Saturday, June 4, 2016

Surname Saturday -- GIFFORD (England to colonial New England)

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


I am in the 8th great-grandmothers and I'm up to Ancestor #1425, who is Patience GIFFORD (1644-1675) 
[Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 8th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through two generations of this GIFFORD 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)


10.  Thomas Richmond (1848-1917)
11.  Julia E. White (1848-1913)

22.  Henry Arnold White (1824-1885)
23.  Amy Frances Oatley (1826-1864)

44.  Jonathan White (1805-1850)
45.  Miranda Wade (1804-1850)

88.  Humphrey White (1758-1814)
89.  Sibel Kirby (1764-1848).

178.  David Kirby (1740-1832)
179.  Martha Soule (1743-1828)

356.  Ichabod Kirby (1705-1793)
357.  Rachel Allen (1708-1801)

712.  Robert Kirby (1674-1757)
713.  Rebecca Potter (1681-1773)

1424.  Richard Kirby, born about 1633 in probably England; died before 08 March 1720 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 2848. Richard Kirby and 2849. Jane.  He married 09 October 1665 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.
1425.  Patience Gifford, born about 1644 in England; died about 1674 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States.  

Children of Richard Kirby and Patience Gifford are:
*  Sarah Kirby (1667-1733), married Samuel Merihew (????-1733).
*  Experience Kirby (1670-1745), married 1692 John Mosher (1668-1737).
*  Temperance Kirby (1670-1761), married 1721 George Pierce (1662-1752).
*  John Kirby (1672-1730), married Rebecca Mosher (1668-????).
*  Robert Kirby (1673-1757), married 1701 Rebecca Potter (1681-1773).

2850.  William Gifford, born about 1620 in England; died before 30 January 1688 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.  He married before 1640 in England.
2851.  Elizabeth, born about 1620 in England; died before 1683 in probably Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of William Gifford and Elizabeth are:
*  John Gifford (1642-1708), married 1665 Elishua Crowell (1643-1708).
*  Patience Gifford (1644-1674), married 1665 Richard Kirby (1633-1720)
*  Hananiah Gifford (1646-1709), married Elizabeth (1646-1729).
*  William Gifford (1655-1738), married (1) 1675 Hannah (????-1721); (2) 1711 Lydia Hatch (1685-????).
*  Christopher Gifford (1658-1748), married (1) Meribah (????-1684); (2) 1684 Deborah Perry (1665-1724).
*  Robert Gifford (1660-1730), married (1) 1680 Sarah Wing (1659-1720); (2) 1720 Elizabeth Cornell (1664-1724).

Information about this Gifford family was obtained from:

*  Almon E. Daniels and MacLean W. MacLean, "William Gifford of Sandwich, Mass. (d. 1687)," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 128, Number 4 (October 1974).

*   Raymond L. Olson, Ancestors of Elihu B. Gifford and Catherine Sandow Barrows (Baltimore, MD : Gateway Press, Inc., 1989).  

*  Carl Boyer 3rd, Ancestral Lines, Third Edition (Santa Clarita, Calif. " the author, 1998).


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