. 13] 1642 Town. Elihu son of William & Alice Werdall born 9th month.
Source:Davis, Walter Goodwin. Ancestry of Annis Spear, 1775-1858, of Litchfield, Maine, p. 90, shows two children, says of the second: "possibly the same child as Elihu above". He says of the bapt. "possibly an erroneous date", though if one of these records is erroneous, it is more like to be the birth. After all, church records are generally collected at the time of the baptism by a clerk, and printed in the same order; whereas town records are collected when they get reported, often many months later, and are printed in alphabetical order, causing loss of context.]
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 William Wardwell, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
3:1923.
"Elihu (Wardwell), b. Boston November 1642 [sic]; bp. Boston 5 December 1641 [BChR 289]; …"
- ↑ There is no death recorded for a baby Elihu, and it seems too coincidental that two children would be born so close to exactly one year apart. It is more likely that there was only one child named Elihu and either the birth in 1642 or the baptism in 1641 was recorded with the wrong year. Given normal patterns, church records tend to be more reliable (see the comment above), and late 1641 fits better between 1639 and early 1644, so it seems more probable that 1641 is the correct date. However, the possibility remains that there could have been two sons named Elihu, one born in 1641 and baptized 5 Dec who died soon, and another born in Nov 1642 that survived, and if some evidence were found to support this, then two Person pages would be needed.
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