Elizabeth Hinckley migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm
NOTE:Elizabeth Hinckley (this profile) is being detached as the wife of Edward Sturges. Please do not re-attach. Recent research (2020) has disproven this relationship. Please refer to Research Notes below for further insight. Thank you.
Biography
Elizabeth Hinckley's parents were Thomas and Anna Hinckley.[1] She was baptized at Harrietsham, County Kent, England on September 20, 1617.[2][3]
Being enrolled at Sandwich, Elizabeth immigrated to New England on the Hercules with the family of Samuel Hinckley (bef.1589-1662) of Tenterden as "El[i]zab[eth] a kinswoman."[4][5][6] Samuel Hinckley was her uncle, a brother of her father. Elizabeth's parents did not immigrate to New England.[1]
The family of Samuel Hinckley first resided in Scituate and then moved to Barnstable in 1639; Elizabeth is believed to have continued in this household.[2] Her uncle Samuel died in Barnstable at the end of October 1662.[5]
Research Notes
Not the wife of Edward Sturges:
In 1914, Roger Faxon Sturgis in "Edward Sturgis of Yarmouth, Massachusetts and His Descendants" made a "compelling case that Elizabeth, Wife of Edward Sturgis was Elizabeth Hinckley. Based on naming patterns,[2] the identity was accepted until Robert Charles Anderson "pointed out conflicts in his Great Migration Sketch of Edward Sturgis." Mrs. Elizabeth Sturges had been harassed by one Daniel Patrick of Watertown, in her complaint to Governor John Winthrop she mentioned going to her father's house; but her father had never migrated to New England and did not live in Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Samuel Paine Sturgis III reviewed Watertown families for the correct Elizabeth, finding only two who were unmarried, born before 1625; Elizabeth Munnings, baptized at Rattlesden, Suffolk on January 27, 1621/2, whose family resided in Watertown from 1634-1639 & 1641 "is a likely candidate" as the wife of Edward Sturgis.[1]
1641 Elizabeth Sturgis "made a plain statement of the assaults made on her by Captain Patrick, first at the time when she was a servant to Mr. Cumines and later after her marriage."[7][8]
She was also a cousin of Governor Thomas Hinckley.[citation needed]
Sources
↑ 1.01.11.2 The New England Historic Genealogical Register, The Journal of American Genealogy. Samuel Paine Sturgis III. "Elizabeth Sturgis of Watertown, Massachusetts" Winter 2020, Vol. 174, pp 36-39. subscription
↑ 2.02.12.2 Roger Faxon Sturgis, "Edward Sturgis of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, 1613-1695 and His Descendants." Stanhope Press of Boston (1914) p. 11. see at familysearch.org
↑ Nora E. Snow, "The Snow-Estes Ancestry" Hillburn, New York (1939). Vol. 1, p 478. see at Hathitrust.org
↑ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) Eben Putnam. "Two Early Passenger Lists 1635-1637" July (1921). Vol. 75 p. 219. subscription
↑ 5.05.1 Great Migration 1634-1635, G-H. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume III, G-H, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003. Sketch of Samuel Hinckley. subscribers
↑ Eben Putnam. "Two Early Passenger Lists." The New England Historical Genealogical Register. (1921) Vol. LXXV, p. 219. see at google.com
↑ The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. (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). Sketch of Daniel Patrick. p. 1407. subscription
↑ Great Migration 1634-1635, R-S. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VI, R-S, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009. Comments in the sketch of Edward Sturges. p. 593, 594. subscription
Earl Perry Crandall (deceased), CFA Genealogist, New England Families, (1998 - 2002)
Nancy Hauser, former Denison Family Historian, Denison Society, (1998 - 2008)
White, Elizabeth Pearson. John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol I (Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, Apr 2004)
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Hi Charlotte, as the Research Notes explained, while that publication made a compelling case, more recent research has shown it to be wrong, and pointed in a different direction for the wife of Edward Sturges. I emailed you a copy of the article in August. Let me know if you didn't get it!
I plan to make notes on profiles then detach Elizabeth Hinckley as wife of Edward Sturges and add as "uncertain" Elizabeth Munnings as his wife. The children will be moved from this profile to that of Elizabeth Munnings-32.
I'll wait a few days, time for discussion, comments... Anyone?
According to Samuel Paine Sturgis in "Elizabeth Sturgis of Watertown, Massachusetts,"[1] the wife of Edward Sturgis was not Elizabeth Hinckley but Elizabeth Munnings. We should thoughtfully consider Elizabeth Munnings as the wife of Edward Sturgis; not Elizabeth Hinckley
At a minimum, based on Anderson's discussion in the Great Migration entry for Edward Sturges, it seems that Elizabeth Hinckley should detached as the spouse, whether or not Elizabeth Munnings is attached based on the 2020 Sturgis article. It seems pretty well-established now that she was probably not Elizabeth Hinckley.
Hinckley-542 and Hinckley-30 appear to represent the same person because: Same parents, birth date, and husband. There is a problem with the death date.
EDWARD STURGIS OF YARMOUTH,MASSACHUSETTS, WHO CAME TO AMERICA IN 1634 AND DIED IN SANDWICH, MASSACHUSETTS, IN 1695. Pages 15 and 15 https://www.seekingmyroots.com/members/files/G005854.pdf
edited by M Cole
I've updated the profiles of Edward Sturges and Elizabeth Munnings. Please see my g2g post "Who was the Wife of Edward Sturges?
I plan to make notes on profiles then detach Elizabeth Hinckley as wife of Edward Sturges and add as "uncertain" Elizabeth Munnings as his wife. The children will be moved from this profile to that of Elizabeth Munnings-32.
I'll wait a few days, time for discussion, comments... Anyone?
edited by Cheryl (Aldrich) Skordahl
Bobbie
See Research Notes.
edited by Cheryl (Aldrich) Skordahl
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