Florence Whittredge

Florence Norman

• Hart, Whittered
• BIRTH: before October 17, 1619 Charminster, Dorset, England
• DEATH: 2 Aug 1672 (aged 52–53) Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
• BURIAL Unknown

Biography

Florence Norman was baptized at Charminster, Dorset, England on 17 October 1619,[1] the daughter of Richard and Florence (_____) Norman.[2][3][4] Florence (Norman) (Hart) Whittridge died in 1672 by drowning.[13]

Immigration

The details of her immigration are not known. Florence's father, Richard Norman, is known to have settled at Salem, Massachusetts Bay by 1626.[5][6]

Florence Norman married as her first husband John Hart circa 1639.1 Florence married (1) by about 1639 (her daughter Elizabeth married 1659),[7][8] as his second wife, John Hart.[9] John Hart died before 14 : 1 : 1655/6 (date of inventory),[10] and she married (2) about 1657, Thomas2 Whittridge, son of William1 Whittridge,[11] of Ipswich, and his first wife, Elizabeth Baker.[12]

Florence Norman married as her second husband Thomas Whittredge, son of William Whittredge and Frances (?), in 1653 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony.1 Florence Norman died circa 2 August 1672 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony. She took her own life.1

Children of Florence Norman and John Hart

1. Elizabeth Hart2 b. c 1639, d. date unknown
2. Jonathan Hart2 b. c 1645, d. date unknown
3. Sarah Hart2 b. c 1647, d. 28 Sep 1672
4. Deborah Hart2 b. c 1649, d. date unknown
5. Florence Hart2 b. c 1651, d. date unknown

Children of Florence Norman and Thomas Whittredge

1. Thomas Whittredge+2 b. c 1657, d. 17 Mar 1716/17
2. Samuel Whittredge2 b. 31 Mar 1658, d. 31 Mar 1658
3. Richard Whittredge2 b. 1659, d. date unknown

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She married (2) by about 1659 Thomas Whittered, and took her own life on or shortly before 2 August 1672 (her eldest son with her second husband was "about 12 or 13 years at the most" at the time of her death; in his nuncupative will of 21 August 1672, "Thomas Whittiridge," the second husband of Florence, was referred to as "our brother Thomas Whittridge" by Richard Norman and by Robert Morgan (who had married Margaret Norman), and the testator "your sister my wife now taken from me;" a coroner's inquest "appointed upon the sudden death of Flouranc Whiteridg, late wife of Thomas Whitridg of Ipswich, on 2:6:1672 [2 August 1672], found her 'accessory to her own death by stifling or drowning herself in the water.'"

http://www.brazoriaroots.com/p9192.htm

Florence Norman died under extraordinary circumstances, and a jury of inquest decided, on 2: 6: 1672 (2 August 1672), that she was "axcessary to hir own death by stifling or Drowning hir selfe in the wattr."5 An account of her death is given in the diary of Rev. William Adams.6

Thomas Whittridge his wife, who being a woman of no commendable life was by a fortune teller hold yt she should meet with great trouble if she escaped with her life: afterward being in great horror, Mr. Richard Hubbard gave her several scriptures to consider of. When he was gone she turned ye Bible the best part of an hour saying there was another scripture if she could find it, wc what it was or whether she found it being unknown to others she clapt the Bible too and said she would never look into it more, wc by the judgment of god she never did. At night she told her son, a youth about 12 or 13 years at ye most, yt it would be as ye fortune teller had said. … The boy desired his mother yt she would not mind what he had said, for he believed that he was a lying fellow, but that she would mind what was said in the word of God. At this word she flew up saying (as some report) He is come! The door either by her or by itselfe being opened with great violence she ran out. And being presently followed no sight could be had of her, but a shrieking or groaning or both was heard. The next morning there was to be seen a path made thro the thickest places of weeds and briars as if a great timber log had been drawn there which being followed her coat was found therein, and she a little further with her face thrust into a little puddle of water not sufficient to cover all her face, lying dead. "Quam inscrutabilia judicia Dei!7"

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References

1. http://www.gulbangi.com/5families-o/p421.htm#i10501
   1. [S857] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Hart, of Marblehead," Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996), Vol. 1I, 197, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Stone (1930).
   2. [S849] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Norman, of Salem and Marblehead," Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996), Vol. III, 45, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Stone (1930).
   3. [S860] "Richard Norman", The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, online http://www.newenglandancestors.org/, printout dated 2005. Previously published in hard copy (Boston: NEHGS, 1995).
   4. [S857] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Hart, of Marblehead," Massachusetts and Maine Families, Vol. 1I, 198, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Stone (1930).
   5. [S855] George Francis Dow, ed., Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, 9 vols. (Salem: Essex Institute, 1911-1973). Transcribed and Abstracted from the Original Manuscript by Harriet S. Tapley, V: 124.
   6. [S857] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Hart, of Marblehead," Massachusetts and Maine Families, Vol. 1I, citing Mass. Historical Society coll. 4th Series, Vol. I, p. 17, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Stone (1930).
   7. [S857] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Hart, of Marblehead," Massachusetts and Maine Families, Vol. 1I, 199, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Stone (1930).
   8. [S857] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Hart, of Marblehead," Massachusetts and Maine Families, Vol. 1I, 200, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Stone (1930).
   9. [S849] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Norman, of Salem and Marblehead," Massachusetts and Maine Families, Vol. III, 46, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Stone (1930).
2. "Pedigree Resource File", database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/93YQ-21L : accessed 2013-01-03), entry for Florence Norman.
3. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37154092/florence-hart_whittered
4. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Norman-142 cites
   1. Citing Bishops' Transcripts for Charminster, Dorsestshire, 1591-1879 [FHL film 1,279,491, items 9-12] and parish register at the Dorset Record Office in Dorchester, Leslie Mahler, "The English Origin of Richard1 Norman of Salem Massachusetts," The American Genealogist, 77 (2002):102-103; digital images by subscription, < AmericanAncestors >
   2. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1334-1336 (Richard Norman), in particular, p. 1335; digital images by subscription, < AmericanAncestors >.
   3. Florence Norman 1619 baptism, "England, Dorset, Parish Registers, 1538-2001"; database (only), < FamilySearch >
   4. Dorset History Centre; Dorchester, England; Dorset Parish Registers; Reference: PE/CMR: RE1/1. Image 11 by subscription at: < https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2243/images/32435_... AncestryImage] >
   5. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1334-1336 (Richard Norman), in particular, p. 1334; digital images by subscription, < AmericanAncestors >.
   6. Robert Charles Anderson, Great American Newsletter, 24 (2015):109; digital images by subscription, < AmericanAncestors >
   7. "John Hart, of Marblehead, Shipwright," The Genealogical Quarterly Magazine, 3 (1902):67-70, in particular, 68; digital images, Hathi Trust.
   8. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1334-1336 (Richard Norman), in particular, p. 1335; digital images by subscription, < AmericanAncestors >
   9. Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Sarah Stone ... (Portland, Me., The Southworth Press, 1930), 35-42 (Hart), in particular, 36-37; digital images,. < HathiTrust >
   10. Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Sarah Stone ... (Portland, Me., The Southworth Press, 1930), 35-42 (Hart); digital images, < HathiTrust >
   11. "In his nuncupative will, [Thomas Whittridge] declared before 3 Sept. 1672 ... that Richard Norman was his wife's brother," Leslie Mahler, "The English Origin of Richard1 Norman of Salem Massachusetts," The American Genealogist, 77 (2002):102-103, in particular, 103; digital images by subscription, < AmericanAncestors >.
   12. Citing, among others, "NEHGR 164:143," Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y (2011), 374-380 (William Whittered), in particular, 378; digital images by subscription, < AmericanAncestors >; cites also "GMB 2:1443-35; Sarah Stone Anc. 47-49" and "GM2:3:227-30; Sarah Stone Anc. 35-38; EQC 4:54-55, 5:124."
   13. Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Sarah Stone ... (Portland, Me., The Southworth Press, 1930), 35-42 (Hart), in particular, 36-37; digital images, < HathiTrust >
   14. David A. Whittredge, "The English Origins of William1 Whitredge of Ipswich, Massachusetts,", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 164 (2010) [WN 654]:139-144; digital images by subscription, < AmericanAncestors >