Born about [location unknown]
Daughter of Unknown Wiseman
and Mary (Allen) Wiseman
[uncertain]
Sister of
Alice (Wiseman) Cromwell [half]
Wife of
William Richardson
— married
23 Aug 1654 in Newbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Wife of
John Clifford Sr
— married
28 Sep 1658 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
Joseph Richardson, Benjamin Richardson, Elizabeth (Clifford) Basford, Esther (Clifford) Stanley, Isaac Clifford and Mary Clifford
Died
at about age 39
in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire
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The Birth Date is a rough estimate. See the text for details.
Contents |
Biography
Kinship
- Walter Goodwin Davis wrote that Elizabeth was "obviously" the sister of Alice Wiseman and pointed out that the only other Wiseman known to be in the Colony at that time was a certain sailor named William Wiseman. For details on this source, see below.
Marriages
- Husband 1: William Richardson They were married 23 Aug 1654 in Newbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony according to Newbury Vital Records (See below.)
- Husband 2: John Clifford
- Wife: Elizabeth Clifford
- Date: 28 SEP 1658
- Place: Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire
- Source: #Dow
Death
- Date: 01 DEC 1667
- Place: Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire
- Source: #Dow
Research Notes
No evidence has been submitted to show that Elizabeth was born in Massachusetts.
On June 10 2021, a search for the surname Wiseman among parish registers in Wiltshire County, England, produced the name of Elizabeth Wiseman, daughter of Henry Wiseman, christened 16 July 1635 in Bramshaw,[1] who is possibly the subject of this profile. The village of Bramshaw was formerly divided between Hampshire and Wiltshire, but is now entirely within Hampshire County, 11 miles west of Southampton and about two miles south of Landford, birthplace of Robert Pike and residence of his father John Pike who settled in Newbury Massachusetts.,[2] Further research is necessary to strengthen evidence of this identity.
On 10 June 2021, a search for the surname Wiseman among parish registers in Hampshire County, England between 1550 and 1630 on familysearch.org brought up about 120 entries including many duplicates. Most of these were from the village of Ringwood, about 22 miles west of Southampton, where several families showed repeated christenings with the forenames Alice, Elizabeth, and William. None of these seemed to fit this profile or her probable siblings, but this area may warrant further Wiseman research.
Elizabeth Wiseman was not the daughter of William Richardson and his wife Elizabeth (Wiseman) Richardson. An error in a The Richardson Memorial showed that William's daughter Elizabeth Wiseman married John Clifford.[3] But that was incorrect. William and his wife only had two children - Joseph and Benjamin.There was no daughter of this couple named Elizabeth Richardson. Elizabeth (Wiseman) Richardson (William's widow) is the one who married John Clifford. [4] William Richardson and Elizabeth (Wiseman) have been removed as her parents.
No sources have been found to show that Mary (Allen) Wiseman was her mother, and she had been removed from her profile.
- Note N1761John Clifford, son of George (1), born in England, in 1614; married, first, Sarah___________; second, Sept 28, 1658, Mrs Elizabeth Richardson, who died Dec, 1667; thrid, Feb 6, 1672, Mrs. Bridget Huggins, widow of John Huggins (1). He'd died Oct 17, 1694, "aged eighty years" (Town Record ) (Dow - p638-39)
Sources
- ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J77V-QMG : 19 September 2020), John Wiseman in entry for Elizabeth Wiseman, 1635.
- ↑ Coffin, Joshua. A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury, From 1635 to 1845. Boston: 1845, page 314.
- ↑ Vinton, John Adams, The Richardson memorial..., published 1896. Reference page 814
- ↑ Simon, Vaughn L., Descendants of William Richardson and Elizabeth Wiseman, published 2006. Reference pages 1+
- Davis, Walter Goodwin, The ancestry of Nicholas Davis, 1753-1832, of Limington, Maine, published 1956. Reference page 77
- Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts; Marriages, 2,420.
- "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29G-GQF4 : 18 February 2020), William Richardson and Elizabeth Wiseman, 23 Aug 1654; citing Marriage, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009706.
- Dow, Joseph. History of the Town of Hampton, New Hampshire (Salem, MA, 1893) Vol. 2 (581-1104): genealogical and biographical; Page 638-640
- Nicely, Charlotte A.E.. The Clifford Family and A Few Allied Families (Published Privately, Dover, New Hampshire, 1973, 33 pages) - Person No. 2, Pages 1 - 2
- Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686 (The Essex Institute, 1911) Vol. 1, Page 406: Vital records of Newbury from Mar. 25, 1654 to Mar. 25, 1655, certifed by Anthony Somerby, clerk.
- Vinton, John Adams, The Richardson memorial, comprising a full history and genealogy of the posterity of the three brothers, Ezekiel, Samuel, and Thomas Richardson, published 1876 Page 814
- Kristin C. Hall Genealogy (2002) - Profile of John Clifford (c 1609 - 1678) - See son, Isaac.
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Elizabeth Wiseman-1059 had been shown as the daughter of William Richardson, based on an incorrect source, The Richardson Memorial. A much newer source has found that older information to be incorrect. She was actually William Richardson's first wife, and with him had 2 sons. As his widow, Elizabeth (Wiseman) Richardson married John Clifford by whom she had additional children.
Please merge to Wikseman-293, retaining sources and all data field elements from -293.
edited by S (Hill) Willson
Would you please disconnect the erronous parents and we will re-propose the merge with Wiseman-293 (currently shown as her mother). Thank you
Vinton, John Adams. The Richardson Memorial. Portland, ME: Brown Thurston, 1876. page 814, http://ia341024.us.archive.org/0/items/richardsonmemori00vint/richardsonmemori00vint_bw.pdf, Accessed 26 November 2009. In a more recent genealogy, The author agrees that Wiseman-1059 did not exist. Simon, Vaughn L. Descendents of William Richardson and Elizabeth Wiseman. I Paperback ed. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, Inc., 2006. No record for the birth of Wiseman-1059 is found in the Newbury VRs although the birt of her supposed twin, Benjamin, is recorded.
Thank you.