Mary (Tidd) Kendall (abt. 1620 - 1705)

Born about 1620 in Hertfordshire, England

Wife of Francis Kendall — married 24 Dec 1644 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 1705 at about age 85 in Woburn, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Mary (Tidd) Kendall immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Mary Tidd (also seen Tydd, Tead, Teed) was born somewhere near Westmill, Hertfordshire, England the daughter of John Tidd, a tailor, and Margaret Unknown. The Tidd family was resident in Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay by 1637 but their ship and date of arrival are unknown. It is believed they arrived as a family although Mary and her siblings were young adults.^[1]

On 24 December 1644, Mary married Francis Kendall.^[2][3] In many 19th and early 20th century genealogies the fact that the marriage record records Francis' name as "Francis Kendall, alias Miles" led to exceptional flights of fancy that he had fled England under an assumed name for a variety of reasons. This frequently repeated family lore appears to have originated with Dr Rev Kendall of Weston, Massachussets in the early 19th Century who was apparently unfamiliar with the English system of names dating from the transition to formal surnames and extending well into the 17th Century. All of these stories should be discounted, lack any factual basis, and the most succinct address on the topic may be found in Dawes-Gates (footnote page 376).^[1]

Mary lived her entire life in the town of Woburn which was begun in 1640 and formally named in 1642. She passed away there in 1705^[4] attended by her three daughters following what was described as a painful illness. As Mary Walton Ferris points out in her extended treatment of the Kendall family^[1] the Kendall family was prolific with Mary having at least eighty-four recorded grandchildren

Children^[5]

• John - b 2 May 1646
• Thomas - b 10 Jan 1648/49
• Mary - b 20 Jan 1650/51
• Elizabeth - b 15 Jan 1652/53
• Hannah - b 26 Jan 1654/55
• Rebecca - b 21 Mar 1657/58
• Samuel - b 8 Mar 1659/60
• Jacob - b 25 Jan 1660-01
• Abigail - b 6 Apr 1666

Research Notes

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines, Milwaukee, Cuneo Press (privately printed), 1943. pg 596-98
2. ↑ Wyman, T B, Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, Boston, Clapp, 1879, p 569
3. ↑ Johnson, Woburn Marriage Records, Vol. 3, Pg. 136
4. ↑ Vital Records of Woburn
5. ↑ NEHGR, Vol. 39, Pg. 17-23 Subscription

• Stearns, Ezra S. Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire (Lewis Publishing Company, 1908) Vol. 2, Page 828
• Steele & Related Lines Book II (2000) p.38 & p55 [Note: content of this citation is uncertain]