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There is no documented source for a maiden name of SISSON, and connections to Bocking, Essex have been disputed. See Jane Fletcher Fiske's "William Swift of London and Sandwich, Mass." in The American Genealogist, vol 77 (2002):161 for the most recent research done. This article identifies that William Swift married Joan widow of Roger Dimbleby and that Roger was likely from Wilbarston, Northamptonshire, son of Andrew. Parish records there are incomplete / missing. But it does suggest at least a region of England from which Joan came.
Joan (---) (Dimbleby) Swift, b. possibly in Northamptonshire, England on an unknown date, place and of unknown parents. She died testate on 26 Nov 1663 at Sandwich, Massachusetts.
By 1622 (record of first known child), Joan married first, Roger Dimbleby, by whom she had four known children (Hester, Andrew, and two sons named Roger) baptized at St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, Surrey, England. Unfortunately all four died with five years of birth and were buried at St. Mary Magdalen Bermondsey. Her husband, Roger Dimbleby, was buried at St. Mary Magdalen Bermondsey on 15 Sept 1625.
She married second, on Jan. 3, 1625/6 at St Mary Magdalen Bermondsey, as his 2nd wife, William Swift, a citizen and leather seller of London. He died intestate at Sandwich, Massachusetts, probably in late 1642, as the extensive inventory of his estate at Sandwich was filed with the Plymouth Court on 29 Jan 1643/3. They had three children baptized at St. Mary Magdalen. They are outlined in their father's memorial.
Joan, husband William Swift, William's daughter Hannah by his 1st wife, and Joan and William's two surviving children William and Esther, arrived in New England in about 1634 settling first at Watertown, Massachusetts. (Others claim Sudbury.[citation needed] By 1640, the family was residing at Sandwich.
She survived her husband by many years. In October 1660, she was fined 4 pounds for "being att Quakers meetings" along with Robert Harper and his wife, Joseph Allen, John Newland and his wife, William Allen, William Gifford, Matthew Allen, the wife of Henry Dillingham, William Newland and his wife, John Soule, Rodolphus Elmes, Peter Gaunt, Dorothy Butler, Obadiah Butler, John Jenkins, Richard Kerby Sr., Richard Kerby Jr., John Smith of Plymouth and his wife Deborah, Lydia Hickes of Plymouth, and Henry Howland.[citation needed]
In Joan's will dated Oct. 12, 1662, she gave [in annotated form]:
Joan signed her will by a mark. Her will was shown to the court on 3 March 1663/4, however, the will was not fully proved to the Court until 30 May 1665 because the witness Mr. John Dimont was absent and wasn't deposed until 20 April 1664. The inventory of her estate was taken by Richard Bourne and James Skiffe on Dec. 25, 1663 and filed with the Plymouth General Court by the executor Mar. 3, 1663/4.[1]
Charles W. Swift wrote: "Jedediah Allen, son of Ralph and Easter (or Esther), writes in the family Bible as follows: 'Jone Swift, my grandmother, deceased ye 26 day, ---" the rest is torn off with the leaf. As her will bears date Oct. 12, 1662, and the inventory of her estate was taken Dec. 25, 1663, she probably died Nov. 26, 1663.'"[2]
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I’ll see if I can transcribe Roger’s and Symon’s wills. I think both are fairly short
Ann
edited by Ann Browning
Last name Dymblybe Birth year - Year 1561 Place Wilbarston Country England Series 1ST Type Will Book or box L Folio or page 193 Microform 9 Reference Archdeaconry Court of Northampton:Wills, Administrations and inventories, and accounts Number 294 Record set Northamptonshire And Rutland Probate Index Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records Subcategory Wills & Probate Collections from Great Britain, England
Libij died in about 1637 in Dedham, Essex, England. Their will passed probate on 29 June 1637.<ref> Will: "England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858"
The National Archives; Kew, Surrey, England; Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Series PROB 11; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 174
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Will of Libij Dimbleby, granted probate on 29 Jun 1637. Died about 1637 in Dedham, Essex, England. </ref>
[Source Citation London Metropolitan Archives and Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, Clerkenwell, London, England; Reference Number: DW/PA/5/1625; Will Number: 68
Source Information Ancestry.com. London, England, Wills and Probate, 1507-1858 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Original data: London, England, Wills and Probate. London, England: London Metropolitan Archives and Guildhall Library Manuscripts.]
Catalogue reference: PROB 11/249/213
available from the National Archives
Ann
Ann
edited by Ann Browning
Ann
I appreciate that you've identified a possible source for the home town of Joan and Roger.
edited by Scott Michal
"Supposed to have" was too strong of a statement. Sorry.
[1] Please note that a general search of the Swift name produces several additional pages and comments. [2]