Elizabeth (St John) Whiting (1605 - 1677)

Born 1605 in Keysoe, Bedfordshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Samuel Whiting — married 6 Aug 1629 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England

Descendants

Died 3 Mar 1677 at about age 72 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts

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Elizabeth (St John) Whiting migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

This profile is part of the Whiting Name Study.

Elizabeth (St John) Whiting migrated from England to Colonial America.

Elizabeth Saint John, daughter of Oliver Saint John, Gent., of Keysoe, Bedfordshire, and Sarah Bulkeley, was born at Keysoe in 1605.^[1] She was baptized 12 January 1605 at Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England.^[2]

On 6 August 1629, Elizabeth married at Boston, Lincolnshire, as his 2nd wife, Rev. Samuel Whiting,^[3] minister, of Skirbeck, Lincolnshire, son of John Whiting, Esq., merchant, of Boston, Lincolnshire.^[1] They had at least three sons and one daughter:

• Samuel^[1]
• Joseph^[1]
• John^[1]
• Elizabeth, wife of [Rev.] Jeremiah Hubbard^[1]

Samuel Whiting served as Rector of Skirbeck, Lincolnshire from 1625 to 1636. The family immigrated to New England in 1636, he became pastor of Lynn, Massachusetts and was later appointed overseer of Harvard College in 1654.^[1]

Elizabeth died on 3 March 1676/7 at Lynn, Massachusetts and Samuel died there, testate, on 11 December 1679.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7} Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), vol. III, page 480 SAINT JOHN 16.
2. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, (FamilySearch: 8 March 2018, Elizabeth Saintjohn); citing item 5, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 1,066,898.
3. ↑ Whiting, William. Memoir of Rev. Samuel Whiting, D.D., and of his wife, Elizabeth St. John. (Boston: Press of Rand, Avery & Co., 1873). Online at Archive.org, pages 36-39.

• Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011). See also WikiTree's source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.
• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013). See also WikiTree's source page for Royal Ancestry.

See also:

• Richardson. Royal Ancestry, (2013), vol. IV, page 535.
• Browning, Charles Henry, ed. Americans of Royal Descent. Online at Google Books, page 448 and pages 217-218: Elizabeth St John Whiting.
• Find A Grave: Memorial #46159532

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Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed and approved by Thiessen-117 20 February 2020.

Elizabeth (St John) Whiting is listed in Magna Carta Ancestry as a Gateway Ancestor (vol. I, pages xxiii-xxix) and is in a Richardson-documented trail to Magna Carta surety baron Saher de Quincy (MCA I:346-348 BULKELEY). This trail was project-approved/badged in Feb 2015 by a Magna Carta project member and was re-reviewed in Feb 2020. See the Magna Carta Trails section in the profile of her grandfather, Edward Bulkeley, to see the profiles in this trail.

See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".