Person:Walter Merry (1)

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Walter Merry
b.Abt 1608
  • HWalter MerryAbt 1608 - 1657
  • WMary DowlingEst 1628 - Bef 1707
m. 18 Aug 1653
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Name Walter Merry
Gender Male
Birth[1] Abt 1608
Marriage 18 Aug 1653 Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USAto Mary Dowling
Death[2][3] 28 Aug 1657 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United StatesCause: by drowning
References
  1. Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
    2:1257, entry for Walter Merry.

    'BIRTH: By about 1608 based on estimated date of marriage.'

  2. Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
    2:1257, entry for Walter Merry.

    'DEATH: Drowned in Boston Harbor 28 August 1657 [BVR 61].'

  3. 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)
    pages 59 (gives the year), 61.

    '1657 ...
    Walter Merry was drowned 28th -- 6th month.'

    6th month was August (old-style date).

  4.   Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
    2:1255-57, entry for Walter Merry.