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Lydia (Gilman) Cushing (abt. 1620 - 1689)

Lydia Cushing formerly Gilman
Born about in Hingham, Norfolk, Englandmap
Ancestors ancestors
Daughter of and
Sister of , , , , , , , , and
Wife of — married 19 Jun 1645 (to 12 Mar 1689) in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
Descendants descendants
Mother of , , , , and
Died at about age 69 in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
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Biography

Lydia (Gilman) Cushing immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Lydia was born about 1620.

She emigrated 26 Apr 1638 from Gravesend, Kent, England, arriving Boston, MA 10 Aug 1638. She was the daughter of Edward and Mary (Clark) Gilman.[1][2]

She married Daniel Cushing on 19 Jun 1645 in Hingham, MA. [3][4]

Baptism records for children:

  1. Peter - 1646 [5]
  2. Daniel - 1648 [6]
  3. Mathew - 1650 [7]
  4. Deborah - 1651 [8]
  5. Jeremiah - 1654 [9]
  6. Theophilus - 1657 [10] Died 1718. [11]

She died 12 Mar 1688/89 in Hingham.[12][13][3][14] Her headstone indicates she was the age of 68 when she died in 1688/9. [15]

Lydia was buried in Hingham Cemetery, Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. [15]

Research Notes

Incorrect baptism/birth date: an unsourced date for Lydia's baptism 15 September 1619 can be frequently found online. This is actually the date of the baptism of her twin brothers Moses and Joshua.
No baptism found in Hingham register for 1619. Ill check a bit further into the registerBrowning-5288 11:59, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Sources

  1. ↑ History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts Vol II, p. 275. see Internet Archive.
  2. ↑ An English baptismal record for this daughter has not been located, but in the settlement of Edward Gilman's estate, Lydia's husband, Daniel Cushing, was considered a son of Edward Gilman; see Edward Gilman 1655 estate administration, New Hampshire Wills in New Hampshire Provincial and State Papers multiple vols. (Concord [etc.]), 31:29-30; digital images, Hathi Trust, cites Essex County, Mass. Probate Files, and Norfolk County, Mass., Deeds, vol. 1, p. 45.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts Vol II, p.151
  4. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH5T-2BT : Thu Oct 26 01:05:34 UTC 2023), Entry for Daniel Cushing and Mathew Cushing, 19 Jun 1645.
  5. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHDL-DCM : Wed Oct 25 22:55:29 UTC 2023), Entry for Peter Cushings and Daniel Cushings, 29 Mar 1646.
  6. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHDL-6GZ : Wed Oct 25 22:23:25 UTC 2023), Entry for Daniel Cushing and Daniel Cushings, 23 Jul 1648.
  7. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHDL-6G9 : Wed Oct 25 22:54:47 UTC 2023), Entry for Mathew Cushing and Daniel Cushing, 15 Jul 1650.
  8. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHDL-6G6 : Wed Oct 25 22:45:45 UTC 2023), Entry for Deborah Cushing and Daniel Cushing, 23 Nov 1651.
  9. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHDL-6LR : Wed Oct 25 14:23:05 UTC 2023), Entry for Jeremiah Cushing and Daniel Cushing, 9 Jul 1654.
  10. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHDL-6LB : Wed Oct 25 22:54:59 UTC 2023), Entry for Theophilus Cushing and Daniel Cushing, 7 Jun 1657.
  11. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH1S-KZ1 : Thu Oct 26 02:33:07 UTC 2023), Entry for Theophilus Cushing and Daniel Cushing, 7 Jan 1718.
  12. ↑ Gilman of Exeter Title: Mass. & Maine Families, Vol. 1, p 29-30
  13. ↑ George Thomas Little, Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York 1909, v4 p 1756
  14. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH19-B4P : Thu Oct 26 05:33:53 UTC 2023), Entry for Lydia Cushing and Daniel Cushing, 12 Mar 1689.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36571994/lydia-clark-cushing: accessed 20 November 2023), memorial page for Lydia Clark Gilman Cushing (15 Sep 1619–12 Mar 1689), Find A Grave: Memorial #36571994, citing Hingham Cemetery, Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by Jack Stevens (contributor 47033206).

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Madison-125 Bobbie (Madison) Hall
This person immigrated to New England between 1621-1640 as a Minor Child (under age 21 at time of immigration) of a Puritan Great Migration immigrant who is profiled in Robert Charles Anderson's Great Migration Directory (or is otherwise accepted by the Puritan Great Migration (PGM) Project).

Please feel free to improve the profile(s) by providing additional information and reliable sources. PGM encourages the Profile Managers to monitor these profiles for changes; if any problems arise, please contact the PGM Project via G2G for assistance. Please note that PGM continues to manage the parent's profile, but is happy to assist on the children when needed.

posted by Bobbie (Madison) Hall
Sandy Morrey
Please note the Research Notes for Lydia. The second Research Note gives a valid source for her birth date of 1619. The FindAGrave photo of her grave marker states that she was about 69 yrs old when she died in 1688; this would mathematically give a birth year of 1619.
posted by Sandy Morrey
Carles-4 Scott Carles
Thanks, Sandy. I have updated the birth year and added the source inline.
posted by Scott Carles
M Cole
Thanks, Scott. I updated her father's bio (the new estimate changes the birth order). I also updated the research notes to reflect that the 15 Sep 1619 date is actually the baptism date for her brothers Moses and Joshua.
posted by M Cole
GeneJ X
Apologies if I overlooked something, but do we have sources supporting her birth, whether as about 1620 or about 1624? Was there a reason it was changed?
posted by GeneJ X
Hill-11959 S (Hill) Willson
Unfortunately, there does not appear to be a baptism for her in the Norfolk Parish register as there was for her siblings. The 1624 date comes from her father's profile, as well as from the sources it cites. It appears to be the only approximate place, timewise, in which no child of Edward's is baptized, and aligns with her marriage in 1645. The birth was set as 1620 with no sources for it back in 2013.
posted by S (Hill) Willson
Cochoit-2 Joe Cochoit
Estimated dates should always have an explanation, either in the biography or as a footnote. I added a brief footnote.
posted by Joe Cochoit
Bromley-244 Clare Bromley III
Another CUSHING source:

Mathew Cushing d. 30 Sept, i860; m. in England in 1613, Nazarfeth Pritcher, d. 1 Jan. l68l/2, the daughter of Henry Pritcher.

Daniel Cushing, bapt. in Hingham, Eng.., 20 April 1619; d. 3 Dec. 1700; m. (1) 19 Jan. I6I4.9, Lydia Gilman, d. 12 March 1688/9, the daughter of Edward and Mary (Clark) Gilman; m. (2) 23 March 1690/1, Elizabeth

244

CUSHING (cont.)

(Jacob) Thaxter, b. in England in 1632, d. 2ii Nov. 1725, the daughter of Nicholas and Mary Jacob and the widow of Capt. John Thaxter.

Hobart genealogy : the descendants of Edmund Hobart of Hingham, Mass. by Hobart, Edgar, 1870- p243-244 https://archive.org/details/hobartgenealogyd00hoba/page/242/mode/2up/search/Gilman https://ia800701.us.archive.org/17/items/hobartgenealogyd00hoba/hobartgenealogyd00hoba.pdf

posted by Clare Bromley III

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