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From: "Stewart Rowe" <>
Subject: Re: [PLY/MA] Walden and Wheldon, 1630s
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 17:53:18 -0500
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Thank you for the clues. Can you provide a source for the Katherine's letter
item and put it in context -- fill me in on why it is relevant.
Stew Rowe

----- Original Message -----
From: "Darlene Walsh" <>
To: "Stewart Rowe" <>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: [PLY/MA] Walden and Wheldon, 1630s


> According to The Winthrop Fleet there was a Robert Weldon in Charlestown,
a
> captain in the military He died 16 Feb 1630/1 and was given a military
> funeral. His wife Elizabeth left and went to Watertown according to the
> church records of the First Church.
> The Pioneers of Massachusetts by Pope says pretty much the same thing but
> adds that he died of consumption and that he was buried in Boston.
>
> Perhaps they were the children of this couple?
>
> The Pioneers of Mass lists John, but doesn't say where Ann came from. Do
> you have all their children?
>
> I look under Walden an found that Anne was a church member in 1632 in
Boston
> and that she and John married 29 Nov 1638 in Plymouth. It doesn't say that
> this was the same church as the above Walden couple but it may well be.
> Have you tried checking the church records in Boston?
>
> OOPS BINGO I just looked up Katherine and found this:
>
> "Katharine, wrote a letter to John Shanvat of Nottingham, 29 (4) 1639,
> concerning the death of Martha Wheelden of Dedham, drowned about 12 days
> before. [L} Katharine m. at Plymouth 9 Oct. 1639, Giles Hopkins."
>
> It sounds like Martha may have been her mother. I would look in Dedham
and
> Nottingham England church records. Sounds like she came from Nottingham so
> maybe the church there would have a baptismal record.
>
> Well I hope this has helped.
> Darlene
>
>


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