_Richard GAWKROGER _+
_Richard Gawkroger (PLATTS) _|
| |______ FIELD _______+
|
|--Richard Gawkroger (PLATTS)
|
| ____________________
|_Isabella _____ _____________|
|____________________
_Cyrus BENJAMIN ____________________+
_William Henry BENJAMIN ___________|
| |_Emeline Elizabeth HEYWOOD _________+
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|--Bertha Elizabeth BENJAMIN
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| _Charles Frederick William MEISTER _
|_Victoria Regina (Jennie) MEISTER _|
|_Elizabeth Finck (FINKE) ___________
[740] Born in the Benjamin house on Main Street, Concord.
_William BRACKETT _
_William BRACKETT _|
| |___________________
|
|--Margaret BRACKETT
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| ___________________
|_Alice ____________|
|___________________
[930] 50 Great Migration Colonists, Threlfall, J.B., ? Publishing, Madison, WI. 1990
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_Edmund RICE ___|
| |__
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|--another CHILD
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| __
|_Mercy BRIGHAM _|
|__
_Simon CROSBY _____+
_Simon CROSBY ____|
| |_Ann BRIGHAM ______+
|
|--Joseph CROSBY
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| _Richard BRACKETT _+
|_Rachel BRACKETT _|
|_Alice BLOWER _____+
_Anthony CROSBY ____+
_Thomas CROSBY _|
| |_Allison BLANCHARD _+
|
|--Thomas CROSBY
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| _William SOTHERON __+
|_Jane SOTHERON _|
|_Constance LAMBERT _+
_Henry DE STANDISH __+
_Ralph DE STANDISH ____|
| |_Joan _______________
|
|--Alexander DE STANDISH
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| _Roger DE BRADSHAGH _
|_Cecilia DE BRADSHAGH _|
|_____________________
_Robert FLETCHER _______
_William FLETCHER __________|
| |________________________
|
|--Mary FLETCHER
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| _Richard FAIRBANKS _____
|_Lydia (Fairbanks ?) BATES _|
|_Elizabeth (Daulton ?) _
__
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| |__
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|--John HEYWOOD
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| __
|__|
|__
[143] JOHN HEYWOOD
[144] The birthplace of John Heywood of Concord is unknown. In 1669 as sworn in the Middlesex County Courthouse on 5/8/1669 he gave his age as 35, which would make him born about 1634.
[145]
John kept an ordinary or Inn for which he had a license. According to the book "Concord in Colonial Times" by C.H. Walcott published in 1884, page 139, John Heywood was allowed to keep and
sell beer and cider." The year was 1670. In 1672 John renewed his license and had liberty to retail strong waters to the travelers and sick people.
[146] John took the Freeman's Oath in 1670. Was made the constable of Concord 6/13/1676.
[147]
He is mentioned in 1671 as an heir to part of the estate of William Alline, who married Susanna Atkinsin widow of Thomas Atkinson. His wife's sisters Susanna and Hannah Atkinson were the other Heirs. His wife Rebecca and her mother were dead by the
time of the execution of this will.
[148] The Heywood Name -
[149] The Heywood name is of very ancient Anglo-Saxon origin. Sometime aroung the year 1164 A.D. when surnames began to be used, a man's place of residence was denoted by his name.
[150] "Hay" or Hey" comes from the Saxon meaning hedge or wood, with the same meaning today as it was then.
[151]
The Heywood name is found among the very first written English documents. Among some of these early documents is a transfer of a tract of land, which was a wooded island, in Lancashire from Adamae Burgo to Peter de Eywood. The latter was the
alleged head of the family, from which it is believed the American Heywoods are descended.
[152] Some of the names found in the early documents are as follows:
[153] Margery de la Haye
[154] Roger de la Haigh
[155] Richard de la Woodhaye
[156] Elvin le Heyward
[157] Heywood the poet
[158] There are many variations of this surname in use today. The most common are Hay, Hayes, Haighs, Haives, Heywood, Haywood, Hatward, Heiward, Heward, Howard, Herward, Heiword.
[159] The First Heywood Homes -
[160] Our first ancestor in America, John Heywood, owned land on Main Street near the Burial Ground in Concord, Massachusetts. He lived on a lot occupied until the latter part of the 19th Century by Bigelow's Tavern.
[161] This same John Heywood bought property of Thomas Dakin, including a house and barn, on Lancaster Road beyond South River. This property was near homes of Michael Wood, Obadiah Wheeler and Edmund Wigly.
[162]
Another home was built by the Heywoods on farm land near the present Thoreau Street. It extended from the railroad station to the Nine Acre Corner Road. It was nearly opposite the home of Ephriam Wheeler. The house and barn stood slightly northwest
of the present station (Jarvis #68). This was the home of Samuel Heywood, and his son Jonas, Sr. According to the social Circle Memoirs, it was a mansion and had borne the family name since the first settlement of Concord Town. It has since been
torn down.
[163] There is another Heywood house said to belong to the same family near the present Concord Historical Society.
_Jonas HEYWOOD _+
_William HEYWOOD _|
| |_Ann PRESCOTT __+
|
|--Sarah Elizabeth HEYWOOD
|
| ________________
|_Hepzibah BROWN __|
|________________
__
__|
| |__
|
|--Agnes JENTILMAN
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| __
|__|
|__
_John JOHNSON _______+
_John JOHNSON __|
| |_Elizabeth MAVERICK _+
|
|--Lydia JOHNSON
|
| _____________________
|_Lydia CLEMENT _|
|_____________________
_King Edmund II IRONSIDE _+
_Edward ATHELING _|
| |_Ealdgyth ________________
|
|--St. MARGARET
|
| __________________________
|_Agatha __________|
|__________________________
[684]
Granddaughter of Edmund II Ironside and sister of Edgar Atheling, who was
chosen King by Parlaiment in Oct 1066. She fled England to Scotland after
the Norman conquest in 1066 forced her brother to renounce the crown in favor
of William the Conquerer.
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_Thomas NELSON _|
| |__
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|--Philip NELSON
|
| __
|________________|
|__
[441]
Graduated from Harvard College in 1654, the only graduate that year. Was
Justice of the Peace and Captain of a company under command of Sir William
Phipp's going against the French in Nova Scotia.
_Roger PUTNAM _+
_Ebenezer PUTNAM ___________|
| |_Hannah _____ _
|
|--John Howard PUTNAM
|
| _______________
|_Cynthia (CONNING) _|
|_______________
_William RICHARDSON _+
_Joseph RICHARDSON _|
| |_Elizabeth WISEMAN __
|
|--Joseph RICHARDSON
|
| _Peter GODFREY ______
|_Margaret GODFREY __|
|_Mary BROWN _________
__
______ ROLFE _|
| |__
|
|--Agnes ROLFE
|
| __
|_Alice _______|
|__
________________
_John WATSON ___________|
| |________________
|
|--Jane WATSON
|
| _James WHEELER _
|_Sarah (Sally) WHEELER _|
|_Abigail BALL __+