Person:Lydia Starr (2)

Lydia Starr
b.Cal 1652
m. Bef 1652
  1. Lydia StarrCal 1652 - 1744
  2. Deacon Comfort Starr1661/62 - 1729
  • HNathaniel Gay1642/43 - 1711/12
  • WLydia StarrCal 1652 - 1744
m. Bef 1675
  1. Benjamin Gay1675 - 1675
  2. Nathaniel Gay1676 - 1676
  3. Mary Gay1677 - 1731
  4. Lydia Gay1679 - 1748
  5. Nathaniel Gay1682 - 1750
  6. Luther Gay1685 - 1769
  7. Timothy Gay1685 -
  8. Johannah Gay1688 -
  9. Benjamin Gay1690 - 1761
  10. Abigail Gay1693/94 - 1718
  11. Rev. Ebenezer Gay1696 - 1787
Facts and Events
Name[1] Lydia Starr
Married Name Lydia Gay
Gender Female
Birth[2][3] Cal 1652
Marriage Bef 1675 Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States (probably)Estimate based on date of birth of eldest known child (Benjamin).
to Nathaniel Gay
Death[2][3] 6 Aug 1744 Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States

Adopted daughter of Eleazer and Mary (Bunker) Lusher; daughter of John and Martha (Bunker) Starr; granddaughter of George and Judith (Major) Bunker."

References
  1. Lusher Wills, in The Dedham Historical Register. (Dedham, Massachusetts: Dedham Historical Society)
    2:132.

    "The following is an abstract of Eleazer Lusher's will, dated September 23, 1672 … '… to Liddia Starre, the daughter of my wife's sister, who hath lived with me from her infancy £100 (to be paid her within three months after she shall enter a married condition £20, and the other £80 within three months next after the decease of my wife, who is her aunt); …"

  2. 2.0 2.1 3. Nathaniel2 Gay, in Gay, Frederick Lewis. John Gay, of Dedham, Massachusetts: and Some of His Descendants. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan 1879)
    33:46.

    "… wife Lydia died Aug. 6, 1744, aged 92."

  3. 3.0 3.1 Hill, Don Gleason, Editor. The Record of Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths, and Admissions to the Church and Dismassals Therefrom: Transcribed from the Church Records of the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1638-1845. Also all the Epitaphs in the Ancient Burial Place in Dedham, Together with the Other Inscriptions before 1845 in the Three Parish Cemeteries. (Dedham, Mass.: Town of Dedham, 1888)
    72.

    "Lidea Gay, decased Widdow of Nathiel Gay, [died] August 6th, 1744, Ae. 92."