Martha Davis (1604 - 1657)

Born 1604 in Lydd, Kent, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Died 19 Sep 1657 at about age 53 in Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut

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Biography

Origins

It has been imagined that Martha was a daughter of Elijah Davis and Mary Barker, born ca 1604 at Lydd, Kent, England, christened July 1, 1604 in Harbledown, Kent, England.^{[citation needed]}

Disputed Relations

Some have imagined the wife of William Mead was Mary Barker, Martha Davis, or Martha Barker Davis. There is no documentation or evidence for this, and no sources are provided. This profile has been retained on WikiTree to inform and to prevent the creation of duplicates.

Corrected Information

The wife of William Mead was Philip or Philipa or Philippe ____. who he married in the parish of Saint Mary's, Watford, Hertfordshire, England.^[1]

Remington shows us that "Philip" was actually recorded in Stamford town records upon her death (recorded at Stamford, Sept. 19, 1657).^[1] The Barbour Collection uses "Philip," and their information was taken from the Vital Records of Stamford, Births, Marriages, and Deaths.^[2] Donald Lines Jacobus transcribed the Stamford Town Records, and he found her maiden name to be "Kilvey," although he followed this with a question mark and brackets, "indicating that he had trouble reading the original."^[1] William's wife's profile is this one for Philip Kilvey.

S. P. Mead called the wife of William Mead unidentified in his 1901 book, History and Genealogy of the Mead Family of Fairfield County, Connecticut ...^[3] Mead saw the record of her death in the Stamford Town Records. Maybe he left her name out of his account, because he did not understand that Philip was both a male and female name in the seventeenth century.^[1]

The profile for William Mead has been disconnected from this profile.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Remington, Gordon L., The English Origin of William 1 Mead of Stamford, Connecticut. The American Genealogist. (Vol 73, No 1, Whole No 289, January 1998, Pages 1-10) New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database accessed December 30, 2015. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .)
2. ↑ Barbour, Lucius B., transc. Connecticut Vital Records to 1870 (The Barbour Collection) Stamford, Page 133 AmericanAncestors.org (by subscription).
3. ↑ Mead, Spencer P. "History and Genealogy of the Mead Family of Fairfield County, Connecticut, Eastern New York, Western Vermont, and Western Pennsylvania, from A.D. 1180 to 1900." (Pg 186) New York: Knickerbocker, 1901, accessed online February 2, 2014.