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Margaret (Atherton) Trowbridge (1638 - 1672)

Margaret Trowbridge formerly Atherton
Born in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusettsmap
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married 30 Dec 1659 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusettsmap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 34 in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusettsmap
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Biography

This profile is part of the Atherton Name Study.

Margaret Atherton, born 30 April 1638 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, was the daughter of Humphrey Atherton and Mary[1] Kennion/Kenion.[2]

Margaret married on 30 December 1659 in Dorchester to James Trowbridge,[3] son of Thomas Trowbridge and Elizabeth Marshall.[1][4] They had seven children,[4] the first two born in Dorchester and the remainder in Cambridge village (which became Newton ca. 1678/9):

  1. Elizabeth, born 12 October 1660,[1] baptized 16 March 1661 in Dorchester,[5] married John Mirick[1]
  2. Mindwell, born 20 June 1662,[1] baptized 22 June 1662 in Dorchester,[6] married Jonathan Fuller[1]
  3. John, born 22 May 1664 in Newton (Cambridge village),[7] died 2 May 1737,[8] married Sarah Wilson[1]
  4. Margaret, born 30 April 1666,[9] married Ebenezer Stone, Esq.[1]
  5. Thankful, born 4 March 1668,[10] married Dea. Richard Ward[1]
  6. Mary,[11] born 11 June 1670, married Thomas Stedman[1]
  7. Hannah, born 15 June 1672,[7] married John Greenwood, Esq.[1]

Margaret died in Newton on 17 August 1672,[4][8] soon after the birth of ther last daughter, Hannah.[1]

Sources

  1. 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 Francis Bacon Trowbridge. The Trowbridge Genealogy: History of the Trowbridge Family in America. New Haven, CT: 1908. Online at Archive.org, pages 503-509: James Trowbridge.
  2. NOTE: Mary's LNAB was not Wales as noted in Trowbridge Genealogy. See the discussion about her LNAB on the profile of Mary Kenion.
  3. "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, (FamilySearch: 19 April 2021), James Trowbridge and Margaret Atherton, 30 Oct 1659; citing Marriage, Dorchester, Suffolk, MA Bay Colony, MA Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009469.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 George R. Nye. "Thomas Trowbridge (1677–1725) of Newton, Massachusetts, and Canterbury, Connecticut" in The New England Historical & Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: NEHGS, 2015. Vol. 169, WN 676, Pages 308-313. Online at AmericanAncestors.org($)
  5. "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, (FamilySearch: 15 January 2020), Elizabeth Trobridge, 1661.
  6. "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, (FamilySearch: 15 January 2020), Mindwell Trobridge, 1662.
  7. 7.0 7.1 Vital Records of Newton, Massachusetts - Births, page 192.
  8. 8.0 8.1 Vital Records of Newton, Massachusetts - Deaths
  9. Vital Records of Newton, Massachusetts - Births, page 193.
  10. Vital Records of Newton, Massachusetts - Births, page 194.
  11. "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, (FamilySearch: 10 November 2020), Mary Trowbridge; citing Birth, Newton, Middlesex, MA, MA Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009513.




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