Deacon Edward Church

(Deacon) Edward Church

• Born 26 Feb 1628 in England
• Died 19 Sep 1704 in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts
• Son of Richard Church of Hartford and Anne (Unknown) Church
• Brother of Mary (Church) Graves, John Church and Samuel Church
• Husband of Mary (unknown) Church — married about 1655 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut
• Father of Mary (Church) Russell, John Church, Rebecca (Church) Selden, Samuel Church, Samuel Church, Naomia (Church) Bodman, Sarah (Church) Porter, Hannah (Church) Billings, Richard Church and Hephzibah (Church) Spencer

Edward Church migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1620-1640).

Family

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8th Great grandfather of US President Gerald Ford

Edward Church

Birth: 26 Feb 1627/1628 England Death: 19 Sep 1704 Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Father: Richard Church (founder of Hartford) Mother: Anne Marsh Family:

Marriage: about 1655 at Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut to Mary [NOT Hopkins (daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth)] born 1637, at Hatfield; died 30 Sep 1690 at Hatfield according to town records, but Sept. 17, 1691, at age 54, according to their shared gravestone (different wife?).

Children:

1. Mary, born 1656, married Philip Russell, December 25, 1679
2. Rebecca married Joseph Selden, February 11, 1677.
3. John, born 1658 at Hatfield; "slain in [Turner] Falls' fight May 19, 1676".
4. Samuel, born April 4, 1662; died May 6, 1662.
5. Samuel, born August 4, 1663.
6. ,Naomia, born May 12, 1666; married Joseph Bodman May 11, 1687.
7. Sarah, born May 18, 1670; may have married William Porter, December 3, 1697.
8. Hannah, born 1672 at Hatfield. May have married Ebenezer Billings about 1691.
9. Richard, born January 18, 1675.
10. Hepzibah, born about 1679; married Samuel Spencer.

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Biography

Edward Church, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862), 1:385.

"Edward (Church), Norwalk 1654, s. of Richard of Hartford, b. in Eng. 1628, had perhaps been some time bef. at New Haven, rem. to Hatfield, was there deac. had eight ch. or more, of wh. Mary, m. 1679, Philip Russell, as his third w.; Rebecca m. 1677, Joseph Selden; and Hepzibah m. 16 Sept. 1696, Samuel Spencer

Sources

• History of Hadley, p.460. https://archive.org/details/historyofhadleyi00judd History of Hadley: Including the Early History of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst and Granby, Massachusetts. Sylvester Judd and Lucius Boltwood. H.R. Hunting & Co., Springfield, Massachusetts, 1905.
• Source: S1 Public Member Trees. Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006; Repository: #R1 R1 www.ancestry.com
• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=15358255
• No. 845, pg 260 - Hollister Family of America compiled by Lafayette Wallace Case, MD 1886 - https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=5eNUAAAAMAAJ&printsec=front...
• Steve Condarcure's New England Genealogy Index
• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Edward_Church_%283%29
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15358308/mary-church

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Origins

Lesses, Richard; Richard Church of Hartford's Ancestry, posting to soc.genealogy.misc 11/16/1996 Link to groups.google.com record

RICHARD CHURCH OF HARTFORD

Richard Church. Born in England about 1600, died at Hadley, Hampshire Co., MA, 16 Dec 1667. Married in England Anne _, born about 1600, died at Hatfield, Hampshire Co., MA, 10 Mar 1683/4.

Children:

• 1. .Edward. Born in England about 1628, died at Hatfield, Hampshire Co., MA, 19 Sep 1704. Married abt 1653 Mary (Hopkins?), died at Hatfield, Hampshire Co., MA, 30 Sep 1690 or 17 Sep 1691.
• 2.Mary. Born in England, died 1694/5. Married Isaac Graves, d. 19 Sep 1677.
• 3.John. Born about 1636, buried at Hartford, Hartford Co., CT, 16 Oct 1691. Married 27 Oct 1657, Sarah Beckley.
• 4.Samuel. Born about 1638, died at Hadley, Hampshire Co., MA, 13 Apr 1684. Married Mary Churchill, born at Wethersfield, Hartford Co., CT, 24 Mar 1639/40, died 1690.

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15358255/edward-church

Deacon Edward Church

BIRTH 1628 England

DEATH 19 Sep 1704 (aged 75–76) Hatfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA

BURIAL Hill Cemetery Hatfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA

Deacon

Husband of Mary

Age 76

Family Members

Parents

Richard Church 1610–1667

Anne Marsh Church 1600–1674

Spouse

Mary Hopkins Church 1637–1691

Siblings

Mary Church Graves 1632–1695

Samuel Church 1636–1684

John Joseph Church 1636–1691 (m. 1657)

Children

Mary Church Russell 1656–1743

John Church 1658–1676

John Church 1658–1676

Rebekah Church Selden 1660–1726

Samuel Church 1663–1718

Naomi Church Bodman 1666 – unknown Richard Church 1675–1763

Hepzibah Church Spencer 1678–1745

https://stjohngenealogy.com/getperson.php?personID=I10846&tree=OSA0001

Deacon Edward Church
Deacon Edward Church
Male 1628 -

Personal Information

Name Edward Church
Title Deacon
Relationship with Mathias St. John
Birth 1628
Gender Male
Oldest Known Ancestors
Paternal Line: Richard Church, b. abt. 1600 d. 1667
Maternal Line: Ann _____, b. 1601 d. 1684
Person ID I10846 St. John Origin and Ancestry DNA Database
Last Modified 22 Dec 2017

Father Richard Church, b. abt. 1600 d. 1667 (Age ~ 67 years)
Mother Ann _____, Church, b. 1601 d. 1684 (Age 83 years)
Family ID F398558 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Reference St. John, Suzanne. "Deacon Edward Church". The St. John Genealogy Project. https://stjohngenealogy.com/getperson.php?personID=I10846&tree=OSA0001 (accessed February 6, 2023).

GEDCOM Note

From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15358255/edward-church

Deacon Edward Church

BIRTH
1628
England

DEATH
19 Sep 1704 (aged 75–76)
Hatfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA

BURIAL
Hill Cemetery
Hatfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
MEMORIAL ID
15358255 ·

Deacon

Husband of Mary

Age 76

Family Members

Parents

Richard Church
1610–1667

Anne Marsh Church
1600–1674
Spouse

Mary Hopkins Church
1637–1691

Siblings

Mary Church Graves
1632–1695

Samuel Church
1636–1684

John Joseph Church
1636–1691

Children

Mary Church Russell
1656–1743

John Church
1658–1676

John Church
1658–1676

Rebekah Church Selden
1660–1726

Samuel Church
1663–1718

Naomi Church Bodman
1666 – unknown

Richard Church
1675–1763

Hepzibah Church Spencer
1678–1745

GEDCOM Note

NOT Potential Parents:
Richard Church Jr. 1610–1667 LKY2-B37​​
Marriage: 1625 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Anne Marsh 1610–1684 MKNM-P2B

These people and their ancestors were a fraud perpetuated on a later Edward Church by Gustave Anjou . DO NOT FOLLOW without evidence!!!
2/2/21

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15358255/edward-church

Deacon Edward Church

BIRTH
1628
England

DEATH
19 Sep 1704 (aged 75–76)
Hatfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA

BURIAL
Hill Cemetery
Hatfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
MEMORIAL ID
15358255 ·

Deacon

Husband of Mary

Age 76

Family Members

Parents

Richard Church
1610–1667

Anne Marsh Church
1600–1674

Spouse

Mary Hopkins Church
1637–1691

Siblings

Mary Church Graves
1632–1695

Samuel Church
1636–1684

John Joseph Church
1636–1691

Children

Mary Church Russell
1656–1743

John Church
1658–1676

John Church
1658–1676

Rebekah Church Selden
1660–1726

Samuel Church
1663–1718

Naomi Church Bodman
1666 – unknown

Richard Church
1675–1763

Hepzibah Church Spencer
1678–1745

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Church-611

Edward Church (bef. 1626 - 1704)

Deacon Edward Church

Born before 17 Dec 1626 in Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, England

Son of Richard Church of Hadley and Anne (Williams) Church

Brother of Mary (Church) Graves, John Church and Samuel Church

Husband of Mary (Unknown) Church — married 1655 in New Haven, Connecticut Colony

Father of Mary (Church) Russell, John Church, Rebecca (Church) Selden, Samuel Church, Samuel Church, Naomia (Church) Bodman, Sarah (Church) Porter, Hannah (Church) Billings, Richard Church and Hephzibah (Church) Spencer

Died 19 Sep 1704 after age 77 in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts

Church-611 created 13 Sep 2011 | Last modified 16 Dec 2022

Edward Church migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1620-1640).

English Origins of Church Family of Hartford, CT (June 2022)

This block of text is being applied to early immigrant Richard Church and his immediate family to explain their English origins, unknown until now and historically a part of the Gustave Anjou fraud. See this 2022 G2G post and this 2015 G2G post for more background. Original text on each profile about murky/unknown origins is left intact for historical purposes given the importance of the Anjou fraud. Some individual annotations or edits for clarity will be made to each profile.

Parish records from Cottenham, Cambridgeshire (a village on the edge of Cambridge) were found that match this 6-person family unit exactly as to name and age. No contradictory records have been found i.e. local burials or marriages of any of these family members within a natural life span and the odds of this 6-person match being a coincidence would seem to be about zero.

Richard Church married Ann Williams (previously Ann Unknown on WikiTree) on 8 Jan 1625[1] (double year not stated in transcript) followed by baptisms of children Edward (17 Dec 1626)[2], Mary (27 Sep 1629)[3], John (26 Sep 1632)[4] and Samuel (30 Nov 1635)[5]. Richard and his family emigrated to Hartford by 2 Jan 1639/40, his parents William Church and Mary Lee/Laye and full-blood siblings having already passed away along with his stepmother Elizabeth (Hunte) Church. He left behind two half-sisters in their late teens, Eleanor and Susan, their fates have not been researched.

Biography

8th Great grandfather of US President Gerald Ford

Edward Church

Baptism: 17 Dec 1626 at Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, England (profile previously asserted a 1628 date with no source)
Death: 19 Sep 1704 Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts
Father: Richard Church (founder of Hartford)
Mother: Anne Marsh
Family:

Marriage: about 1655 at Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut to Mary Hopkins (NOT a daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth), born 1637, at Hatfield; died 30 Sep 1690 at Hatfield according to town records, but Sept. 17, 1691, at age 54, according to their shared gravestone (different wife?).
Children:[6]
Rebecca married Joseph Selden, February 11, 1677.
Mary, born 1656, married Philip Russell, December 25, 1679.
John, born 1658 at Hatfield; "slain in [Turner] Falls' fight May 19, 1676".
Samuel, born April 4, 1662; died May 6, 1662.
Samuel, born August 4, 1663.
Naomia, born May 12, 1666; married Joseph Bodman May 11, 1687.
Sarah, born May 18, 1670; may have married William Porter, December 3, 1697.
Hannah, born 1672 at Hatfield. May have married Ebenezer Billings about 1691.
Richard, born January 18, 1675.
Hepzibah, born about 1679; married Samuel Spencer.
For more information on Edward and his family, see Richard Church in Hartford and Hadley

Sources

↑ Richard Church in 1625 Cambridgeshire Marriages Great Britain $subscription required
↑ Edward Church in 1626 Cambridgeshire Baptisms Cambridgeshire, England $subscription required
↑ Mary Church in 1629 Cambridgeshire Baptisms Cambridgeshire, England $subscription required
↑ John Church in 1632 Cambridgeshire Baptisms Cambridgeshire, England $subscription required
↑ Samuell Church in 1635 Cambridgeshire Baptisms Cambridgeshire, England $subscription required
↑ History of Hadley, p.460.
See Also:

https://archive.org/details/historyofhadleyi00judd History of Hadley: Including the Early History of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst and Granby, Massachusetts. Sylvester Judd and Lucius Boltwood. H.R. Hunting & Co., Springfield, Massachusetts, 1905.
Find A Grave: Memorial #15358255 is an unsourced memorial which still follows the Anjou fraud and shows Edward's father as Richard Church and his mother as Ann Marsh, now long-disproven.
No. 845, pg 260 - Hollister Family of America compiled by Lafayette Wallace Case, MD 1886 - https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=5eNUAAAAMAAJ&printsec=front...
Steve Condarcure's New England Genealogy Index