Hannah Johnson - Death Place Unknown

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6/25/2024 at 3:47 PM

Did she arrive in MA just because one can't find a death record in Ware? If that's the sole rationale for her being alive to sail the pod to New England, it's not a good one. There's no death record for her in Roxbury records either. Hannah's not found arriving with her father here: https://www.geni.com/projects/Great-Migration-Passengers-of-the-Arb... . Her father and stepmother's departure port was at Yarmouth, Hampshire, England (Isle of Wight) – 134 miles from Ware.

If she sailed the pond, she would've come with guardians on a later departing ship that didn't keep a list of passengers or the list was ruined long ago.

Douglas Richard's 1992 mention of Hannah is only correct about the place of Hannah's baptism and her parents. The rest of what he write is now viewed as disproved musings.
https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-...

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6/25/2024 at 4:00 PM

Anderson's Great Migration 1995 edition mentions Hannah thus:
"HANNAH, bp. Ware 23 March 1627/8; no further record unless she is the wife of Hugh Burt, above."
In other words, Sarah would have to be disproved as having married, first, Hugh Burt, Jr. .

Hatte Rubenstein Blejer C

6/25/2024 at 9:09 PM

I agree with you. I'm not sure how Roxbury got to be her death location in her profile on Geni. I checked Revisions and it looks like I changed it, but that doesn't make sense since my Overview and Curator's Note note that she likely died in England before 1659.

I will add your info above to the profile. I have changed place of death and locked it again.

Hatte Rubenstein Blejer C

6/25/2024 at 9:23 PM

I see I was probably influenced by Doug Richards. Now that I have found my Great Migration Begins three volumes, I should recheck the whole family. I do also have a book about Captain John Johnson's family by Gerald Garth Johnson that I drew the original text from. He cites two sources: Helen S. Ullman "William Bartram of Lynn and Swansea, Mass: How many wives?" and Lawson, Stephen M. "J. Johnson Family" (Internet source).

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