Curmac
(Charles)
Annis
Born about in Enniskillen, Fermanagh, Ulster, Ireland
[uncertain]
[uncertain]Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Sarah (Chase) Annis
— married
15 May 1666 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Descendants 
Father of
Joseph Annis, Sarah (Annis) Bagley, Abraham Annis, Aquilla Annis, Unnamed infant Annis, Isaac Annis, Priscilla (Annis) Godfrey, Hannah (Annis) Weed and Anne (Annis) Wathen
Died
at about age 79
in Newbury, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay
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Biography
Carmac (Anglicized to Charles) Annis, first appears in Newbury records on 15 May 1666 when he married Sarah Chase.[1] He is said, by tradition, to have come from Enniskillen, Fermanagh, province of Ulster, Ireland, where he was born about 1638.[2]
He settled in Newbury near his wife's family. He took the Oath of Allegiance in 1678 at the age of forty.[3] He was admitted as a Freeman of Newbury on 15 April 1679.[4] He was a soldier serving with Capt. Thomas Noyes in 1688.[5] In that year his name appears on the tax rolls with a house and five acres of land.
His will, dated May 1706 and proved 15 Feb 1717/18, named his wife Sarah, his boy Malachi Edwards to his wife; his sons Joseph, Abraham, Isaac, daughters Sarah Bagley, Priscilla Godfrey, Anne Warthon and Hannah Weed; grandchildren Dorothy and Judith Warthon. Executrix: wife Sarah. Witnesses: Abraham Morrill, Thomas ffollams(bee), Sr. William Noyes.[6]
Charles died Dec. 19, 1717 in Newbury.[7]
Children (birth order uncertain):
- Sarah, possibly b. Dec 23, 1666 (unnamed infant); m. as his second wife, int. March 25, 1704, Orlando Bagley of Amesbury.
- Joseph, possibly b. 23 December 1666 (unnamed infant). married Dorothy Osgood, dau of Christoper who mentioned her in his will. She d. in Newbury March 8,1740, and he died there August 12, 1758, aged ninety-two.
- Aquila, b. June 4, 1670; a soldier under Capt. Thomas Noyes about 1688; d.s.p. bef 1718.
- A child, b. April 12, 1672; d. April 17, 1672.
- Abraham, b. c 1674, probably at Newbury. A soldier at fourteen. Married by 1693 Hannah --?--. their deaths are not recorded.
- Isaac, b. c1675 in Newbury. Married about 1700 Rebecca --?--, who survived him and married secondly Shimuel Griffin of Newbury Nov 6, 1716.
- Priscilla, b. Nov 8, 1677; m. William Godfrey.
- Hannah, b. Nov 15, 1679; m. (1) int. May 11, 1700, Thomas Worthen of Amesbury; m. (2) Jul 19 1704, Ephraim Weed. Dorothy and Judith Worthen, remembered in their grandfather Annis's will, were her children.
- Anne, b. Dec 28 1681; m. George Worthen of Amesbury.
Sources
- ↑ Massachusetts, Town Records, 1620-1988, online Ancestry.com, Newbury Births, Marriages & Deaths, Marriages p. 141, original record p. 354.
- "Curmac alias Chas Annis & Sarah Chase was marryed May 15th 1666."
- ↑ Walter Goodwin Davis, Massachusetts & Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis, CD-ROM (CD version published 1998 by Broderbund, Novato, CA: original version published by Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore, MD, 1996), Vol.1:27-31, Annis of Newbury & Wells
- ↑ Currier, John J., History of Newbury, Mass., 1635-1902. Boston: Damrell & Upham. 1902. Page 180.
- ↑ Ipswich Court Records Book 2, leaf 340.
- ↑ Currier, History of Newbury. Page 659.
- ↑ Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881, file #755 Charles Annis (1718)
- ↑ Essex Institute, compiler, VRs of Newbury, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1911), Vol. 2, p. 539.
- "Annis, Charls, Dec. 19, 1717."
- Preston, Belle. Bassett-Preston Ancestors (Tuttle Morehouse & Taylor Co., New Haven, Conn., 1930) Page 57.
- Smith, Dean Crawford. The Ancestry of Samuel Blanchard Ordway, 1844-1916. United States: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1990. Page 119.
- Coffin, Joshua, and Joseph Bartlett. A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury, from 1635 to 1845. Boston : Samuel G. Drake ; printed by George Coolidge, 1845. Page 293.
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Categories: Newbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony
edited by J Briller
edited by Bobbie (Madison) Hall
Cormac's presence here seems really odd... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enniskillen - William Cole is about half way through the history section
edited by J Briller
I'm unaware of any connection to the various Coles in early New England, and have seen nothing to connect Curmac Annis to anyone prior to his arrival. A quick check of the Newbury Vital records finds no one of the Cole surname prior to 1680. A check of the index to the probate records for Essex County finds quite a few early Coles, but I haven't gone through them. That would be a project in itself, but one that might be fruitful to test your theory.