Saturday, February 17, 2018

Surname Saturday - LNU (Elinor who married John Whitney, England to colonial Massachusetts)

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


I am working in the 9th great-grandmothers by Ahnentafel number, and I am up to Ancestor #2081 who is Elinor LNU (1599-1659). 
[Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 9th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts.]

My ancestral line back through one generation in this LNU 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)

16. Isaac Seaver (1823-1901)
17. Lucretia Townsend Smith (1827-1884)

32. Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825)
33. Abigail Gates (1797-1869)

64. Benjamin Seaver (1757-1816)
65. Martha Whitney (1764-1832)


130.  Samuel Whitney (1719-1782)
131.  Abigail Fletcher (1720-1783)

260.  William Whitney (1683-1720)
261.  Martha Pierce (1681-1759)

520.  Nathaniel Whitney (1647-1733)
521.  Sarah Hagar (1651-1722)

1040.  John Whitney (1621-1692)
1041.  Ruth Reynolds (1623-1706)

2080.  John Whitney, born before 20 July 1592 in Westminster, Middlesex, England; died 01 June 1673 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 4160. Thomas Whitney and 4161. Mary Bray.  He married before 1619 in England.
2081.  Elinor LNU, born 1599 in England; died 11 May 1659 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of John Whitney and Elinor LNU are:
*  Mary Whitney (1619-1627)
John Whitney (1621-1692), married 1642 Ruth Reynolds (1623-1706)
*  Richard Whitney (1624-1719), married 1651 Martha Coldam (1626-1672).
*  Nathaniel Whitney (1626-1635).
*  Thomas Whitney (1627-1719), married 1655 Mary Kedall (1635-1708).
*  Marye Whitney (1629-1635).
*  Jonathan Whitney (1633-1703), married 1656 Lydia Jones (1632-1702).
*  Joshua Whitney (1636-1719), married (1) 1664 Mary Buckmaster (1641-1672); (2) 1672 Abigail Tarbell (1643-1719).
*  Caleb Whitney (1640-????).
*  Benjamin Whitney (1643-1723), married (1) 1688 Jane Poor (1649-1690); (2) 1695 Mary Poor (1650-????).

Information about the John Whitney family was obtained from:

*  Frederick Clifton Pierce, Whitney. The Descendants of John Whitney (Chicago Ill. : 1895).

*  Dean Crawford Smith, edited by Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908, Part I: The Ancestry of Warren Francis Kempton (1817-1879) (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996)

*  Paul C. Reed, "Whitney Origins Revisited," The American Genealogist, Vol. 69, no. 1, January 1994, page 9.

*  Robert Leigh Ward and Tim Doyle, "The Whitney Lineage of John Whitney of Watertown, Massachusetts," The American Genealogist, Volume 81, Number 4, pages 249-262, October 2006. 

There is no authoritative information about the ancestry of John Whitney's wife, Elinor (1599-1659).  Some online family trees say she was Elinor Bray, daughter of Thomas and Ruth (Gulley) Bray of London, England.

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