Rebecca (Phillips) Lord (bef. 1632)

Born before 13 May 1632 in Great Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England

Descendants

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Biography

Rebecca (Phillips) Lord immigrated to New England between 1621 and 1640 and later departed for England

Rebecca Phillips was baptized St. Peter's, Great Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, 13 May 1632.^[1][2][3] She was the daughter of William Phillips and his first wife, Mary Bishop.

Rebecca immigrated to New England with her parents; the family was settled at Charlestown, Massachusetts by 1639.^[4]

Rebecca married by 1650, Robert Lord. He was baptized Towcester, Northamptonshire, England, 12 May 1621,^[5][6] the son of Thomas and Dorothy (Bird) Lord. Robert immigrated 1635 aboard the Elizabeth & Ann.^[7]

By 1656, Robert and Rebecca (Phillips) Lord had returned to England, and were living in Stepney.^[8]

Children

The children of Robert and Rebecca Lord were:

• Robert Lord, born Boston April 1651, probably died young.^[9][10]
• Thomas Lord, born Boston 18 May 1653,^[11] died at Boston, 6 Oct 1653.^[12]
• Rebecca Lord, baptized at Stepney 20 Feb 1657.^[13][14]
• Robert Lord, baptized at Stepney 6 Apr 1657.^[15][16]

Note: Rebecca's and Robert's birth dates are incompatible. They appear on the same registry image, which was probably transcribed from earlier records, and most likely Robert was born in 1658.

• Sarah Lord, baptized at Stepney 28 August 1659.^[17]
• William Lord, baptized at Stepney 11 Aug 1661.^[18][19]
• a son, died in infancy, buried 14 Oct 1668 at St. Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney^[20]
• Mary Lord, no birth or baptism record found. See profile of Mary (Lord) Warne for analysis of her most likely year of birth, 1670.
• a daughter, died in infancy, buried 18 Mar 1672 at St. Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney^[21]

Research Notes

Disputed & Corrected Parents: Rebecca's profile has been updated to report her parents as William Phillips and his first wife, Mary Bishop. Rebecca was not the daughter of Christopher Stanley; she was not the daughter of Susanna (_____) (Stanley) Phillips.

Oh, Susanna! William Phillips and his second wife, Susanna Phillips, both wrote wills dated 10 September 1650.^[22] In her will,^[23] probated 2 August 1655, Susanna refers to "dau-in Law, Mary field," "dau. Martha Thurston," dau. "Rebecca Lord," "sonne Wm Phillips," "sonne Nathl Phillips," "Elizabeth Phillips, my dau." "dau. Phebe Phillips," and "dau. Sarah."

Savage (1862)^[24] reported William Phillips second marriage to Susanna, saying "by her ... [he] had ... prob. William, Eliz. and Sarah," further calling Mary Fields likely a daughter "of Stanley by a former" wife.

Pope (1900)^[25] treated William Phillips' daughters Rebecca and Martha as the children of Christoper and Susannah Stanley. This claim was republished with some vigor by George Warne Labaw in 1911,^[26] and has become widely circulated.^[27]

Applying logic and reasoning to the available evidence, in 1938, the authors of Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire^[28] corrected the record, with the possible exception of daughter Sarah "who otherwise may have been [second wife's child]." About this specific passage, Hal Bradley (2012; pub. 2013) writes that Sarah's "parentage remains ambiguous."

In 2013, Hal Bradley's article updating the family of William Phillips was published in The American Genealogist. Bradley's article lays out the English record for William's marriage to Mary Bishop, as well as the English baptismal records for their children born there. Using these and other records, Bradley was able to substantiate the findings earlier published in the Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire and add more details to the early family.

Robert Charles Anderson described the marriage and baptismal, etc. records published by Bradley in 2013 as "the complete and accurate distribution of the children of William Phillips among his three wives.^[29]

Sources

1. ↑ Birth, Marriage, Death, and Parish Records, online database at FindMyPast.co.uk. Record set: Hertfordshire baptisms. Images of parish registers available. FindMyPast link (free registration)
2. ↑ Hal Bradley, "The English Origin of William¹ Phillips of Charlestown and Boston, Massachusetts, and Saco, Maine." The American Genealogist, V 86 (2012; pub. 2013), p 296-301. Available by subscription at AmericanAncestors.org here. Hereafter referenced as Bradley 2012.
3. ↑ Rebekech Philips 1632 baptism, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"; database (only), FamilySearch; dau. of Willyam Philips.
4. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Newsletter 23 (2014):95; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors; "William Phillips settled in Charlestown, Massachusetts by 1639."
5. ↑ Northamptonshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1532-1812, online database at Ancesty.com, citing Northamptonshire Record Office, Northampton, England; Register Type: Parish Registers; Reference Numbers: 329P/255. Ancestry image link (free).
6. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume IV, I-L, 331-335 (Thomas Lord), in particular, 333; Cites "Flagg 274." Digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors
7. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume IV, I-L (2005), 331-335 (Thomas Lord), in particular, 331; cites "Hotten 72." Digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors
8. ↑ Bradley 2012, p. 300.
9. ↑ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, online database at Ancestry.com, citing Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. image of original town record at Ancestry (free).
10. ↑ Bradley 1012, p 300.
11. ↑ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, online database at Ancestry.com, citing Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. image of original town record at Ancestry (free).
12. ↑ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, online database at Ancestry.com, citing Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. image of county record at Ancestry (free)
13. ↑ England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1936, online database at Ancestry.com, citing The National Archives of the UK: Kew, Surrey, England. Reference: General Register Office, Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths Surrendered to the Non-Parochial Registers Commissions of 1837 and 1857; Class Number: RG 4; Piece Number: 4414. Hereafter Nonconformist Registers.
14. ↑ Nonconformist Registers. Ancestry link ($); Registry image link (free) The registry entry reads, "Rebeccah the daughter of Robert Lord of Gravell(?) Lane & Rebecca his wife was baptized the 20th day of the 12th month of 1656." (Feb 1657 by the new calendar)
15. ↑ Nonconformist Registers. Registry image link (free). The registry image reads, "Robert son of Robert Lord of New Gravell(?) Lane was baptized ye 6th day of 2nd month [April] 1657."
16. ↑ Bradley 2012, p. 300.
17. ↑ Nonconformist Registers. Ancestry link ($); Registry image link (free) The register entry reads, "Sarah daughter of Robert Lord of Limehouse Mariner & Rebecca his wife was baptized August 28th 1659."
18. ↑ Nonconformist Registers. Registry image link (free)
19. ↑ London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812, Online database at Ancestry.com, citing London Metropolitan Archives: London, England, Reference Number: P93/DUN/258. link to parish register image
20. ↑ London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812, searchable online database at Ancestry.com, citing London, Church of England Parish Registers, Reference Number: P93/DUN/279. London, England: London Metropolitan Archives. Ancestry link ($) Register entry reads, "An infant sonne of Robert Lord of Ratcliff Mariner."
21. ↑ London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812, searchable online database at Ancestry.com, citing London, Church of England Parish Registers, Reference Number: P93/DUN/279. London, England: London Metropolitan Archives. Ancestry link ($) Register entry reads, "Infant daughter of Robert Lord of Ratcliff Mariner."
22. ↑ James Savage, A genealogical dictionary of the first settlers of New England ... (Boston: Little, Brown and company, 1860-62), 4 vols., 3:416 (Phillips); digital images, Hathi Trust.
23. ↑ Abstracts of the Earliest Wills upon Record in the County of Suffolk, Ms.," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 5 (1851):447-48; digital images, Hathi Trust.
24. ↑ James Savage, A genealogical dictionary of the first settlers of New England ... (Boston: Little, Brown and company, 1860-62), 4 vols., 3:416 (Phillips); digital images, Hathi Trust.
25. ↑ Charles Henry Pope, The pioneers of Massachusetts ... (Boston: the author, 1900), 430 (Stanley); digital image, Hathi Trust.
26. ↑ George Warne Labaw, A Genealogy of the Warne Family in America ... (New York, Frank Allaben Genealogical Co., [c1911]), 56-59; digital images, Hathi Trust.
27. ↑ Bradley, pages 299 and 301.
28. ↑ Sibyl Noyes, Charles T. Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, in 5 parts, paginated consecutively, (4) 548; digital images, FamilySearch Books.
29. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Newsletter 23 (2014):95; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors; "William Phillips settled in Charlestown, Massachusetts by 1639."