Eunice House Connections

Question

I see that Eunice House Loveland has no parents listed.  Also in Connecticut there is a Joseph House [House-1125].  The birth dates are so close that I feel they might be siblings/cousins.  Does anyone have the sourcing to back up such a speculation?

I have a hard time with these Connecticut ancestors.  My access is limited.  Any help is welcome.

Answer 1

First the marriage date (Eunice House to Thomas Loveland) in 1705 doesn't seem to be in the vital records which doesn't make it wrong, but suspect. In addition they seem to have had children whose estimated births were before their marriage.

This https://books.google.com/books?id=niQ3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA17#v=onepage&q&f=false says she was the sister of William who married Hannah House. and cites Glastonbury Cen. p. 191

Here p. 191 (image 193) need to sign in at Family Search - free) https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/401314/?offset=0#page=193&viewer=picture&o=&n=0&q= so called Glastonbury Centenial claims Eunice House m. Thomas Loveland was a daughter of William House who also had children: 

• John m. Eunice Fox 1703;
• William m. Hannah Loveland 1709;
• Joseph m. (1) Hannah Porter & (2) Rachel Pitkin;
• Eunice m. Thomas Loveland;
• and perhaps Sarah m. Joseph Smith 1696. 

This, off course does make her a sister of Joseph House-1125. However, it's wrong. She was not the sister of Joseph House-1125, or the William who married Hannah House. Joseph and William's siblings are well established.  The reliable genealogist Donald Lines Jacobus in Hale House and Related Families pp 328, 329 has given an abstract of William Sr's probate and listed the living children named on his Inventory (taken 22 Feb 1703/4) with their ages:

• John House (30),
• Sarah Smith (28),
• Mary Hale (26),
• Anne House (2?),
• William House (19),
• Joseph House (16).

The names John, William, Joseph and Sarah repeat on both lists, so we're talking about the same father William Sr., but there was no Eunice mentioned in the inventory, which would legally would have included her. Even if she had been deceased, her heirs would have been mentioned. 

Additional source for William Sr's probate, Manwaring's Probate Digest.  https://archive.org/details/adigestearlycon01manwgoog/page/82/mode/2up

Of course, none of this solves the problem of who Eunice's parents were, but we know they were not William and Sarah (Bidwell) House.  Because of the proximity of Wethersfield and Glastonbury, it does seem logical that she was somehow related to this family, but at this point there doesn't seem to be evidence of that relationship. 

Answer 2

Can anyone locate any more information on [[House-203|John House (1610-1644)]] and his wife Agnes Pinney?  There is only one child listed, William.  While strictly possible, I find it hard to believe in the time when birth control was only a man's right that Agnes had only one child.  Is anyone out there familiar with Somerset in this time period?

 RC Anderson's GM Dictionary only listed a Samuel House.  Is it possible there are connections here?  

I cannot believe that poor Eunice was wondering loose in the new world with no family in the 1690s. Was she previously married to someone named House?  It doesn't seem likely.

She died at the age of 35.  There should be a church trail, shouldn't there?  All of the SAR applications I have seen are unsourced.