Saturday, May 18, 2013

Surname Saturday - WHEELER (England > Colonial Massachusetts)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  

I am in the 7th great-grandmothers, up to number 589: Hannah WHEELER (1649-1697). [Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 7th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through two American generations of this WHEELER family line is:

1.  Randall J. Seaver

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)

8. Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922)
9. Hattie Louise Hildreth (1857-1920)


18.  Edward Hildreth (1831-1899)
19.  Sophia Newton (1834-1923)

36.  Zachariah Hildreth (1783-1857)
37.  Hannah Sawtell (1789-1857)

72.  Zachariah Hildreth (1754-1828)
73.  Elizabeth Keyes (1758-1793)

146.  Jonathan Keyes (1722-1781)
147.  Elizabeth Fletcher (1720-1761)


294.  Samuel Fletcher (1684-1749)
295.  Hannah --?-- (1689-????)

588.  Samuel Fletcher, born about 1652 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died before December 1723 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 1176. William Fletcher and 1177. Lydia.  He married  05 July 1672 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

589.  Hannah Wheeler, born about 1649 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died 11 December 1697 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of Samuel Fletcher and Hannah Wheeler are:
*  William Fletcher (1673-1753), married (1) Mary Foster (1682-1721); (2) Mary (????-????)
*  Hannah Fletcher (1676-1759), married Ebenezer Wright (1663-1730).
*  Elizabeth Fletcher (1679-1715), married Benjamin Butterfield (1679-1715).
*  Samuel Fletcher (1683-1683).
*  Samuel Fletcher (1684-1749), married Hannah (1682-????).
*  Mary Fletcher (1686-1768), married John Wheeler (1695-1747).
*  Lydia Fletcher (1689-1766), married Pelatiah Adams (1682-1746)
*  Susanna Fletcher (1692-????), married Joseph Chamberlain.
*  Isaac Fletcher (1694-1772), married Persis (1695-1747).
*  Sarah Fletcher (1696-????).

1178.  George Wheeler, born before 23 March 1605/06 in Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England; died 02 June 1687 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  He married 08 June 1630 in Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England.
1179.  Katherine Pin, born in England; died 02 January 1684/85 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of George Wheeler and Katherine Pin are:
*  William Wheeler (1631-1683), married Hannah Buss (1642-1694).
*  Thomas Wheeler (1633-1686), married Hannah Harwood (1632-1707).
*  Elizabeth Wheeler (1636-1704), married Francis Fletcher (1630-????).
*  Sarah Wheeler (1640-1713), married Francis Dudley (1638-1705).
*  John Wheeler (1643-1713), married Sarah Larkin (1648-1725).
*  Mary Wheeler (1645-1679), married Eliphalet Fox (1644-1711).
*  Ruth Wheeler (1647-1703), married Samuel Hartwell (1645-1725).
*  Hannah Wheeler (1649-1697), married Samuel Fletcher (1652-1723).

Astute readers will recall that I did Esther Wheeler (1678-1756), daughter of John and Sarah (Larkin) Wheeler, on 13 April 2013, and Thankful Wheeler (1682-1713), daughter of John and Sarah (Larkin) Wheeler, on 20 April 2013.  

Information about the George Wheeler family was obtained from:

*  M. Wheeler Molyneaux, The Wheeler Family of Cranfield, England and Concord, Massachusetts and Some Descendants of Sgt. Thomas Wheeler of Concord (Long Beach, Calif. : the author, 1992)

John Brooks Threlfall, 50 Great Migration Colonists in New England and Their Origins (Madison, Wis. : the author, 1990)

Dean Crawford Smith, edited by Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908; Part III: The Ancestry of Henry clay Bartlett, 1832-1892 (Boston : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004)

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1 comment:

T said...

How do you make the name collage? I would love to do this as a wall hanging for my family.