Atherton, Margaret

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BIRTH: No birth/chr rec found. Margaret is identified in the settlement of estate of her father, Humphrey Atherton of Dorchester, 9 Oct 1717, Suffolk Co. Probate, #275, (o.s.) 20:63-65 (FHL #584134). Margaret's date of birth is an approximation. She was probably born in England but perhaps a little later in New England.
MAR: DORCHESTER BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS, 21st Report Boston Record Commissioners (Boston, 1890), 20 (FHL #974.46/D1 V2r). Mar rec does not give Margaret's surname. Margaret is identified as the wife of James Trowbridge in her father's estate recs, above. Humphrey Atherton was the officiator of the marriage.
DEATH: Thomas W. Baldwin, comp, VITAL RECORDS OF CAMBRIDGE, 2 vols. (Boston, 1914-15), 2:768 (FHL #974.44/C1 V2b).

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BEPS: IGI

Margaret married Trowbridge, James on 30 Dec 1659 in Dorchester,Suffolk,MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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BIRTH: Date of birth is an approximation. Residence of Wigan is given on mar rec, below.
MAR: Robert Dickinson, ed, THE REGISTER OF WINWICK PARISH CHURCH, Lancashire Parish Register Society, 113 (1974):72 (FHL #942.72 K29pr).
DEATH: DORCHESTER BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS, 21st Report Boston Record Commissioners (Boston, 1890), 26 (FHL #974.46/D1 V2r). For a detailed account of his death, see Joseph Besse, A COLLECTION OF THE SUFFERINGS OF THE PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS, 2 vols. (London, 1753), 2:270 (FHL #599671). Also see Suffolk Co. Probate, #275, (o.s.); most important docs:
4:31, adm of estate, 27 Sep 1661 (FHL #584127).
20:63-65, adm of remaining estate, 9 Oct 1717 (FHL #584134).
28:203-204, adm of remaining estate, 26 Oct 1730 (FHL #548138).
Abstracts of much of Atherton's probate file were published in William B. Trask, "Abstracts of the Earliest Wills on Record...in the County of Suffolk," NEHGR, 32(1878):197-204 (FHL #974 B2ne). Also see additional probate from the Hartford, Connecticut Probate District, abstracted in Charles W. Manwaring, ed, DIGEST OF THE EARLY CONNECTICUT PROBATE RECORDS, 3 vols. (Hartford, 1904-1906), 1:174-75 (FHL #974.6 P2m).
BUR: "Epitaphs at Dorchester," NEHGR, 2(1848):382 (FHL #974 B2ne). Died on "16" Sep 1661.
OCC: Magistrate, military officer, Major-general of militia in 1656.

Humphrey married Kenyon, Mary on 29 Mar 1625 in Winwick,Lancs,Eng. Mary was born about 1603 in of Winwick,Lancs,Eng; died in (wp) 3 Oct 1672 in Dorchester,Suffolk,MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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BIRTH: Date of birth is an approximation. "Istius [of this place]" on mar rec at Winwick, below.
MAR: Robert Dickinson, ed, THE REGISTER OF WINWICK PARISH CHURCH, Lancashire Parish Register Society, 113(1974):72 (FHL #942.72 K29pr).
DEATH: No death rec found. See the will of Mary Atherton of Dorchester, 21 Feb 1671, proved 3 Oct 1672, Suffolk Co. Probate, #609, (o.s.) 7:245 (FHL #584128).