Saturday, March 3, 2018

Surname Saturday - SPRAY (England)

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 #2087 who is Anne SPRAY (1593-????). 
[Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 9th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts.]

My ancestral line back through one generation in this SPRAY 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)


1042.  William Hagar (1620-1684)
1043.  Mary Bemis (1624-1695).

2086.  John Bemis, born about 1589 in Dedham, Essex, England; died before 26 June 1624 in Dedham, Essex, England.  He married 1614 in Dedham, Essex, England.
2087.  Anne Spray, born about 1593 in Dedham, Essex, England.

Children of John Bemis and Anne Spray are:

*  Isaac Bemis, born 1615 in Dedham, Essex, England
*  Luke Bemis, born 1617 in Dedham, Essex, England  
*  Joseph Bemis, born 1619 in Dedham, Essex, England; died 07 August 1684 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; married Sarah Capron about 1640 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; born about 1621 in England; died 18 November 1712 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
*  Abraham Bemis, born 1621 in Dedham, Essex, England  
Mary Bemis, born before 10 September 1624 in Dedham, Essex, England; died December 1695 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; married William Hagar 20 March 1645 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
*  James Bemis, born 1626 in Dedham, Essex, England; died 1665 in New London, New London, Connecticut, United States.

I have no further information about Anne Spray's parentage.

Information about the Bemis family was obtained from:

*  Colonel Thomas Waln-Morgan Draper, The Bemis History and Genealogy (San Francisco, Calif. : The Stanley-Taylor Co., 1900).

 There are many online family trees and websites which may or may not be correct.  I have done no research on this surname.


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