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Mary Gawkroger
d.Aft 30 Mar 1678
m. 10 May 1605 - Mary Gawkroger1612/13 - Aft 1678
Facts and Events
References
- ↑ "Ancestry of Mary Gawkroger, Alias Platts, Wife of John Prescott", in White, Almira Larkin. Ancestry of John Barber White and his descendants. (Kansas City, Mo.: J.B. White, 1913, 1913)
4:167.
Mary Gawkroger, d/o James Gawkroger and Martha Ainsworth, bp. Sowerby, Halifax, Yorkshire, England 15 Mar 1607, m. 11 Apr 1629 John Prescott. 5 children born there, 3 surviving. In 1638 in Barbadoes, in 1640 Watertown, in 1643 joined with Thomas King and others to purchased Nashaway Plantation that became Lancaster.
- Hunt, John G. "Notes on Families of the Parish of Halifax, Yorksire"., in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.)
40:22-29 (Jan 1964)40:22-29 (membership required), Jan 1964.
"Mr. Torrey agreed with the present contributor... that Jenet Fairbanks... did not die young as stated [sic, see comment]. She married, it now seems certain, James5 Platts alias Gawkroger of Sowerby. They had with others Abraham6 Platts father of Mary7 who married in 1629 John Prescott of Sowerby."
[Note: that there are two Jenets mentioned in the original article, and the one that died young is presumed to have done so because another was born. Meanwhile the second is shown not dying young, but marrying differently. So it is a little unclear if this author is saying both Jenets survived to adulthood, or that the asserted marriage did not happen. "It now seems certain" is based on legacies to children of James6 Platts in the will of George6 Fairbank in 1650, which "mentioned a large number of persons but expressed relationship to only a few" (quote from original article). The relationships are complex, involving relationships more distant than first cousins, if this correction is correct. Since the testator would have been a nephew to Jenet Fairbanks, this is used to conclude she was James6 mother, i.e., the legatees are children of a cousin. This would make Jenet the mother of Abraham, Mary's father, and Abraham's children aren't mentioned even though they had the same relationship as the mentioned Platts?]
- Torrey, Clarence Almon. "The English Ancestry of Jonathan Fairbanks of Dedham, Massachusetts", in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.)
37:68 (membership required).
Children of George Fairbanke and Sibyl Wade:
1) Genet, bapt. April 26, 1552; d. young.
3) Genet, bapt. July 28, 1556; m. July 25, 1575, Matthew Broadley, son of John and Jenet (Wade) Broadley.
[Note: RolandHenryBakerIII comment: "see correction above"]
- ↑ Torrey, Clarence Almon. Gawkroger-Platts. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1977)
p. 3.
Children of Abraham Gawkroger [#17] and "probably" 2nd wife Martha Riley ["She was of Warley, Halifax, in 1605. Abraham was of Warley, 15 May 1625, when he was buried. He was of Warley when his daughters and Mary and Anna were baptized."]: Mary [#23], bp. 7 Feb 1612/3, married 11 Apr 1629 John Prescott.
- ↑ Farrar, Lilian K. P. "The English Ancestry of Jacob 1 Farrer of Lancaster, Mass.", in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
Vol. 95, p. 8.
Deposition of Mary Prescott, dated 1678, "aged 66 yeares or thereabout".
[Note: birth about 1612.]
- ↑ Letter concerning Jacob Farrar, Sr., written by John Hayward to Thomas Danforth:- Boston 30th March 1678, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
107:232 & 95:8.
She died after 30 Mar 1678 when a letter by John Hayward to Thomas Danforth concerning Jacob Farrar, Sr was written stating she could testify. Link. She later testified. link
- ↑ The family name is Gawkroger, a seemingly unflattering name apparently meaning "left-handed Roger". Occasionally (over a span of generations), it was written Gawkroger alias Platts, after the area where they lived. However, the will of Mary's father, dated 1 Apr 1625, proved 6 Oct 1628, gives his name as plain "James Gawroger" (see #S1). Mary's wedding record also gives her name as plain Mary Gawkroger (See White Family Quarterly, 3:82.) So while some branches of the family apparently chose Platts over Gawkroger, it appears Mary went by the original name for the part of her life she was not married.
- No death record is found in Source:Nourse, Henry Stedman. Birth, Marriage, and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643-1850. Some sources report a death date of 20 Oct 1688 (e.g., Source:Duncan, Budd L. Ancestry of Edward Myrock Wilder (1850-1924), p. 63), but this appears to be a misreading of the tombstone of a different Mary Prescott. In Lancaster Epitaphs, p. 406, the tombstone is reported as "Oct'r ye 20th 1788", not 1688. This tombstone also says she was "In the 66th year of her age", which if calculated from 1688, this would imply Mary Prescott was born abt. 1624, and was only 5 years old when she married! So clearly this does not apply to this Mary Prescott.
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