The Slovak Yankee

Those Aren't the Only Names Going Down

Curiously all four of my grandparents surnames are in danger.  Hollick goes down with me.  My great-grandfather Dolinsky had three sons.  One son had no children.  One son had three sons, two of whom  were gay and the other never married.  That left one son who had one son who had one son.  So it's all on my second cousin Michael's shoulders to carry on the Dolinsky name.

Similarly, my great-grandfather Pinkham  had three sons.  Two of those sons had only daughters, including my grandfather.  The other son had two sons, one of whom had no children.  The final son had two sons, so I have two second cousin Pinkhams to pass on that name.

You have to retreat to the brothers of my great-grandfather Pratt to find men with that name.  But he had five brothers.  Two had no children, but three had sons.

Likewise, Michael when he dies not only closes out Clark for three generations, but his middle name is  Berrigan, his grandmother's surname, and it is already gone.  You have to go to Michael's great-grandfather's brothers to find more Berrigans.  There were five other brothers who had children.

So all these surnames are teetering on the edge of extinction.

The Last of My Name

When I die, I will take my surname with me.  I have no children.  My father was an only son.  My paternal grandfather had one full brother who had no children.  By his first marriage my great-grandfather had four boys who all died as infants.  So it's to my great-grandfather's brothers we must turn.  John Holic born 1848 and Stefan Holic born 1856.  Both came to America, but anglicized their names as Holich or Hollich not Hollick.  So I am the last Hollick going and when I go, the name goes.

Ironically, it is the same for Michael.  He is an only son as I am.  His father was an only child.  His paternal grandfather had two brothers, Glenn who had two daughters and Chester who had three sons.  So there are Clark cousins for Michael.  (Let's assume that one of the three brothers born now 100 years ago, had a son and grandson.  But that's not for sure).

So Hollick will only last about 150 years as surname.  Anglicized from Holic say 1900 and gone with me. 

 

 

Catherine Baxter Young 1844-1931 of Westbrook, Maine

1. John Young was born about 1745.  He married at Brechin, Angus, Scotland on 14 October 1768, Jean Mathers, born say 1745.  She is possibly the same Jean Mathers baptized on 27 May 1749 at Edzell, Angus to John and Janet (Bafour) Mathers.  John and Jean had six children: Mary, Janet, James, John, Andrew, and Thomas.

2. Andrew Young was born 12 April 1786 at Brechin, Scotland and died about 1885 at Menmuir, Scotland.  He married first on 13 May 1809 at Brechin, Jean Langlands, born about 1785 and died 11 April 1819 at Brechin, daughter of Robert Langlands.  Andrew married secondly on 24 September 1819 at Brechin, Janet Crocket, born about 1770 and died after the 1841 census.  Andrew and Jean had five children: John, Thomas, James, Elizabeth, and Janet.  Andrew and Janet had two children: Ann Valentine and Mary Hanton.

3. James Young was born about 1813 at Brechin, Scotland and died there 4 October 1888.  He married at Brechin on 24 June 1836, Anne Archibald, born 16 April 1807 at Lethnot, Forfarshire, Scotland and died 3 December 1893 at Brechin, daughter of John and Agnes (Christinson) Archibald.  James was a carrier or carter.  James and Anne had six children: John, James, Mary Tindal, William, Catherine Baxter, and Anne.

4. Catherine Baxter Young was born 9 July 1844 at Brechin, Scotland and died 23 February 1931 at Westbrook, Maine.  She married at Brechin on 29 May 1868, Ernest Fiddler Kinmond, born 24 April 1845 at St. Nicholas, Aberdeen, Scotland, died 17 September 1904 at Westbrook, Maine, son of John and Margery (Milne) Kinmond.  Ernest and Catherine had eight children: Ann, John, Betsy, Jane Coutts, Ernest Fiddler, James Young, Isabella Fiddler, and Kate.

Sources:

Register Book Marriages for Brechin (275/5).

Register Book Baptisms for Brechin (FHL Film 993412).

Scotland Death Records (District of Brechin, Entry #152).

Scotland Death Records (Entry #214, Brechin District).

Register Book Baptisms of Lethnot and Novar (300/1).

 

Widow Dorothy Wright ca. 1615-1703 of Sudbury, Massachusetts

1. Dorothy (---) born about 1615 and died 1 March 1703 at Marlborough, Massachusetts.  Before 1635, she married a Mr. Wright in England.  He is not the Francis Wright of Castle Bromwick nor the Edward Wright of Sudbury and Concord.  Dorothy married secondly on 10 March 1642 at Sudbury, Massachusetts John Blandford who died at Sudbury on 23 October 1687.  By Mr. Wright Dorothy had two sons: Edward and Samuel.

2. Edward Wright was born about 1635 and died 7 August 1703 at Sudbury, Massachusetts.  He married there on 18 June 1659 Hannah Upson, born about 1638 and died 18 May 1708 at Sudbury, daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth Upson.  This Edward Wright is conflated with the Edward Wright of Boston.  Pope combined the two men in his work.  Edward and Hannah had nine children: Hannah, Dorothy, Sarah, Mary, Elizabeth, Samuel, Abigail, Edward, and Martha.

3. Sarah Wright was born 17 January 1664/5 at Sudbury, Massachusetts and died at Sherborn, Massachusetts on 25 January 1736/7.  She married as his second wife, Benoni Learned, born 4 December 1657 at Chelmsford, Massachusetts and died 10 April 1738 at Sherborn, son of Isaac and Mary (Stearns) Learned.  Benoni and Sarah had nine children: Hannah, Sarah, Elizabeth, John, Tabitha, Abigail, Thankful, Edward, and Bathsheba.

Sources:

The Ancestry of Dr. J.P. Guilford Volume 1: Seventeenth Century New England Colonials by Joan S. Guilford (Orange CA, 1990, Sheridan Psychological Services).

Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines 2 vols. (n.p. 1931, 1943).

The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton IV: The Ancestry of Linda Anna Powers by Dean Crawford Smith and Melinde Lutz Sanborn (NEHGS, Boston, 2001).

 

Nathaniel Woodward ca. 1585-1661 of Boston, Massachusetts

1. Nathaniel Woodward, probable son of Lambert and Isabel (Smith) Woodward, was born about 1585 at Puddington, Bedfordshire, England and died after July 1661 at Boston, Massachusetts.  He married on 19 September 1608 at Rushden, England, Margaret Lawrence who was living in 1661.  Nathaniel was a carpenter.  Nathaniel and Margaret had eleven children: Nathaniel, John, Robert, Elizabeth, Ann/Agnes, Lambert, Thomas, James, Ezekiel, Benjamin, and Prudence.

2. Robert Woodward was baptized 22 February 1611/2 at Rushden, England and died 21 November 1653 at  Boston, Massachusetts.  He married about 1640 at Boston, Rachel Smith, born say 1620, and died 1695 at Boston, Massachusetts, daughter of John and Mercy Smith.  Rachel married secondly on 7 July 1654 at Boston, Thomas Harwood, a tailor who died at Boston on 5 January 1707/8.  Robert was a carpenter like his father.  Robert and Rachel had eight children: Joseph, Nathaniel, Smith, Robert, Mercy, Thomas, John, and Jeremiah.

3. Smith Woodward was born 1 August 1644 at Boston and died there about 1668.  He married about 1666, Deliverance Hoppin, born about 1645 and died 22 July 1699 at Dorchester, Massachusetts, daughter of Stephen and Hannah (Makepeace) Hoppin.  Deliverance married secondly Richard Butt.  Smith and Deliverance had but one child: Smith (Jr.)

4. Smith Woodward (Jr.) was born about 1667 at Boston and died 10 January 1733 at Dorchester, Massachusetts.  He married at Dorchester on 29 July 1691, Thankful Pope, born about 1671 at Dorchester and died 15 June 1738 at Dorchester, daughter of John and Margaret Pope.  Smith and Thankful were fined for fornication before marriage on 13 November 1691.  They had thirteen children: Sarah, Thankful, Mary, Deliverance, Ebenezer, Abigail, Hannah, John, Silence, Submit, Samuel, Joseph and Abigail.

5. Thankful Woodward born 1 November 1693 at Dorchester, Massachusetts and died after 1732.  She married on 1 July 1714 at Dorchester, Nathaniel Spear (Jr.) born 25 September 1692 at Braintree, Massachusetts and died there 3 December 1732, son of Nathaniel and Hannah (Holman) Spear.  Nathaniel was a weaver.  Thankful and Nathaniel had ten children: Thankful, Nathaniel, Hannah, Moses, Elijah, Jemima, Mary, Thomas, Elizabeth, and Joshua.

Sources:

Our Woodward Lines In Massachusetts and Vermont: From Nathaniel to Joseph of Athol, Mass. and Many of his Descendants by Helen S. Ullmann (Acton, MA, 1992).

Some Descendants of Nathaniel Woodward Who Came From England to Boston About 1630 by Harold Edward Woodward (Boston, NEHGS, 1984).

“The English Origin of Nathaniel Woodward” by Doris J. Woodward and Patricia Law Hatcher, The Maine Genealogist 20 (1998): 147-168.

The Origin of John Tukey of Falmouth and Portland, ME" by Gilbert M. Titcomb The American Genealogist 66 (1991):13-15, 80 (2005):263.

 

John Woods 1610-1678 of Marlborough, Massachusetts

1. John Woods was born 6 February 1609/10, supposedly the son of James Woods and died 10 July 1678 at Marlborough, Massaachusetts.  He married on 10 October 1633 at Bures St. Mary, Suffolk, England, Mary Parmenter, born about 1610 at Little Yeldham, Essex, England and died 17 August 1690 at Sudbury, Massachusetts, daughter of John and Bridget Parmenter.  John was a pin maker.  John and Mary had six children: Katherine, Mary, John, Frances, James, and Isaac.

2. John Woods (Jr.) was born 8 May 1641 at Sudbury, Massachusetts and died 5 April 1716 at Marlborough, Massachusetts.  He married about 1666, Lydia Rice, born 10 December 1649 at Marlborough, and died there 24 September 1723, daughter of Edward and Agnes (Bent) Rice.  John and Lydia had eight children: John, Lydia, Hannah, Joseph, Sarah, Silence, Benjamin and James.

3. Hannah Woods was born 4 August 1677 at Marlborough, Massachusetts and died 7 September 1751 at Sudbury, Massachusetts.  She married 20 February 1698/9 at Marlborough, Thomas Weatherby, born 5 January 1678 at Sudbury and died 28 January 1713/4 at Marlborough, son of John and Mary (Howe) Weatherby.  Hannah married secondly on 8 August 1716 at Sudbury, Moses Leonard.  Hannah and Thomas had five children: Mary, Hannah, Thomas, Silas, and Submit.

Sources:

New England Historical & Genealogical Register 68 (1914):262-273.

New England Historical & Genealogical Register 147 (1993):377-382.

An Emerson-Benson Saga: The Ancestry of Charles F. Emerson and Bessie Benson and the Struggle to Settle the United States by Edmund K. Swigart, Ph.D. (Gateway Press, Baltimore, 1995).

The Wood Family Index by John Sumner Wood, Sr. (Garrett & Massie, USA, 1966).

 

Kenelm Winslow 1599-1672 of Plymouth and Marshfield, Massachusetts

There has been so much written about the Winslows over the years.  I've discussed the literature in print already.  Since I posted that five years ago, nothing about the Winslows has been published.  So we still wait to find answers to these questions on the Winslows.

1. (possibly) Kenelm Winslow born say 1540, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Peacock) Winslow and died 1607 at Droitwich, Worcester, England.  He married an unknown wife who has to date been conjectured to be Mary Bucke, daughter of Kenelm and Ellen (Neville) Bucke or a daughter of Sir Fulke Greville.  Neither of these theories has panned out.  Kenelm is believed to be the father of:

2. Edward Winslow, Esquire, born about 1565 and died after 1634 living at Londonderry, Ireland.  He married at London, England on 4 November 1594, Magdalene Oliver, born say 1566 and died after 1606 daughter of Gilbert Oliver.  Edward and Magdalene had eight children.  Of those eight, five came to New England (all males): Edward (Mayflower passenger), John, Eleanor, Kenelm, Gilbert (Mayflower passenger), Elizabeth, Magdalene (grandmother of William Wake, the archbishop of Canterbury), and Josiah.

3. Kenelm Winslow born 30 April 1599 at Droitwich, Worcester, England, died 12  September 1672 at Salem, Massachusetts.  He married about June 1634, Ellen Newton, born say 1598 and died at Marshfield, Massachusetts 5 December 1681, widow of John Adams.  Ellen arrived in 1623 on the ship Anne and it is not known whether Newton is her maiden name or a previous married name.  Kenelm was a cabinetmaker and joiner.  Examples of his work are on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.  Kenelm and Ellen had four children: Kenelm, Ellen, Nathaniel, and Job.  By her first husband Ellen had three other children surnamed Adams: James, John, and Susan.

4. Kenelm Winslow (Jr.) was born about 1636 at Plymouth, Massachusetts and died 11 November 1715 at Harwich, Massachusetts.   He married at Yarmouth, Massachusetts on 23 September 1667, Mercy Worden, born about 1641 at Barnstable, Massachusetts, and died 22 September 1688 at Harwich, daughter of Peter and Mary Worden.  Kenelm married second after 1688 Damaris Eames.  By his first wife Kenelm had seven children: Kenelm, Josiah, Thomas, Samuel, Mercy, Nathaniel, and Edward.  By his second wife Kenelm had four additional children: Damaris, Elizabeth, Eleanor and John.  Kenelm's gravestone is still extant.

5. Kenelm Winslow (III) was born 9 August 1668 at Scituate, Massachusetts and died 20 March 1728/9 at Harwich, Massachusetts.  He married 5 January 1689/90 at Harwich, Bethia Hall, born about 1668 at Yarmouth, Massachusetts and died 9 September 1745 at Yarmouth, daughter of Gershom and Bethia (Bangs) Hall.  Bethia married secondly Joseph Hawes who died 5 November 1752 at Yarmouth.  Kenelm was a clothier and represented Harwich in the General Court in 1720.  His gravestone is extant.  Kenelm and Bethia had nine children: Bethia, Mercy, Rebecca, Thankful, Kenelm, Thomas, Mary, Hannah, and Seth.

6. Rebecca Winslow was born about 1696 at Harwich, Massachusetts and died September 1790 at Rochester, Massachusetts.  She married 24 March 1719/20 at Harwich, Samuel Rider, born 4 February 1695/6 at Yarmouth, Massachusetts and died before 1772, son of John and Esther (Hall) Rider (and thus second cousin of Rebecca). Samuel and Rebecca had eight children: Samuel, Seth, Rebecca, Bethia, Esther, Lydia, Hannah Jane, and John.

Sources:

Please consult my previous blog posting (linked above) for several articles on the Winslows.

Winslow Memorial: Family Records of the Winslows and Their Descendants in America Volume I: Kenelm Winslow by David Parsons Holton (New York, 1877).

Robert Charles Anderson The Great Migration Begins; Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 (NEHGS, Boston, 1995) I:11-12 (Adams); II:1332 (Newton); III:2033-36 (Winslow).

New England Historical & Genealogical Register 25 (1871):355-57 et seq.

Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court 1691-1780: A Biographical Dictionary by John A. Schutz (Northeastern U. Press, Boston, 1997).

 

Edward Winn 1598-1682 of Woburn, Massachusetts

This is someone about whom I've written, disputing an English origins article.  I believe his origins are still unknown.

1. Edward Winn born say 1598 and died 5 September 1682 at Woburn, Massachusetts.   He married first before 1625 Johanna (----) who died at Woburn on 8 March 1649. He married secondly at Woburn on 10 August 1649, Sarah Beal who died at Woburn on 15 March 1679/80.  Edward was a carpenter.  He left a will in Middlesex Probate (6:111-2, File #25243), which notes him as Edward Winn of Watertown.  He had four children: Ann, Elizabeth, Joseph, and Increase.

2. Ann Winn born about 1626, died 6 May 1682 at Woburn, Massachusetts.  She married at Woburn on 26 September 1648, Moses Cleveland, baptized 2 February 1621 at Ipswich, England and died 9 January 1701/2 at Woburn, son of Isaac and Alice Cleveland.  Moses and Ann had ten children: Moses, Hannah, Aaron, Samuel, Miriam, Joanna, Edward, Josiah, Isaac, and Enoch.

Sources:

The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families by H.G. and E.J. Cleveland (3 vols., 1899).

History of Woburn, Massachusetts by Samuel Sewall (1868).

Pioneers of Massachusetts by Charles Henry Pope (Boston, 1900, reprint, Baltimore, 1991).

MASSOG 30:61-4 (possible English origins).

Doubt About the English Origins of Edward Winn and Moses Cleveland of Woburn, Mass., by Martin E. Hollick, MASSOG 32 (2008):57-58.

John Wilson 1588-1667 of Boston, Massachusetts

The Rev. John Wilson was the first minister in Boston and easily the second most famous colonial person from whom I descend.  But unlike other genealogists who uniformly laud their ancestors, I don't particularly like the Rev. John Wilson.  His brand of christianity was devoid of love and tolerance.  He hanged Mary Dyer for being a Quaker.  He drove out Ann Hutchinson from Massachusetts.  He had a very strict puritanical view of the world that didn't allow for compassion.  Certainly he would never approve of me.

1. William Wilson of Penrith, Cumberland, England.  By an unknown wife, he was the father of:

2. William Wilson (Jr.) born about 1515 in Penrith and died 27 August 1587 at Windsor, England.  By an unknown wife, he was the father of:

3. William Wilson (III) born about 1542 and died 15 May 1615 at Windsor, England.  He married Isabel Woodhall, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Grindall) Woodhall and niece of Edmund Grindall, the Archbishop of Canterbury.  William graduated from Merton College, Oxford University with a B.A. in 1564 and an M.A. in 1570.  Later he acquired a D.D. degree in 1607.  William was the canon of Windsor from 1583 to 1615.  He was the father of:

4. John Wilson born December 1588 at Windsor, England and died 7 August 1667 at Boston, Massachusetts.  He married about 1616 Elizabeth Mansfield, born December 1592 on Henley on Thames, England and died 6 June 1660 at Boston, Massachusetts, daughter of John and Elizabeth Mansfield. John Wilson graduated from Christ College at Cambridge University in 1606 with an A.B. and 1609 with M.A.  He attended Eton as a secondary school.  John came over in the Winthrop Fleet of 1630.  John and Elizabeth had four children: Edmund, John, Elizabeth, and Mary.

5. John Wilson (Jr.) was born September 1621 in England and died 23 August 1691 at Medfield, Massachusetts.  He married about 1648, Sarah Hooker, born February 1630 at Broomfield, England, died 20 August 1725 at Braintree, Massachusetts, daughter of Thomas and Susannah (Gabrand) Hooker.  John was a graduate of Harvard College in 1642 the first graduating class of that institution.  He worked first as an assistant to Rev. Richard Mather and then got his own congregation.  John and Sarah had eight children: John, Sarah, Thomas, Elizabeth, Elizabeth, John, Thomas, and Susanna.

6. John Wilson (III) was born 8 June 1660 at Medfield, Massachusetts and died 1728 at Braintree, Massachusetts.  He married at  Braintree on 4 July 1683, his first cousin Sarah Newton, born 24 January 1661/2 at Milford, Connecticut and died 20 August 1725 at Braintree, Massachusetts, daughter of Roger and Mary (Hooker) Newton.  John probably attended Harvard College as part of the class of 1682, but did not graduate.  He became a physician.  John and Sarah had seven children: Sarah, John, Elizabeth, Roger, Edmund, Alice, and Mary.

7. Sarah Wilson was born 1 April 1684 at New Haven, Connecticut and died 11 September 1747 at Braintree, Massachusetts.  She married at Braintree on 28 August 1701, John Marsh, born 17 February 1678/9 at Braintree and died there 22 June 1745, son of Alexander and Mary (Belcher) Marsh.  John and Sarah had nine children: John, Sarah, Alexander, Alexander, Ambrose, Wilson, Moses, Samuel, and Edmund.

Sources:

New England Historical & Genealogical Register 61 (1907):36-129. [Wilson Article]

Dictionary of American Biography ed. by Dumas Malone (Scribner's, New York, 1932) Vol.20:336-7.

American Colonial Writers 1606-1734 ed. by Emory Elliott (Detroit, Gale Research, 1984) from the series Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 24.

Robert Charles Anderson The Great Migration Begins; Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 (NEHGS, Boston, 1995), III:2012-15.

American National Biography ed. John A. Garraty, Mark C. Carnes (New York, Oxford University Press, 1999) 23:594-5.

Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court 1691-1780: A Biographical Dictionary by John A. Schutz (Northeastern U. Press, Boston, 1997).

 

John Wilson ca. 1626-1687 of Woburn, Massachusetts

Like the surname Lawrence, I don't consider the surname Wilson very common.  Yet I have three Wilson lines.  Go figure.

1. John Wilson was born about 1626 and died 2 July 1687 at Woburn, Massachusetts.  He married before 1651, Hannah James, born say 1630 and died about 1698 at Woburn, Massachusetts.  She married secondly, Thomas Fuller of Salem, Massachusetts.  The notion that John was the son of a Roger Wilson is a fabrication.  John and Hannah had ten children: John, Sarah, Dorcas, Samuel, Francis, James, Abigail, Elizabeth, Benjamin, and Hannah.

2. Dorcas Wilson was born 29 January 1657 at Salem, Massachusetts and died 29 November 1714 at Cambridge, Massachusets.  She married at Woburn, Massachusetts on 26 September 1675, Aaron Cleveland, born 10 January 1653/4 at Woburn and died there 14 September 1716, son of Moses and Ann (Winn) Cleveland.  Aaron and Dorcas had nine children: Dorcas, Aaron, Hannah, Moses, Sarah, Miriam, Isabel, Ann, and Benjamin.

Sources:

The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families by H.G. and E.J. Cleveland (3 vols., 1899).

Wilsons of New England . . . Volume J: Descendants of John Wilson of Woburn, Massachusetts by Ken Stevens (1991).

The Ancestry of Joseph Fletcher Parker 1880-1962 of Duluth, Minnesota by Marian Parker Congdon (Boston: NEHGS 2006).