Hanna Ingalls

Our Family Journals.....That of Polly Tirrell (Ingalls) and that of My Great Grandmother say that Jonathan Ingalls first wife was Hannah Locke....and she was the mother of Jonathan's first 3 Children; Hannah, Jonathan & Sarah.

That information has become part of the History in Michigan which I will record below in sources. However parts of this family and Early Authors of the day made numerous assumptions about this man and His Wives. To the point what really comes down to us in a mixed bag is Hannah Locke (Ingalls), Martha Jane Locke (Ingalls) and Edna Hastings as wives of Jonathan. To the point where many books written long ago give credit of all the Children to Martha Jane Locke. The records in the State of New Hampshire say different. Those records indicate that the first 3 children; Hannah, Jonathan & Sarah were of Hannah...

It gets confusing from there....because none of the three three Principle Person's have every been identified as being born or Married in any town or state record. And on the children's birth records it does not list the birth name of the mother......so her last name comes from personal family knowledge provided by ancestors to the Authors of the Day. One thing we can agree on is that the First two wife's were Locke's.

I am here to lay out something I want you to consider, whether you of of Hannah or Martha Jane, it doesn't really matter as they were related to each other. The struggle of our side of the family is to preserve what our Ancestors wrote down about these two women. So, if you go by the books all these children are of Martha, but if you go by the birth certificate that is not true....and there was really a Hannah.

So the burden on our side of the family has been to come up with a truly compelling case that this Hannah was indeed a Locke, and related to Martha Jane Locke.

So here in this Profile is the Hannah I propose. She was born June 3 1740 in Rye, NH. Daughter of Joseph & Hannah Jenness

What is remarkable about this Hannah Locke is not so much her. It's her fathers uncanny naming his children after the children he lost. For Instance, He had 2 son's in his first marriage named Joseph that died young and it states that about them. Then he marries for the second time and names his fist son Joseph. The next son is Benjamin B. 1770 who dies young. The next daughter is Hannah B. 1773.

Going to pause you here for a moment, why does he name a daughter Hannah? If he already had one. Cause he lost her......our Hannah Locke we say died after 3rd child Sarah's birth in 1769, then Jonathan Married Martha Jane about that time. First shot he got to replace her was in 1773, and that is exactly what he did.

What happens after that he has another son he names Benjamin to replace the Benjamin that died young in 1776.

So given all that.....the man himself makes a compelling case by his actions of naming is next born child after one he had lost. He did it all his life. If you can find a more compelling case for who this Hannah Locke is, I'd like to hear it.

This guy was wanting to make sure that his name and those of his Children survived in a time when it wasn't all neat an written down....I don't think he was sending me this message, but I hear him loud and clear what his intentions were by the bread crumbs he set down.

Sources:

• A history and genealogy of Captain John Locke (1627-1696) of Portsmouth and Rye, N.H., and his descendants; also of Nathaniel Locke of Portsmouth, and a short account of the history of the Lockes in England (1916?])
• http://archive.org/details/historygenealogy00lock
• http://archive.org/stream/historygenealogy00lock#page/26/mode/1up
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• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Mar 29 2017, 11:09:21 UTC