Mary J (Lane) Andrews (bef. 1790 - aft. 1846)

Ancestors

Wife of Stephen Andrews — married 15 Nov 1807 in Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts

Descendants

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Biography

Mary Lane and Stephen Andrews posted bans November 15, 1807 and married Nov. 22 at the 3rd Parish church in Squam village (modern Anisquam) of Gloucester town, Essex county, Massachusetts.^[1]

Mary Lane is presented in the context of her family below:

1. Stephen Andrews, born before 1789 - a native of Essex who removed to Lanesville somewhere about 1800 - married Mary Lane in Lanesville^[2] We find him in the 1810 census in Gloucester and in the 1820 census in the Annisquam parish of Gloucester – both are likely to be the same location as his neighbors remain John S. Lane, Joseph Lane, and Jonathan Hariden/Haraden.^[3] … Stephen’s wife, Mary was the daughter of Joseph Lane (1760-1835) and Joanna Morgan ( -1832) of Annisquam, Gloucester, Massachusetts, who were married 26 Feb 1782. Mary and Stephen Andrews were married on 22 Nov 1807.^[4]

a. Stephen Andrews^[2] born ~ 1810. Married November 27, 1831 to Olive Giles, eldest daughter of Samuel and Margaret (Davis) Giles; born in Rockport, October 11, 1811. Stephen Andrews of Rockport, son of Stephen Andrews of Lanesville, Cape Ann was a sea-faring man.^[5]” In the 1870 census recorded July 21, 1870, Stephen is listed as 61 years-of-age (suggesting he was born 1809 or 1810) and marketing fish as well as living with Sarah E. who is 45 years-of-age and listed as keeping house (wives were so annotated).^[6] In the 1880 Census Stephen is listed as 70 years-of-age and married to Sarah, who is 52. ^[7] The children of Stephen and Olive (Giles) Andrews were:

i. Nathan Franklin, b. 1833; d. at 18 months.^[5]

ii. Joseph, b. _________; d. in early infancy.^[5]

b. Amaziah Andrews^[2] (alive in 1870 ^[8])^[9] Amaziah in mentioned as laying out a private way named High Street in Lanesville in 1903.^[10]

c. Joseph L. (Lane) Andrews (born 3 June 1816^[11]) married Hephzibah on 1 November 1838 (Sargent) Andrews (a daughter of Henry Sargent and a granddaughter of Winthrop Sargent, a descendant of William Sargent, a native of Bristol, England, whose son, Epes Sargent, was the common ancestor of several distinguished Americans and of the Sargents of Gloucester)^[2] – [doing business in Lanesville as J.L. Andrews and sons with Joseph H. & Oscar Andrews in 1870]^[8] He was 44 and living in Gloucester with three of his children on the 20th of August, 1860, consistent with being born in 1816.^[12] In 1860 his second wife was named Sarah, 42 years-of-age. ^[12]

i. Joseph H (Henry) Andrews – 13 June 1839^[11] - first born child who married Martha J. Woodbury^[2]. He was 21 and living with his father on the 20th of August, 1860, consistent with being born in 1839.^[12]

1. Edgar Woodbury Andrews – 1871 – was in charge of the store of the Rockport Granite Company in 1898 – lived in the house at the head of Folly Cove^[13] In the 1910 census for New Haven, Connecticut we find Edgar Andrews (41), his wife Edith (36) & his oldest son Raymond Woodbury Andrews (<1 year)^[14]

ii. Mary O. Andrews born 26 Aug 1841^[11] (a milliner in Lanesville in 1870)^[8] and also showing as a milliner in the census of 1860 – her age is listed as 19 suggesting she was born in 1840 or 1841.^[12] She married Charles H. Sargent, of Reading, who served in the Eighth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, during the Rebellion [the Civil War]. Became a civil engineer on the Union Pacific Railroad, and was residing in Garrison, Neb in 1898. ^[2]

1. Joseph S. Sargent^[2]

2. Marianne Sargent^[2]

3. Charles R. Sargent^[2]

4. Helen M. Sargent^[2]

5. Grace Sargent^[2]

iii. Oscar Andrews born December 25, 1843^[11] - married Susanna Lane, of Folly Cove, Rockport, a daughter of Nathaniel and Esther (Sargent) Lane and a grand-daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah Lane. ^[2] Susanna (~1844 - ?) married 20 Jan 1869 to Oscar, the son of Joseph and Hepsibah Andrews.^[4] He was listed as 17 years-of-age, living with his father and working as a fisherman in the census taken on the 20th of August, 1860.^[12]

1. Will O. Andrews, born in 1870, who married Edith L. Favor, has two children, and is in business with his father^[2];

2. Josephine Andrews, born in 1872, who resides at home^[2];

3. Ralph Andrews, born in 1876, who is bookkeeper^[2]

4. Esther S. Andrews, born in 1879^[2];

5. Earl, born in 1895^[2]

6. Doris Andrews, born in 1897^[2].

iv. William D. - 6 May 1846^[11]

d. Mary J. Andrews^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Gloucester Marriages: Stephen, and Mary Lane, Nov. 15, 1807. [Nov. 22. CR3]* http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Gloucester/Images/Gloucester_M065.shtml
2. ↑ ^{2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18} Biographical Review, Volume XXVIII containing life sketches of leading citizens of Essex County, Massachusetts; Boston Biographical review publishing company; Boston; 1898; Page 248-249
3. ↑ 1810 US census
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Jacob Chapman & James H Fitts; Lane genealogies ; Exeter, N.H.: unknown publisher, 1891, 1123 pgs; page 3-243
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} The Giles Memorial by Vinton John Adams; South Boston, 1864.
6. ↑ 1870 United States Census – Gloucester in the county of Essex – page 365.
7. ↑ 1880 United States Census – Gloucester in the county of Essex, Ward 7, Lanesville – page 14
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} Essex County History & Directory; C.A. & J.F. Wood; Boston, 1870
9. ↑ Note: Amaziah is a male name.
10. ↑ Inaugural Address of the Mayor with the Annual Reports of the City of Gloucester for the year 1903; Cape Ann News Print; Cape Ann; 1904
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4} Vital Records of Gloucester, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849, Volume 1 - Births; Gloucester, Mass.; The Topsfield Historical Society, Topsfield, Mass. 1917.
12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4} 1860 United States Census – Gloucester in the county of Essex – page 306
13. ↑ as recalled by his son, Raymond Woodbury Andrews in 1974
14. ↑ 1910 United States Census, New Haven, Connecticut