Stephen Buchingham (1675 - 1746)

Born 4 Sep 1675 in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Hooker) Buckingham — married 10 Aug 1703 in Norwalk, Connecticut

Died 13 Feb 1746 at age 70 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut

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Biography

Name

Stephen Buchingham

Birth

4 Sep 1675 (The Hosmer Heritage)^[1]

Burial

East Norwalk Historical Cemetery, Norwalk, Connecticut.

Probate

His will is dated 1 January 1745/46 and proved on 18 February 1745/46 in Fairfield. He left everything to his wife, Sarah.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7HM-SHX : 11 February 2018), Stephen Buckingham, 04 Sep 1675; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
2. ↑ “Probate Records, v. 9-10, 1741-1755”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-9922-6W3B : 11 May 2022), FHL microfilm 007627281, image 167, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 9, 1741-1748, Page 310-311.

• Find A Grave: Memorial #17272288: The photograph here is evidently of a new monument that had been put in place of an old stone that had been destroyed.
• Hall, Edwin. The Ancient Historical Records of Norwalk, Connecticut (James Mallory & Co., Norwalk, 1847) Page 165
• The Hosmer Heritage: Ancestors and Descendants of the Emigrant Thomas Hosmer Author: Ronald Longaker Roberts Publication: South Lake Tahoe, CA: 1984. Page 142.
• Van Hoosear, David Hermon. A Complete Copy of the Inscriptions Found on the Monuments, Headstones, &c., in the Oldest Cemetery in Norwalk, Conn. (Standard Assoc., Bridgeport, Conn., 1895) Page XXII
• Hooker, Commander Edward. Mrs. Mary Buckingham, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New York City, 1887) Vol. 18.

• Page 73: "I had the good fortune to discover in an old cemetery near the East Norwalk (Conn.) railway station, some graves of which one at least, that of Mrs. Mary Buckingham, has been an object of search for many years. Nearly in the centre of the burial ground I found several pieces of a broken blue-slate headstone which were piled together around the remnant which remained in the ground ; placing these fragments together, I was able to make out this inscription: "Here lyes buried the Body of the Revd Stephen Buckingham, late pastor of the 1st Church of Christ in Norwalk. Departed this Life Feb. 3, 1745-6 Etatis 70."