Elizabeth Smith

• Not a known child of Edmond Hobart
• Not a known wife of Ralph Smith
• Same dates as Rebecca Bangs - also claimed as daughter of Rev. Hobart

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Hobart, Elizabeth AKA Rebecca

Birth : 1613 Hingham, Norwich, Norfolk, ENG

Death : 1655 Hingham, Norwich, Norfolk, ENG

Disputed Origins, Spouse, Existence

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hobart-46

Despite lack of sufficient documentation, many online trees[1] claim that:

Elizabeth was born in 1612 in Hingham, Norfolk, England, the daughter of Edmund Hobart and Margaret Dewe, but there is no record of such a child.[2] The chief source in this matter is the book "Hobart Family In America-Twelve Generations," by Dorothy M. Titus. (NOTE: Titus, p 3, does claim a daughter of Elizabeth but says of her "no further record." So Titus is NOT the source for Elizabeth marrying Ralph Smith.) LDS Ancestral File AFN: FVN4-ZT supports it as well as her marriage to Ralph Smith. Titus says Elizabeth arrived in the new world in 1633, but apparently on a different ship than her parents.
"Date of her supposed marriage to Ralph Smith is unknown, but as her first child died in infancy about 1639 the marriage could have been about 1638." As Elizabeth was 22 in 1633 and did not marry Ralph Smith until 1638, it's very likely she had an earlier marriage in Hingham, Massachusetts, and was a widow when she married Ralph Smith. No children have been found from any earlier, union, however.[3] Elizabeth was the first wife of Ralph Smith or mother of his children. There is no such evidence[4] Elizabeth was also an immigrant from Hingham, Norfolk, England, moved from Hingham to Eastham and died there in 1654.[citation needed] Had children all named Smith.[citation needed] Where is the evidence that the mother of Ralph's children was Elizabeth?

Suggested births:

29 Dec 1611 in Wymondham, Norfolk, England 9 Oct 1612 in Hingham, Norfolk, England

Suggested Death

after 1654 birth of Ralph Smith's last child.

Sources

• ↑ Cunninghams of Southwest Nova Scotia Tree - Elizabeth Hobart. One of the best sourced of the 29 family trees that all state she was the wife of Ralph Smith.
• ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995). "Edmund Hobart" Vol II pp. 958-960
• ↑ Cail; Countryman; Gillet/Gillett/Gillette; Goodrich; Hays; Hill; Horning; Mayo; Nye; Phelps; Pratt; Smith; Strickland; Tryon Tree - Elizabeth Hobart. Added by Chet Snow October 9, 2015.
• ↑ Anderson, op cit., Ralph Smith, vol. 3. p 1698
• U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Name: Rebecca Hobart; Gender: Female; Birth Year: 1611; Spouse Name: Edward Bangs; Spouse Birth Year: 1591; Marriage; Year: 1635
• U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900; Name: Elizabeth Hobart; Gender: Female Birth Place: En; Birth Year: 1613; Spouse Name: Ralph Smith; Spouse Birth Year: 1611; Number Pages: 1
• North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 Name: Elizabeth Hobart; Gender: Female; Age: 42; Birth Date: 1612; Death Date: 1654; Death Place:Eastham, Massachusetts; Father: Edmond Hobart; Mother: Margaret Dewey; Spouse: Ralph Smith; Child: Elizabeth Smith
• U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s; Name: Rebecca Hobart; Arrival Year: 1633; Arrival Place: Boston, Massachusetts
• page 269-270 of The Ancestry of Nathan Lewis Harrison Revisited Nineteen Years Later By Keith Harrison (2008)