Elizabeth Handy

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Elizabeth (Fish) Handy (1705 - aft. 1742)

Elizabeth Handy formerly Fish
Born 28 Oct 1705 in Falmouth, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Baymap
ANCESTORS ancestors
Daughter of Nathan Fish [uncertain] and Deborah (Barrows) Fish [uncertain]
Sister of Bartholomew Fish, John Fish, Ebenezer Fish, Mariah (Fish) Hatch, Samuel Fish, Nathan Fish, Thankful Fish, Rebecca Fish and Rowland Fish
Wife of Benjamin Handy — married 14 May 1731 in Falmouth, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Baymap
DESCENDANTS descendants
Mother of Ebenezer Handy Sr. and Maria (Handy) Gifford
Died after 1742 after age 36 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusettsmap [uncertain]
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Biography

Elizabeth [1] was probably born on 28 October 1705 in Falmouth, Barnstable County, (then) Province of Massachusetts Bay, to Nathan and Deborah (Barrows) Fish.[2][3]

She married Benjamin Handy on 14 May 1731 at Falmouth.[4][5][6]

Elizabeth died sometime after the birth of her last child in 1742.

Children born Sandwich:

Ebenezer, b. 25 Oct 1732, bp. 19 Apr 1739
Mercy, b. ca. 1734, bp. 19 Apr 1739
Maria, b. ca. 1739, bp. 19 Aug 1739, d. 1739?
Maria Handy, b. ca. 1739, d. 3 Sep 1805, m. Samuel Gifford
Benjamin, b. ca. 1742, bp. 10 Jun 1742, d. 15 Oct 1816

From the NEHGR:[7]

"Benjamin Handy (Richard2, Richard1) b 7 Sep 1709. Death unknown. He married (int. 14 May 1731 [sic, married, not intentions, see FVR Vol. 1:214]) Elizabeth Fish (Falmouth Town Records). We have found no proof of her identity, but in the study of the Fish families of Sandwich & Falmouth a suitable Elizabeth Fish (this name was not popular with the Fish family) would be the ninth of the 12 children of Nathan2 Fish (Nathaniel1) by his wife Debora, born in Falmouth 28 Oct 1705. The possiblity of the correctness of this identification is strenghtened by the fact that she had a brother Ebenezer and a sister Mariah, 2 of the names given to her children. Although, Benjamin also had a brother Ebenezer, the name Mariah was new to the Handy family.

Sources

↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-RW1C : 13 July 2016), Benjamin Handy in entry for Ebeneser Handy, 20 Oct 1732; citing Birth, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 775,836.
↑ Vital Records of Falmouth, MA, 1699-1753, FHL film #0904590, p. 134.
"Elezabeth fish ye Daughter of Nathan ffish + Deborah fish his wife was born ye 28 day of October anno Domini 1705."
↑ Falmouth Town records, 1668-1871, Births, marriages, deaths, publishments Vol. 1:134
↑ Oliver B. Brown, compiler, VRs of Falmouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (RI: Soc. of Mayflower Descendants in RI, 1976), p. 161.
"Benjamin Handy to Elizabeth Fish 14 May 1731 at Falmouth."
↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC4V-TXN : 4 December 2014), Benjamen Handy and Eliezebeth Fish, 14 May 1731; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 0904590 IT 1-3, 0904594, 0904589.
↑ Falmouth Town records, 1668-1871, Births, marriages, deaths, publishments, Vol. 1:214
"May the 14th day 1731 than Beniamen Handy and Elizebeth fish ware joyned in marreg by Ezre Bourn Justes of ye pece."
↑ NEHGR Vol. 125:188