Dionis Coffin

Dionis (Stevens) Coffin was baptized Mar. 4, 1609/10 at Brixton, Devon, England and died after 29 November 1681 and before Sep. 16, 1684 at Nantucket. Her Cenotaph has 1684 as a death date.

Family

From https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34909547/dionis-coffin

Dionis Stevens was the daughter of Robert and Dionis Stevens of Brixton, England. She married Tristram Coffin about 1630 in Devonshire, England, and they were the progenitors of the Coffin family of Nantucket Island. Their children were:

1. Peter
2. Tristram Jr.
3. Elizabeth
4. James
5. John
6. Deborah
7. Mary
8. John
9. Steven

Family links:

Spouse: Tristram Coffin (1609 - 1681)

Children:

• Peter Coffin (1630 - 1715)*
• Tristram Coffin (1631 - 1703)*
• Elizabeth Coffin Greenleaf (1634 - 1678)*
• James Coffin (1640 - 1720)*
• Mary Coffin Starbuck (1645 - 1717)*
• John Coffin (1647 - 1711)*
• Calculated relationship

Burial: Founders Burial Ground * Nantucket Nantucket County Massachusetts, USA

• Cenotaph [?]

Created by: Mary Harrell-Sesniak Record added: Mar 17, 2009 Find A Grave Memorial# 34909547

Parents:

• Robert Stevens 1567 - 1627
• Dionis Stevens 1578 - 1647

Siblings:

• Thomas Stevens 1600 - ?
• John Stevens 1605 - ?
• Elizabeth Stevens 1611 - ?
• Johan Stevens 1611 - ?
• Stephen Stevens
• William Stevens 1603 - ?
• Tristram Stevens 1607 - 1644
• Johan Stevens 1611 - ?
• Lydia Stevens 1613 - ?

Notes

In 1644 Tristram obtained a license to "keep an ordinary, sell wine, and keep a ferry" in Newbury, where the family had moved. In 1647 he got another license to do the same. The pub, "Coffin's Ordinary," was run by his wife Dionis; at the time brewing beer was a common occupation for women. In 1653 Dionis was charged with violating a law, passed in 1645, which said that beer could not be sold for more than two pence a quart. Her case was presented and dismissed when she showed that she was putting more malt in her beer than was usual, and that the beer should be sold for a proportionately larger fee. Her pub became known as "the place where the best beer was sold."

• Marriage: (1629 — Age: 20) Brixton, Devon, England
• Marriage to Tristram Coffin: (1630 — Age: 21) Brixton, Devon, England
  • Updated from Ancestry Genealogy via daughter Elizabeth Coffin by SmartCopy: Nov 29 2015, 2:01:50 UTC

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GEDCOM Note

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stephens-5781 February 2019

Puritan Great Migration

Category: Nantucket Founders and Descendants

Biography

Baptised 4 March 1609/10 Brixton, Devon, England. Ref: Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury Vol. 2.Number 87.The John Stevens Line

Residence

Place: Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA

Marriage

• Husband (Gov) Tristram Coffin
• Wife Dionis Stephens. Marriage: 1630, Braxton Parish, Devonshire England.

Died

02 OCT 1681.

Buried

Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA.

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