Joanna (Ransford) Olmstead (1634 - 1698)

Born 16 Nov 1634 in Yorkshire, England

Descendants

Died 20 Sep 1698 at age 63 in Groton, New London, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Joanna Charity Rose (born Ransford) Nov 16 1634 in Yorkshire, England

1. 1 Marriage: Thomas Joseph Rose Mar 14 1652 New London Co, Conn.
2. 2 Marriage: Robert Flemming Feb 17 1670 Stonington, New London Co, Conn.
3. 3 Marriage: ? Olmstead 1682

Nicknames: Widow Rose, Charity

Death: Sep 20 1698 Groton, New London, Connecticut Colony Burial: New London County, Connecticut

Parents: Thomas David Ransford 1608 - ? & Mary Elizabeth York 1612 - ?

Husband: Thomas Joseph Rose 1626 - ?

Husband: Robert Flemming ? - 1681

Husband: ? Olmstead

Children:

Thomas Rose 1654 - 1744

Mary Parke (born Rose) 1654 - 1726 ^[1]

Research

Speculated Maiden Names (no evidence): Eames, or Rathbone, or Ransford;

Joanna was probably born in England.^[2]

She evidently came to America as a widow with two children, Mary and Thomas Rose.^[2]

She married Robert Fleming before 1669. Robert died between 8 Dec. 1674 and 2 June 1681. Robert and Joanna did not have any children.^[2]

She received a grant of land of 30 acres in Stonington, Connecticut on 30 Sep. 1669, as Joanna, wife of Robert Flemming. This land was sold in 1719 by Thomas Rose and his sister Mary (Rose) Parks.^[2]

She married Olmstead as she acknowledged the deeds on 15 Sep. 1687 as Mrs. Joanna Olmstead.^[2]

Children of Joanna and husband Rose

1. Mary b. c. 1655 married Robert Parke or Parks, son of Thomas, grandson of Robert. She died before Sep. 1707.^[2]
2. Thomas b. 1653 d. 1774 married Hannah Allyn.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ MyHeritage
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6} Rose Family Research. By Mrs. Christine and Seymour T. Rose. Rose Family Association. 1978. Collection of Phil Smith.

• https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-1/myheritage-family-trees?s=216760841&itemId=343434971-2-14200&action=showRecord
• https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-1/myheritage-family-trees?itemId=171177322-2-13661&action=showRecord
• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~steeles/Steele/d6...
• History of New London, Connecticut, by Frances Manwaring Caulkins, 1895
• History of Norwich, Connecticut, by Frances Manwaring Caulkins, 1874
• The Barbour Collection of Vital Records of Connecticut
• Torrey's "New England Marriages Prior to 1700"
• The Sterry Family, Walter Burges Smith, Call Number: CS71.S8393, Privately Printed. Israel. 1973.
• Cited in The Sterry Family
• Richard A. Wheeler, History of the Town of Stonington, New London, Conn. 1800, pp. 418-419, 236.
• Alfred L. Holman, Blackman and Allied Families, Chicago, 1928, pp. 205, 45.
• For Hannah's origins, see MSS. on the Rose and Allyn families by H. Minot Pitman genealogist of Bronxville, N.Y. (written for Mrs. William A.M. Burden, Jr.). (The book doesn't say where this manuscript is located. nmt)
• A transcription of his will is found: History of the Descendants of Peter Spicer compiled by Mrs. Susan Spicer Meech and Miss Susan Billings Meech, 1911. Pages 547-548.