Surname Saturday - LETTICE (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 #1485, who is Dorothy LETTICE (1633-1726) [Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 8th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through two generations of this LETTICE 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)

46.  Jonathan Oatley (1790-1872)
47.  Amy Champlin (1798-1865)

92.  Joseph Oatley (1756-1815)
93.  Mary Hazard (1765-1857)

184.  Benedict Oatley (1732-1821)
185.  Elizabeth Ladd (1735-1814)

370.  Joseph Ladd (1701-1748)
371.  Lydia Gray (1707-????)

742.  Samuel Gray (1681-1712)
743.  Deborah Church (1677-1772)

1484.  Edward Gray, born before 15 April 1623 in Stapleford Tawney, Essex, England; died June 1681 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 2968. John Gray and 2969. Elizabeth Ward.  He married 12 December 1665 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
1485.  Dorothy Lettice, born before 28 November 1633 in Leighton, Lincolnshire, England; died 30 March 1726 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of Edward Gray and Dorothy Lettice are:

*  Edward Gray (1667-1726), married (1) 1690 Mary Smith (1672-1707); (2) 1708 Mary Manchester (1665-1729).
*  Susanna Gray (1668-1727), married 1688 John Cole (1660-1724).
*  Rebecca Gray (1670-????), married 1689 Ephraim Cole (1659-1731).
*  Thomas Gray (1672-1721), married (1) 1694 Anna Little (1673-1706); (2) 1707 Phebe Peckham (1666-1746).
*  Lydia Gray (1678-1771), married 1696 Caleb Loring (1674-1732).
*  Samuel Gray (1681-1712), married 1699 Deborah Church (1677-1772)

2970.  Thomas Lettice, born about 1604 in Ecclesfield, Yorkshire, England; died 25 October 1681 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.  He married about 1627 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
2971.  Anne LNU, born 1606 in England; died 03 July 1687 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of Thomas Lettice and Anne are:
*  Anne Lettice (1628-1687), married 1652 Samuel Jenney (1617-1685).
*  Thomas Lettice (1630-1650).
*  Dorothy Lettice (1633-1726), married (1) 1665 Edward Gray (1623-1681); (2) 1686 Nathaniel Clarke.
*  Elizabeth Lettice (1634-1693), married (1) 1655 William Shurtleff (1624-1666); (2) 1669 Jacob Cooke (1618-1675).

Information about this Lettice family was obtained from:

*  Benjamin Franklin Wilbour, Genealogy of the Wilbour and Browne and Allied Families (Little Compton, R.I. : B.F. Wilbour, 1936)

*  Cooke Family: Descendants and Relatives of Francis Cooke of the Mayflower 1577-1820 (Salem, Mass. : Higginson Book Co., 200?).

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