Elizabeth (Wise) Weld (abt. 1602 - abt. 1638)

Born about 1602 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England

Wife of Joseph Weld — married 11 Oct 1620 (to about 7 Oct 1638) in All Saints, Sudbury, Suffolk, England

Descendants

Died about 7 Oct 1638 at about age 36 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Elizabeth Wise was born just after the turn of the 16th to the 17th Century in Suffolk, England.

According to Torrey's New England Marriages to 1700 (Volume 3, p. 1622) Elizabeth Wise married Joseph Weld on October 11, 1620, in England.

The couple emigrated to Massachusetts in the early 1630s, and settled in Roxbury.^[1]

Elizabeth died at Roxbury in the fall of 1638; Joseph was remarried to Barbara Clapp the following spring.

Research Notes

Added 18 Jan 2016:

Her LNAB should definitely be "Wise"; their marriage was recorded in All Saints, Sudbury on 11 Oct 1620, and her maiden name was Wise. She came with her mother and sister. Her mother joined the Roxbury Church as Elizabeth "Wise." Her sister Marie Wise married Robert Mason. The mother and both sisters died in Roxbury. Please see Douglas Richardson, The American Genealogist: "Widow Wise of Roxbury Mass and her son-in-law Joseph Weld and Robert Mason." (New Haven, Conn., Jan 1979) Vol 55 p 149-150.^[2] Surname of PGM profiles should be based on the earliest known record and in this case the cited TAG article is our best source.

Added 13 March 2019:

Various online trees (e.g., http://dunhamwilcox.net/source_files/shatswell.htm; https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/elizabeth-shatswell_33631013) repeat the error of claiming Elizabeth as née Elizabeth Shatswell. This may have originated with a query in the Boston Transcript genealogical column of 17 Feb. 1913, cited in a footnote to J. W. Linzee's 1913 "The history of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and their ancestors and descendants".^[3]

Name: Elizabeth Wise

Birth:

Date: 1600

Place: Sudbury, Suffolk, , England: Death:

Date: 16 OCT 1638

Place: Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

Sources

1. ↑ Great Migration 1634-1635, T-Y. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011; https://www.americanancestors.org/DB496/i/13260/280/0 (subscription required)
2. ↑ Douglas Richardson The American Genealogist: "Widow Wise of Roxbury Mass and her son-in-law Joseph Weld and Robert Mason." (New Haven, Conn., Jan 1979) Vol 55 p 149-150
3. ↑ The history of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and their ancestors and descendants with the best wishes of the author, by John William Linzee, 1913, Boston, Mass., J.W. Linzee, p. 488; https://archive.org/details/historyofpeterpa00linz/page/n1075

• Marriage (maiden surname not shown) and death at Roxbury: The history of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and their ancestors and descendants with the best wishes of the author, by John William Linzee, 1913, Boston, Mass., J.W. Linzee, p. 488; https://archive.org/details/historyofpeterpa00linz/page/n1075
• Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (The Essex Institute, Salem, Mass., 1926) Vol. 2, Page 660.