Joanna Borden Gay (Unknown) - Johanna Borden Gay, wife of John Borden of Headcorn, Kent and John Gay, founder of Dedham

thank you for cleaning up that mess on my first cousin 9 times removed's husband's mother i wasn't aware of this..

I have entered the Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915 birth records of Joana and John Gay's children (that I found on Family Search) in the About section of each member of the family. I notice that the birth dates do not match what is posted on Geni. It is possible the dates that are posted on Geni are the christening dates. Some of the names are not spelled the same as they are on Geni, but that is probably because spellings were not really accurate when they were recorded. If you agree, should I change the birth dates on Geni?

Wanda Signe Vermeers - thank you, I will take a look.

The Pane-Joyce Genealogy link above was my source since it tends to be well researched.

http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr03/rr03_277.html#P27513 is the specific page. Check the footnotes - #14 and #185. Both are research of Robert Anderson whose work is generally accepted as the most recent, most authoritative for the families of the Great Migration.

Someone else should comment on Family Search which I believe may or may not be based on primary sources but rather at times on what individuals have asserted.

Oh, I'm sorry, I meant John Borden and Joanna Gay's children.

I left what was there for John Gay's children. Let's see what we find. You may well be correct!

Hatte Blejer
How can I add Joanna Hooker's parents? Thanks for your assistance.
(John Gay is my 10th great-grandfather & Joanna Hooker is my 10th great-grandmother).
:) Kristen

Private - I don't see anything in the material from The Great Migration Begins that is cited in the Overview about Joanna Gay's parents being known. The implication is that she arrived as a married woman with her first husband and that church or other records from America are all we know of her.

Do you have a source that is more recent and is based on documentary evidence for her parents? Robert Charles Anderson is usually the most recent and well researched and reliable source for information on these founding families.

But since it's known where John Borden came from, it's possible that there could be a marriage record for her, with parents' names.