Edith (Squire) Adams (1587 - 1673)

Born 29 May 1587 in Charlton Mackrell, Somerset, England

Ancestors

Wife of Henry Adams — married 19 Oct 1609 in Charlton Mackrell, Somerset, England

Descendants

Died 21 Jan 1673 at age 85 in Medfield, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Edith Squire ^[1]was baptized 29 May 1587 at Charlton Mackrell, Somerset, daughter of Henry Squire; her mother's name is not recorded.^[2]

She married first Henry Adams at Charlton Mackrell 19 Oct 1609.^{[3] [4] [5] [6]} They had children (baptized at Barton St. David and Kingweston, Somerset):

1. Henry b. 1610
2. Thomas b. 1612
3. Jonathan b. 1614
4. Samuel b. 1617 ^[7]
5. Ursula b. 1619
6. Peter b. 1621
7. John b. 1622
8. Joseph b. 1626
9. Edward b. 1629

The family members (Wife Edith Squire; Child Henry; Child Thomas; Child Jonathan; Child John; Child Edward; Child Joseph; Child Peter; Child Ursula; Child Samuel) migrated to New England about 1639.^{[8] [9]}

Henry Adams died 1646 in Braintree, Massachusetts and Edith married second, about 1651, John Fussell. The death of Edith Fussell ^[10] , wife of John, was recorded 21 January 1672/3 in Medfield.^[11][12]

Research Notes

Edith did not have a middle name Rosamund.

Sources

1. ↑ Godfrey Memorial Library, comp.,American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI), Godfrey Memorial Library; Middletown, Connecticut; American Genealogical Biographical Index; Volume Number: 59, Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library., vol 59, pg 522
2. ↑ Somerset : Charlton Mackrell : Virgin Mary : Register of unspecified type : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/58185291e93790eca3e1d73a : viewed 8 Dec 2022) baptism Edith Squire 29 May 1587
3. ↑ Somerset : Charlton Mackrell : Virgin Mary : Register of unspecified type : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/581859eee93790eb7fa38a3e : viewed 8 Dec 2022) marriage Henry Adams to Edith Squire 19 Oct 1609
4. ↑ Ancestry.com, Ancestry of Robert Harry McIntire and of Helen Annette McIntire, his wife,
5. ↑ Ancestry.com, Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1531-1812,Anglican Parish Registers. Somerset Archives & Local Studies, South West Heritage Trust, Taunton, England.
6. ↑ Yates Publishing,U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900,Source number: 1146.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: MAB
7. ↑ Ancestry.com, Aulls-Bryan and allied families
8. ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles.The Great Migration directory: immigrants to New England, 1620-1640: a concise compendium. Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 2015, p. 2
9. ↑ Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012., Ancestry.com,U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, Place: New England; Year: 1638; Page Number: 117, Source publication code 1748, Source Bibliography EARLY AMERICAN SETTLERS. In Bulletin of the Seattle Genealogical Society, vol. 28:2 (Winter 1978), pp. 115-120; vol. 28:3 (Spring 1979), pp. 221-222; vol. 28:4 (Summer 1979), pp. 313-314.
10. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/224465146/edith-adams_fussell
11. ↑ NEHGS, compiler, Vital Records of Medfield, MA, to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1903), p. 213

    "Fussell, Edith, w. John, Jan. 21, 1672."

    "Fussell, John, Feb. 21, 1675/6."

12. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8979-7G4G?cc=2061550&wc=Q4D4-C6X%3A353350501%2C353406301%2C353426201 : 13 July 2016), Norfolk > Medfield > Births, marriages, deaths 1651-1876 > image 170 of 601; town clerk offices, Massachusetts. (Image of town record copy made in 1850)

See also:

• Cary Family History. Joiner, Rev. Darrell and Sallyann
• Chamberlain,, George Walter, M.S. Genealogies of the Early Families of Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore: Reprint, 1984
• Sprague, Waldo Chamberlain. Genealogies of the Families Of Braintree, Norfolk, Mass., 1640-1850, Including the modern town of Randolph & Holbrook and the city of Quincy, after the separation from Braintree in 1792-3.
• Bartlett, Joseph Gardner. Henry Adams of Somersetshire, England, and Braintree, Mass.: his English ancestry and some of his descendants. New York: Privately printed, 1927, p. 49.
• U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700
• Yawkey, Richardson and allied families : a genealogical study with biographical notes, Ancestry.com