Anna (Unknown) Bartholomew (1607 - 1683)

Born 1607 in Burford, Oxfordshire, England

Descendants

Died 29 Jan 1683 at about age 76 in Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

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

Biography

Anna ____ married William Bartholomew, of Boston, Massachusetts, before 1653. There is no record of the marriage. But Anna appears as the wife and later the relict of William Bartholomew in town records. Because she was not mentioned earlier in the records there is some question if she was the mother of all his children. There is no evidence one way or the other.

William died on January 18, 1680/1 at Charlestown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Anna died on January 29, 1682/3 at Charlestown.^[1][2]

Research Notes

According to one source, Anna Lord was the daughter of a father and mother Lord; no information about these parents is known by the author, who also asserts without sources that Anna's siblings are Faith (Lord) (Brown) Warner, Robert Lord (who married Mary Waite), and Grace (Lord) Fitts. This author says that Anna Lord (birth/death dates unknown) married William Bartholomew (date, place unknown), and lists children Mary, Joseph and William, all without any sources.^[3] Another researcher, well respected, said that Tingley's work has been found to be unreliable and without support, and questions Faith Brown's origins.^[4] Bartholomew, in his book published in 1885, mentions both possibly Robert Lord and Faith Brown as possible siblings to Anne Lord, but also provides no sources.^[5] In summary, it remains possible that Anna Lord is a sibling to Robert Lord (and possibly to Faith Lord as well), but it is not certain.

None of the authors shown above give a marriage date for Anna Lord and William Bartholomew, although Tingley and Bartholomew both say she was the mother of all of William's children.^[3] Anderson, in the Great Migration series, gives the births of William's children, but lists Ann's last name as unknown, and also says it is uncertain whether she was the mother of all the children. The first time her name was known was in 1653.^[6]

A suggested baptism, March 24, 1604 at Wardleworth, Rochdale, Lancashire, England, d/o Robert Lord,^[7] does not match the known place of Robert and his mother Katherine in Suffolk.

Immigration

Immigration 18 SEP 1634 Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts aboard the Griffin

Burial

Charlestown (Boston after 1874), Middlesex (Suffolk after 1874) County, Massachusetts where the inscription reads, "A. B. died Jan., 1682-3"

Children of William Bartholomew: At least the last was by Anna.

1. Mary was born about 1637. She married Matthew Whipple at Gloucester on December 24, 1657. Married (2nd) by 1661 to Jacob Green.
2. Joseph was born about 1638; was deposed aged 24 years on June 23, 1662. He was of London on May 26, 1693.
3. child was born by 1645.
4. child was born about November 1658.

Sources

1. ↑ Town records.
2. ↑ Charlestown was absorbed into Boston and transferred to Suffolk County at a later date.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Tingley, Raymon Meyers, Some ancestral lines : being a record of some of the ancestors of Guilford Solon Tingley and his wife, Martha Pamelia Meyers, published 1935. Reference page 205
4. ↑ Williams, Alicia Crane Early New England Families, 1641-1700. (Original Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013 Reference Daniel Warner volume, page 7. Subscription$
5. ↑ Bartholomew, George Wells, Record of the Bartholomew Family: Historical, Genealogical, Biographical, Parts 1-2, published 1885. Reference page 42
6. ↑ ?Anderson, Robert Charles, Great Migration 1634-1635, A-B. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume 1, A-B, by Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999.Reference page 183. Subscription$
7. ↑ England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NFJC-N4J : 12 February 2018, Anna Lord, ); citing item 2, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 1,545,748.

• Hibbard, Augustine George. History of the Town of Goshen, Connecticut (Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co, Hartford, Connecticut, 1897) Page 414