Joyce (Unknown) Lombard (abt. 1600 - aft. 1689)

Born about 1600 in England [uncertain]

Wife of Ralph Wallen — married before 1623 in England [uncertain]

Descendants

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Joyce (Unknown) Lombard migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Disputed Origins

Some, without source, claim she was the daughter of Thomas Nell and Jane or Joan Nycalson.

Per Wakefield (1976), Rue (1992) and Anderson (1995), her maiden name was not known. Her last name at birth, therefore, is being changed to Unknown and she is being detached from any parents.

There is no evidence that her surname was Small.

Biography

Arrival on the Anne

Joyce ____ married first Ralph Wallen, most likely in England and in any case before their migration to America on board the ship Anne, with 58 others arriving in Plymouth in 1623. The Anne was one of four Mayflower ships (Mayflower, Anne, Fortune, and Little James). There is no known manifest of the passengers on the Anne but the passage of Ralph and Joyce is proven by Ralph's inclusion in the 1623 land division specifically for passengers on the Anne. The records of the land division indicate that "Ralfe Walen" received an allotment of land near the Eel River, abutting against Hobes Hole.^[1] "Raph" Wallen is listed as one of the Purchasers, i.e., the planters resident in Plymouth Colony in October 1626.^[2] Both Ralph and Joyce Wallen participated in the division of cattle and goats in Plymouth Colony in 1627. They were assigned to the thirteen-member Company of Francis Eaton. In the "division of cattle" their group was given "an heyfer of the last yeare called the white belyd heyfer and two shee goats."^[3]

Children of Ralph and Joyce Wallen

The 1627 Division of Cattle list includes only Ralph and Joyce in this family, and most researchers agree that this Division of Cattle list captures all residents of Plymouth Colony at that time, even newborn babies, excluding only a few transient residents.^[4][5] Thus, it is likely that that Ralph and Joyce were a childless couple on June 1, 1627.^[6]

However, Ralph and Joyce probably had at least one and possibly two children after 1 June 1627. These included:

1. Mary (probably), b. abt 1628, m. John Ewer, m. John Jenkins^[7][8]
2. Thomas (possibly), b. abt 1630^[9][10]

Marriage to Thomas Lombard

Ralph Wallen had died by September 7, 1643, when Joyce Wallen sold her property at Hobs Hole in Plymouth to a neighbor, calling herself a widow.^[11]

Joyce appears to have remarried to her second husband, the widower Thomas Lombard, shortly after Ralph died, at which time Joyce and her children moved from Plymouth to Barnstable.^[12] Joyce and Thomas do not appear to have had any children together. Thomas died between June 1663 and February 1664,^[13] and the "Widdow Joyce Lumbert" was still living in Barnstable in September 1683, when she appears as a member of the Barnstable church.^[14]

Joyce apparently died after March 26, 1689, when she was mentioned in a deposition by her stepson, Bernard Lumbert. No death record has been found for her.^[15]

Research Notes

Her birth date is a rough estimate based on presumed date of marriage, given that she was married before emigration in 1623.

Amos Otis also wrote a biography for the Lombard family, in which he states that the name was written in many ways, including Lumber, Lumbert, Lumbart and Lumbard, but he states that he never saw it written as Lombard, the way Truro branch of the family spelled the name.^[16]

According to this page on the Lambert surname, "There were Lamberts in New England as early as 1631, when Thomas Lumbert arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony from Dorset, England. Descendants had numerous spelling variations, such as Lumbard and Lambert."

Sources

1. ↑ Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, et al, eds. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols., (Boston: William White, 1855-1861), 12:6; images, Hathitrust (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006784512 : accessed 2021) ["Plymouth Records"].
2. ↑ Plymouth Records, at 2:177. For a description of this 1626 list of Purchasers, see Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History & People 1620-1691, Kindle Edition (Provo, UT: Ancestry Publishing, 1986), Appendix F.
3. ↑ Plymouth Records, at 12:12. For a description of 1627 Division of the Cattle, see Stratton, Plymouth Colony, Appendix G.
4. ↑ See, e.g., Stratton, Plymouth Colony, 28 ("Most Plymouth Colony scholars believe that the contemporary record of this “Division of the Cattle” contains the name of every resident of the colony at the time, including even a recently born baby. Thus we have a highly significant record of most Plymouth Colony residents as of 1627.")
5. ↑ George Ernest Bowman, "The Division of Cattle in 1627," The Mayflower Descendant, 1 (1899): 148-154, at 148; image, Hathitrust, (https://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101076382504?urlappend=%3Bseq=168 : accessed 30 Jan 2021) ("This record is of great value to students of Pilgrim genealogy, as it contains the names of all members of the Pilgrim families in Plymouth on that date, including even Jonathan Brewster's little daughter Mary, born but five weeks before.").
6. ↑ Eleanor Cooley Rue, "Widow Joyce Wallen of Plymouth (1645) and Widow Joyce Lombard of Barnstable (1664): One and the Same?," The American Genealogist, 67 (1992): 47-53, at 47; images, AmericanAncestors.org, (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/12962/47/24672 : accessed 21 Feb 2022) ($ubscription required)("When the cattle were divided in Plymouth on 1 June 1627, each person, even a baby, was given a share; since the only Wallens named were Ralph and Joyce, they apparently had no living children at that time."); citing Plymouth Records, at 12:12.
7. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, 3 vols., (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 3:1916 ["GMB: 1620-1633"].
8. ↑ Rue, "Widow Joyce Wallen," TAG, 67:49-52. The claim that Mary is the child of Ralph and Joyce Wallen is based on her second husband John Jenkins' claim in 1660 to be the "heir apparent" of Ralph Wallen.
9. ↑ GMB: 1620-1633, at 3:1916.
10. ↑ William B. Saxbe, Jr., "Thomas Walling and his Way with Women: Seventeenth-Century Misconduct as an Aid to Identification," The American Genealogist, 73 (1998): 91-100, at 91-100; images, AmericanAncestors.org. (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/13133/91/0 : accessed 30 Jan 2021) ($ubscription required). Saxbe makes a detailed case based on a pattern of scandals that the Thomas Walling who appears in Providence, Rhode Island, beginning in 1650 is the same Thomas Wallen who appears in Barnstable in the Plymouth Colony shortly before 1650, and that he is the son of Ralph and Joyce Wallen.
11. ↑ Rue, "Widow Joyce Wallen," TAG, 67:48; citing Plymouth Records, at 12:95.
12. ↑ Rue, "Widow Joyce Wallen," TAG, 67:51-52. Rue makes a detailed case for this claim, cited with approval by Anderson. See GMB: 1620-1633, at 3:1916.
13. ↑ Robert S. Wakefield, "The Lombard Family of Barnstable, Mass.," The American Genealogist, 52 (1976): 136-39. 138; images, AmericanAncestors.org. (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/12344/136/0 : accessed 30 Jan 2021 ($ubscription required); citing probate records.
14. ↑ Rue, "Widow Joyce Wallen," TAG, 67:51; citing a photostat of the destroyed original church records available at NEHGS.
15. ↑ Rue, "Widow Joyce Wallen," TAG, 67:51.
16. ↑ Amos Otis, The Lumbert or Lombard Family, in Leonard H. Smith Jr, Cape Cod Library of Local History & Genealogy, A Facsimile Edition of Pamphlets published in the Early 20th century; Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1992, Vol 1; No. 54; Pages 841-843.

See also:

• Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633. 3 volumes. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995 ["GMB: 1620-1633"].

• Hurd, Hamilton, comp. History of Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co., 1884. Internet Archive. image copy: accessed 25 Jan 2021.

• Rue, Eleanor Cooley. "Widow Joyce Wallen of Plymouth (1645) and Widow Joyce Lombard of Barnstable (1664): One and the Same?" The American Genealogist, 67 (1992): 47-53. image copy for subscribers: accessed 28 Jan 2021.

• Wakefield, Robert S. "The Lombard Family of Barnstable, Mass." The American Genealogist, 52 (1976): 136-39. AmericanAncestors.org. Image Copy for subscribers accessed 30 Jan 2021.

See also:

• Wikipedia:The Anne and the Little James
• Wikipedia:Passengers of the Anne and Little James 1623 mentioning Mrs Joyce Wallen]
• Find A Grave: Memorial #34718568 - Not a burial memorial. Informational only.