Saturday, June 22, 2013

Surname Saturday - WAGET (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, I'm up to number 601, but that line is bare because I don't know the parents of #75, Hannah Smith (1768-1827).  So that wipes out the numbers from 600 to 623.  Ancestor #625 is Esther WAGET (1677-1748) [Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 7th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through one American generations of this WAGET family line is:

1.  Randall J. Seaver (1943-living)

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)


38.  Thomas J. Newton (ca 1800 - ????)

39.  Sophia Buck (1797-1882)

78.  Isaac Buck (1757-1847)

79.  Martha Phillips (1757-????)

156.  Isaac Buck (1732-????)

157.  Mary Richards (1733-????)

312.  Isaac Buck (1706-1780)

313.  Ruth Graves (1710-????)

624.  Ephraim Buck, born 13 July 1676 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died January 1720/21 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 4. Ephraim Buck and 5. Sarah Brooks.  He married 01 December 1696 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
625.  Esther Waget, born about 1677 in Massachusetts, United States; died before 19 December 1748 in Wilmington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of Ephraim Buck and Esther Waget are:

i. Sarah Buck, born 08 September 1697 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; married William Fisk 22 May 1729 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; born About 1695 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
ii. Hester Buck, born 15 April 1700 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; 
iii. Ephraim Buck, born 11 October 1702 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died 07 April 1789 in Wilmington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; married (1) Abigail Pierce 26 July 1726 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; born 17 May 1706 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died before 1728 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; married (2) Mary Wood 09 May 1728 in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; born 1705 in Massachusetts, United States; died 31 July 1794 in Wilmington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
iv. Susanna Buck, born 08 July 1705 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; married Ebenezer Fisk 10 January 1728/29 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; born 15 August 1703 in Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; died August 1737 in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
v. Isaac Buck, born about 1706 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died 19 May 1780 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; married Ruth Graves 03 December 1729 in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

That's all I know about my very short WAGET line.  I don't know her birth date, her parents names, or any siblings.  

A search on Ancestry.com for Waget or Waggett or any other W*g*t name between 1650 and 1700 reveals only her marriage date/place to Ephraim Buck.  She was probably a resident of Woburn in 1696 when she married, but there are no other W*g*t persons in the Woburn vital records.  

A search on FamilySearch for Waget or Waggett or any other W*g*t name between 1650 and 1700 reveals only the 1696 marriage.

A search on American Ancestors for Waget or Waggett or any other W*g*t name between 1650 and 1700 reveals only the 1696 marriage and two births in Boston of children of Thomas and Susanna Wagget in 1670 and 1673, and one daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Wagget in 1688.  

The latter provides some glimmer of hope - Esther Waget birth year of about 1677 is in the time span that Thomas Waggett was in Boston.  I haven't looked any further.  A search in Suffolk County and Middlesex County for Waget/Waggett land and probate records might be helpful.

If there are any researchers reading this who share Esther Waget as an ancestor, or who has found more information about her parentage, or has research suggestions, please let me know in a comment on this blog post.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Have you thought of adding a D in the name.I'm thinking that the citizens back then,had very little to education, along with possibly accents with their speech.They may have tried to spell it phonetically when the information was being recorded. Wadget/Waddet/Widget/Waddel/Waddle Good luck