Frances Humphrey
Wife of Jonas Humphrey, tanner, of Wendover, Buckinghamshire, and Dorchester, Massachusetts, named once in the Dorchester records, at the burial of their daughter Sarah in 1638. Possibly the mother of Susanna, wife of Nicholas White of Taunton. As compiled trees have it, she was born Frances Coley and married Jonas at Wendover in 1607. She died before his second marriage.
Life
- 1607Married Jonas Humphrey11 June 1607, Wendover, Buckinghamshire, England
Compiled trees only (as "Frances Coley"), citing Ancestral File and the Doggett-Daggett genealogy (1895); unverified.
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Family
- Parents
- Spouse
- Jonas Humphrey
"Sarah, the daughter of Jonas Humphrey & Frances his wife was Buried (7th.) 1638" (Dorchester records).
1 child
Pedigree
Notes
Wife of Jonas Humphrey of Wendover, Buckinghamshire, and Dorchester. The Dorchester records name her once: “Sarah, the daughter of Jonas Humphrey & Frances his wife was Buried (7th.) 1638,” that is, in September 1638. Savage says Jonas came “perhaps with w. Frances, whose d. Sarah was bur. here Sept. 1638.”
Modern compiled trees call her Frances Coley and give her marriage to Jonas at Wendover on 11 June 1607 (the marriage is on his page). Their sources are Ancestral File and the Doggett-Daggett genealogy (1895); neither the surname nor the date has been checked against the Wendover register. She had died before Jonas married Jane, widow of George Weeks (inference).
Open questions
- Her maiden name: was she Frances Coley? Check the Wendover register.
- Was she the mother of all his children, Susanna among them? Savage says only that Jonas came “perhaps” with her, and no record names Susanna’s mother.
- When did she die?
Mollie's typescript
Mollie names her only as Frances, first wife of Jonas Humphrey.
He united with the church in 1639. His first wife was Frances, his second, Jane Clapp, widow of George Weeks.
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