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1st wife of Henry Dunster

Birthdate:
Death: before February 07, 1644
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Wife of Henry Dunster of Balehoult
Mother of Isabel Dunster; John Dunster, (died young); Margaret Dunster; Rev. Henry Dunster, First President of Harvard; Thomas Dunster and 4 others

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Family

From Waters, H. F. (Henry Fitz-Gilbert)., New England Historic Genealogical Society. The New England historical and genealogical register. [Boston, etc.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, etc.]. Page 187. Hathitrust

4. Henry* Dunster {Robert1), born about 1580, was father of President Dunster of Harvard College, and lived at Baleholt, where he died, and was buried Sept. 16, 1646.

His will, dated Oct. 6, 1645, probated Dec. 14, 1646, by his daughters Elizabeth and Alice, is on file at the Probate Registry at Chester.

His first wife was buried Feb. 7, 1643-4; and he married second, Dec. 4, 1644, Joane Orpe, who was buried Feb. 7, 1643-4.

Children by first wife:

  • i. Isabel,4 bapt. May 1, 1603; bur. June 10, 1611.
  • 6. ii. Robert, bapt. Aug. 18, 1605.
  • iii. John, bapt. Aug. 24, 1606; probably d. young.
  • iv. Margaret, bapt. Jan. 17, 1607-8; bur. Aug. 20, 1625.
  • 7. v. Henry, bapt. Nov. 26,1609; the first president of Harvard College.
  • vi. Thomas, bapt. Dec. 8, 1611-12; in the letter of Mar. 20, 1640-1, to President Dunster, it is stated that Thomas "is now a widower for both wife and children are dead since Michaelmas," but there is no mention of him, in the Bury Registers, after his baptism.
  • vii. Alice, bapt. Dec. 19, 1613; living, unmarried, in 1646.
  • viii. Richard, bapt. Mar. 23, 1616; came to New England with his brother Henry, and lived there a few years, but nothing further is known of him.
  • ix. Elizabeth, bapt. Apr. 26, 1619; came to New England between 1647 and 1651; m. in 1651, as his second wife, Maj. Simon Willard of Concord, Mass., and died, without issue, about sis mouths after her marriage. Maj. Simon Willard by his first wife, Mary Sliarpe (whom he married in England about 1631), had nine chil dren, the last, Simon, b. Nov. 23, 1649, soon after which time she died. After the death of his second wife, Elizabeth Dunster, sis ter of President Dunster, as above stated, he m. (3) in the latter part of 1652, Mary Dunster, who had come to New England in the summer of that year, and by her he had eight children, beginning with Mary, b. in Concord. Sept. 7, 1653. This third wife was either the Mary4 Dunster bapt. at Bury, Dec. 5, 1630, dau. of Robert,4 and ueice of President Duuster, or else she was the Mary4 Dunster bapt. in Bury, Oct. 25, 1629, dau. of Henry3 Dunster (.No. 5) and second cousiu of President Dunster; ami although President Dunster in his will speaks of Mary (Dunster) Willard as "sister Willard," he so termed her because her husband, Maj. Willard, was his brother-in-law by previous marriage to Elizabeth Dunster his sister. Mary (Dunster) Willard, widow of Maj. Si mon, m. (2) July 14, 1680, Dea. Joseph Noyes of Sudbury, and d. in Dec, 1715.
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1st wife of Henry Dunster's Timeline

1603
May 1, 1603
1605
August 18, 1605
Bury, Lancashire, England
1606
August 24, 1606
1608
January 17, 1608
1609
November 26, 1609
of, Bury, Lancashire , England

From http://www.manchester2002-uk.com/towns/bury1.html

During medieval times most of Bury was held by the the De Montbegons, Lords of the Manor of Tottington. This barony had been granted to Roger De Poitou at the end of the 11th century. By the 14th century, the manor had passed into the possession of the Pilkington family until 1485 when the lands of Sir Thomas Pilkington were forfeited because of his allegiance to Richard III.

Later, under a new king, Henry, the lands were granted to one of his staunchest supporters, Thomas, Lord Stanley, who for his services was created Earl of Derby. The Stanley family have been Lords of the Manor ever since.

From http://boards.ancestry.com/thread.aspx?o=10&m=32.1.1.1.1.1.1.2&...

The genealogy of that background is sketched in G. Andrews Moriarty, Genealogical Research in England, 80 NEW ENG. HIST. & GENEALOGICAL REG. 86-95 (1926).

1612
December 8, 1612
1616
March 23, 1616
Balehoult, Lancashire , England
1619
April 26, 1619
Bury, Lancaster, England
1644
February 7, 1644