Born about in England
[uncertain]
[uncertain]Daughter of Edmund Chandler
[uncertain]
and Unknown (Unknown) Chandler
[uncertain]
Sister of
Samuel Chandler, Sarah Chandler [half], Anna Chandler [half], Unknown Chandler, John Chandler [half], Benjamin Chandler [half], Joseph Chandler [half], Mary Chandler [half] and Ruth Chandler [half]
Wife of
Richard Higgins
— married
27 Nov 1634 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony
Descendants 
Mother of
Jonathan Higgins and Benjamin Higgins
Died about
at about age 37
in Eastham, Barnstable, Plymouth Colony
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Biography
Lydia (Chandler) Higgins immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).
Lydia, probably daughter of Edmund Chandler and his unknown first wife, was born say 1614 in England or Holland or ?. Not in Massachusetts[1]
She married Richard Higgins in Plymouth, Massachusetts 11 Dec 1634.[1][2]
She died after the birth of Benjamin June 1640 and before Richard's remarriage Oct 1651[1].
Richard and Lydia had two children Jonathan (b. July 1637) and Benjamin (b. June 1640), other children of Richard were born to his second wife[1].
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. "Edmund Chandler" (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995)
- ↑ “Plymouth Colony records, court orders, 1633-1690”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3S3-4QXX-D : 3 April 2023), , FHL microfilm 008492483, image 51, Plymouth, Massachusetts, Vol 1-3, 166-1640, Page 72.
- See also:
- Little, George Thomas. Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine (Lewis Historical Publishing Company 1909)
- Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet. Records of The Colony of New Plymouth, in New England (William White, Bostons, 1855) Vol. 1: Court Orders 1633-1640, Page 32
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In 1995, Robert Charles Anderson reported Lydia was "probably" the daughter of Edmund Chandler (abt.1587-aft.1662). See Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., paginated continuously (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995). 326-330 (Edmund Chandler) at 328; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
Should her mother Elizabeth Annis Arden be removed first, before the merge?