Historical records matching Agnes Blanchard
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About Agnes Blanchard
THOMAS BLANCHARD died 21 May 1654 in Charlestown, MA. He married (1) ELIZABETH 1617 in England. She died 1636. He married (2) AGNES (BENT) BARNES 15 May 1637 in St. Edmonds, Salisbury, Wilts (Wiltshire), England, daughter of ? BENT and ANNE GOSLING. She was born Bef. 16 July 1602, and died 28 April 1639 on passage to America. He married (3) MARY (poss. SHRIMPTON) Aft. 1639. She died Abt. 1676.
With her second husband Thomas Blanchard , she sailed from London in the ship Jonathan, for New England 04/12/1639 and died on the voyage (Bent Genealogy, 10.) Upon reaching New England Thomas Blanchard settled in 1639, in Braintree, but removed to Charlestown in 1651. dt
Child of THOMAS BLANCHARD and AGNES BENT is:
- viii. child BLANCHARD, b. 1639, on passage to America; d. at sea in 1639
https://blanchardfamilyhistory.org/content.php?id=2
On the voyage over Thomas’s wife, his wife’s mother, and the children all became sick. The party traveling with Thomas took up a collection for a maid to attend to Agnes and her mother, but Thomas reportedly personally attended to Agnes more than the maid did. Sadly, Thomas’s wife Agnes died on the trip. One source says she died on April 28th, which would have been only a little over two weeks after they departed London. (Another account says she died “fifteen days out of port,” which jives pretty well with the departure date of April 12th.) She may have died of childbirth complications, because the record states that an infant child of theirs also died on the ship. But it is unclear whether this child was one that was born on the voyage or whether it was a child of Thomas’s and Agnes’s that had reportedly been born in England the year before and was traveling with them on the ship. One source says the latter was a daughter named Agnes, another says it was a son named Brent and yet another said it might have been a son named Joseph.
So the trip over on the “Jonathan” was a disaster for poor Thomas. He lost his wife and a child. And to make matters worse, after the ship had already come to anchor in Boston harbor (at Nantaskith, now Nantasket), his mother-in-law, the widow Bent, also died. After arriving in Boston Thomas dutifully arranged to have her body carried ashore for burial.
Thomas’s wife Agnes was probably also buried in Boston, but it is unknown where.
References
- Askew Tribe II family tree, Ancestry.com, managed by Robert Chester (Eskew) Henderson
- https://commonheroes3.wordpress.com/11th-generation/blanchard-thoma... cites
- Blanchard, (Blanchard Family History website: http://blanchardfamilyhistory.org, 4 May 2016), “Electronic.”
- Corey, Deloraine Pendre, The History of Malden, Massachusetts, 1633-1785, Malden, MA, 1899.
- Maxfield, Chuck, Some of the Descendants of Thomas Blanchard of Charlestown, Massachusetts, (Chuck Maxfield’s Genealogy Page at: http://maxfield5.tripod.com/blanchard1.html), “Electronic.”
- “Passengers and Vessels that Have Arrived in America,” New England Historic Genealogical Society Register, Vol. 32, October 1878.
- Shepard, Gerald Faulkner, compiler, Jacobus, Donald Lines, ed., Shepard Families of New England, Vol. 1, (New Haven Colony Historical Society, New Haven, CT, 1971).
- Wyman, Thomas Bellows, Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1629-1818, (New England History Press, Somersworth, NH, 1982, originally published in 1892).
- https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/memories/MCMZ-XTY
- http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~blanch-l/thomjosb.html
- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bent-111
- Helen Schavett Ullmann, Some Notes on John Bent of Sudbury, Massachusetts, NEHGR, 153 (1999):219-220. < AmericanAncestors >; (document attached). Was Martha, wife of John Bent, of the Blanchard family? Helen Schavett Ullmann says no in 1999: "John1 Bent of Sudbury, Massachusetts, was married during a period for which there is a gap in the Weyhill [parish] registers. The surname of his wife Martha is unknown. Some have claimed that she was a Blanchard, but this seems to have been based on a misinterpretation of documents in which Thomas Blanchard is identified as John's brother-in-law. Blanchard was married to John's sister Agnes. Given that John and Martha accompanied Peter Noyes to America and that they named a son Peter, it seems possible that Martha was connected with the Noyes family."
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Agnes Blanchard's Timeline
| 1582 |
February 27, 1582
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Wayhill, Penton-Grafton, Hampshire, England
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| 1602 |
July 16, 1602
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Penton Grafton, Weyhill, Hampshire, England (United Kingdom)
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July 16, 1602
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Penton Grafton, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
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July 16, 1602
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Penton Grafton, Weyhill, Hampshire, England
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July 16, 1602
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Penton Grafton, Hampshire, England
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July 16, 1602
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Penton Grafton,Southampshire,England
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1629
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Wayhill, Southamptonshire, England (United Kingdom)
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April 8, 1638
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Goodworth Clatford, England (United Kingdom)
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