Edith (Squire) Adams (1587 - 1672)

Born 29 May 1587 in Charlton Mackrell, Somerset, England

Ancestors

Wife of Henry Adams — married 19 Oct 1609 in Charlton Mackrell, Somerset, England

Descendants

Died 21 Jan 1672 at age 84 in Medfield, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Edith Squire was baptized 29 May 1587 at Charlton Mackrell, Somerset, daughter of Henry Squire; her mother's name is not recorded.^[1] She married first Henry Adams at Charlton Mackrell 19 Oct 1609.^[2] They had children (baptized at Barton St. David and Kingweston, Somerset):

1. Henry b. 1610
2. Thomas b. 1612
3. Jonathan b. 1614
4. Samuel b. 1617
5. Ursula b. 1619
6. Peter b. 1621
7. John b. 1622
8. Joseph b. 1626
9. Edward b. 1629

The family migrated to New England about 1639.^[3]

Henry Adams died 1646 in Braintree, Massachusetts and Edith married second, about 1651, John Fussell. The death of Edith Fussell, wife of John, was recorded 21 Jan 1672/73 in Medfield.^[4][5]

Research Notes

Edith did not have a middle name Rosamund.

Sources

1. ↑ Somerset : Charlton Mackrell : Virgin Mary : Register of unspecified type : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/58185291e93790eca3e1d73a : viewed 8 Dec 2022) baptism Edith Squire 29 May 1587
2. ↑ Somerset : Charlton Mackrell : Virgin Mary : Register of unspecified type : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/581859eee93790eb7fa38a3e : viewed 8 Dec 2022) marriage Henry Adams to Edith Squire 19 Oct 1609
3. ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration directory: immigrants to New England, 1620-1640: a concise compendium. Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 2015, p. 2
4. ↑ NEHGS, compiler, Vital Records of Medfield, MA, to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1903), p. 213

   "Fussell, Edith, w. John, Jan. 21, 1672."

   "Fussell, John, Feb. 21, 1675/6."

5. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8979-7G4G?cc=2061550&wc=Q4D4-C6X%3A353350501%2C353406301%2C353426201 : 13 July 2016), Norfolk > Medfield > Births, marriages, deaths 1651-1876 > image 170 of 601; town clerk offices, Massachusetts. (Image of town record copy made in 1850)

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